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LostYonder wrote (edited )

Sartre - takes you in circles

Bourdieu - ultimately just bourgeois leftism

Habermas - same - bourgeois leftism

I don't regret engaging the subaltern school, but it got stuck in the colonial critique and never really matured

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_caspar_ wrote

"I don't regret engaging the subaltern school, but it got stuck in the colonial critique and never really matured"

Im only vaguely aware of this school, but I wonder if theres anyone coming from this field of study who has ditched Marx's agents-of-history calling for sociopolitical integration of the subaltern and taken up a more anti-civ or anarchistic approach instead?

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LostYonder wrote

Not that I'm aware of - most of them chose high paying academic positions in the US and have been pacified. There were a few budding ones in India, but they were murdered early on for taking activist roles. Perhaps in Latin America there are some who have translated it into a more critical perspective, but I'm unaware.

In general there has been a rise of critical decolonization theory which takes on a more anti-civ perspective, but it seems mostly piecemeal...

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