[Marxism] Adding insult to injury: Bush says starving India eats too much | Links

[Sukant Chandan]

This is nothing new. The western media is full of hypocritical stories
of how Chinese and Indian peoples food consumption (due to some of
their populations raised living standards) is causing economic and
environmental catastrophe to the world.

But then again, when the third world/periphery/countries of the south
rise up, this directly impacts on western standards of living and
creates deeper and further crises there, impoverishing the standard of
living of people in the west.

I have thought recently how silly left-wing people in the west sound
when they say that it is in the interests of the western working class
to support the struggles of the oppressed peoples. This maybe true on
a moral-political level, but it is not true at all on a social level,
unless we are thinking in context of inter-generational timescales
when perhaps there will be no neo-colonialism and a more equitable
world order.

But while the western left churn out this line, people in the west
know very well that it is not true.

I am merely bringing up a aspect of western leftism which is
profoundly problematic, and is never really addressed by the western
left in an honest manner.

Sukant