Thursday, July 10

John Ray posts Wayne Lusvardi's review of Amy Chua's World on Fire, but I'll link to this version:
Substitute such terms as "bourgeoise" for Chua's "market dominant minority," "the proletariat" for Chua's "the poor," "control over the mode of production" for "market dominance," "ethnic conflict" for the "Jewish Question," and "backlash" for "dialectical conflict" and you have a new lexicon of Marxism. It would be totally unfair to label Chua as a Marxist communist or revolutionist. But her diagnosis (or shall we say "dialectic") is nearly identical. With the impeccable credentials of Chua one can only wonder how she wrote a book paralleling Marxist diagnostics so closely without even once citing Marx in her book?
Better than what I mentioned earlier.

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