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As someone who is born and is now living in a developing country, globalization has been touted as a good thing that will help the country progress. I was very fascinated before with Indonesia's membership in G20, OPEC, and other bodies. NGO's for me were the saints of this world. Big corps coming to ID meant prosperity!!
But the truth is actually more layered than that. I must have felt it as a "progress" because I come from the class of people benefitting from it. For a lot of people, this isn't necessarily the case. And this is what Arundhati Roy unpacks in the book.
Some of the essays are very particular subjects in India so it took me some time to digest. But the title story is a must read for anyone.
But the truth is actually more layered than that. I must have felt it as a "progress" because I come from the class of people benefitting from it. For a lot of people, this isn't necessarily the case. And this is what Arundhati Roy unpacks in the book.
Some of the essays are very particular subjects in India so it took me some time to digest. But the title story is a must read for anyone.
emotional
informative
fast-paced
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
My queen.
this lil book is very dense. I read it twice and still feel I'm retaining a small % of what's there. Yet, what I am retaining has been provocative, expanding and sharpening my understanding of capitalism and neoliberalism. my heart was also impacted learning about ways the Empire has implicated India, and observing the many parallels with Indigenous Peoples and much of the Global South under imperialism &/or [neo]colonization.
the 3 main things i'm left thinking about are:
(1) ways foundations & philanthropy shape concepts, dialogue, and activity in regards to justice, equity, etc., on mass, international scales
(2) the high profitability of weapons industry, and the need to create war to sustain capitalism, the 1% (wealthy elite)
(3) war strategically used to redirect mass growing consciousness of the increasing severity and spread of inequality
the 3 main things i'm left thinking about are:
(1) ways foundations & philanthropy shape concepts, dialogue, and activity in regards to justice, equity, etc., on mass, international scales
(2) the high profitability of weapons industry, and the need to create war to sustain capitalism, the 1% (wealthy elite)
(3) war strategically used to redirect mass growing consciousness of the increasing severity and spread of inequality
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
God, what a manifest of unsubstantiated data and conspiracy theories. I concede, the situation in India is probably far from being any good, and inequality is definitely a huge problem, but to dump everything on capitalism? I'm sorry but this sounds very similar to the revolutionary propaganda that brought Russia 70+ years of utter misery.
Quick reading for leftist folks who want to learn more about contemporary India (though this is ~10 years dated) and the real impacts of global capital in the imperial system. I’d also recommend this as an intro if you’re interested in Roy’s second novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”, which I thought was great but which does benefit from some background knowledge.