Wednesday, February 20, 2008
No political ideology
Yesterday, I was asked what my political ideology was -- and I had nothing to say. Politics is shaping the world: Kosovo celebrates its independence, Cuba sees an end of a Castro era, Obama might just become America's first black president. But I, like UK's Gordon Brown, or as we Indians like to call him -- Govardhan Brown - am bumbling along. I have no political bent besides the ususal cliches like 'no more war' and 'freedom of speech'. An old communist journalist I recently interviewed was right when he said that I belong to a generation that has no conviction. He said: "You generation is working in a vacuum. You have lost the conviction and the fight of social liberation for women and working people." And he's right. I have sold out to the iPod, the Internet and middle-class aspiriations. I have no ideology, no stand... nothing. Which is why I will never have children. I don't like them. And anyway, what legacy besides 1GB of music, will I leave them?
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Dear miriam,
as old Althusser pointed out, no one is outside the ideological, outside the political. your iPod and 'middle-class aspirations' in themselves constitute an ideology - the ideology that sustains the current status quo of power relations, based on market fundamentalism and the supremacy of the nation-state. to say "i have no ideology' is to say "my ideology is the same as the ideology of the mainstream" - the ideology of the establishment. usually, u have to be a part of the elite to embrace such a position - and of course, you are.
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