The chapatti story

“The displacement of Marxist categories in the discussion of hybridity also alibis and parallels the displacement and replacement of third worldist solidarity work and internationalist politics with a cosmopolitan ‘post-colonial elite’ politics. This joins up with a stay-at-home-lecturing-from-afar approach by the white left, incapable of engaging a struggle against capital at home, co-constituted here and there. The here and there is forgotten in two complimentary ways (the second is more diasappointing than the first, but both are concerns): the postcolonial hybrids’ self-concern in the face of metropolitan racism and opportunity also leaves the rest of the world in shadow; and the metropolitan white lefts’ feeble attempts at solidarity end up as mere hectoring and lecturing from a position of assumed moral superiority, while leaving the presence and complicity of imperialist capital as managed from and organised in the very heart of the metropole unexamined, and so also in shadow”…