@aru[...]
2 months ago
Yes communism has done the dirty work the west and Islam .sai you must study Marx’s manuscripts of 1844 to understand some of his spirit.I am not a Marxist although I did my PhD from the American University in philosophy I studied The Frankfurt Scool .
Not just Abrahamic, but Aristotelian as well This is my critique of you and Malhotra , You let The entire Aristotelian philosophy stay intact , and Aristotelian rejection of inductive logic in favor of Doxa is the basis of western exclusivism and it is bolstered by Abrahamic religions because it has the backing of Aristotle and thus the entire corpus of western philosophy

@darkprince2490
2 months ago (edited)
JSD is only concerned with the enlightenment and after in his book. He takes Kant/deontology to task and indirectly implicates Mill's utilitarianism via an excerpt on British bureaucracy and caste. Can these two ethical systems be derived from aristotle's character/virtue ethics? Confomity to a (moral/"rational") standard or set of standards?  While ideological partisans argue as to which is "correct" or "best", an outsider heathen can see the two acting in concert in the colonial project to sterilize the natural and natural cultural worlds.
From Kant there is a clear line to the Nietzschean and from Mills to the Marxist. Both of which together make up the modern. JSD lays bare the modern and rationalism as a variation of religion. It may start getting too complicated for activism purposes to implicate aristotle since aristotle is nominally pagan.

@aru[...]
2 months ago
 @darkprince2490  I will have to read him before I can reply , but thanks for introducing this to me.
My issue was that we in India are still within the Aristotelian paradigm which is the basis of Abrahamic thought , thus getting into epistemology is important Indic epistemology has a window into inductive reading through pramana shastra, the west has no such theme, but induction is introduced through science alone and thus religion and science are bifurcated ? There is no such fissure I. Indic thought , including the Eastern Chineses thought systems as well It  is interesting that Soviet Marxism failed because abuse it was unable to adapt to the changing conditions, and did not rely on accepting failure as a springboard to success. Thus ehen they had problems they went looking for answers in Marx Lenin or Plekhanov , not in real life, as they were indoctrinated by their Christian framework The The Chinese  being  practical went for practical solutions and succeeded. China needs to totally abandon collectivism , but they are in the right track. Yes they want to be  imperialists like Europe but I think in time they too will realize their roots and go a different way Very interesting .The attack needs to be on ontology and epistemology