Any one who appreciates the Third World plight will have few difficulties in subscribing to the perspective of dependence. In doing so, most will, none the less commit some gross methodological errors brought about by their subscription also to the fallacious Euro cultural epistemological notion of history as a dialectically programmed progressivist universalism on the march towards the Euro humanist end. This complex fallacy buries human agency so deeply in the huge structure of global capitalism that it becomes nearly impossible to locate. It is in this context that misleading historical ideas and concepts such as universalism, Euro humanism, determinism, developmentalism, progressivism and dialecticism must be exposed, condemned for what they are: deceptive and dangerous from the viewpoint of Third World development in the dynamics of global capitalism on ascendancy. The versatility of this set of fallacies, however, is not to be underestimated. It pervades the entire spectrum of western based political interpretation of present and future histories. Eurocentric progressivist universalism believes that history is necessarily a matter of progressing from one historical stage to another until history itself stops, dies or ends, but not before final history has spread itself universally all over the world, obliterating all other histories and replacing them with itself totally. The core belief here in this piece of monstrous thinking is the absurd idea that history moves in a series of dialectical steps.
The author of the passage warns of the danger of
universalization of western history, replacing all other histories.
The passage warns that Eurocentric progressivist universalism believes final history will spread 'universally all over the world, obliterating all other histories and replacing them with itself totally' — this is precisely the danger of the universalization of western history replacing all other histories, which the author calls 'this piece of monstrous thinking'.
The passage does not warn of history literally 'stopping once for all' as the central danger (that is part of the Eurocentric theory's own claim, not the author's warning), nor does it frame the danger as losing historicity due to capitalism or history becoming susceptible to methodological errors — those are different concerns mentioned only in passing, not the central warning.
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A railway wagon (open at the top) of mass M1 is moving with speed v1 along a straight track. As a result of rain, after some time it gets partially filled with water so that the mass of the wagon becomes M2 and speed becomes v2. Taking the rain to be falling vertically and the water stationery inside the wagon, the relation between the two speeds v1 and v2 is :
Consider the following statements:
1. Distance between the longitudes becomes zero on North Pole and South Pole.
2. Distance between the longitudes is maximum on the Equator.
3. Number of longitudes is more than number of latitudes.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
One block of 2⋅0 kg mass is placed on top of another block of 3⋅0 kg mass. The coefficient of static friction between the two blocks is 0⋅2. The bottom block is pulled with a horizontal force F such that both the blocks move together without slipping. Taking acceleration due to gravity as 10 m/s2, the maximum value of the frictional force is :
