Re: AUT: Re: Colonisation

[Harald Beyer-Arnesen <haraldba@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ilan, George and others,

Ilan, you wrote in reference to the piece George Pennefather wrote
by the name Colonisation and the Celtic Tiger:

        The analysis seems clear and eye opener to those not
        in intimate relations to the relevant facts.

Ilan I have to disagree with you. If I were to be rude I would
have to ask, what was George's point beyond superimposing the term
colonisation on a description of a reality which apart from a
few particularities would fit just about every European
country, U.K. not excluded, or just about every country in the
world for that sake.

you continue:

        However, the article do not point to the relevance of
        the described processes for the workslaves of Ireland
        and for the class war there.

No, it does not. But its tendency is nationalistic in my eyes, and
where does that bring us except to a defense of capitalism. One of
the many problems with the term "imperialism" is that every capitalist
state is imperialistic by definition, that's part of the rules of
the game. There is no reason to believe that Irishness is any remedy
against that. And I am quite sure that George is not proposing that
we should agitate for an Irish capitalist island, some sort of Celtic
Albania. So what is the substance of the piece apart from pointing
out a few banalities. I could just as easy written an "analysis"
concluding that Norway is a "colony", alternatively about Norway as
an imperialistic state, both being essentially true, except for the
misleading term colony.

Sorry George,

Harald



  in solidarity,
  Harald Beyer-Arnesen
  haraldba@xxxxxxxxx



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