Civilizators and civilization

[Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky <nestor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

El 10 Oct 99 a las 19:02, Macdonald Stainsby nos dice(n):

>
> President Clinton traveled to the flashpoint of separatism
> in North America and without once mentioning Quebec
> nationalism argued on Friday that "the United States and
> Canada are among the most fortunate countries in the world
> because we have such diversity."
>
> If every major "racial and ethnic and religious group" won
> independence, "we might have 800 countries in the world
> and have a very difficult time having a functioning
> economy," Clinton said, addressing a forum on federalism
> that earlier in the week had become a platform for
> complaints by Quebec separatists. "Maybe we would have
> 8,000 -- how low can you go?"

This is a very powerful sidelight on the outrage and the
booing that cheers any serious attempt at unification in
the Third World. Sub-Saharan Africa, Yugoslavia, Latin America, the
Arab nation, India (remember partition?), the Malays, all
of us must reject our own diversity, accept multiple statelets
and sovereignties, become an impotent array of miserable,
"ethnically" pure, reservations.

But USA and Canada, oh, no. These must remain united!

"Los civilizadores cierran el paso a los que quieren
civilizarse" (the civilizators bar the road to those who
want to civilize themselves), is one of my favourite
quotations from Trotsky.

Nestor.