RE: The World Bank looks at Fiji

["Julio Fernández Baraibar" <julfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can only admire the extraordinary way that Lou Paulsen used to put in
question what seemed to be an unanimous point of view against the coup in
Fiji.

His message opened a very rich discussion that showed, not only the Fiji
question, important but not central, but several points that I want to mark:
1) The typical "modus operandi" of british colonialism and imperialism; 2)
the real power structure hided back the aparent progressivity of the
"modern" sectors of the semicolonial societies; 3) the extreme necessity we
have to analize each situation from an antimperialistic perspective. This is
very important because, as Saint Exupery has written in The Little Prince:
"the esencial is invisible to the eyes" (at least, in spanish is "lo
esencial es invisible a los ojos"; 4) and the role that "progressive",
"leftist", "socialist" forces can play as the human face of imperialism.

BTW, the discussion has given us an important piece of real information
about Fiji.

A hug

Julio FB



>This link is to a 67-page World Bank report on Fiji from 1997 or so.  To
>read it, you will need to get the free Adobe Acrobat reader.
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