Re: The DSP, Fiji and indigenous land claims

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Norm:
>The Fiji Trades Union Congress called for the sanctions, the DSP --
>trusting that the multiracial Fiji working class movement was the best
>judge of what was required to help their democratic struggle --
>supported their call and chose to go beyond words and pressure the
>government to act and support Australian unions' actions.

It would be helpful if you could provide some statistics on the ethnic
composition of the Fiji trade unions. I am under the impression that the
overwhelming majority of indigenous peoples are involved in subsistence
agriculture and fall outside the jurisdiction of the trade unions, but
perhaps I am wrong. Furthermore, I wish you would understand that Marxism
deals with other sections of a population besides the urban proletariat. If
Mao and Castro had oriented solely to this segment of the population like
the sectarian Marxists advocate, there never would have been revolutions in
China or Cuba. If those Marxist professors at the University of the South
Pacific had gone out to organize revolutionary movement in rural West Fiji
the way that Subcommandante Zero (a philosophy professor and Althusser
expert) had done in Chiapas, then perhaps there would be less of a mess in
Fiji today.

Louis Proyect
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