Re: Fijians

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a Re: Fijians,
el 28 Jul 00, a las 22:53, Lou Paulsen dijo:

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>
> If leftists in the region would LIKE to see more "progressive"
> indigenous Fijians, this is the time to line up with them and fight
> imperialist pressure and explain that this is the sort of thing
> Marxists do, the sort of people Marxists are.
>
> But if leftists in the region condemn indigenous nationalism as
> inherently reactionary, and dismiss indigenous Fijians as being a
> 'reactionary nation', then what will they turn to by way of an
> ideology for defending themselves? Religion of some kind?  But in that
> event the blame shouldn't be put on them if they decide, from the
> examples being shown to them - and I'm thinking of the leftists in our
> imperialist powers here, not of the FLP - that Marxists are a
> two-faced lot of Eurocentrists who hate indigenes more than they hate
> imperialism.  I don't say this would be a correct conclusion, but I
> say it will be the inevitable conclusion if the only Marxists they see
> are those people lined up with John Howard and Jacques Chirac to say
> that 'you had better appoint the man we say should be your Prime
> Minister, or we will suspend the Lomé accord as it applies to your
> sugar purchases and you will all go hungry.'
>

This paragraph encloses almost all that needs to be known in order to
start a reasonable tactics in an oppressed country. The history Lou
depicts here could be almost to the point told of, beware, not a
semifeudal social group, but even of the Argentinian working class, a
working class which from its very beginning knew of Socialism,
Marxism and Anarchism, but took to that "inevitable conclusion" many
times, the most important one being 1945, when the Argentinian "Left"
and the whole "progressive bloc" formed elbow to elbow with the most
reactionary representatives of imperialism against an ascendant
nationalist movement led by a hitherto dark and unknown group of
military.

I am not talking of Fiji, I am talking of Argentina. And perhaps I am
talking of the Third World as a whole. The tactic position according
to which "things are so wrong down there -did you notice it is always
DOWN there, never UP there?- that we should accept invasion by an
imperialist force" is an expression of the strategic position
according to which "natives" are backward and their nationalism
reactionary by definition. I find it very curious that Phil embraces
something slightly resembling this, no matter how thuggish the
current Fijian ruler may (and certainly can be taken to) be.


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