Re: Fwd(GLW): FIJI: Land reform for the rich

["Alan Bradley" <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Louis Proyect
> In point of fact, Fijian society rests on contradictory class forces.

Really?  How unique.

> It has a labor aristocracy and a planter class that is ethnically Indian.

The working class is mostly Indian.  Calling it a labor aristocracy is
farcical.

The "planters" have "plantations" that average around 4 hectares each.
That's peasant scale agriculture.

> The Green Left Weekly, reflecting the opportunism of the Australian Labor
> Party, orients to this layer.

Who are the layer who were attacked in the coups in the 80s, the coup a
couple of years ago, and are being attacked again now.  Louis, on the other
hand, orients to the layer who are launching the attacks.

> The indigenous people are hobbled by a rotten leadership,

who hold state power,

> but they are struggling to find ways to retain communal land, the economic
> basis of their sovereignty which was robbed from them.

Which might actually be true, except that there is no sign of it apart from
the ruling class engaging in a land-grab at the expense of a bunch of small
farmers.

> Here's something I wrote during the hostage crisis in Fiji:

What you wrote during the hostage crisis was written when the list was
hopelessly mired in impressionism.  You had jumped to a conclusion and
started looking for the "facts" that would support it.

Alan Bradley" <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>


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