Re: [Marxism] On Gary's indignation and my opinions

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a: Re: [Marxism] On Gary's indignation
Remitido por: Calvin Broadbent
Fecha: Miércoles 26 de Enero de 2005 
Hora: 16:06
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> Hi Nestor,
> 
> Undoubtedly, it is my own unintelligence, but your reply seems a
> little cryptic to me. Sorry! Obviously my remark about the 'natives'
> of S. America and Ireland was a sardonic consideration of the two
> major strands of Christianity, both of which are responsible for
> numerous crimes against humanity and reason. Of course, that is their
> bad side.
> 
> Anyway, I accept your proposition that "their [i.e. the imperialists']
> aggresivity comes in very different clothing... and in a sense the way
> they agress defines the ways in which one defends".
> 
> Apologies again if I missed your point.
> 

Now that I read it again, yes, it was cryptic.

What I wanted to say was quite simple, however.  

For the worth of it, the general idea is that since (a) colonialism 
and imperialism generate the basic contradiction in a non-
metropolitan country, and (b) imperialism in particular acts by 
seeping into the economic and social fabric of the dominated country 
somewhat like a virus[1], then (c) whatever nuance you could perceive 
in the particular Christian religiosity of, say, Latin Americans or 
Irish (why not Poles, too, whose Catholicism was partly a reaction 
against Protestant German and Orthodox Russian manhunting occupiers?) 
cannot be explained solely (though of course in the first place, but 
not _solely_) by talking of the "natives".  You need to take into 
account the "nativizers", those who turn simple people into something 
else.

Hope it is clear now.  Certainly, it would be a pity if it weren't, 
because it is a lot of times longer, and I dislike to misallocate 
bandwidth.

N O T E

[1] There was a really frightening tale by Ray Bradbury about a 
little boy who discovered that "something" was taking command of 
different parts of his body, nobody noticing it and simply telling 
him not to say foolish things, until it took the last cell of the 
brain.  It was told, if I don't remember wrongly, in first person.  I 
found it quite interesting to explain what is it that a semicolonial 
people feels when the country is invaded by imperialist "investors".

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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