Re: [Marxism] SACP on xenophobic attacks

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 22, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:

> Louis wrote:
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>
>> I make the point that there was no imperialism in 1848...
> ============================
> ????????
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> British in India, French in Algeria, Spanish in Cuba and  
> Phillipines, etc.
> etc.


Ah, but since nobody, nobody, defended or advocated imperial rule over  
other peoples in those days there were obviously no "imperialists."   
But now we know that the "ism," the ideology, of defending imperial  
rule over oppressed peoples is not at all what we should mean by  
"imperialism."  Instead the 21st-century meaning of the word  
"imperialism" is to be found by taking literally the  "Aesopian  
language" of a 1916 pamphlet as  timeless truth.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos




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