Re: various & sundry

[ALI KADRI <akadri_00@xxxxxxxxx>]

AT LEAST THERE you get a socialist party or a labour
party that is clearly distinguished along class lines.
in africa and the midlle east, almost never. the
french left was once discussing whether to call
african communist parties communist.

well when you talk about the reallignemnt of different
social classes in the rich world against the poor,
then that is organised crime and racism.

racism is by definition the very practice of
colonialism. western social sciences are full of
examples of such language.
--- Rob Schaap <bantam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> G'day Ali,
>
> > ON POINT 2, the proverb goes "every comaprison is
> > lame"
> > class formation in the periphery is quite
> different.
> > although latin america may be different because of
> its
> > early independence and a genuine rise of a
> national
> > burgeoisie, this in the M east and africa did not
> > happen. the buzz word of french sociologist is
> > disarticulation, that is to say, the working class
> > rejects any class ties and aodpts tribe ties
> because
> > the crisis is very very severe.
>
> I have an uneasy feeling, after watching the varied
> ways in which the world's
> people reacted to S11, the varying degrees to which
> they supported the 'war on
> terror', and the very particular way in which the
> Australian electorate has
> just expressed itself, that this disarticulating
> tribalism has infected the
> Anglo Saxons, too ...
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
>


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