From: Joenclarke-AT-aol.com Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 09:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: M-I: Marxism vs. Maoism & nationalist "socialism" Several posts ago L proyect made a convincing argument-correction with respect to Rwanda, Zaire and imperialism. However, at the end of his post he suggests that "imperialism is opposed to nationalism." I would put the matter differently and suggest that Imperialism delights in nationalism and its ruses. This holds if we understand nationalism here to be the bourgeois nationalism of the urban elites--a "nationalism" which is nothing but a conduit for multinational capital, for the resurrection albeit in different face of colonialism. Here Fanon was correct and the events in the third world have proven him so. What imperialism is repelled by is "nationalitarianism" which involves not only the clearing of the national "space" but also the "reconquest of the powers of decision in all domains of social life." It is what michael manley, a proponent in the Jamaica of the of democratic socialism, called "self-reliance" a handy phrase which collapses the shift in self/group/national awareness that comes with the reclaiming of the means of production by the masses. Joe Clarke --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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