File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9709, message 508


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


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