Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 01:39:32 -0500
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: Reply to Lew -on nation building


Dear friends,

Nestor is still chewing the ole 'national liberation' cud.
(read the programme of  local  bourgeois for  policing the working class
as exploiters and gendarmes with the imperial &
 old colonial powers still on top, riding the workers 
fore and aft, squeezing as much surplus value out 
to stay competitive in WORLD capitalist dog eat 
dog competition. ) "Salute the national flag" sing the "Hymno nacional"
 and "get back to work or else is their motto" . Sound familiar.

Nestor, your days of petty bourgeois nationalist  glory are over
and have been since WW1 . Your native bosses are in bed 
with one imperialist group or another and let me remind you
the Latin American "national liberation" already  happened in the 
last century. Look where it went!  The record this century is no 
better for workers and farmers . 

You can suck up your national bourgeoisie all you want .
Let them sell you the glory of nationalism--meanwhile your 
same bourgeois are busy robbing the workers blind and investing
much of their booty on the New York , London, and  Tokyo
stock exchanges. 

National (capitalist) struggle is pap to get workers to give up and 
surrender the class struggle--and to set one group of workers 
against others -all the better for the capitalist 
parasites to laugh all the way to the bank . You don't need 
to help them . They have their own ideological  "think tanks".

Nestor. Name one of your precious national liberation struggles
that has ever promoted the workers to be the ruling 
class and overthrown the capitalist social realtions?
 Where is it? What struggle? 
In this  age of world capitalist /imperialist market domination 
 national liberation  is a capitalist  myth--a kind of time warped
 program for petty bourgeois -bourgeois  wannabees..

Neil  


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