True... Having just recently finished Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, one sees
the truth in what you said. Fanon rightly pointed out that the bourgeoisie
even when it speaks anti-imperialist is no better because this bourgeosie
does not know the people of the country and is only looking to create a new
system where he himself becomes the powerful oppressor. What is needed as
Fanon commented is a revolutionary force of the people and one that while
educating the people does not discredit the people or look to be master of
the people.
Andrew
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Objectively Nestor is certainly right. But that doesn't mean that the agenda
of
the bourgois leadership of the forces of national liberation ist different,
and
cannot be but different because of their class interests which by necessity
always overshadow any national interests (this is if you don't define
'national
interests' as the interests of the national bourgeoisie since the nation
state
is per definitionem a bourgeois state). The bourgeois leaders do not aim at
smashing the system which keeps their countries oppressed by imperialism
because
to do so would mean to fight against capitalism itself od which imperialism
is
only the unavoidable highest stage. Capitalism however is the basis of their
own
class rule domestically. What they aim at is getting a 'fairer' share in the
exploitation of their national subjects. This is the reason why no matter how
harsh the opposition between them and and imperialist powers may seem to be
at a
certain time this opposition is always but conjunctural. The only
strategically
antiimperialist force within the societies of the oppressed nations can be
the
working class which has to rally around itself the rest of the toiling masses
(poor peasants, shopkeepers, marginalized strata in the big cities and the
likes). It is true that real antiimperialisam has a proletarian class
content.
To deduce from this that every antiimperialism is objectively proletarian is
putting the matter on its head. What is to be deduced from that however is
that
bourgeois antiimperialism is in the last analysis but a fake.
Best, A.Holberg
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