>
>I understand that you can feel it intangible. In my own country it is
>so visible that it has been carefully erased from the political
>dictionary. It takes less than a minute to trace back the origin of
>every and each of our tragedies to imperialist domination. This is
>our only, grim and undesired, privilege as a Third World country.
Nester, you are of course correct. It is those of us living in the
industrialized nations that have a hard time seeing imperialism as more than
a theoretical concept. What I was trying to get across, is that many in the
underdeveloped world have more immediate life and death struggles to attend
to, and in order to fight the bigger fight it may be necessary to take down
one imperialist puppet regime and settling, for the time being, with another
"boot licker" who is less brutal. This in turn gives the breathing room
necessary, for the people to take on the larger battle.
>
>Those of us lucky enough to be living in " the belly of the
> > beast" need to be building movements that focus on the long term
> > dismantlement of this horrendous system. At the same time I think we
> > need to be supporting those in the periphery and semi-periphery to
> > fight against those that make their lives intolerable, even if that
> > means they may, temporarily, continue to be dominated by imperialist
> > forces[which I think in its modern sense is synonymous with
> > corporate-financial globalization].
>
>This is the basic mistake. Only the corporate-financial globalization
>makes our lives intolerable. Please give me examples and I will show
>how, in each case.
>
The only example that comes immediately to mind is South Africa. South
Africa is undoubtedly under the boot of western imperialism. At the same
time the victory over apartheid was a major victory for the people and
allows the population to focus on the deeper roots of their oppression. I
also think that sanctions on Iraq should be lifted even if they would be
thrown into the waiting arms of the French, Russians and the major oil
companies. The misery the Iraqi people are enduring is to horrific and must
be stopped.
>It is up to those of us in the
> > core to create the conditions so that all of of humanity can break
> > these repressive chains.
>
>Yes, but while you don't we owe to ourselves the duty to go on our
>own struggle. And, of course, we do not deserve to be liberated by
>"others". Humankind, as Tahir hotly asserts (suppossedly against my
>own views) is a unity and liberation of humanity a unified struggle.
>But this unity is not a seamless, monolithic unity. The problem lies
>in the fact the previous sentence points to.
>
If we can change things in our home countries enough that we take the
boots off the throats of those struggling against imperialism in their own
countries then that would be enough. Unfortunately the education and will
of the first world citizens is a long way from being at the point where this
is feasible. So until then we struggle together, separately.
Take care, Aaron.
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