A great part of the coercion arises, too, from the tactical challenges
facing the countries emerging from colonialism. The flexibility and
space introduced by democracy are exploited by the imperial powers,
which buuld and/or seize levers in the weaker states' party politics,
trade unionism, education, trade, and so on. They have an overwhelming
advantage that permits them to toy, abuse, disrupt and divide the
nascent countries.
The anti-imperialists combat them by solidifying power, requiring , as
so often is the case, ruthless measures of putting down the Hydra-headed
hirelings of the metropole. Democracy suffers in the clash. It will take
formation of larger and independent-minded blocks of poorer countries to
counter the imperialists. The scale of China as a market and as a nut
not easily cracked militarily presents froces them to wheel and deal
rather than coerce.
TAHIR WOOD wrote:
> The third world ruling classes
> tend to have more coercive methods of ruling their
> countries. This is because they originate from the petty
> bourgeois strata who assumed leadership of the anti-colonial
> or national liberation movements in their countries. When
> they assume power at the moment of 'liberation' they find
> that this power is relative and conditional. Because they
> are petty bourgeois (typically doctors, lawyers, academics)
> they do not have economic power of their own, and their
> knowledge of the world economic and financial systems tends
> to be bookish and naive.
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