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It's actually in relation to NZ and the NZ left, but I thibnk it holds true much more widely. by Philip Ferguson “'The colonisation period is part of our history, but it’s not something that we should be chuffed about.' – ‘Dame’ Jenny Shipley, former National Party prime minister, on Radio New Zealand, Sunday, December 13. "On this blog and previously in revolution magazine and The Sparknewspaper, we have argued for almost two decades that the NZ ruling class has been undertaking a modernisation project. I’m not a huge base-superstructure fan but, to sum it up in those terms, which can be useful short-hand, they have been bringing the superstructure in line with the base. Meanwhile most of the left have been trailing along behind. And by left, I mean the most general sense of that term – ie people who see themselves as left (predominantly the liberal-left); however, even sections of the ostensibly anti-capitalist or revolutionary left have trailed along behind too. As we’ve argued before, only too often the left is more the left of bourgeois politics and bourgeois economics than an ideologically-independent left which seeks an anti-capitalist transformation of society. "Absolutely central to the ruling class – and by this term I mean the capitalists and their key managers, both in business and throughout the state apparatus (eg, the key politicians and the heads of government departments from education to WINZ to the judicial system, cops and military) – has been the. . ." full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/capitalist-modernisation-and-the-nz-left/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
