"Economic Nationalism"? (was Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin?)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Angela:
>[*the 'white australia policy' was the first law passed by the australian
>national state in 1901, a law and a 'national liberation movement' built
>upon a conflict between british foreign policy toward china (insistent upon
>the right of movement of colonials within the empire) and australian
>economic nationalism.]

I'm against "economic nationalism" at the capitalist core (including
Australia as it has existed), period.  But, I don't think you can make an
abstract pronouncement against it as it might be practiced outside the core
from "such a comfortable distance," to use your phrase.  For instance, an
economy geared toward export monoculture to earn forex to stay on the
never-ending debt service treadmill isn't in the interest of the masses in
a Third World country.  What if some leftist forces took power in a Third
World country and were struggling to reshape its political economy to
better meet the needs of the masses, *under the present international
conditions (capitalist and imperialist)*?  Take any country outside the
capitalist core -- Indonesia, South Africa, Albania, Venezuela, Congo,
Somalia, India, Peru, any country whose conditions you know well -- and
think what might be practicable to improve the wellbeing of the masses.
(If you take a "country" like Congo or Somalia, you have to take into
account that as of now people there don't have a functioning state that
controls its entire "territory.")  I'm looking for concrete discussion.

Yoshie