> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:46:59 -0500
> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> De-linking from the Empire's political, economic, military, &
> ideological hegemony = re-linking the world on terms friendlier to
> the working class, in Samir Amin, etc.'s lexicon. I don't know
> _anyone_ using the word "delinking" in the sense that Hardt & Negri
> use it. Don't they have any specific criticism of _actually
> existing_ Marxist & other left-wing theorists?
>
> Losing the "nation" in today's world means Congo, for example. No
> state, no nation, no economic infrastructure to speak of, no social
> development in the near future....
>
> Totally losing "national sovereignty" means, for instance, Bosnia,
> Kosovo, etc. You get a bunch of armed guys haggling over the
> competing claims to fictitious "local sovereignty" under a body of
> imperial bureaucrats, peace-keepers, etc.
>
> Losing "national sovereignty" more than half way means to be a
> military base of foreign troops potentially hostile to the local
> working class (like many nations that host the U.S. military), to
> have your economic policy determined by the Bretton Woods
> institutions, etc.
>
> Perhaps the only nation in the world that can be said to be in full
> possession of "national sovereignty" is the USA. Everyone other
> nation -- including Cuba & China -- has lost much of it, in so far as
> its "sovereignty" is conditional upon the political, economic, &
> military sufferance of the Empire. Anyone against "national
> sovereignty" therefore should try to come up with a strategy to
> fragment the USA's sovereignty from inside & outside.
>
> The rest of the world's masses should try to work toward their
> political sovereignty, for instance, via the route that Pat suggests:
>
> At 11:36 AM +0000 1/30/01, Patrick Bond wrote:
> >I think they're (we're) fighting to
> >first and foremost, dissolve the power of neoliberalism and all other
> >oppressions. (One day soon that will mean having to take a lot more
> >states, of course, but meantime what the Zapatistas remind us of is
> >that persistent, uncompromising *opposition* is the appropriate
> >formula, and especially so when it comes to nixing--not fixing--the
> >embryonic global state...)
>
> Zapping _in the meantime_, but reclaiming Lenin for a possible future,
>
> Yoshie
>
> P.S. The more political sovereignty the workers of the world gain,
> the less national/imperial sovereignty the USA will have.
>
>