>Yeah. The anti-imperialist movements in the third world were almost
>all led by perfectly bourgeois people, sometimes from displaced
>elites, sometimes from elites precisely created by the imperialist
>powers. Does this delegitimize their anti-imperialism?
No. But 1) the EU is not a colony, and 2) the social origins of the anti-colonial leaders help explain the disappointing course of post-independence life, which often involves betrayal, exploitation, and repression.
Doug