[lbo-talk] dev'ts in world economy and foreign ownership

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue May 29 10:22:23 PDT 2007


Yoshie:

They will think of other peoples' patriotism as nothing but a manifestation of xenophobia, or only a ruse of tyrants to oppress their own peoples, in the South. And "intellectuals" among them will congratulate themselves for being cosmopolitan above nationalism, so unlike primitive creatures out

[WS:] Do not you worry, Yoshie. These Third World patriotic and nationalistic heroes may blow up a few humvees and tanks today, but tomorrow they will be knocking on the American, French, or Russian doors asking for work or alms, or even begging their former enemies to come back to their lands - as they have done in the past. As uvj at vsnl.com informative posts show, the Vietnamese or the Cambodians are very keen today to welcome and do business with the imperialists whom they fiercely fought 25 years ago.

It is hard to survive eating national flags and patriotic symbols, I suppose.

Wojtek



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