[lbo-talk] India's Essar Oil buys 50 pct in Kenya Petroleum

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Wed Jan 16 13:35:41 PST 2008


On Wed, January 16, 2008 7:07 am, Chris Doss wrote:


> How long until people start refering to India as
> imperialist? Has it happened yet?

According to my Indian comrades, there's a long tradition on the South Asian Left of analyzing the postcolonial Indian state as playing an imperialist role vis-a-vis scheduled tribes, separatist movements in places like Assam and Kashmir, etc. Historically, the South Asian bourgeoisie has been too weak to plunder other countries - it could only plunder its own periphery.

-- DRR



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