[lbo-talk] Workers of Europe unite, you've only Euro chains to lose

[Wojtek S]

But in such circumstances, the anti-imperialist struggles were
typically led by the nascent national bourgeoisie hoping to step into
their colonial masters' shoes.  Nadine Gordimer portrays that rather
well in her novel "A Guest of Honour" which I believe earned her the
Nobel Prize.  When the anti-imperialist struggle was actually led by
the working class, e.g. the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s it
was quashed by the joint effort of the local bourgeoisie and
colonialists.  Cambodia is even a more peculiar case - while the
struggle had definitely an ant-imperialist character, its momentum was
seized by peasant populists of petite bourgeois provenance led by Pol
Pot and the outcome was the destruction of the urban classes - both
the working class and the bourgeoisie.

It seems that the bourgeoisie is much better at organizing
anti-imperialists struggles than the working class is.

Wojtek