RE: [PEN-L:5702] NACLA and Colombia

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>Paul,
>So, taking your argument a tiny step further, I presume we (humans) are
>all bourgeois and (or) postmodernist now. This being the case, someone
>really ought to announce it to those persistently revolting masses in the
>third world.
>John Enyang,

John

Probably I mistook your use of the word 'revolt' for 'revolution'. 
While it is true many citizens around the world are involved in many 
types of social disobedience or revolt, I think hardly any of them 
constitute a revolution. The fact that people do not revolt does not 
make them a member of the bourgeoisie - the fact they are not 
revolting does not mean they own either the means of their 
production, or the control of their ideas.

BTW, I wish people would drop the term 'Third World' - it is no 
longer politically or anylitically correct and people in the South 
generally find it a derogatory term, as they do 'developing country'.

Comradely, Paul.


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