29718: Simidor (respond) Re: 29697: Clerie (Reply) Re: Haiti's bourgeoisie (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Daniel Simidor <danielsimidor@yahoo.com>

To call a thing by its name is not to insult anyone.
Why do I refer to the dominant class in Haiti as that
?peculiar bourgeoisie?? Not just on account of the
peculiar institution of slavery it perpetuates to this
day, but mainly because it doesn?t behave as a proper,
self-respecting bourgeoisie: it consumes, it doesn?t
produce.  The wealth that the masses of people
generate through their wretched labor, it lavishes
upon itself in luxury goods instead of transforming it
into productive capital.  Lacking in basic loyalty to
the country and the people that feed their binges
(every single one of them holds a second passport),
they much rather invest next door in the Dominican
Republic.  What they do invest in the assembly sector
in Haiti, beyond a few shingles, is in starvation
wages hardly conducive to any sort of development.

Under the ministrations of this peculiar bourgeoisie,
Haiti has become a nation of parasites and beggars.
?Le parasitisme, qu?il soit basé sur la force ou sur
la faiblesse, engendre l?avilissement,? wrote
Rabindranath Tagore almost a century ago.
(Parasitism, whether based upon power or upon
weakness, breeds degeneracy.?  Read Jean Luc?s book
?Structures économiques et lutte nationale populaire
en Haiti.?  Or if you think it?s dated, try Alex
Dupuy?s ?Haiti in the New World Order.?

?O my unfortunate country, those whom you have
debased,
they shall drag you down to their own level
till their shame is yours;
those whom you have deprived of their human right,
who stand before you but find no room in your lap,
they shall drag you down to their own level
till their shame is yours.?
(Tagore)


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