Raúl Duke
11th May 2007, 03:50
In what stage of development (according to historical materialism) is Puerto Rico in?
It has benefitted from the US age of reforms and is experiencing the whitering of these reforms just like the US is currently.
Also some Puerto Rican politicians might be neo-liberalists (or whatever; the spectrum isn't like that "conservative vs. liberal" kind of the US) that have begun to privatize many public utilities, etc.
That seems to point out that PR is in the "senile stage" or "imperialism" stage of capitalism.
However...Puerto Rico still seems to be under economic imperialism (and its a US commonwealth) and I don't think they have much of a native bourgeoisie and can't be imperialist if they are subjugated under another country's imperialism....
So where exactly do they stand under HM?
Is this something out of the HM norm?
It has benefitted from the US age of reforms and is experiencing the whitering of these reforms just like the US is currently.
Also some Puerto Rican politicians might be neo-liberalists (or whatever; the spectrum isn't like that "conservative vs. liberal" kind of the US) that have begun to privatize many public utilities, etc.
That seems to point out that PR is in the "senile stage" or "imperialism" stage of capitalism.
However...Puerto Rico still seems to be under economic imperialism (and its a US commonwealth) and I don't think they have much of a native bourgeoisie and can't be imperialist if they are subjugated under another country's imperialism....
So where exactly do they stand under HM?
Is this something out of the HM norm?