The BBC has just released an article about the reluctance of the British government to release historical information (See British colonial files released following legal challenge). Notice that the journalist, Holly Wallis, uses the postmarxist terminology "British Colonial Files" rather than historical files from Kenya or Malaya.
The most interesting aspect of this tranche of articles about historical files is that they expose both the journalists and Barack Obama as postmarxists. Obama wrote that his father had been:
"selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States joining the first large wave of Africans to be sent forth to master Western technology and bring it back to forge a new, modern Africa" (BBC: Obama's father among secret files on Kenyan students).
Obama seems to have missed the fact that the new generation of Kenyan leaders and intellectuals had been educated at British, European and African universities before independence. The British only ruled Kenya from 1920, it having been an autonomous protectorate before then (it was a protectorate from 1895 to stop German expansion in East Africa - Tanzania, Ruanda and Burundi were German East Africa). They set up numerous colleges and universities in the 1950s and 1960s to cater for the output of the schools they had founded in the 1940s and 1950s. Obama's idea that Africa was kept in a state of total oppression by the British until independence is absurd and naive politicking based on Cold War subversion in East Africa. He should reflect on the fact that the British were involved in global politics in the same way as the modern USA, they stopped first the Germans from getting Kenya, then the Russians and then granted independence. It has become fashionable to blame "Colonialists" for all the ills of Africa but many African countries failed to develop for reasons other than some imagined, continuing, imperial burden. South Korea and Japan went from third world conditions to first world countries within 25 years, Europe recovered from the war within 25 years. After 25 years a country is responsible for itself.
As he himself says, Obama's views were influenced by his father and his father's views were classic Cold War ideas. This was spotted by the British at the time who had:
"Concerns over the "anti-American and anti-white" tendency of Kenyan students sent to study in the US in 1959 - the same year Barack Obama's Kenyan father enrolled at university in Hawaii". (BBC: Obama's father among secret files on Kenyan students).
The USA is particularly prone to believing Cold War propaganda about the European trading empires, after all, this tendency was the reason the Soviets invented the propaganda. It is a shame to see Obama accepting the Soviet/Maoist approach without question. It is even worse to hear media reports of these files about colonial times and to see the ignorant reporters take a postmarxist approach and act as if they are entirely morally superior to these "Colonialists".
Modern people, especially those in the media and politics would have behaved in exactly the same way as the people of the time. Obama would have conspired to remove the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands and BBC reporters would have accepted government intervention in their reporting. As postmarxists however these modern commentators and politicians pose as holy and condemn those people of the past whom it suits them to condemn to get an advantage now. The British postmarxists condemn the current British as "Colonialists" to stir internal revolutionary tensions, Obama sides with the South Americans and Africans against "colonialists" for US trading advantage even though the current state of these continents is the fault of their current governments. Neither group actually inspects the true history to discover what really happened, that Africans went to university, that Russians and Germans worked overtime to destroy their western enemy, that guerrillas were brutal beyond the imagination, that some South American states are aggressive and expansionist. No, the postmarxist narrative is entirely about present day politics and present day advantage. They never say 'suppose the Russians and Chinese had gained Africa and Malaysia, what then?', instead they just use the selected past to further their own agenda.
Colonialism occurred two generations ago, if you hear politicians and journalists blaming colonialism for current events they are covering up their own shortcomings or using it to create division and hatred or both.
See also:
The myth of colonialism
Colonialism? Its the Colonists Stupid!
A ranking of social evils
Cameron appears to be a moron: Kashmir and the USA
The Mau Mau, Tutu and the limits of legal liability.
Postmodernism-poststructuralism-postmarxism
The BBC Guide to postmodern journalism
Footnote: It is apparent when reading articles on East Africa that the postmarxists are setting up a racist narrative of Anglo-American bad, Russian and German good in Africa.
The most interesting aspect of this tranche of articles about historical files is that they expose both the journalists and Barack Obama as postmarxists. Obama wrote that his father had been:
"selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States joining the first large wave of Africans to be sent forth to master Western technology and bring it back to forge a new, modern Africa" (BBC: Obama's father among secret files on Kenyan students).
Obama seems to have missed the fact that the new generation of Kenyan leaders and intellectuals had been educated at British, European and African universities before independence. The British only ruled Kenya from 1920, it having been an autonomous protectorate before then (it was a protectorate from 1895 to stop German expansion in East Africa - Tanzania, Ruanda and Burundi were German East Africa). They set up numerous colleges and universities in the 1950s and 1960s to cater for the output of the schools they had founded in the 1940s and 1950s. Obama's idea that Africa was kept in a state of total oppression by the British until independence is absurd and naive politicking based on Cold War subversion in East Africa. He should reflect on the fact that the British were involved in global politics in the same way as the modern USA, they stopped first the Germans from getting Kenya, then the Russians and then granted independence. It has become fashionable to blame "Colonialists" for all the ills of Africa but many African countries failed to develop for reasons other than some imagined, continuing, imperial burden. South Korea and Japan went from third world conditions to first world countries within 25 years, Europe recovered from the war within 25 years. After 25 years a country is responsible for itself.
As he himself says, Obama's views were influenced by his father and his father's views were classic Cold War ideas. This was spotted by the British at the time who had:
"Concerns over the "anti-American and anti-white" tendency of Kenyan students sent to study in the US in 1959 - the same year Barack Obama's Kenyan father enrolled at university in Hawaii". (BBC: Obama's father among secret files on Kenyan students).
The USA is particularly prone to believing Cold War propaganda about the European trading empires, after all, this tendency was the reason the Soviets invented the propaganda. It is a shame to see Obama accepting the Soviet/Maoist approach without question. It is even worse to hear media reports of these files about colonial times and to see the ignorant reporters take a postmarxist approach and act as if they are entirely morally superior to these "Colonialists".
Modern people, especially those in the media and politics would have behaved in exactly the same way as the people of the time. Obama would have conspired to remove the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands and BBC reporters would have accepted government intervention in their reporting. As postmarxists however these modern commentators and politicians pose as holy and condemn those people of the past whom it suits them to condemn to get an advantage now. The British postmarxists condemn the current British as "Colonialists" to stir internal revolutionary tensions, Obama sides with the South Americans and Africans against "colonialists" for US trading advantage even though the current state of these continents is the fault of their current governments. Neither group actually inspects the true history to discover what really happened, that Africans went to university, that Russians and Germans worked overtime to destroy their western enemy, that guerrillas were brutal beyond the imagination, that some South American states are aggressive and expansionist. No, the postmarxist narrative is entirely about present day politics and present day advantage. They never say 'suppose the Russians and Chinese had gained Africa and Malaysia, what then?', instead they just use the selected past to further their own agenda.
Colonialism occurred two generations ago, if you hear politicians and journalists blaming colonialism for current events they are covering up their own shortcomings or using it to create division and hatred or both.
See also:
The myth of colonialism
Colonialism? Its the Colonists Stupid!
A ranking of social evils
Cameron appears to be a moron: Kashmir and the USA
The Mau Mau, Tutu and the limits of legal liability.
Postmodernism-poststructuralism-postmarxism
The BBC Guide to postmodern journalism
Footnote: It is apparent when reading articles on East Africa that the postmarxists are setting up a racist narrative of Anglo-American bad, Russian and German good in Africa.
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