Indonesia, anarkis.org - EDITORIAL: Rejecting Nationalism
and Patriotism [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
S aat farmers Tegaldowo, Apex, rejects the existence of PT Semen Indonesia (SI) in the
hills of the source water of their living space, workers in Jakabeka strike to reject the
establishment of low wages, and the Malind in Merauke reject the exploitation of the PT
Medco over their forests, not a public who considered that the cause of the conflict is
less united Rembang farmers with governments and companies, that farmers who oppose the
agenda of the State and PT SI lack of understanding of the major agenda of 'development'
that aims to boost the national income for the 'welfare of the people', that workers who
strike are people who are less willing to budge and understand his position, and would not
aligned with the government and the company. Sympathizers PT SI's own use when defending
the Homeland nationalist symbol presence in Rembang: Padoeka Jang Moelia Commander of the
Revolution, Sukarno, who in 1957 inaugurated the cement corporation with his own hands. In
the case of the Malind, judgment is added to the label of provocateurs or separatists who
want to divide the nation. Farmers, workers, and indigenous peoples are considered trouble
makers and threaten 'peace' and stability requirements of national development normally so
smooth.
In other words, protest and resistance groups these people away from nationalism: to
understand that every individual is attached to the so-called collective identity of the
nation, and individuals in these collective identities have relatively similar interests.
Patriotism further implications: every individual in a nation should work together to
succeed the nation-state agenda which was competing with other nation-state, because the
state of the nation is more important than any other nation-state.
However, the extent to which nationalism and patriotism able to give an honest reading of
the conflict occurred living space? Why Rembang farmers who refuse land mines seized and
used as a karst area lacked a sense of unity-unity? Why refuse low paid stamped not love
the nation? Why the Malind against Medco labeled separatist and divisive nation?
Nationalism and patriotism do not give much choice but to measure the degree of conflict
living space through the love of the nation-state abstract and distant from the base
material causes of each conflict living space. The less the degree of love for the
nation-state agenda, the curse was someone. At this point, the class perspective becomes
important.
See the conflict of living space in a class perspective means putting people in the
conflict in relation to the means of production: land, plant, sea, forest, and so on. Who
farmers Tegaldowo and PT SI in relation to the land and the hills are used as agricultural
land, but at the same time, containing karst are the main commodity PT SI? Who are the
workers and the boss in the relationship with the company? Who are the Malind and Medco in
relation to the forest on one side of the chamber hunting, gathering, harvesting sago for
the Malind hereditary, but on the other side covered with wood which is the main commodity
Medco? Are the interests of each of these groups over the means of production?
Individuals whose interests are opposed to the expansion and accumulation of capital is
not a 'nation' that one, but a condition of existence in capitalism is not inevitable and
beyond the limits of collective identification such as nationality. So, the reality is
happening is not a fight between groups who love and do not love people, but the struggle
between classes with different interests over the means of production. The consequence is
that there is no 'Indonesian society' that the interest in 'nation of Indonesia', no
'national interest' collective that unites these opposing class interests.
Factory workers might be very loving nation or could have hated his people, but that can
not be denied is that labor is a class that must sell their labor power to the bosses for
wages to survive. In relation to the means of production, workers do not have the means of
production while the boss has it. Because of this mastery of the means of production, the
boss can exploit workers through profit dihisapnya to be accumulated into new capital.
Labor interests clear, objective and material: earn more with fewer employment, as well as
living and working conditions they deserve. While the interests of capital is certainly
the opposite: making workers work harder with lower production costs (eg lower wages) so
that a higher profit.
Farmers Tegaldowo there may be memorized "Indonesia Raya" or perhaps completely forgotten,
but certainly these farmers at risk of losing its means of production as a result of the
accumulation of capital and expansion needs PT SI. Descendant community may Malind nobody
can speak Indonesian well or even not at all, but certainly the Malind shaped production
tool forests have been looted, vandalized and exploited for the sake of expansion and
capital accumulation needs of Medco.
Differences in class interests which is the base material of conflict outbreak of living
space. The interests of capital to operate through corporate (private or state owned),
which needs expansion and the accumulation of his capital guaranteed by the state. This is
the reality of the capitalist world in which we live, where class conflict becomes
substantially. Class is not the degree of love for the nation, not the homeland, the
national language, or nationality song sung whenever the flag ceremony. Class is the
benchmark of the material and tangible: the working class as factory workers in low-wage
Jakabeka, class of land owners and tenants as farmers whose lands are threatened deprived
Tegaldowo PT SI, the Malind the forests destroyed by PT Medco is a class whose interests
are crushed expansion and capital accumulation.
Advocating nationalism and patriotism as a way of reading and living space solution to the
conflict that occurs means advocating class collaboration - advocating 'peace' in the
middle of class conflict that occurred. Nationalism creates imagination would the
community of nations that share a common interest. In fact, this obscures the reality of
the real material interests and opposing between the classes that make up the entire
population.
In the imagination of unity-the great national unity, nationalist labor means labor peace
with the boss while the boss sucking the profit result of hard work and gave him a meager
wage, farmers nationalist Rembang means farmers who gave up land seized by PT Semen
Indonesia and converted into mine (which, in many cases, mean the creation of a group of
people without a land that later became the majority of miners or new refugees in urban
areas), and the nationalist community Malind means they are reconciled with their forest
robs Medco,
http://anarkis.org/menolak-nasionalisme-dan-patriotisme/
