"NOTES ON IMPERIALISM AND REVOLUTION" FROM "FELIX GRENE'S APPROACH"!

First and foremost, one has to keep in mind the fact that "FELIX GRENE" remains a peculiar writer who returned to "Britain" in the seventies after thirty years residence in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. He indeed won a distinguished reputation for his books and films on "China" and "VIETNAM".
In this fierce polemic, he sets out to tell what "Imperialism" is, how it works, how we are all involved in it, how it distorts our thinking and why, unless we revolt against it, it will destroy all that is best in man and his society. Using the UNITED STATES, where he lived for many years, as his principal example, he shows "Imperialism" at work not only in underdeveloped countries but in western EUROPE and other industrially advanced regions where the process of economic and political satellization in now in full swing. But today, we take this great opportunity to point out the fact that american "Imperialism" is still working in some parts of "AFRICA", such as the "IVORY COAST", where it has played a major role during the post electoral in (2010) conflicts between the incumbent "LAURENT GBAGBO" and his challenger "ALLASSANE OUATTARA". Going back to those memorable and historical facts, the saying of the great "MOSA MARCUS GARVEY" lingers deep in our minds today :"Africa for the africans and our dignity at home and abroad"...

("THE DEMOCRACY HANG-UP"!)
The use of the word "democracy" is about as powerful an agent of confusion, double-talk and sheer fakery as the rhetoric used by the spokesman for religion. We have seen how they(the religious), appropriate words such as kindliness, gentleness, love words that can call to something deep in us all... And then use them to justify actions that altogether contradict their meaning.
Love your enemies, they say, and then demonstrate their love by supporting and blessing the use of high explosive on them. In the confusion, those who control our political destinies uses words that carry an immensely powerful positive appeal but which have no relation at all to the real intentions of those who use them.
Words such as equality, brotherhood, government of the people by the people, representative government, sovereignty of the people, and so on, have a profoundly moving effect on us for they correspond to the deep longing which is in all us for a life in which we can co-operate with each other rather than compete, a society in which we feel we belong as participating members of a true community. With these words, in combination with the ritual that accompanies them, those who possess the real power confuse and bamboozle us. The great democratic swindle the passing off fake democracy as guenine, has succeeded so well precisely because of this very hunger for a guenine democracy.
One can not sell a fake unless there is a demand for the guenine article.
So the first necessary step, if we are to clear our own confusions, is to sort out the reality from the idiom, to learn what kind of democracy we now have and to see how far it not only falls short of what a true democracy might be, but how in many essential ways it represents the very opposite.
Fake democracy really goes back to the original Greek use of the word, for their democracy represented a participation in government of the minority of free men in a slave society. Even then it was a tactic, a device, to help the really rich and powerful in a small city-state to manipulate the middle strata of society.
Fake democracy found a new lease of life nearer to our times with the development of bourgeois society. It’s essential function as (and still is) to consolidate the power of the few by creating in the minds of the many the illusion that they control their own destiny, that they have
a real place in the decision-making process of government.
In "Britain", the institution of parliament was a powerful weapon of the new capitalist class against feudalism, and as such had a progressive character. Parliament later developed as a direct reflection of Capitalism: It served, and still serves the needs of Capitalism; and maintaining the outward forms of parliamentary procedures is one of the ways in which the essentially exploitive character of capitalism is concerned from the people.
In the UNITED STATES, democracy as in "Greece" began within the context of a slave society and thus it, too, was from the start, a tool of the properties class. The French Revolution also was a Bourgeois Revolution directed against the feudal aristocracy and under under the enormously appealing slogan slogan of liberty, equality, fraternity, it ultimately gave freedom and unbrilled licence to the newly emerging commercial and financial oligarchies. National frencH anthem (Marseilleise) was a hymn of triumph of the "bourgeoisie".
Democracy in "Britain" ,"France", and the United states did at first provide a means of participation and equality in the governing process but only for the bourgeoisie and within the bourgois class. From then on the focus of political power shifted from parliament has lost almost all its power and its meaning. Its members(our representatives) obediently through the division lobbies voting as they are instructed to, often not even knowing what they are voting about. Parliament's main function is now largely ceremonial; it provides the means(like a seal on a legal document) of formally validating documents that are made elsewhere. The constitutional theory is that the house of commons representing the electorate, acts a watch-dog over he excutive. That function has long been abandonned. It is not parliament(as"LLOYD GEORGE") was one of the first to say publicly that today controls the cabinet; It is the cabinet that controls parliament....

"Today in the IVORY COAST, it seems to be the same story and song, because the role of the ivorian fake parliament right now seems to more ceremonial,
lack of a true and full popular legitimacy. As a result, we are experiencing a democracy hang-up in the IVORY COAST until ivorians and ivory Coast are not free from the shackles of an apparent neo colonialism and imperialism system. Time will really tell, because someone said: "what comes around, goes around"
(YVES T BOUAZO)(Half of the intro and the full conclusion are from the staff of "ivoirebusiness"-"sources": "notes on "imperialism and revolution" from the writer "FELIX GRENE")