On the Settler Question

On Apr 27, 11:11 pm, stephen <srdiam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 27, 2:44 pm, Vngelis <meberr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Someone may be brought there initially as a slave but then if they
> > become the foreman they cease to be a slave.
> > It happens amongst workers every so often when they seek management
> > positions. The cease to be in the class they started out in or were
> > born into.
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> I had missed this posting, which largely answers my last question. I
> think you are saying they become settlers upon their integration into
> the settler social stratum. That makes more sense than others are
> ready to grant, although it requires that there _be_ a distinct
> settler stratum, as in South Africa.

> srd

It makes no sense what so ever. YOu are letting V use his "settler
smoke and mirrors" on you and you are falling for it. First, the
overwhelming majority of Indian immigrants became working class. There
was a small stratum that became..."foreman" as V puts it, mostly this
stratum were petty-bourgeois and at not point in S. Africa were they
ever 'ruling class', which is the real issue, like the Boers, who
became grafted onto the Anglo ruling class with the rise of the
national party after WWII.

The idea that you are brought over, a whole people,  as workers, then
you 'become a settler' defies logic and history.

David