The West Indies cricket selectors have just completed their exercise in foolishness of putting Darren Sammy to captain the West Indies cricket team. Sammy is well regarded as a big-hearted player who always gives his best while on the field, though its also recognised he may not possess the other attributes that may enable him to successfully captain any cricket team.
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Hopeless Windies selectors must go
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mapoui
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yes there is a cure. the westindies elite mst become nationalistic so dat they do not see the success of the team and a unified westindies as threatening to their class position.
is dat possible depending (given ) on the economic basis upon which their class position rests?
no!
there must therefore be social reform or revolution in the westindies to remove them, reorganise westindian economics, unify the region, so that the leading class that emerges does not depend on ole' mass as an economic foundation for their class, but the westindies itself and its general success... economic, cultural, etc.
thats the cure!
is dat possible depending (given ) on the economic basis upon which their class position rests?
no!
there must therefore be social reform or revolution in the westindies to remove them, reorganise westindian economics, unify the region, so that the leading class that emerges does not depend on ole' mass as an economic foundation for their class, but the westindies itself and its general success... economic, cultural, etc.
thats the cure!
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BallOil
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Not going to work...mapoui wrote:yes there is a cure. the westindies elite mst become nationalistic so dat they do not see the success of the team and a unified westindies as threatening to their class position.
is dat possible depending on the economic basis upon which their class position rests?
no!
there must therefore be social reform or revolution in the westindies to remove them, reorganise westindian economics, unify the region, so that the leading class that emerges does not depend on ole' mass as an economic foundation for their class, but the westindies itself and its general success... economic, cultural, etc.
thats the cure!
Caricom should take over ownership of West Indies cricket and outsource it to capable hands to manage this thing properly...
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mapoui
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thats very neo-neoliberal of you Bally. but that is wat wont work...not my angle.
actually I am not recommending anything just pointing out what the options are...more status quo control and more disaster...or public control and a chance to go forward positively.
minority control is the problem. min ority control is class control, achieved by conquest and capitalism and maintaiend by force and the domination of an elite class. you cant get more minority and sectarian than that.
that is what has failed irrevocably now, has no future! it it had a futre that is positive it could segue into now that Hunte and all up to now has resulted oin the complte quaildown of westindies cricket. it is the same dispensation that has brought westindia independence to complete failure
now you want to streamline the minority control by privatising westindies cricket. westindies cricket them would become an investment vehicle driven by the profit motive, disciplined by the nature of those to whom control is given
actually I am not recommending anything just pointing out what the options are...more status quo control and more disaster...or public control and a chance to go forward positively.
minority control is the problem. min ority control is class control, achieved by conquest and capitalism and maintaiend by force and the domination of an elite class. you cant get more minority and sectarian than that.
that is what has failed irrevocably now, has no future! it it had a futre that is positive it could segue into now that Hunte and all up to now has resulted oin the complte quaildown of westindies cricket. it is the same dispensation that has brought westindia independence to complete failure
now you want to streamline the minority control by privatising westindies cricket. westindies cricket them would become an investment vehicle driven by the profit motive, disciplined by the nature of those to whom control is given
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mapoui
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outsourcing wont work! outsourcing is going to deepen and make far worse current westindian cricket problems as it has worsend and made more expensive all that it has touched in the world.
just ask the people of western countries what has happend to the services they used since they have been outsourced (privatised)
the quality of service has dropped and the cost to the peole has risend by multiples of hundereds of % points. that is because the 'investors' must make a profit at any cost.
that is precisely what would happen to westindies cricket if it or any part there-off is outsourced or privatised.
and who is to control the outsourcing?
that is bound to become a pork-barrell in which the wicb administration make deals with investors to creat corrupt sweetheart deals for kickbacks up the road.
yuh playing with a great can of worms Bally. the anser is direct public involvement. that has always solved such porblems. it always will. it is its opposite that has cause and prolongs the problem
just ask the people of western countries what has happend to the services they used since they have been outsourced (privatised)
the quality of service has dropped and the cost to the peole has risend by multiples of hundereds of % points. that is because the 'investors' must make a profit at any cost.
that is precisely what would happen to westindies cricket if it or any part there-off is outsourced or privatised.
and who is to control the outsourcing?
that is bound to become a pork-barrell in which the wicb administration make deals with investors to creat corrupt sweetheart deals for kickbacks up the road.
yuh playing with a great can of worms Bally. the anser is direct public involvement. that has always solved such porblems. it always will. it is its opposite that has cause and prolongs the problem