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I live in the pacific. Outside of Africa, this is the number one place which demonstrates the failure of postcolonial nationalisms. Most of the island nations have independence from the colonial powers, and it means precisely shit because they are economically dominated from both within and without.

On one hand, by the global capitalist economy which these nations are absolutely dependent upon for material survival. The productive forces in postcolonial Pacific nation-states are extremely underdeveloped and non-self-sustainable. The dependency on international capital means that foreign interests are still in control of these lands. The only difference is that the colonial regime is now de facto. Explicit military occupation has ended in the former colonies because it is no longer necessary - the nation-state’s inability to respond to the global capitalist economy except by capitulating to it means that colonialism operates more smoothly and more productively than it ever did under de jure colonialism. 

On the other hand, postcolonial nationalism ends up centralising power in pre-existing materially privileged classes within the indigenous population. In Tonga, the traditional chieftainship consolidated itself into a monarchy; in Aotearoa, chiefly genealogical lines within iwi have essentially corporatised the tribal structure and established themselves as a CEO class. Nationalism provides no response for working class indigenous peoples to criticise this concentration of material political-economic power in the hands of indigenous capitalists. According to nationalism, the important distinction is between peoples’ ethno-national identities, not their actually existing relationship to material power. It doesn’t matter how much your labour is expropriated, how much your resources are appropriated, if the class who benefit from this process are “your” nation, then nationalism does not recognise exploitation to have occurred. Thus, the Tongan aristocracy appropriated millions upon millions of dollars from the labour of a population primarily sustaining itself by subsistence agriculture. 

Nationalism is a dead end. International proletarian revolution, which recognises the similar material relationship to production experienced by all working class people around the world, is the only way out of the crisis we’re facing. We have tried nationalism, and it’s gotten us brown managers to facilitate the expansion of capitalism - nothing more. We need better than that. We deserve better than that. We need to destroy capitalism on a global scale and build global communism, and using ethnonational identity is just a useless way of achieving that. I love my people, I love my tribe, I love my culture, but I’ll fucking burn a Tino Rangatiratanga flag before I accept that I have more in common with the brown bourgeoisie than the white proletariat. 

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