A key difference between Nadi and Suva is how they treat different ethnicities. Indo-Fijians are treated as outsiders or foreigners in Suva where their population is lesser compared to the indigenous people, in the west where the Indo-Fijians are more prevalent, Indo-Fijians tend to look down upon the indigenous people
A question for all religious people, what’s one thing you see in others religions that you’d like to see in your own?
Fiji operates on a Mixed Market Economy, which combines private business freedom with government rules. Majority of countries in the world use this system. (Eg. Fiji, Usa, UK, Sweden, India)
No country has ever been communist, communism is defined as being moneyless, stateless and classless. All “communist states” such as China, USSR, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, were not communist but instead Marxist-Leninist.
Marxism-Leninism is a political ideology that uses a disciplined, single leadership party to overthrow capitalism and establish a classless communist society
ML (Marxism-Leninism) is a type of socialism, all countries listed above were socialist because their government officially adopted ML as their ruling ideology. However they applied theory very differently leading to very distinct regimes.
Socialism is an economic and political system where the community or government owns and controls the main means of production, rather than private individuals. There are many variations of socialism but two modern ones are:
Democratic Socialism (e.g., Scandinavia): Wealth is redistributed through high taxes, free healthcare, and strong social safety nets, but the country operates within a democratic, capitalist economy.
State Socialism (e.g., Marxist-Leninist): The government takes complete control of the entire economy and abolishes private property, usually through a single-party political system.
Many people are often confused on what communist and socialist states actually are and I hope to clear up some confusion. Currently I have a lot of time in my hands so i can keep educating people.
Has anyone here read any classics? Most have read Shakespeare but has anyone ever read John Milton? There are many classics, I’ve read many but not enough, does anyone have any recommendations or thoughts they’d like to share?
Karl Marx defined communism as a classless, stateless society achieved through the inevitable historical overthrow of capitalism by the working class. In The Communist Manifesto, he summarized its core practical objective as the total abolition of bourgeois private property and the centralization of production in the hands of the public. Ultimately, this system replaces exploitation with a cooperative community of free producers, distributing wealth according to the principle of individual ability and need.
Scholars define Marxism as the analytical tool used to critique capitalism, whereas they view communism as the actual socio-political structure created to replace it.
I’ve met my own fair share of communists, in my friend group there’s 11 communists. The main joke being Itaukei people can’t be communists.…
They’ve all been influenced into communism by social media, and only two have actually read theory!
About a week ago, my group of 7 did a survey in school. Among all questions presented to the students, a common theme appeared: dislike towards the current PM and approval of the former authoritarian state of Fiji.
With the rise of social media, children are getting more and more radicalised. Though the Fijian world hasn’t fully adapted to the culture of social media they have developed a digital identity. The recent civic and political tension, especially since 2022 has caused many of the youth to disapprove the current government and express a strong dislike towards the current PM, Sitiveni Rabuka.
A large number of my social circle are political, identifying themselves with multiple different and very contrasting ideologies. (One is even a Stalinist!) one of my closet friends, lets call him S, was recently talking to me about nationalism in Fiji, and how ethnonationalism is dominant is itaukei circles. He is a radical Itaukei who has many strong opinions of things and has often taken traits from political ideologies to form his own “political ideology”
It’s nice to have a personal ideology but he isn’t a ethnonationalist unlike the elderly part of his family. And the more I thought about it, the more I realised that many Itaukei people who are exposed to western ideologues often don’t develop ideas of nationalism. Patriotism sure but not ethnonationalism. I’ve talked about this to at least 18 of my itaukei brothers and sisters and none have associated themselves with ethnonationalism.
For the past few years I’ve considered myself a left winger, leaning towards socialist or social democracy. Are other Fijians socialist or do they lean more capitalist? I’ll be shocked if a Fijian was a communist….
Are Fijians even interested in poetry, or any type of creative writing?
Recently I’ve been thinking more about Fijian politics and I was speaking to one of my friends about it and he started talking about nationalism and whatnot, but the idea of responsibility came up and he said something along the lines that Fiji can’t take responsibility and needs the aid of others.
Now is this true? Well I think it’s fifty-fifty, the Fijian government desperately needs help from other countries (what my friend called adult countries) and is quite gradualist. My friend considers Fiji to have a culture of laziness and this extends to all parts of Fiji and thus Fiji, a “childish nation” needs “adult nations” to help it.