• Babs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    When the king of Swaziland changed the name of his country to Eswatini back in 2018, the Communist Party of Swaziland called it out as a populist distraction and continued to use the colonial name while demanding real change.

    http://www.solidnet.org/article/ba5f172f-e2d7-11e8-a7f8-42723ed76c54/

    So I think the question should be, what are Indian communists calling their country? How do they feel about the various names?

    • edge [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      the Communist Party of Swaziland called it out as a populist distraction … while demanding real change

      Completely understandable, of course the name of the country matters little compared to material conditions.

      … and continued to use the colonial name …

      But why? Like yeah the above is true, but how does that mean it’s bad to move to the native name instead of the colonizer name?

      Side note: it should technically be “eSwatini”, but annoyingly no one — not even the eSwatini government — uses that spelling.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      called it out as a populist distraction [by extremely unpopular right wing governments]

      exactly what happened with Iran & Myanmar, lol