Mike Nova: Apparently, if there is such a thing as "English Linguistic Imperialism" then there must be and IS!!! such a thing as "Spanish Linguistic Imperialism". Both are quite regrettable.

Apparently, if there is such a thing as "English Linguistic Imperialism" then there must be and IS!!! such a thing as "Spanish Linguistic Imperialism". Both are quite regrettable. In application to Caribbean this linguistic antagonism phenomenon might also, together with other factors, reflect the objective economic realities combined with subjective emotions and fears of local upper (ruling) and middle classes. In a way, it is a continuation of  wars and resistance movements by means of linguistic domination. I don't think, that this is a "Marxist observation or analysis" and I do not consider myself a "Marxist" at all. But Marxism's general thesis about the role and significance of socio-economic factors in social and political lives of all societies seems to be indisputable. Just as indisputable as marxism's general error in evaluating in quite simplistic and mechanistic terms the complexity of human nature, which (the error) revealed itself in various marxist practices.