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blog: https:\/\/eesrilanka.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Before you study the economics, study the economists!<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e-Con e-News 18-24 January 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A leading \u2018international school\u2019 in Colombo had refused to pay a Sri Lankan \u2018science\u2019 teacher the same salary as the previous, white, \u2018science\u2019 teacher from England. The Sri Lankan is a PhD from the USA\u2019s MIT, while the white teacher hardly had university qualifications. The Sri Lankan owner of the school insisted that it was parents of the students that wanted white teachers for their children; parents would not pay the high rates the school demanded if there were only Sri Lankan teachers. It appears that the parents, mainly import merchants & private professionals, want their children to study \u2018Whiteness\u2019 (perhaps creating a new academic discipline: WSL \u2013 Whiteness as a Second Lifestyle<\/em>\u2019). It should be noted that \u2018International Schools\u2019 are illegal under the Education Act<\/em><\/strong> but legalized under the Companies Act<\/em><\/strong>. This too is \u2018reform<\/em>\u2019 \u2013 and no doubt a fine example for children to learn about how the rule of law and private-public partnership (PPP) models work. Students could even calculate how the RoI (Return on Investment) is greater!  Further note: They hired a white woman to replace the Sri Lankan, and yes, paid her more, including \u2018benefits\u2019 the Sri Lankan teacher had not received: health insurance, rent for accommodation, paid vacation plus air tickets to return home. Such is the nature of this ruling merchant class\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018At the University of Hanoi the janitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

was a Frenchman \u2013 & he was paid more<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

than a Vietnamese with a PhD from Paris<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ad\u2013 SBD de Silva (PEU<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were (and are) \u2018various devices whereby white supremacy<\/strong> [was \/is] maintained in the colonies\u2026 The most economically depressed whites had a status higher than that of the highest natives\u2019,records SBD de Silva, as ee<\/em><\/strong> Focus<\/em><\/strong> continues Chapter 6 of his classic The Political Economy of Underdevelopment <\/em>(PEU<\/em>). Here de Silva describes the careful fine-tuning of the image of the white man, and the role the media had to play (& still plays).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     SBD also examines the forging of a new \u2018nationality<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 among settlers, essential to create a sense of permanent belonging to their stolen occupied territory. This also required a commitment to long-term investment in modern industrial skills. He also compares the different white attitudes towards Indian migrants in Uganda & Kenya based on their economic roles in those African societies. White settler communities tended to be \u2018more race conscious than expatriates\u2019. \u2018The lowest-ranking settlers were the most virulent in their racism\u2019 due to facing greater competition from the natives. \u2018Political rather than economic forces\u2019 were thus \u2018allowed to determine the structure of production\u2019, and white migration was officially subsidized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Meanwhile in non-settler colonies like Sri Lanka \u2018where there was a ready basis of revenue\u2019 (Cinnamon, etc), \u2018the active sponsoring of European investors was not critically important\u2019. \u2018Official intervention was limited merely to facilitating labour migration<\/strong>\u2019 (indeed, we do not need to ponder too deeply why Indian High Commissioner<\/strong> Santosh Jha was accorded Chief Guest status at the Employers\u2019 Federation of Ceylon\/EFC\u2019s National Best Employer Awards 2025 \u2013 see ee Who\u2019s Who<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     In Sri Lanka, de Silva asserts, importantly, \u2018the creation of a proletariat<\/strong>, through the eviction of peasants from extensive areas or the undermining of the traditional economy, was not called for\u2019. SBD has also elsewhere noted that the English bestowed on us the most impoverished peasantry in Asia, at Soulbury independence in 1948. He also points out that \u2018taxation had revenue considerations\u2019 generally through indirect taxes<\/strong> (often an export duty)\u2019, whereas in the settler colonies, direct taxes<\/strong> were imposed \u2018to divert labour to settler enterprises<\/strong>\u2019. (Why the English \u2013 and their colonized successors \u2013 have been keen on preventing the formation of a proletariat in Sri Lanka is another tale to be told!).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 The English, to maintain Sri Lanka\u2019s loyalty during their World War 2, had to enable a type of \u2018free education\u2019 in the country, while providing other social services, rice rations, etc. This ee Focus<\/em><\/strong> also examines the ongoing sabotage of Sri Lanka\u2019s \u2018free\u2019 healthcare service<\/strong>. This month\u2019s Cabinet proposal sets out to allow private importers to rent vital equipment (scanners, angiographs, etc) to government hospitals, which the government would still have to pay for. These private importers will also rent out dialysis units. Sri Lanka is compared & contrasted to the dramatic post-Thatcherite deterioration of England\u2019s national health service midst the soaring of health costs. Responding to the cabinet claim that private financing is necessary because the government lacks needed funds, the author crucially highlights: in 2025, about \u201880% of the funds allocated <\/strong>to the Ministry of Health went unutilized and were returned to the Treasury<\/strong>\u2019! These deadly actions need to be examined midst the IMF<\/strong>\u2019s escalated whinging for the privatization <\/strong>of national institutions. (The failure to enable an industrialized economy that can ensure such social services could be sustained and are not to be bartered away for balancing budgets is another tale to be told).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Billionaires<\/strong> & super-rich<\/strong> increasingly dominate media & AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over half of the world\u2019s largest media companies<\/strong> have billionaire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

owners & 9 <\/strong>of the top 10 social media companies<\/strong> in the world are<\/p>\n\n\n\n

run by just 6 billionaires<\/em><\/strong>. 8<\/strong> of the top 10 AI companies<\/strong> \u2013 which<\/p>\n\n\n\n

overlap with media companies \u2013 are billionaire-run, with just 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

commanding nearly 90% of the<\/strong> generative AI chatbot market<\/strong>.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Oxfam (see ee Economists<\/em><\/strong>, 1 in 4 Face Hunger as Billionaire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wealth Grows Higher Than Any Time in History)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018To what extent is Gross Domestic Product<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a sufficient indicator of social & economic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wellbeing? We know, from the moment the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

notion was \u2018invented\u2019 that even its \u2018founder\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Kuznets warned of its limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He warned the US Congress, \u2018The welfare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of a nation can scarcely be inferred from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a measure of national income\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Warwick Powell (ee Economists<\/em><\/strong>, Rising<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use Value in an Age of Slowing Growth)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u20182 rapid assessments of Cyclone Ditwah\u2019s economic impact in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka were carried out independently by the World Bank &<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the International Labour Organization (ILO)\u2026 The apparent gap<\/p>\n\n\n\n

between WB\u2019s 4% of GDP<\/strong> estimate & ILO\u2019s 16% of GDP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

figure can be confusing if not carefully understood. These<\/p>\n\n\n\n

numbers do not measure the same thing, & they do not contradict<\/p>\n\n\n\n

each other\u2026 Put simply, WB measures the \u2018bricks & mortar\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

while ILO measures the \u2018bread&butter\u2019. This distinction is vital<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for policymakers because recovery must address both the reconstruction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of infrastructure & the stabilisation of livelihoods.\u2019 \u2013 Sirimal Abeyratne<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(ee Economists<\/em><\/strong>, Growth that Lasts, not just rebuilds)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018IMF \u2018tunnel vision\u2019 obscures the reality of a 13% spike<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

in poverty<\/strong>, the 2nd<\/sup>-highest increase recorded in any<\/p>\n\n\n\n

country undergoing a debt crisis in the last decade. There\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a growing disconnect<\/strong> between the narrative of macroeconomic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

stability & the ground reality faced by Sri Lankans. The Central<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bank missed inflation targets for 6 consecutive quarters.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 US Verit\u00e9 Research Chief (see ee Economists<\/em><\/strong>, SL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

must focus on addressing real economy\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 This week, as every year, the World Economic Forum<\/strong> has met in Davos<\/strong>,Switzerland<\/strong>, expansively advertised as assembling \u2018over 3,000 global leaders, including heads of state, government leaders, chief executive officers of leading multinational corporations, policymakers, & technology innovators\u2019. At the same time, as usual, England\u2019s well-fed beggars, the English \u2018charity\u2019 Oxfam, releases their annual report, a high-pitched caterwauling, spiced with superlative hyperbole about greedy superrich & billionaires, dictators & capitalist oligarchs, etc, and then asks for more donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     It therefore becomes most important for us to first get the names & words right<\/strong>. ee<\/em><\/strong> has come to regard all these labels<\/strong> \u2013 such as \u2018working people\u2019, \u2018big business\u2019, notions such as \u2018neoliberalism<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 (see Random Notes<\/em><\/strong>), and measures such as \u2018GDP\u2019, repeated hourly & annually by the real enemy, the capitalist ruling classes \u2013 as inadequate & diversionary. The economists<\/strong> that their media promote, whether it be Joseph Schumpeter or Max Weber, or their more modern avatars, the Hayeks et al, merely attempt to counter the living science that alone defeated capitalism in the 20th<\/sup> century \u2013 Marxism-Leninism \u2013 which provides concrete words that enable concrete practices. Oxfam\u2019s solution is to call for \u2018a worldwide people\u2019s movement for a more equal world by bringing together civil society organisations, trade unions, marginalised & other groups & networks\u2019. The mountain labors and brings forth a mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The former Bank of England & Bank of Canada governor<\/strong> and present Canadian PM Mark Carney\u2019s speech at Davos<\/strong>, is being hailed by the imperialist media machine as cocking a snook at the US President, yet Carney\u2019s squeak also scoffs at Marx & Engel\u2019s Communist Manifesto<\/em>\u2019s last call: Workers of All Countries, Unite!<\/em> Carney\u2019s Oxford thesis was on the advantages of competition<\/em>! Since we live in the age of monopoly capitalism, he no doubt feels only workers must compete! Carney, the former 13-year Goldman Sachs employee, would rather prefer the rallying cry \u2018Bankers <\/em><\/strong>of the World Unite<\/em>\u2019. Even so, the spectre of Communism haunts the superannuating banker. And why not! Carney, while heading the Bank of England, stole Venezuela\u2019s gold reserves<\/strong>, preparing the path for the US kidnapping of Venezuela\u2019s leaders. Carney cannot admit that Don Trump is no lone hyena but is a creature of the US ruling class. INGOs like Oxfam, too, can never bring themselves to recommend the hitherto record of \u2018actually-existing\u2019 defeats of capitalism and attempts to build a better world, midst constant besiegement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     This ee Focus<\/em><\/strong> also looks at the US capitalist forces behind the present US President Don Trump\u2019s rise to power. Our excerpt from Melinda Cooper\u2019s Counterrevolution: Extravagance & Austerity in Public Finance <\/em><\/strong>(2024) signals how big business \u2018masquerades\u2019 as small business for tax purposes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Indeed, a superficial scan of the English media in Sri Lanka would note the media\u2019s incessant, overweening and gnawing, yet highly dubious<\/strong>, solicitude for so-called MSMEs <\/strong>(micro, small & medium-scale enterprises). They claim MSMEs \u2018contribute about 52% of the country\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) and provide employment to nearly 4.5 million people\u2019. Yet this media rarely provides an actual breakdown of exactly who<\/em><\/strong> these MSMEs actually are. Check out any sillara kaday and see what exactly is sold there. ee<\/em><\/strong> believes that many of these small \u2018enterprises\u2019 are fronts for the multinational corporations (MNCs<\/strong>, eg, Unilever, CIC, CTC, Exxon etc) set up for legally avoiding both labour and tax laws. As for Trump\u2019s named backers, eg, the demonized Koch & Mercer families etc, they themselves are fronts for even larger cartels like Exxon, GE, etc \u2013 a matter that Cooper does not explore, even as she exposes the vacuity behind the claims that Trump represents the white working class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The function of these Anglo-American & EU-funded intellectuals, including so-called Marxists & Socialists<\/em>, so-called Independents<\/em> (tho it is never intimated but is always implied, they mean \u2018independent\u2019 of Marxism-Leninism) is to not just downplay the concrete contribution of actual <\/strong>socialist & communist parties, but to aid in their liquidation. While Cooper refers to  the\u2018<\/em>commanding heights\u2019<\/em>of US capitalism, a coinage by Russian revolutionary leader VI Lenin, there\u2019s no reference to Lenin\u2019s classic<\/strong> pamphlet Imperialism, the Latest Stage of Capitalism<\/em>. Written during the North Atlantic\u2019s World War 1, as \u2018a popular outline\u2019: Lenin provides \u2018the briefest possible definition<\/strong>[that] imperialism is<\/strong> the monopoly stage of capitalism<\/strong>\u2019. As many commentators have pointed out, much of the latest capital pools & \u2018family offices\u2019 & private equity (PE) have gone \u2018dark\u2019, hiding their linkages to the monopolies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Cooper says Trump\u2019s business coalition, is made up of \u2018the private, unincorporated & family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, & shareholder-owned\u2019. While a 2025 oil investment market analysis (see ee Industry<\/em><\/strong>) concludes: \u2018Capital is shifting<\/strong> from traditional institutional investors to<\/strong> more flexible & opportunistic players<\/strong>, driven by attractive valuations, tax incentives, and infrastructure opportunities.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 A reader\u2019s comment this week (see ee Security<\/em><\/strong>, Big Serge blog) noted that Europe (including England) is already <\/em>a US colony. The largest army in Europe & East Asia (outside of China & DPR Korea) at present is actually the US (occupation) armies. \u2018The USA controls Europe\u2019s internet architecture. Then there is the software dependency (Microsoft, Cloud Services, Enterprise Resource Planning\/ERP software, etc), financial rails (SWIFT), & platforms. Europe relies on US-controlled infrastructure at every level: Domain Name Systems (DNS), Root Authorities, Content Delivery Network (CDNs), Cloudflare, Relay Servers, Security Services, Certificates, and De-Facto Standards. Even when servers are physically located in Europe, control remains in the USA \u2013 legally, contractually, and operationally. The US does not need sanctions or military force; it already holds the switches. It is increasingly difficult to identify what, in the actual functioning of European societies \u2013 administrations, companies, local governments, associations \u2013 is not<\/em><\/strong> under US control. Any geopolitical scenario that ignores this material reality is reasoning about a world that no longer exists\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 <\/a>ee<\/em><\/strong> asked the US\u2019 google search to give an exact number of search references to \u2018postcolonial<\/em><\/strong>\u2019. They answered: \u2018Based on a search, there is no single, static \u2018exact\u2019 number, as search engine results fluctuate continuously. However, a search for the term \u2018postcolonial\u2019 (using quotes for an exact match) on google typically yields roughly 5 to 8 million results, while the broader term postcolonialism often generates over 10 million results. Google Scholar results for \u2018postcolonial\u2019 in titles, as of early 2026, often total over 300,000 scholarly articles & books.\u2019 Then ee<\/em><\/strong> asked, \u2018How many of these scholars would join the frontlines in Gaza, Venezuela or Greenland to make post-colonialty an off-paper reality?\u2019 US google replied: \u2018The number of these scholars transitioning from academic critique to \u2018off-paper\u2019 frontline action is historically & statistically low\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018It is then in making hope <\/em>practical<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rather than despair <\/em>convincing<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that we must resume & change<\/p>\n\n\n\n

& extend our campaigns.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Raymond Williams, 1980<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Business must continue to be profit-oriented, but at the same time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we must keep in close contact with men who are not essentially<\/p>\n\n\n\n

profit-oriented \u2013 that troublesome but creative minority of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

intellectuals who can help us to identify emerging social problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n

before they reach crisis proportions.\u2019 \u2013 David Rockefeller, 1969<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (quoted by William Worthy, Reporting the News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the Heartland of Empire<\/em>, 1970, see ee Media<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VI Lenin<\/strong> passed away 102 years ago (January 21, 1924). Lenin wrote that it\u2019s the responsibility of the working class in the imperialist countries to protect the right of colonized nations to self-determination<\/strong>, and to fight for their freedom. A Communist commentator has noted that Sri Lanka, as an English colony, first received England\u2019s version of Marxism; later, Communist Party members got to know about the Soviet version of Marxism, and only then learned of Lenin\u2019s contribution to Marxism. He says: \u2018Lenin called China, Persia, Turkey & all other colonies as a 3rd<\/sup> type of countries, where billions of people lived. This included countries like our Sri Lanka. There was no industrial revolution in these countries, and there was no way for an industrial capitalist class to arise. Without factories & an industrial capitalist class, how could a working class arise? \u2026 Workers had to come together & live together as a large community. Working class consciousness is a collective consciousness<\/strong>. Why do our university students gather together and make a lot of noise during their studies? They do so because they are bound together by a collective consciousness. But when they graduate and go home, they disperse. Their collective consciousness disappears. When new students join together in universities, they too take up the baton of student struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the group consciousness of a working class to arise, workers must gather together as a group. Workers leave home in the morning, work for 8 hours and return home in the evening (that is, rejoin the larger society) but do not develop such a collective worker consciousness. But as Lenin said, they can develop a trade union consciousness<\/strong>. They struggle for wages, promotions, and other rights. However, scattered, loosely organized labor movements also arise in such countries. Lenin says, the workers\u2019 movements that arise in this way should be organized for the liberation of their nation (for the right of self-determination of their nation). For that (national liberation), the most revolutionary sections of the capitalist-democratic movements should be supported by the working \u2018class\u2019. The Left-Nationalist mergers in our country (eg, the merger of our Left party with the SLFP) happened based on this guidance of Lenin. Imperialist agents branded this merger as \u2018hanging on to hem of sari\u2019 only to weaken the national liberation force against them and for no other reason\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Media literacy is vital in this age <\/strong>of so-called intelligence <\/em><\/strong>that is artificial<\/strong>, where algorithms are manipulated to control what data is permitted to cross our eyeballs. Readers have asked ee<\/em><\/strong> to offer better sources of news: How does ee<\/em><\/strong> forensically dissect the onslaught of & bisect the authentic from the fraudulent? Most public news items are fake<\/strong>. The more \u2018honest\u2019 information often has to be paid for. Many items parading as news are indeed written by bots, and extremely sloppy if not blatantly callous, not giving a damn about their readership. It is clear that many sites parading as media outlets have gotten rid of editors & subeditors. The universe is said to have issued out of the brow of Brahma, and then Zeus, but now a fake version issues out of the digital orifices of a wannabe marketing \u2018executive\u2019! Another \u2018drone<\/em><\/strong>\u2019, buzzing on & on\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Not wishing to be misled especially at vital moments is important, so as to be clear-eyed about what lies<\/strong> before us. Literacy is crucial, but this must include a numerate literacy, a literate numeracy, a human literacy, as well as a media literacy in this age of diverse bombardments. Any real literacy includes: questioning why<\/em> <\/strong>you are seeing a particular news item or trope or meme (over & over again, especially), and who<\/em><\/strong> has taken the trouble & money to make it occupy your attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     We (Sinhalas?) should have acquired great expertise through our incessant sagas of historical betrayal. The English East India Company (EIC) clerk John D\u2019Oyly\u2019s 1801-15 techniques to sabotage the highland kingdom of Sinhal\u00e9 should have been taught in the College of Journalism (still funded by foreigners). The techniques employed during the last decades, and particularly during the so-called Aragalaya should also be learned. Goebbels \u2018big lie\u2019<\/em> technique requires mixing small truths <\/strong>with big lies, to make them even bigger. The Nazi Goebbels learned from such imperialist older brothers in England (as England\u2019s Foreign Office\u2019s Information Research Department (IRD) and its leading employee, Robert Conquest), and from such settler-USA luminaries as Sigmund Freud\u2019s nephew Edward Bernays, the so-called founding father of propaganda<\/strong> (publicly called: Public Relations<\/em><\/strong>) and an employee of banker JP Morgan in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     We can point to seminal literature of almost 50 years ago, such as Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky\u2019s Washington Connection & Third World Fascism<\/em>, detailing the role that the New York Times<\/em> & Washington Post <\/em>has played in promoting wars, and the US teaching of techniques of torture throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     A careful examination of ee<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s many non-NATO sources would uncover a reliance on such sites as Radio Havana Cuba<\/em>, CGTN<\/em>, Black Agenda Report<\/em>, Tricontinental<\/em>, Moon of Alabama<\/em> (MoA<\/em>), Dancing with Bears<\/em>, New Atlas<\/em>, etc. But most important of all, we have to learn from the struggle to carve out our own point of view of our own history & future<\/strong>, with a plan & program<\/em><\/strong> to liberate the country & build a modern industrial society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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