• Babs [she/her]
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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]
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      edit-2
      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.

      • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        Technically in what way? If you're writing the name in English, it still exists in the context of English grammatical rules even if the word is not English in origin.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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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