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Maori Politics. Can the mainstream political activities of the Maori Party
represent and deliver on the needs of militant Maori groups? ...
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Can the mainstream political activities of the Maori Party represent and deliver on the needs of militant Maori groups?
The mainstream political activities of the Maori Party can not represent and deliver on the needs of militant Maori groups. This will be demonstrated with the help of Antonio Gramsci and his ideas of ‘passive revolution' and ‘hegemony'. In order to determine what the needs of militant Maori are we must evaluate the history of Maori protest and what ideals they fight for. Using this historical approach will determine the inability of Pakeha institutions to deliver on the needs of Maori, let alone the extreme views of militant Maori. The introduction of the Maori Party will subsequently not change the fortunes of militant Maori because they operate within the Pakeha state hegemony.
This essay explores the idea that the Maori Party can not represent and deliver on the needs of militant Maori groups because the principles of the party will be contained within the hegemonic system via an easily marginalized, politically ambiguous, and seemingly culturally centred Maori Party potentially dominated by elite interests. Although the Maori Party may be the only alternative avenue for struggle for Maori, they shy away from representing most of the primary beliefs foundations of more militant Maori. Rule over Maori for much of the past 150 years has been exercised via both legal and economic coercion. During the late 1970's and early 1980's the state was confronted with a crisis of legitimacy brought on by the failures of the capitalist system, as well as the increasingly militant reassertion of Maori economic and political rights guaranteed under the Treaty of Waitangi. This forced the New Zealand government to engage in a passive revolution, redirecting the ethic of tino rangatiratanga into the legal, bureaucratic and political channels of state hegemony.
In order to examine why the Maori Party can...
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