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Hone Harawira has started a new political party. He was a stranger who has now gone home to where be belongs. While some are disappointed that he has created division, others rejoice that Maori politics are maturing. After all who would expect a single party to represent all Pakeha?
Harawira’s Mana Party would be against monopoly capitalism, pro-worker and against privatisation of state assets. It would push for a “Hone Heke” tax on financial transactions to replace GST.
Benedict XVI in his Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate says that one of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation. Other kinds of poverty, including material forms, he says, are born from isolation, from not being loved or from difficulties in being able to love. “Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God’s love”, by the basic and tragic tendency to close in on oneself, thinking oneself to be self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a “stranger” in a random universe. A person is alienated when they are alone, detached from reality, when they stop thinking and believing in a foundation. All of humanity is alienated when too much trust is placed in merely human projects, ideologies and false utopias.
Harawira made the announcement he would resign after launching his party on Saturday in front of about 300 former Maori Party supporters and Left-wing activists. They included the interim chair of the party, Matt McCarten of the Unite union, and former Green MPs Sue Bradford and Nandor Tanczos.
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