Everyone outside the imperial core is subjected to the American/European outside observer, the least you can do is return the favor.
Maybe it'll stop some people from going "China bad this. China bad that" when they haven't read a single letter from someone who lives there.
Your voice is tiny. End of sentence. Irrespective of how many bodies you can bring to the street, you have zero power.
The author bid very aware of that. You are being allowed to struggle and the walls are closing in.
The author doesn’t seem to be aware of the growing undercurrent of anti-American sentiment among the non-electoral left.
Your critique that we’re small is very fair—but ideas and movements start small, then spread, barring any other element repressing them.
The author seems to hint at the possibility of such an anti-American sentiment, a full disavowal, but doesn’t dip into the seedlings that have already sprouted. That seems less of an omission of insignificance, and more one of lack of knowledge.
I don’t blame the author for not knowing about us. We are not covered in the media, and we are weak. But we exist.
That the likes of us can forge an identity separate to the constitutions and laws of the imperial core is notable, and the emergence of that (and the failure of it to spread further) should be viewed through a systems lens.
Our identity seems to be one of leftists, workers, and people marginalised due to their gender identity or ethnicity. That’s a lot to examine for forging new identities, even if they haven’t yet become a national identity.
None of this is to detract from the core thesis—the author encapsulates the dominant identity and ideology of America. Rather, it would be interesting to see the author’s perspective on how those aforementioned marginal facets of the left form, and how they’re suppressed.
Thats just a fancy way of saying that discussing stuff isnt actually praxis. Bodys on the street IS power however. Literal power. Unless they are being led by libs, then it sucks.
Pfft. Bodies on the street that are not organized, disciplined and guided by revolutionary and proletarian or Marxist politics are just an ineffective liberal side show.
As soon as the property damage stopped and the demands articulated all the attention stopped.
100% agree. Like I said, unless they are led by libs. Peaceful protest generates token gestures satisfying the peaceful protest. Violence is the only means to archive meaningfull change. There was a nice post about this recently as well.