Acts of individual racist discrimination and abuse remain common enough.
But they are not the primary means through which racial domination is
effected. Neoliberalism has given racial capitalism ways to organize itself
without the need for the explicit vocabulary or attitudes of white
supremacy. Neoliberal racism operates through the hidden hand of property
ownership and the iron fist of security agencies. The mute compulsions of
market pressures are upheld through the intensified brutality of racially
coded bordering, incarceration, policing, and war. The “rigour of the system
makes it superfluous to make a daily assertion of superiority,” as Fanon put
it.1We fail to grasp this reconfiguration of a whole structure if we
understand racism today as solely a pattern of unconscious biases and
micro-aggressions.pg.223
Emphasis mine. This book has helped me reframe my understanding of what racism is, and what actions I can take as an individual to meaningfully combat racism in a material way. What I'm coming to understand, in regards to racially charged words, is that the best thing I can do is navigate my life in such a way that I generally avoid those terms, because ultimately when we're conflicted over the issue of language, the true root systems of racism remain unaffected.
“A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?”
― Frederick Engels
Hopefully they fix the emoji bug soon (or whenever they want to get around to it honestly), I find it hilarious but I can most definitely feel for those caught in the cross-fire.
If you could make a good faith effort to lurk around occasionally I think you'll have a different opinion. Please take a moment and look at how and what information we share with each other and you'll see we're not what we've been made out to be. No propaganda, no authoritarianism. You'll see careful deconstructions of propaganda and maybe obtain an understanding of the correct usage of authoritarianism. Most importantly you'll see we're regular leftist shitposters, we just read theory
NATO started this war by intentionally instigating Russia into conflict, using Ukraine as a proxy. Multiple times NATO have stood in the way of peace talks. That’s terrorism.
Russia, defending ethnically Russian peoples against a state government hostile to their continued existence, and guarding against being encircled by NATO is not terrorism it’s kindergarten level geopolitics
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