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I’m sure the ruling class collectively agreeing to bring imperialist extraction back home into the imperial core will never backfire

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Foucault’s boomerang, except it’s stuck in Illinois with a truckful of boomerangs that ran out of gas.

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The US has a fair amount of oil left to extract, but the supply chains for computer parts and for medical equipment are inherently global

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in truth, the imperial violence was aways directed inwards against the colonized in the core as much as outside towards the colonized in the colonies, that’s why i’d say imperialism is modernity, it’s been there for a long time and it’s gonna stay until collapse or sovietization

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This only applies to the core where people are colonized, because then it was a colony before it was the core. IE true for Native Americans in the USA, but Foucault was French, and presumably thinking of France.

Side note, the boomerang doesn’t refer to imperialist violence, but colonial violence.

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