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 first stage of American politics is taking “the right to express concerns” and equating it with “measures to resolve the problem.” I allowed you to express your opinion, so all is well.
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.
The first stage of American politics is taking “the right to express concerns” and equating it with “measures to resolve the problem.” I allowed you to express your opinion, so all is well.
The second stage of American politics is taking “the right to express concerns” and using it as legitimization for “tacit allowance of the bad.” I allowed you to express your opinion, and I even allowed a black president, so what are you babbling about?
The author is off on some other points but these are spot on. It’s all aesthetic civility politics.
I summarized thirteen reasons for the U.S.’s weak response to the epidemic:
- Government system: the separation of powers between the federal, state, and local governments
Fucking THIS. I don’t want to discount the other 12 reasons the author cites, but it drives me nuts that NO ONE in the media has ever brought this up over the last 4 months. Our insane obsession with states rights and doing things just because some rich slavers set things up that way ~250 years ago means we will not be able to handle this pandemic or ones in the future. Letting each state, county, and municipality make their own rules in a PANDEMIC means you’re just gonna be playing whack-a-mole until a vaccine or cure is found. But got forbid we dare question the wisdom of the founding fathers in setting up this system.
The CIA does take advantage of the contradictions in the system in China. The liberalization of the Chinese economy did hurt Xinjiang initially which contributed to the Uighur separatism that happened. That way the CIA could get in terrorists, which lead to the problems in Xinjiang today.
Bold of you to think I can read.
