Coloniality of Power: The Nation-State, Transnational Alliances, and the Trap of Mestizaje According to Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui reveals the internal double face of colonialism: a nation-state that marginalizes indigenous peoples and transnational alliances that perpetuate extractivism. Behind the illusion of mestizaje, the coloniality of power structures exclusion and dispossession. #decolonial #Bolivia #coloniality #NationState…
Beyond Marxism: Technopolitics, Coloniality and Critique of Modernity
Beyond Marxism: Technopolitics, Coloniality, and the Critique of ModernityIn the face of the current #crisis, #Marxism is no longer sufficient. #TechnoBureaucraticDomination and #modernColoniality demand other frameworks: #Escobar, #Lugones, #Mbembe, #Mignolo. #technopolitics #coloniality #modernity #critique I do not believe that Marxism is today the most adapted response to the crisis of Western…
Imperial Bureaucracy and Coloniality: From Abstraction to the Resistance of Local Knowledge
#Arendt, #Cusicanqui, #Mignolo, and #Escobar analyze how #ImperialBureaucracy erases #customs and #localInstitutions, imposing an #abstract and universal #domination. Decolonization involves the rehabilitation of #mediations and #vernacularKnowledges.#Coloniality #Bureaucracy #Decolonial #AbstractDomination #UniversalDomination #philosophy Hannah Arendt's reflection on imperial…
Coloniality of Power: The Nation-State, Transnational Alliances, and the Trap of Mestizaje according to Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Silvia Rivera #Cusicanqui reveals the double face of internal colonialism: a nation-state that marginalizes Indigenous peoples and transnational alliances that perpetuate #extractivism. Behind the #illusion of mestizaje, the #ColonialityOfPower structures #exclusion and #dispossession. #decolonial #coloniality #NationState #CognitiveEmpire
Aníbal Quijano: The Coloniality of Power, Roots of Global Inequality
For #Quijano, the #conquest of the Americas established a global #racial hierarchy. The “#coloniality of #power” naturalizes #inequality and structures global #exploitation, far beyond formal #colonization. #Decolonial #ColonialityOfPower #PoliticalPhilosophy The Coloniality of Power according to Quijano: The Invisible Legacy of ConquestPeruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano coined the concept of…
The Guardian shows "the same patterns of systemic bias, deliberate distortion and deceptive underreporting" as other British mainstream media:
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/guardians-gaza-line-atrocious-rest-uk-press 🧶
#DumpTheGuardian #EuropeIsrael #proZionism #proSionism #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael #UK #Britain #England #London
Capitalism as World-System, Coloniality, and the Empire of Chaos
#WorldSystem #Coloniality #EmpireOfChaosWallerstein showed capitalism as a world-system where core countries exploit peripheries through institutions and oligarchic networks. Quijano deepened this with “coloniality of power,” linking race, labor control, and global domination. Escobar, Mignolo, Lugones, Amin, and Nkrumah reveal coloniality and neocolonial exploitation’s continuing impact.… 🇬🇧 EN 🇫🇷 FR
"The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. […] The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them."
by Ismail Ibrahim: https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab
#beliefs #intellectuals #coloniality #elites #prestige #sociality #status #subcultures #socialStatus #liberals #sociology #NYC #NewYorker #TheNewYorker #Manhattan #racism #negrophobia #Bidoun #islamophobia #media #press #journalism #journalists
"Moog in Wolverhampton was targeted by pro-Palestine activists in August. We can now reveal the company has been exporting aircraft components to Israel’s ministry of defence." https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-aerospace-firm-supplying-israels-defence-ministry/
#engineering #UK #britain #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #arms #armsSales #armsTrade #StopArmingIsrael #DefundIsrael #Labour #LabourParty #UKPol #UKPolitics #collusion #imperialism #exports #industry #Moog
"The lies and culture that made Israeli society support genocide"
Watch a conversation with Orly Noy, a political activist, and a translator of Farsi poetry and prose. She is the chair of B’Tselem’s executive board and an activist with the Balad political party.
#JewishSupremacy #citizenship #coloniality #israel #israelPalestine #israelApartheid #JewishState #segregation #TelAviv #zionism #entitlement #Zionists #IsraelWars #israeliWars #warOnPalestine #ongoingGenocide #ongoingNakba #genocide #genocideSupport #OrlyNoy
A subjective history of a ‘long march through the institutions’: https://www.counterfire.org/article/ploughshares-to-swords-the-story-of-the-german-greens/
#environmentalism #Grünen #DieGrünen #Greens #TheGreens #atlantism #complicity #collusion #connivance #Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Germany #GermanHistory #politicalScience
"Solidarity can not truly exist until non-white people see the ways they are complicit with and benefit from silencing Black voices, narrowing Black narratives and ultimately denying Black realities. As non-white people, we are used to gauging ourselves in terms of our proximity to whiteness."
Jordan Howard: https://archive.is/RGn55
#collaboration #identity #complicity #bias #whiteSupremacy #coloniality #decolonial #racism #antiRacism #sociology #raceMaking #USA #USPol #quotes #militancy #whiteness
"The recent wave of symbolic recognitions that began in 2024 now appears to be the only step many European powers are willing to take in the face of genocide, following nearly two years of moral, material, and diplomatic support for the Israeli regime as well as near-total impunity."
Why now? What political or strategic interests? https://al-shabaka.org/roundtables/statehood-without-liberation-europes-response-to-genocide/
Yara Hawari: "This kind of recognition is not just ineffective—it is dangerous. It reinforces a narrow partitionist framework that reduces “Palestine” to the West Bank and Gaza and the Palestinian people to less than half of who we are."
#twoStateSolution #normalization #StandWithIsrael #proZionism #negotiations #coloniality #support #genocideSupport #complicity #collusion #connivance #EuropeIsrael #EuropePalestine #allies #EU #Germany #NL #Netherlands #France #israelPalestine
This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."
by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/
#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing
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• develop your emotional intelligence so you can tell when you are hiding your emotions with the excuse that you are being "rational;"
• be transparent about #power, so that everyone understands who makes the final decision and/or how the final decision is made before you dive into the conflict.
via Tema #Okun https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/comfort--fear-of-conflict.html
#entitlement #bias #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #racism #coloniality #meritocracy #antiRacism #alphabetMafia #rightToComfort #conflict #education #learning
"Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it."
"Establishment forces have translated Holocaust remembrance chiefly as support for Israel, elevating its protection to a German Staatsraison (national interest) coupled with zero tolerance for criticism of Israel, which is automatically treated as antisemitism".
Gjovalin Macaj: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germanys-zeal-israeli-genocide-revives-its-dangerous-exceptionalism
#transgression #GazaMethod #allies #collusion #connivance #complicity #internationalCommunity #imperialism #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA #IHL #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Merz #exceptionalism #whiteSupremacy #arrestWarrants #ICC #ICJ #EuropeIsrael
"If Your Party is to be a genuinely decentralised organisation, then its Scottish and Welsh parties should be separate legal entities. They alone should decide their policy on Independence.
"I suspect that a fudge will be attempted, whereby Your Party supports “the right of the Scottish people to decide”. That is frankly no use to anyone, and proceeds from an assumption that permission has to be granted.
"The right of the Scottish nation to self-determination is established in international law. It is not a policy just to state it.
"The support for Genocide in Palestine is not a bug, it is a feature of the rogue British state. That imperialist entity needs to be broken up."
wrote Craig Murray: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/08/your-party-working-title/
#imperialism #OneState #coloniality #elections #Britain #GreatBritain #uk #England #Scotland #Wales #LabourParty #Labour #YourParty #UKPol #UKPolitics #antiZionism #proZionism
"We should first examine how colonisation works to decivilise the coloniser, to literally dumb them down, to degrade them, to awaken them to buried instincts, to greed, to violence, to racial hatred, to ethical relativism."
Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme", 1950
#entanglement #othering #civilisation #lineOfColor #raceMaking #beliefs #squash #brutalization #complicity #epistemology #coloniality #genocide #racism #colonialism #Césaire #AiméCésaire #whiteness #quote #quotes #citation
"People are astonished, people are indignant. People say: "How strange! But, bah! It's Nazism, it'll pass! And people wait, and hope; and people hide the truth to themselves – that it's barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the one that crowns, the one that sums up the everyday barbarities; that it's Nazism, yes, but that before being its victims, people were its accomplices; that people put up with this Nazism before suffering it, people absolved it, people turned a blind eye to it, people legitimised it, because until then it had only been applied to non-European peoples; that people nurtured this Nazism, people are responsible for it, and that it bubbles, that it pierces, that it drips, before engulfing people in its reddened waters, from all the cracks in the Western and Christian civilisation."
Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme", 1950
#moderates #complicity #civilisation #Césaire #AiméCésaire #Hitler #nazism #fascism #history #centrism #Germany #quotes #quotes #coloniality #genocide #racism
"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."
"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."
This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."
https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros
#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement
