- 29 Apr 2022 14:17
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Colonialism is deeply linked to imperialism and economic interests within a capitalist economic model. Invasions and control and domination of large land bases that are not officially part of the Imperial power (you know which nations in the past and in the present still pursue these policies, are an advocate for wars and invasions. It is all justified for 'the greater good. Usually, the greater good is about making sure the Empire nation profits or grows its territory without respecting the civil or natural rights of the people who occupied that land or who live in a society that is not the Imperial one.
If you examine wars it is always about expansion and control. Extracting wealth, power, and control from invaded societies is always the goal.
The justification is always the same. We are bringing civilization, superior technology, superior governance, superior values, superior, superior. It is about GREED and LIES and JUSTIFICATIONS for criminal acts.
It dehumanizes people. They are children, lack the maturity to rule themselves, they are a mess, we need to bring law and order, we got the truth...and other extreme lies in order to justify the invasions. It is in every single attempt at colonizing and re-colonizing lands.
If you read this article on Current Affairs website it sums it up well. It is not playing the victim. It is about the reality of what invasions lead to. Violence and pain, damage to the environment, and death to entire societies and their homes and villages and towns and cities. Disruption, homelessness, unemployment, hunger, deprivation, and lots of lost opportunities for self-development. It has vast repercussions for all. The people who invade don't respect anything really. It is always about themselves and either money or power. Not what is best for everyone.
I really detest colonialism and arrogant imperial ambitions. I see evidence of it in the old colonial histories of the cities I love and lived in as a child and young person. It is there in front of you....those fighting off piracy and armies from other nations, and a lack of respect from the ones invading. In everything they do.
Denial won't ever help. Stop denying and start taking responsibility for the stupid idea of thinking you have a right to invade and force your way in. It is not possible that people don't know what it is about. They do. To think they will give up on a need to be free or to control their own nation and that they will think your love of your own superiority is going to be accepted is foolish and unrealistic in the long run. That is the truth.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/ ... sm-was-bad
If you examine wars it is always about expansion and control. Extracting wealth, power, and control from invaded societies is always the goal.
The justification is always the same. We are bringing civilization, superior technology, superior governance, superior values, superior, superior. It is about GREED and LIES and JUSTIFICATIONS for criminal acts.
It dehumanizes people. They are children, lack the maturity to rule themselves, they are a mess, we need to bring law and order, we got the truth...and other extreme lies in order to justify the invasions. It is in every single attempt at colonizing and re-colonizing lands.
If you read this article on Current Affairs website it sums it up well. It is not playing the victim. It is about the reality of what invasions lead to. Violence and pain, damage to the environment, and death to entire societies and their homes and villages and towns and cities. Disruption, homelessness, unemployment, hunger, deprivation, and lots of lost opportunities for self-development. It has vast repercussions for all. The people who invade don't respect anything really. It is always about themselves and either money or power. Not what is best for everyone.
I really detest colonialism and arrogant imperial ambitions. I see evidence of it in the old colonial histories of the cities I love and lived in as a child and young person. It is there in front of you....those fighting off piracy and armies from other nations, and a lack of respect from the ones invading. In everything they do.
Denial won't ever help. Stop denying and start taking responsibility for the stupid idea of thinking you have a right to invade and force your way in. It is not possible that people don't know what it is about. They do. To think they will give up on a need to be free or to control their own nation and that they will think your love of your own superiority is going to be accepted is foolish and unrealistic in the long run. That is the truth.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/ ... sm-was-bad
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Silvio Rodriguez
se pudiera encontrar
en cada corazón,
en cada soledad.
Silvio Rodriguez