#you're not just spineless you're fucking stupid. and i'm not sure you know what leftism is.

[chamerionwrites]

To herd things back to more practical ground - there is a certain stripe of western ""leftist"" that really likes to accuse committed anti-imperialists of moral posturing. (Or, in the more mask-off honest version, simply admits to not giving a shit about foreign policy when there are so many problems closer to home.) Obviously the first and by far the greatest problem with this position is that it is morally bankrupt. But the other reason guys like the union president quoted here ("I don’t make a lot of judgments on anything other than, what can you do to keep the people I represent in work?") make me feel completely unhinged is that this outlook is also so shortsighted and self-defeating.

You cannot disconnect foreign and domestic policy this way. It's absurd to believe that you can. It's absurd because the wealth and security of the west is poisoned by the violence committed to acquire it; because a just, free, compassionate society that runs on imperial plunder is - and this should be obvious!!!!!! - a contradiction in terms. The world in which you solve an empire's problems at home and then move on to dismantling empire abroad does not exist, will never exist, cannot possibly ever exist.

You cannot have a society that sustains itself through violence and does not relentlessly leak violence into the groundwater.

#imperial violence always comes home #aimé césaire #imperialism #like statistically in any group of people of any political persuasion you will find SOMEBODY who really likes rhetorical posturing #but if you don't understand solidarity as BOTH an ethical obligation and a political strategy then bluntly: #you're not just spineless you're fucking stupid. and i'm not sure you know what leftism is. #my posts