Hi
Aless in this case if
happen in USA would bee more than burning in hell,
you have to know that USA is more big nation than form Yugoslavia,
in form Yugoslavia we have jus base of 3 religion:
Muslim, catholic and orthodox,
but in USA we have every religion, one more problem is race,
you have to know more problem is people from different country and diffrents
places,
who hate each other and some people have problem from past like from form
Yugoslavia,
who emigrate in USA long time ago.
How about Communist, then people from diffrents country who would like that
something happen in USA like form Yugoslavia and who
would likely help to scenario bee more worst and more bloody.
So I thinks that even Politicians is not conches what is going on,
like in form Yugoslavia, politicians didn’t tot that scenario bee so bloody
and they are tot that could hold situation under control but no way:
in that situation no one could hold situation under control, all norm will go
way ol norm and in that situation no one could control no one.
From: R. E. Driscoll Sr
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 11:20 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The Great Unraveling
All: ( I am not trying to be nasty.)
I just finished reading the article presented below.
The article has a Fog Index of about 18 or so in my opinion.
Its predictions appear to be quite ominous in nature.
If there is someone out there who can boil this down to five or six statements
I would appreciate their doing so and send the translation out to the group.
R. E. (Dick) Driscoll, Sr.
On 8/31/2015 8:43 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
The Great Unraveling
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_great_unraveling_20150830/
Posted on Aug 30, 2015
By Chris Hedges
In times of national crisis and public outrage, strange and dangerous
candidates often arise. Above, Donald Trump. (Christopher Halloran /
Shutterstock)
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by
the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling.
Most, including many of those at the heart of the American empire, recognize
that every promise made by the proponents of neoliberalism is a lie. Global
wealth, rather than being spread equitably, as neoliberal proponents
promised, has been funneled upward into the hands of a rapacious, oligarchic
elite, creating vast economic inequality. The working poor, whose unions and
rights have been taken from them and whose wages have stagnated or declined
over the past 40 years, have been thrust into chronic poverty and
underemployment, making their lives one long, stress-ridden emergency. The
middle class is evaporating. Cities that once manufactured products and
offered factory jobs are boarded up-wastelands. Prisons are overflowing.
Corporations have orchestrated the destruction of trade barriers, allowing
them to stash $2.1 trillion in profits in overseas banks to avoid paying
taxes. And the neoliberal order, despite its promise to build and spread
democracy, has hollowed out democratic systems to turn them into corporate
leviathans.
Democracy, especially in the United States, is a farce, vomiting up
right-wing demagogues such as Donald Trump, who has a chance to become the
Republican presidential nominee and perhaps even president, or slick,
dishonest corporate stooges such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and, if he
follows through on his promise to support the Democratic nominee, even
Bernie Sanders. The labels "liberal" and "conservative" are meaningless in
the neoliberal order. Political elites, Democrat or Republican, serve the
demands of corporations and empire. They are facilitators, along with most
of the media and most of academia, of what the political philosopher Sheldon
Wolin calls our system of "inverted totalitarianism."
The attraction of a Trump, like the attraction of Radovan Karadzic or
Slobodan Milosevic during the breakdown of Yugoslavia, is that his
buffoonery, which is ultimately dangerous, mocks the bankruptcy of the
political charade. It lays bare the dissembling, the hypocrisy, the
legalized bribery. There is a perverted and, to many, refreshing honesty in
this. The Nazis used this tactic to take power during the Weimar Republic.
The Nazis, even in the eyes of their opponents, had the courage of their
convictions, however unsavory those convictions were. Those who believe
something, even something repugnant, are often given grudging respect.
These neoliberal forces are also rapidly destroying the ecosystem. The Earth
has not had this level of climate disruption since 250 million years ago
when it underwent the Permian-Triassic extinction, which wiped out perhaps
90 percent of all species. This is a percentage we seem determined to
replicate. Global warming is unstoppable, with polar ice caps and glaciers
rapidly melting and sea levels certain to rise 10 or more feet within the
next few decades, flooding major coastal cities. Mega-droughts are leaving
huge patches of the Earth, including parts of Africa and Australia, the west
coast of the United States and Canada and the southwest United States,
parched and plagued by uncontrollable wildfires. We have lost 7.2 million
acres to wildfires nationwide this year, and the Forest Service has so far
spent $800 million struggling to control conflagrations in California,
Washington, Alaska and other states. The very word "drought" is part of the
deception, implying this is somehow reversible. It isn't.
Migrants fleeing violence and hunger in countries such as Syria, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya and Eritrea are pouring into Europe. Two hundred thousand
of the roughly 300,000 migrants to Europe this year have landed on the
shores of Greece. Two thousand five hundred have died so far this year in
the sea, on overcrowded and dilapidated boats or in the backs of trucks such
as the one discovered last week in Austria that held 71 corpses, including
the bodies of children. This is the largest influx of refugees into Europe
since World War II, a 40 percent jump since last year. And the flood will
grow ever greater. By 2050, many climate scientists predict, between 50
million and 200 million climate refugees will have fled northward to escape
areas of the globe made uninhabitable by soaring temperatures, droughts,
famines, plagues, coastal flooding and the chaos of failed states.
The physical, environmental, social and political disintegration is
reflected in an upsurge of nihilistic violence driven by rage. Crazed gunmen
carry out massacres in shopping malls, movie theaters, churches and schools
in the United States. Boko Haram and Islamic State, or ISIS, are on killing
rampages. Suicide attackers methodically commit deadly mayhem in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Israel and the Palestinian
territories, Iran, Tunisia, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, Mauritania, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, China, Nigeria, Russia, India and Pakistan. They struck the
United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and in 2010 when Andrew Joseph Stack III
flew a light plane into a building in Austin, Texas, that housed offices of
the Internal Revenue Service. Fanaticism is bred by hopelessness and
despair. It is not the product of religion, although religion often becomes
the sacral veneer for violence. The more desperate people become, the more
this nihilistic violence will spread.
"The old is dying, the new struggles to be born, and in the interregnum
there are many morbid symptoms," the theorist Antonio Gramsci wrote.
These "morbid symptoms" will expand until we radically reconfigure how we
relate to each other and the ecosystem. But there is no guarantee such a
reconfiguration is possible, especially if the elites manage to cling to
power through their pervasive global security and surveillance apparatus and
heavily militarized police forces. If we do not overthrow this neoliberal
system, and overthrow it soon, we will unleash a Hobbesian nightmare of
escalating state violence and counterviolence. Masses of the poor will be
condemned to misery and death. Some will try to violently resist. A tiny
elite, living in a modern version of Versailles or the Forbidden City, will
have access to amenities denied to everyone else. Hatred will become the
primary ideology.
The attraction of Islamic State, which has up to 30,000 foreign fighters, is
that it articulates the rage felt by the wretched of the earth and has
thrown off the shackles of Western domination. It defies the neoliberal
attempt to turn the oppressed into human refuse. You can condemn the group's
medieval vision of a Muslim state and its campaigns of terror against
Shiites, Yazidis, Christians, women and homosexuals-which I do-but the
anguish that inspires this savagery is genuine; you can condemn the racism
of white supremacists who are flocking to Trump-as I do-but what they are
responding to is their similar frustration and despair. The neoliberal
order, by turning people into superfluous labor and by extension superfluous
human beings, orchestrated this anger. The only hope left is to re-integrate
the dispossessed into the global economy, to give them a sense of
possibility and hope, to give them a future. Short of that, nothing will
stem the fanaticism.
Islamic State, much like the Christian right in the U.S., seeks a return to
an unachievable purity and utopianism, a heaven on earth. It promises to
establish a version of the seventh-century caliphate. Twentieth-century
Zionists seeking to form Israel used the same playbook when they called for
the re-creation of the mythical Jewish nation of the Bible. ISIS, as the
Jewish fighters who founded Israel did, is attempting to build its state
(now the size of Texas) though ethnic cleansing, terrorism and the use of
foreign fighters. Its utopian cause, as was the Republican cause in the
Spanish Civil War, is attractive to tens of millions of youths, most of them
Muslims cast aside by the neoliberal order. Islamic State offers a vision of
a broken society made whole. It offers a place and sense of identity-denied
by neoliberalism-to those who embrace this vision. It calls for a turning
away from the deadening cult of the self that lies at the core of neoliberal
ideology. It holds up the sanctity of self-sacrifice. And it offers an
avenue for vengeance.
Until we dismantle the neoliberal order and recover the humanistic tradition
that rejects the view that human beings and the Earth are commodities to
exploit, our form of industrialized and economic barbarity will collide with
the barbarity of those who oppose us. The only choice offered by "bourgeois
society," as Friedrich Engels knew, is "socialism or regression into
barbarism." It is time we make this choice.
We in the United States are not morally superior to Islamic State. We are
responsible for over a million dead in Iraq and 4 million Iraqis who have
been displaced or forced to become refugees. We kill in greater numbers. We
kill more indiscriminately. Our drones, warplanes, heavy artillery, naval
bombardments, machine guns, missiles and so-called special forces-state-run
death squads-have decapitated far more people, including children, than
Islamic State has. When Islamic State burned a Jordanian pilot alive in a
cage it replicated what the United States does daily to families by
incinerating them in their homes in bombing strikes. It replicated what
Israeli warplanes do in Gaza. Yes, what Islamic State did was cruder. But
morally it was the same.
I once asked the co-founder of the militant group Hamas, Dr. Abdel Aziz
al-Rantisi, why Hamas sanctioned suicide bombings, which left Israeli
civilians and children dead, when the Palestinians had the moral high ground
as an occupied people. "We will stop killing their children and civilians as
soon as they stop killing our children and civilians," he told me. He noted
that the number of Israeli children who had been killed at that time was a
couple of dozen, as opposed to hundreds of Palestinian children. Since 2000,
133 Israeli and 2,061 Palestinian children have lost their lives. Suicide
bombing is an act of desperation. It is, like Israel's saturation bombing of
Gaza, a war crime. But when seen as a response to unchecked state terror it
is understandable. Dr. Rantisi was assassinated in April 2004 by Israel when
it fired a Hellfire missile at his car in Gaza from an Apache attack
helicopter. His son Mohammed, in the vehicle with him, also died in the
attack. The downward spiral, more than a decade after these murders,
continues.
Those who oppose us offer a vision of a new world. We offer nothing in
return. They offer a counterweight to the neoliberal lie. They speak for its
victims, trapped in squalid slums in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and
North America. They condemn the grotesque hedonism, the society of
spectacle, rejection of the sacred, profligate consumption, personal wealth
as the primary basis for respect and authority, blind celebration of the
technocrat, sexual commodification-including a culture dominated by
pornography-and the drug-induced lethargy that are used by all dying regimes
to keep the masses distracted and disempowered. Many jihadis, before they
became violent fundamentalists, fell victim to these forces. There are
hundreds of millions of people like them who have been betrayed by the
neoliberal order. They are a powder keg. And we offer them nothing.
The wretched of the earth increasingly do not believe in the efficacy of
nonviolence. They saw how nonviolence failed in Tunisia, which contributes
the largest number of jihadis to the fighting in Iraq and Syria, and how it
failed in Libya, Egypt and Iraq, a country where the U.S. puppet regime
gunned down nonviolent protesters in the streets. The wretched of the
earth-including in the United States, where we are seeing a mounting number
of assassinations at the hands of police, 23 so far this year-intend to
counter state violence with insurrectional violence. They have learned to
speak in the language we taught them. Keep shooting unarmed black men and
women in the streets of American cities while ignoring the nonviolent
protests calling for an end to the state lynching and terror, and guess what
will happen?
"Once their rage explodes, they recover their lost coherence, they
experience self-knowledge through reconstruction of themselves; from afar we
see their war as the triumph of barbarity," Frantz Fanon wrote in "The
Wretched of the Earth," "but it proceeds on its own to gradually emancipate
the fighter and progressively eliminates the colonial darkness inside and
out. As soon as it begins it is merciless. Either one must remain terrified
or become terrifying-which means surrendering to the dissociations of a
fabricated life or conquering the unity of one's native soil. When the
peasants lay hands on a gun, the old myths fade, and one by one the taboos
are overturned: a fighter's weapon is his humanity. For in the first phase
of the revolt killing is a necessity: killing a European is killing two
birds with one stone, eliminating in one go oppressor and oppressed: leaving
one man dead and the other man free."
Do those in power read history? Or maybe this is what they want. Once the
wretched of the earth morph into Islamic State, or adopt counterviolence,
the neoliberal order can lift the final fetters that are imposed upon it and
start to kill with impunity. Neoliberal ideologues, after all, are also
utopian fanatics. And they, too, know only how to speak in the language of
force. They are our version of Islamic State.
The binary world the neoliberals created-a world of masters and serfs, a
world where the wretched of the earth are demonized and subdued by a loss of
freedom, by "austerity" and violence, a world where only the powerful and
the wealthy have privileges and rights-will condemn us to a horrifying
dystopia. The emerging revolt, inchoate, seemingly disconnected, is rising
up from the bowels of the earth. We see its flashes and spurts. We see its
ideology of rage and anguish. We see its utopianism and its corpses. The
more despair and desperation are manufactured by the neoliberal order,
whether in Athens, Baghdad or Ferguson, the more the forces of state
repression are used to quell unrest and extract the last drops of blood from
collapsing economies, the more violence will become the primary language of
resistance.
Those of us who seek to create a world that has hope of viability have
little time left. The neoliberal order, despoiling the Earth and enslaving
the vulnerable, has to be eradicated. This will happen only when we place
ourselves in direct opposition to it, when we are willing to engage in the
acts of self-sacrifice and sustained revolt that allow us to obstruct and
dismantle every aspect of neoliberal machinery. I believe we can do this
through nonviolence. But I am not blind to the inevitable rise of
counterviolence, caused by the myopia and greed of the neoliberal mandarins.
Peace and harmony may not engulf the Earth if we succeed, but if we do not
remove the ruling elites from power, if we do not overthrow the neoliberal
order, and if we do not do it soon, we are doomed.
http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/
The Great Unraveling
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_great_unraveling_20150830/
Posted on Aug 30, 2015
By Chris Hedges
In times of national crisis and public outrage, strange and dangerous
candidates often arise. Above, Donald Trump. (Christopher Halloran /
Shutterstock)
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by
the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling.
Most, including many of those at the heart of the American empire, recognize
that every promise made by the proponents of neoliberalism is a lie. Global
wealth, rather than being spread equitably, as neoliberal proponents
promised, has been funneled upward into the hands of a rapacious, oligarchic
elite, creating vast economic inequality. The working poor, whose unions and
rights have been taken from them and whose wages have stagnated or declined
over the past 40 years, have been thrust into chronic poverty and
underemployment, making their lives one long, stress-ridden emergency. The
middle class is evaporating. Cities that once manufactured products and
offered factory jobs are boarded up-wastelands. Prisons are overflowing.
Corporations have orchestrated the destruction of trade barriers, allowing
them to stash $2.1 trillion in profits in overseas banks to avoid paying
taxes. And the neoliberal order, despite its promise to build and spread
democracy, has hollowed out democratic systems to turn them into corporate
leviathans.
Democracy, especially in the United States, is a farce, vomiting up
right-wing demagogues such as Donald Trump, who has a chance to become the
Republican presidential nominee and perhaps even president, or slick,
dishonest corporate stooges such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and, if he
follows through on his promise to support the Democratic nominee, even
Bernie Sanders. The labels "liberal" and "conservative" are meaningless in
the neoliberal order. Political elites, Democrat or Republican, serve the
demands of corporations and empire. They are facilitators, along with most
of the media and most of academia, of what the political philosopher Sheldon
Wolin calls our system of "inverted totalitarianism."
The attraction of a Trump, like the attraction of Radovan Karadzic or
Slobodan Milosevic during the breakdown of Yugoslavia, is that his
buffoonery, which is ultimately dangerous, mocks the bankruptcy of the
political charade. It lays bare the dissembling, the hypocrisy, the
legalized bribery. There is a perverted and, to many, refreshing honesty in
this. The Nazis used this tactic to take power during the Weimar Republic.
The Nazis, even in the eyes of their opponents, had the courage of their
convictions, however unsavory those convictions were. Those who believe
something, even something repugnant, are often given grudging respect.
These neoliberal forces are also rapidly destroying the ecosystem. The Earth
has not had this level of climate disruption since 250 million years ago
when it underwent the Permian-Triassic extinction, which wiped out perhaps
90 percent of all species. This is a percentage we seem determined to
replicate. Global warming is unstoppable, with polar ice caps and glaciers
rapidly melting and sea levels certain to rise 10 or more feet within the
next few decades, flooding major coastal cities. Mega-droughts are leaving
huge patches of the Earth, including parts of Africa and Australia, the west
coast of the United States and Canada and the southwest United States,
parched and plagued by uncontrollable wildfires. We have lost 7.2 million
acres to wildfires nationwide this year, and the Forest Service has so far
spent $800 million struggling to control conflagrations in California,
Washington, Alaska and other states. The very word "drought" is part of the
deception, implying this is somehow reversible. It isn't.
Migrants fleeing violence and hunger in countries such as Syria, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya and Eritrea are pouring into Europe. Two hundred thousand
of the roughly 300,000 migrants to Europe this year have landed on the
shores of Greece. Two thousand five hundred have died so far this year in
the sea, on overcrowded and dilapidated boats or in the backs of trucks such
as the one discovered last week in Austria that held 71 corpses, including
the bodies of children. This is the largest influx of refugees into Europe
since World War II, a 40 percent jump since last year. And the flood will
grow ever greater. By 2050, many climate scientists predict, between 50
million and 200 million climate refugees will have fled northward to escape
areas of the globe made uninhabitable by soaring temperatures, droughts,
famines, plagues, coastal flooding and the chaos of failed states.
The physical, environmental, social and political disintegration is
reflected in an upsurge of nihilistic violence driven by rage. Crazed gunmen
carry out massacres in shopping malls, movie theaters, churches and schools
in the United States. Boko Haram and Islamic State, or ISIS, are on killing
rampages. Suicide attackers methodically commit deadly mayhem in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Israel and the Palestinian
territories, Iran, Tunisia, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, Mauritania, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, China, Nigeria, Russia, India and Pakistan. They struck the
United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and in 2010 when Andrew Joseph Stack III
flew a light plane into a building in Austin, Texas, that housed offices of
the Internal Revenue Service. Fanaticism is bred by hopelessness and
despair. It is not the product of religion, although religion often becomes
the sacral veneer for violence. The more desperate people become, the more
this nihilistic violence will spread.
"The old is dying, the new struggles to be born, and in the interregnum
there are many morbid symptoms," the theorist Antonio Gramsci wrote.
These "morbid symptoms" will expand until we radically reconfigure how we
relate to each other and the ecosystem. But there is no guarantee such a
reconfiguration is possible, especially if the elites manage to cling to
power through their pervasive global security and surveillance apparatus and
heavily militarized police forces. If we do not overthrow this neoliberal
system, and overthrow it soon, we will unleash a Hobbesian nightmare of
escalating state violence and counterviolence. Masses of the poor will be
condemned to misery and death. Some will try to violently resist. A tiny
elite, living in a modern version of Versailles or the Forbidden City, will
have access to amenities denied to everyone else. Hatred will become the
primary ideology.
The attraction of Islamic State, which has up to 30,000 foreign fighters, is
that it articulates the rage felt by the wretched of the earth and has
thrown off the shackles of Western domination. It defies the neoliberal
attempt to turn the oppressed into human refuse. You can condemn the group's
medieval vision of a Muslim state and its campaigns of terror against
Shiites, Yazidis, Christians, women and homosexuals-which I do-but the
anguish that inspires this savagery is genuine; you can condemn the racism
of white supremacists who are flocking to Trump-as I do-but what they are
responding to is their similar frustration and despair. The neoliberal
order, by turning people into superfluous labor and by extension superfluous
human beings, orchestrated this anger. The only hope left is to re-integrate
the dispossessed into the global economy, to give them a sense of
possibility and hope, to give them a future. Short of that, nothing will
stem the fanaticism.
Islamic State, much like the Christian right in the U.S., seeks a return to
an unachievable purity and utopianism, a heaven on earth. It promises to
establish a version of the seventh-century caliphate. Twentieth-century
Zionists seeking to form Israel used the same playbook when they called for
the re-creation of the mythical Jewish nation of the Bible. ISIS, as the
Jewish fighters who founded Israel did, is attempting to build its state
(now the size of Texas) though ethnic cleansing, terrorism and the use of
foreign fighters. Its utopian cause, as was the Republican cause in the
Spanish Civil War, is attractive to tens of millions of youths, most of them
Muslims cast aside by the neoliberal order. Islamic State offers a vision of
a broken society made whole. It offers a place and sense of identity-denied
by neoliberalism-to those who embrace this vision. It calls for a turning
away from the deadening cult of the self that lies at the core of neoliberal
ideology. It holds up the sanctity of self-sacrifice. And it offers an
avenue for vengeance.
Until we dismantle the neoliberal order and recover the humanistic tradition
that rejects the view that human beings and the Earth are commodities to
exploit, our form of industrialized and economic barbarity will collide with
the barbarity of those who oppose us. The only choice offered by "bourgeois
society," as Friedrich Engels knew, is "socialism or regression into
barbarism." It is time we make this choice.
We in the United States are not morally superior to Islamic State. We are
responsible for over a million dead in Iraq and 4 million Iraqis who have
been displaced or forced to become refugees. We kill in greater numbers. We
kill more indiscriminately. Our drones, warplanes, heavy artillery, naval
bombardments, machine guns, missiles and so-called special forces-state-run
death squads-have decapitated far more people, including children, than
Islamic State has. When Islamic State burned a Jordanian pilot alive in a
cage it replicated what the United States does daily to families by
incinerating them in their homes in bombing strikes. It replicated what
Israeli warplanes do in Gaza. Yes, what Islamic State did was cruder. But
morally it was the same.
I once asked the co-founder of the militant group Hamas, Dr. Abdel Aziz
al-Rantisi, why Hamas sanctioned suicide bombings, which left Israeli
civilians and children dead, when the Palestinians had the moral high ground
as an occupied people. "We will stop killing their children and civilians as
soon as they stop killing our children and civilians," he told me. He noted
that the number of Israeli children who had been killed at that time was a
couple of dozen, as opposed to hundreds of Palestinian children. Since 2000,
133 Israeli and 2,061 Palestinian children have lost their lives. Suicide
bombing is an act of desperation. It is, like Israel's saturation bombing of
Gaza, a war crime. But when seen as a response to unchecked state terror it
is understandable. Dr. Rantisi was assassinated in April 2004 by Israel when
it fired a Hellfire missile at his car in Gaza from an Apache attack
helicopter. His son Mohammed, in the vehicle with him, also died in the
attack. The downward spiral, more than a decade after these murders,
continues.
Those who oppose us offer a vision of a new world. We offer nothing in
return. They offer a counterweight to the neoliberal lie. They speak for its
victims, trapped in squalid slums in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and
North America. They condemn the grotesque hedonism, the society of
spectacle, rejection of the sacred, profligate consumption, personal wealth
as the primary basis for respect and authority, blind celebration of the
technocrat, sexual commodification-including a culture dominated by
pornography-and the drug-induced lethargy that are used by all dying regimes
to keep the masses distracted and disempowered. Many jihadis, before they
became violent fundamentalists, fell victim to these forces. There are
hundreds of millions of people like them who have been betrayed by the
neoliberal order. They are a powder keg. And we offer them nothing.
The wretched of the earth increasingly do not believe in the efficacy of
nonviolence. They saw how nonviolence failed in Tunisia, which contributes
the largest number of jihadis to the fighting in Iraq and Syria, and how it
failed in Libya, Egypt and Iraq, a country where the U.S. puppet regime
gunned down nonviolent protesters in the streets. The wretched of the
earth-including in the United States, where we are seeing a mounting number
of assassinations at the hands of police, 23 so far this year-intend to
counter state violence with insurrectional violence. They have learned to
speak in the language we taught them. Keep shooting unarmed black men and
women in the streets of American cities while ignoring the nonviolent
protests calling for an end to the state lynching and terror, and guess what
will happen?
"Once their rage explodes, they recover their lost coherence, they
experience self-knowledge through reconstruction of themselves; from afar we
see their war as the triumph of barbarity," Frantz Fanon wrote in "The
Wretched of the Earth," "but it proceeds on its own to gradually emancipate
the fighter and progressively eliminates the colonial darkness inside and
out. As soon as it begins it is merciless. Either one must remain terrified
or become terrifying-which means surrendering to the dissociations of a
fabricated life or conquering the unity of one's native soil. When the
peasants lay hands on a gun, the old myths fade, and one by one the taboos
are overturned: a fighter's weapon is his humanity. For in the first phase
of the revolt killing is a necessity: killing a European is killing two
birds with one stone, eliminating in one go oppressor and oppressed: leaving
one man dead and the other man free."
Do those in power read history? Or maybe this is what they want. Once the
wretched of the earth morph into Islamic State, or adopt counterviolence,
the neoliberal order can lift the final fetters that are imposed upon it and
start to kill with impunity. Neoliberal ideologues, after all, are also
utopian fanatics. And they, too, know only how to speak in the language of
force. They are our version of Islamic State.
The binary world the neoliberals created-a world of masters and serfs, a
world where the wretched of the earth are demonized and subdued by a loss of
freedom, by "austerity" and violence, a world where only the powerful and
the wealthy have privileges and rights-will condemn us to a horrifying
dystopia. The emerging revolt, inchoate, seemingly disconnected, is rising
up from the bowels of the earth. We see its flashes and spurts. We see its
ideology of rage and anguish. We see its utopianism and its corpses. The
more despair and desperation are manufactured by the neoliberal order,
whether in Athens, Baghdad or Ferguson, the more the forces of state
repression are used to quell unrest and extract the last drops of blood from
collapsing economies, the more violence will become the primary language of
resistance.
Those of us who seek to create a world that has hope of viability have
little time left. The neoliberal order, despoiling the Earth and enslaving
the vulnerable, has to be eradicated. This will happen only when we place
ourselves in direct opposition to it, when we are willing to engage in the
acts of self-sacrifice and sustained revolt that allow us to obstruct and
dismantle every aspect of neoliberal machinery. I believe we can do this
through nonviolence. But I am not blind to the inevitable rise of
counterviolence, caused by the myopia and greed of the neoliberal mandarins.
Peace and harmony may not engulf the Earth if we succeed, but if we do not
remove the ruling elites from power, if we do not overthrow the neoliberal
order, and if we do not do it soon, we are doomed.
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