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Post colonialism thread
Ian Perry
Ryan Allen
Read "How Europe underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney.
But don't take post colonial theories too seriously. Mostly it is just
Isaiah Butler
Here's just a reminder that replacing/exterminating a certain race through forced breeding campaigns, camp systems, or eugenics programs, in favor of a supposed "superior" or "master" race, is inherently fascist in nature.
Nazism (Aryanism), Brazilian Integralism (mixed race superiority), The white man's burden (civilizing different races, either through mixing genetics or by enslaving other races for their own good), white self-hatred (inverse racial supremacism, racial inferiority complex, still fascist), etc is all fascist in nature because it proposes state-enforced racial homogeneity in place of racial diversity.
Xavier Morgan
You are right. Actually all those radical de colonialists and Sakaists with their "cracker genocides and deportations" fetishes behave just like Zionists.
Christopher Brown
Just end this meme theory. It has done more harm than wellness.
In the end, it comes to supporting local bourgeoisie to "develop" the country simply because they share your skin or whatever.
Local bourgeoisie is not our friend and it will never be. I come from a south american country where a variant of this shit was and is really popular: some sort of anti USA imperialism. Whenever this people were in government, they just raised the profit rate of local capitalists and kept the underdeveloped economy dependent on commodities. But hey, we were no longer oppressed by anglo american imperialists, only by mestizo bourgeoisie.
It is not detached. Historical experience proves that this type of perspectives are completely susceptible to being co-opted by capitalists, they become one of their tools. Please do the favor of actually reading the history of countries were this type of things were implemented. We third-worlders don't need to be opressed by someone of our skin. And I don't care if it's the americans or the chinese (which are now really present in the region). It's really the fucking same for the average worker.
John Mitchell
There's a slogan "My leftist boss is working me to death and tells me it's the Americans' fault".
Sums up MTW and most anti-imperialist discourse, too.
Connor Kelly
thanks for the recommendations comrades!
Colton Edwards
Do you blame South Africans for hating Boers?
Christopher Williams
Why do people think postcolonial thought is antithetical to Marxism? Some of it is, but a good deal of it works within a Marxist framework, probably the most obvious example is Fanon. In Les Damnés de la Terre he specifically says national consciousness must progress to class consciousness or else the local bourgeoisie will reinstitute the same exact repressive structures, with a mildly different aesthetic. If I recall correctly, Fanon was a pretty traditional ML and is also one of the most well known post colonial theorists.
Austin Kelly
I see it as a left variation.
It should be important to note that not all variations of post-colonialism are Sakai-ism. BUT A lot of Sakai-ists specifically identify race and not class as the primary struggle of humanity. It runs into a bunch of esoteric bullshit on national struggle and volkish culture sentiment. Their also seems to be a focus on income levels and privileged levels (middle class is a very real term for Sakai). It still adheres to a lot of MLM principles. A lot of modern Maoists are Sakai-ist to some degree and there is a significant focus on cultural revolution as well as base building.
De-colonization of places and language is a huge dogma for these folks. It isn't necessarily anti-leftism to say but rather it is a different perspective on Marxism in the voice of colonized peoples in colonial nations. It isn't the Enlightenment universalist theory Marx posited but it does explain material conditions in a certain period of history.