Refusing the Narrative: Books to Educate Yourself

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Vietnam by Long Nguyen

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Diving Season (2021) oil pastel on paper 55 x 75 cm

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We must understand the journey […]. [T]he kings and queens of Europe […] said that those Black or Brown or Indigenous […], they could be exploited. […] In the case of the UK, […] [i]t was the profits of slavery, slave products which built the universities, that financed the inventions, the canals, the banks like Barclays Bank, the Bank of England […] to send wealth back to the North. […]. So […] what it does is it creates the world  as we know it, and then […] the anti-colonial struggles of the forties, fifties and sixties begin to challenge it. […] So no longer did you need guns and rifles and gunboats. You could control economies by the power of […] trade rules […]. And we see that today with unsustainable debt repayments, […] corporations taking profits out of the Global South and bringing it back to the banks and corporations in the Global North. So in reality, this logic of racialized capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, is still apparent today. And it’s the same logic. […] [T]here has been an attempt, and it’s been largely led by international institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, to create a narrative that over the last 30, 40 years, that somehow because of development or globalization, we’ve seen a reduction in poverty and inequality in the Global South. This is the classic trickle-down.  […]

It’s the fact that this is all legal. This is legally done.

We’ve created both a global tax system, a global trade system, and then a punitive system managed by institutions like the IMF and the World Bank and the WTO, which punishes countries if they challenge that logic, and if they, for example, decide to prioritize their own people.   […]

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So in Pakistan, as we know, 33 million people have been displaced by a climate flood – when they are responsible for less than 1% of global emissions. […] But Pakistan, for every 100 that the Government raises in tax revenue, it pays 83 of those […] back out in debt repayments.

And what you’ve seen increasingly is country after country being trapped in this cycle of needing to beg for more debt-creating loans to pay the last debt-creating loans, and each of those loans coming with conditions.

Recently, Sri Lanka was unable to pay its debt. There have been huge protests on the streets of Sri Lanka, by movements, as people were unable to afford food, even kerosene to cook with […]. People were unable to get to the hospital. The government was telling people to eat less, not to eat three meals a day. [There was] a huge uprising of people and the government that was in power fled; the new government, which was imposed in Sri Lanka, went to the IMF and said, we want to negotiate restructuring our loan, because once you default on your loan, the way our economic system is set up, you will be punished. Because every bank, every corporation, wants their debt repayments. So people are forced to go back to the IMF.

And the IMF told Sri Lanka, we will give you another loan, if you do three things: you cut your public expenditure – so the very money that you need on public services – second, you weaken your labor laws – [they] don’t want unions being strong in [Sri Lanka] – and thirdly, you have to privatize what’s left of your utility. Which were operating for the interests of the Sri Lankan people. They want them now to be put onto the open market and, like many countries in the Global South, the main drivers of our economy, are actually not in the hands of either our governments or our peoples, they are still controlled by the same Western multinationals.

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Now, if we had a picture, if we could show two maps, we could show a map  of the colonial world and the influence of the different countries of Europe on the different parts of the world, and the commodities that were drawn from those countries, to feed back to supply chains, to feed consumption and the industrial processes in the Global North.

But if you did the same map right now, you’d see the exact same commodities flowing from the Global South to the Global North, because countries were forced to and [told,] you will provide and produce this commodity because we want it, not because it’s needed by your people […]. It’s because you will grow cotton, you will grow coffee, you’ll export oil […].

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Words of Asad Rehman. As interviewed by Kamea Chayne. Transcript published as “Asad Rehman: The End of Imperialism in a Radical Green New Deal (Ep378).” An episode of the podcast Green Dreamer. 25 October 2022. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.

Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.

People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.

Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.

People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.

Absolutely the most dangerous thing about liberals from an organizing perspective is their moralism about law and what they deem the acceptable ways of breaking them for political purposes. In my experience this is a good example of how "apolitical"/lumpen people are very often more prepared to support us than "progressives."

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one can instantly free oneself from the chains of identity discourse by simply conceiving of sexuality as something that is dialectical and not metaphysical

your sexuality does not exist within you, nor does it exist as an immutable wholly external ideal to be discovered. your sexuality is locatable only within your interaction with and relations to the world around you

reciting this every time I log on to post like the litany against fear

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#interpret this in bad faith and ill vaporize you with my mind

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Seems like a huge conflict of our time is essentialist vs existentialist philosophy and the fight against the real world repercussions of peoples brains being rotted by the former.

Obviously though this conflict in thinking is only a reflection of a conflict of interests between the forces of an old social order and a new one struggling to appear.

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