Sadly, the innate human propensity to “hate the Other” seals our fate as a society… or something along those lines.
I am going to argue that this narrative is nonsense. It tries to pass off as universal and eternal something that in reality is particular and ephemeral. In short: Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. As for those anti-imperialists who don’t participate in this festival of xenophobia — and here I include myself — we have our own elitist consolation: we accept the tragedy of masses of gullible sheeple falling for cunning propaganda because having overcome it flatters our own intelligence. The more we condemn society’s stupidity, the smarter we feel in comparison.
It’s always about a tiny minority of people who actually contribute to war.
Also wrong, Israel is a heavily armed bourgeois settler religious extremist society since the Nakba.
Labor aristocrats, working class class traitors who side with the global bourgeois (usa & lackeys) instead of the global proletariat (the rest of the world).
It’s a good read. The idea of ‘licencing’ resonates well with me. But I have yet to reach the conclusion where the author says that inciting mortal hate against the so-called Bourgeois Proletariat actually helps to build a better world and not draws a major group away from you.
But I have yet to reach the conclusion where the author says that inciting mortal hate against the so-called Bourgeois Proletariat actually helps to build a better world and not draws a major group away from you.
As opposed to what exactly? Asking them nicely to stop being self centered racist assholes?
Read Masses Elites and Rebels
Also wrong, Israel is a heavily armed bourgeois settler religious extremist society since the Nakba.
“Bourgeois proletarians”? Is that explained further or do they mean privileged proletarians?
The proper term would probably be “labor aristocracy”.
Labor aristocrats, working class class traitors who side with the global bourgeois (usa & lackeys) instead of the global proletariat (the rest of the world).
They get bought with imperial loot.
It’s a good read. The idea of ‘licencing’ resonates well with me. But I have yet to reach the conclusion where the author says that inciting mortal hate against the so-called Bourgeois Proletariat actually helps to build a better world and not draws a major group away from you.
As opposed to what exactly? Asking them nicely to stop being self centered racist assholes?
Of course you reach a different conclusion than the author, that’s because you have a different class interest.