There is nothing civilised about western civilisation. It is all pretense. There is no morality, no rule of law. It's just violence, imperial power and capital accumulation all the way down
Yep. "Western civilization" as a concept was invented to excuse slavery and colonialism.
Not like a child. A child would be able to see this is fucked, that the people doing it are bad, and that you could just stop, just fucking stop at any time.
wheeeeeew got some names mixed up there for a minute
Every single time I see his name I have to do a double take, lmao.
Im really frustrated by the fact that the death toll is forever locked at 43000 even though it clearly is not that number
Not to dismiss the doomness of this, but it’s not new sadly. This is the way of the west and has been for a long time. Something positive I can take from the present though, I feel like the west is in its weakest and most precarious position in a long time, where like 30 years ago they had this shit totally on lock.
may I join you
Because, after all, we must resign ourselves to the inevitable and say to ourselves, once and for all, that the bourgeoisie is condemned to become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous; that it is an implacable law that every decadent class finds itself turned into a receptacle into which there flow all the dirty waters of history; that it is a universal law that before it disappears, every class must first disgrace itself completely, on all fronts, and that it is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs.
—Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
I mean, yes, obviously. This isn't really a black pill except for your lib bits though; we all knew this. Every communist since at least the persecution of the Anabaptists has known this.
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