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Quote from Marxist historian and social theorist C.L.R. James on the "violence" of liberation struggles. "“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the tyrants but all ‘civilisation’ holds up its hands in horror and clamours for ‘order’ to be restored. If a revolution carries high overhead expenses, most of them it inherits from the greed of reactionaries and the cowardice of the so-called moderates. Long before abolition the mischief had been done in the French colonies and it was not abolition but the refusal to abolish which had done it.” ― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution"

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Quote from Marxist historian and social theorist C.L.R. James on the "violence" of liberation struggles. "“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the tyrants but all ‘civilisation’ holds up its hands in horror and clamours for ‘order’ to be restored. If a revolution carries high overhead expenses, most of them it inherits from the greed of reactionaries and the cowardice of the so-called moderates. Long before abolition the mischief had been done in the French colonies and it was not abolition but the refusal to abolish which had done it.” ― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution"
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AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 21:17:03 JST AnarchoNinaWrites
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Literally everything they're telling you about the Palestinian liberation movement today, they said about the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers back in the day. They don't give a fuck about violence, except the violence that may result from overthrowing colonial enslavement and brutalization; they're more than happy to do nothing about a genocide - they spring into action to decry violence only when it may affect the oppressors and their goons.
Again, we been over this:

In conversation about 7 months ago from social.076.moe permalink