Morning Comrades.
Most of us, I would imagine, became increasingly radicalized somewhere around 2015 - predominately here in the West due to the election of Trump-combine that with an increased presence of non-hegemonic information on social media platforms and we have arrived here. Granted, there is older cats like myself that have seen and been part of the process of breaking free from the bullshit they’ve fed us since birth but I’d stil wager that the reality of social media has been a pivotal point in that process, in case you ever wondered why all those platforms are now for all intents and purposes, defunct.
A lot happened since the Capitalist Class has decided to unmask its facade and show its Fascist face since then, both online and offline. Specifically, and this assertion comes from a point of view that now spans 3 decades of dissent, the antagonism towards the capitalist hegemony has grown significantly, the sharpening of dissent has increased and thus, so has the frustration. As children growing up in the West we were told the counter cultures of the 50-70s achieved success by doing what they did exactly because they didn’t achieve shit. Whatever their break from the capitalist hegemonic demands were, were essentially allowed until they weren’t - the bLack Panthers being the prime example. Fast forward to today and we are all bearing witness to a live-streamed genocide in Palestine that our Capitalist Class and their government wholeheartedly supports, with force, money and gusto and a lot of us aren’t ok with that- which is good. Yet, at the same time, we are once again and hopefully for the last time, understanding that marches, online petitions, discussions, even protests achieve only so much. Realistically, as long as they allow it to happen it doesn’t challenge their power and thus won’t stop this genocide, and frankly, anything else, at home or abroad. Their fuckening will continue.
Yet, we have ample examples in our history, where their fuckening was stopped. One such example, and this is directly related to the ongoing display of White, Western, Capitalist Power in Palestine was the original Anti-Apartheid & BDS Movement that put an end to the Colonising Nightmare that was South Africa until 1990. With that, let’s look at their tactics, strategies and experiences so that we can understand how to win against their death cult.
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