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Everyone asks what I read and truth be told I learned a lot of politics through experience and listening to Black revolutionaries.
There is nothing- nothing- that I say on my blog that Malcom X or James Baldwin or Frantz Fanon or Thomas Sankara or Frederick Douglass didn't say first (and much more eloquently)
Further, their words have given me the tools to think critically about not just my place, but everyone else's and what we owe each other.
I myself, wouldn't have a Lot of the politics I do had I not been exposed to the ideas they talked about with such knowledge and experience. Whether it was by following activists or looking up things up or learning about them myself, they're influential and I would even say foundational to decolonization and dismantling white supremacy.
My usual recs are Wretched of the Earth and Braiding Sweetgrass, but those are just starters since people just usually ask where to begin.
So I wanted to make this post and for them to be Very Much credited for the following I have and my politics since I don't often mention them.
For example, I talk a lot about how the comfort of the privileged is an obstacle that stems directly from their privilege. How libs who only conditionally support peaceful protests don't understand what's necessary; that challenging the status quo can't be done comfortably and it's never been "peaceful" for the oppressing classes. How it's detrimental to progress to compromise on how we fight for our rights and to have been liberals telling us we demand too much.
Frederick Douglass:
Frantz Fanon:
Privileges multiply and corruption triumphs…Today the vultures are too numerous and too voracious in proportion to the lean spoils of the national wealth. The party, a true instrument of power in the hands of the bourgeoisie, reinforces the machine, and ensures that the people are hemmed in and immobilised.
Thomas Sankara:
Malcom X:
James Baldwin:
In a way, I owe the invitation to the incredible, abysmal, and really cowardly obtuseness of white liberals. Whether in private debate or in public, any attempt I made to explain how the Black Muslim movement came about, and how it has achieved such force, was met with a blankness that revealed the little connection that the liberals' attitudes have with their perceptions or their lives, or even their knowledge—revealed, in fact, that they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but had no sense of him as a man.
Bonus MLK Jr quote:
Over the last few years many Negroes have felt that their most troublesome adversary was not the obvious bigot of the Ku Klux Klan or the John Birch Society, but the white liberal who is more devoted to “order” than to justice, who prefers tranquillity to equality. In a sense the white liberal has been victimized with some of the same ambivalence that has been a constant part of our national heritage. Even in areas where liberals have great influence— labor unions, schools, churches and politics—the situation of the Negro is not much better than in areas where they are not dominant. This is why many liberals have fallen into the trap of seeing integration in merely aesthetic terms, where a token number of Negroes adds color to a white-dominated power structure."
Whether your medium is a PDF, a book, movie, clips, quotes, podcast, whatever. However you digest info easiest: learn about them and their words. Think about them. Talk about it and process it with friends.
That's how you shape your politics to be similar to the ones you find on my blog.
#malcolm x#mlk jr#thomas sankara#Frederick Douglass#frantz fanon#james baldwin#politics#human rights#justice#protests#theory#colonialism#imperialism#racism#privilege#whiteness#white supremacy#capitalism#usa#liberal#liberalism#white liberals#allies#solidarity#intersectionality
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DECOLONIAL ACTION READING
I recently compiled these to add to a comrade’s post about Land Back, but actually I think they deserve their own post as well.
Amílcar Cabral - Return To The Source
Frantz Fanon - The Wretched Of The Earth
Hô Chí Minh - archive via Marxists.org
Thomas King - The Inconvenient Indian
Abdullah Öcalan - Women’s Revolution & Democratic Confederalism
Edward Said - The Question Of Palestine
Thomas Sankara - archive via Marxists.org
Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang - Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor
Other key names in postcolonial theory and its practical application include:
Sara Ahmed
Homi K. Bhabha
Aimé Césaire
Albert Memmi
Jean-Paul Sartre
Léopold Séder Senghor
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
All of these will help you interpret and confront the realities of colonisation, and ideally help us understand and extend solidarity to comrades around the globe. Decolonise your mind, and don't stop there!
#land back#postcolonial#postcolonialism#postcolonial theory#decolonization#decolonize#decolonise#decolonisation#Edward Said#Tuck & Yang#Frantz Fanon#Amilcar Cabral#Free Ocalan#Sankara#Ho Chi Minh#Thomas Sankara#Abdullah Ocalan#original#Thomas King#Eve Tuck#K. Wayne Yang
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#thomas sankara#sankara#Marxism#marxist leninist#revolutionary#burkina faso#imperialism#so handsome#stolen from hexbear#hexbear
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“It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the current system, the worker's wife is also condemned to silence by her worker-husband. In other words, in addition to the class exploitation common to both of them, women must confront a particular set of relations that exist between them and men, relations of conflict and violence that use physical differences as their pretext.”
— Thomas Sankara on the intersection of patriarchy and capitalism.
#thomas sankara#marxism#radblr#radfem#radical feminism#liberal feminism#feminism#patriarchy#communist#socialist#marxist feminism#marxfem#burkina faso#queued post
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"Apartheid today is a form of modern Nazism. Apartheid is a living element of the imperialism of our times. Ultimately, Apartheid is also a strategy, in class struggle, for the exploitation of man by man."
-Thomas Sankara
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Thomas Sankara on the Power of Solidarity
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Happy birthday, Thomas Sankara!
(December 21, 1949)
President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, Thomas Sankara came to power in a popular revolution which rid the country of its colonial name and established a socialist republic. A Pan-Africanist, Sankara opposed colonialism and the continuing efforts of Europe to exert dominance in Africa. Sankara engaged in a number of ambitious and wide-ranging policies, including vaccinating millions of children, nationalizing key resources, and promoting and enshrining the rights of women. Beloved by the people, Sankara made an enemy of imperialist interests and the traditional ruling class, and was assassinated in a coup d’etat by rightist forces.
“Our revolution is not a public-speaking tournament. Our revolution is not a battle of fine phrases. Our revolution is not simply for spouting slogans that are no more than signals used by manipulators trying to use them as catchwords, as codewords, as a foil for their own display. Our revolution is, and should continue to be, the collective effort of revolutionaries to transform reality, to improve the concrete situation of the masses of our country.”
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what can you tell me about thomas sankara
I can throw together the few facts I know off the top of my head and give some semi-coherent shallow description of who he is, what he stood for, and the time period he existed in but since I learned directly from a currently available PDF of his book on women’s liberation and watching many, many YouTube videos, it makes more sense to link those. People have already done the work in varying degrees of depth. I’ll only link what I’ve watch and can find quickly but I encourage you to find more!
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his book:
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
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"Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave."
Thomas Sankara
To varying degrees debt is a conquest of anyone, anywhere
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Fidel Castro recebe Thomas Sankara em Havana, 25 de setembro de 1984.
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‟Our country produces enough to feed us all. We can even produce more than we need. Unfortunately, for lack of organization, we still need to beg for food aid. This type of assistance is counterproductive and has kept us thinking that we can only be beggars who need aid. We must put aside this type of aid and succeed in producing more. We must produce more, because the one who feeds you usually imposes his will upon you.”
— Thomas Sankara
#thomas sankara#anti capitalism#marxism leninism#socialism#communism#marxism#revolution#liberation#quote
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#women's liberation and the african freedom struggle#thomas sankara#nonfiction#book poll#have you read this book poll#polls
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“The protective tenderness of women toward the family and the clan became a trap that delivered her up to domination by the male. Innocence and generosity fell victim to deceit and base motives. Love was made a mockery. Dignity was tarnished. All genuine feelings were transformed into objects of barter. From this moment on, women’s hospitality and desire to share succumbed to the trickery of the deceitful.”
- The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without The Emancipation of Women, Thomas Sankara
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