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refusing to center antiblackness is another level of counterinsurgency that can't be contained to just the state, "the ruling class", or the far right. it's the bedrock of an entire world whose lifeblood is black enslavement & greatest fear is slave rebellion
formal, legal chattel slavery - the thing that was supposedly abolished over a century ago - was an institution based on a global chain of concentration camps. what is a plantation society without slave patrols? what is a slave coast without fortresses and forced marches?
are we supposed to believe that we are just now witnessing "militarized societies" when 1) chattel slavery was carried out by warring empires, 2) the empires are still alive today, and 3) black people are still held a priori captive within them?
I'm sure most of y'all have been paying attention the last month and a half. can we be honest and say that people *across the political spectrum* have fought to put black people "back in our place"? not just governments, fascist mobs, & lone wolves, but leftists too?
just because these groups fight each other doesn't mean they aren't united against us. empires fight each other, "civil" wars are frequent, white labour fights the state or non-white labour depending on its mood--but they come together as a class whenever they're *all* threatened
I think I need more historical examples (just because that helps me understand & articulate things better) and to reflect on this more but fighting *for* the world & fighting *against* the world are two irreconcilable projects
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