How to defeat the capitalist state in a place like North America, where the two biggest countries are benefactors of neo-colonial extraction? This part of the globe is the center of modern imperialism, as well as a place where the state and its capitalist rulers carry out internal imperialism via extraction from indigenous lands. Capital has so many ways to fortify itself here that it’s been able to build, as Parenti observed about the American bourgeois state, a seemingly perfect system of control; a system that can render dissent nonthreatening by providing enough of the people with enough material opportunities for the forces of opposition to be made marginalized. This has never meant that the state’s defeat by internal rebellion is impossible, though. It’s only meant that those who are genuinely committed to defeating the state have needed to resist being influenced by strong forces of (primarily) left-wing opportunism, which the empire cultivates within its own borders.
I noticed a similar response to "Rich Men North of Richmond". It is a song about how the bourgeoisies are screwing us over and immediately blew up into a viral hit, but the "left" is more interested in problematic lyrics or him being a possible infiltrator than using that energy to produce similar songs to spread awareness or build movements.
I noticed a similar response to "Rich Men North of Richmond". It is a song about how the bourgeoisies are screwing us over and immediately blew up into a viral hit, but the "left" is more interested in problematic lyrics or him being a possible infiltrator than using that energy to produce similar songs to spread awareness or build movements.
Bull. Ya just don't get AmeriKKKa, but here's my take, and get real:
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/black-august-but-the-freaks-those