However, you have fallen into a pattern of using colonized countries as examples of trouble without any corresponding critique of colonization, colonizers, imperialism, and capitalism and their role in this trouble.
Some questions for your research:
•Is colonization and imperialism a type of authoritarianism?
•How did the Monroe Doctrine, Dole Food Company, the US mobsters in Cuba, US Oil Interests in Venezuela (for examples) use violence, coercion, and puppet governments and why?
•Does the Euro/US capitalism and Christianity that constructed and justified for institutional slavery, imminent domain, and the ongoing genocide Native Americans in the new world play a part in white nationalism today?
Finally, I think the story of the "gun pulling" in Venezuela needs to be told. Was your experience peculiar to Venezuela? I, for one, have had various weapons pulled on me or used against me in the streets of Portland by the state and by reactionaries for political reasons and I see almost no redress or accountability through our supposedly representative, democratic institutional processes.
Thank you for all the energy you are dedicating to this. It's critical work.
Fair points as usual Dan. I am certainly guilty of glossing over these details in my short form newsletter. This morning I was redrafting my book chapter on the Philippines and found myself forced to repeatedly acknowledge (because several of my sources said it) that today’s problems there are rooted in American imperialism, corruption, and CIA operations to undermine nationalist and democratic politicians. We are sitting on a heap of lies. It’s harder to strike the right balance there (including holding Duterte, Maduro etc responsible for their own actions) in the shorter format.
Good food for thought as usual.
However, you have fallen into a pattern of using colonized countries as examples of trouble without any corresponding critique of colonization, colonizers, imperialism, and capitalism and their role in this trouble.
Some questions for your research:
•Is colonization and imperialism a type of authoritarianism?
•How did the Monroe Doctrine, Dole Food Company, the US mobsters in Cuba, US Oil Interests in Venezuela (for examples) use violence, coercion, and puppet governments and why?
•Does the Euro/US capitalism and Christianity that constructed and justified for institutional slavery, imminent domain, and the ongoing genocide Native Americans in the new world play a part in white nationalism today?
Finally, I think the story of the "gun pulling" in Venezuela needs to be told. Was your experience peculiar to Venezuela? I, for one, have had various weapons pulled on me or used against me in the streets of Portland by the state and by reactionaries for political reasons and I see almost no redress or accountability through our supposedly representative, democratic institutional processes.
Thank you for all the energy you are dedicating to this. It's critical work.
Fair points as usual Dan. I am certainly guilty of glossing over these details in my short form newsletter. This morning I was redrafting my book chapter on the Philippines and found myself forced to repeatedly acknowledge (because several of my sources said it) that today’s problems there are rooted in American imperialism, corruption, and CIA operations to undermine nationalist and democratic politicians. We are sitting on a heap of lies. It’s harder to strike the right balance there (including holding Duterte, Maduro etc responsible for their own actions) in the shorter format.