Tag: colonialism
Di Kevin Carson. Articolo originale: Konstantin Kisin’s Delusions Are On Life Support, del 18 gennaio 2024. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Il 22 ottobre scorso Konstantin Kisin pubblica un articolo su The Free Press (una pubblicazione fondata da Bari Weiss e specializzata in scenate contro la cultura “woke”) che immediatamente fa il giro del web….
Di Trevor Hauge. Originale: Anti-Zionism Isn’t Enough, del 4 dicembre 2023. Tradotto da Enrico Sanna. Contro il nazionalismo in tutte le sue forme. In questo clima politico cinico e disonesto, ogni critica del sionismo viene tacciata di antisemitismo dai media moderati e di destra. La deputata statunitense Ilhan Omar, che più volte ha chiesto scusa…
An October 22 article by Konstantin Kisin at The Free Press — a publication founded by Bari Weiss, a pony whose one trick is anti-“woke” culture war theatrics — immediately went viral. Its popularity on the Right is suggested by the fact that its title, “The Day the Delusions Died,” trended on Twitter the following…
Di James C. Wilson. Articolo originale: On the Death of Henry Kissinger, del 7 dicembre 2023. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. “Dopo esser stato in Cambogia, vorresti pestare Henry Kissinger fino a spellarti le mani” ~ Anthony Bourdain Il 29 novembre 2023 all’età di cento anni è morto Henry Kissinger. La gioia invade internet. Nel…
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands” –Anthony Bourdain On November 29th, 2023, Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. The internet rejoices. For years, Kissinger had been a living embodiment of evil that would just not die, in the realm of…
We Must Oppose Nationalism in All Forms. In today’s cynical and dishonest political climate every critique of Zionism is smeared as antisemitic by the right wing and moderate liberal media. For instance, no matter how many times US representative Ilhan Omar apologizes or clarifies the intentions of her statements against Israeli war crimes, she is time…
De Spooky. Artículo original: There’s No Such Thing as a Passive Shooter, del 8 de mayo de 2023. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. En Estados Unidos tenemos un problema con las armas. Esto no quiere decir en absoluto que el problema sea tan simple como “hay demasiados” o “es demasiado fácil obtenerlos legalmente”, pero la presencia…
Jordan Jardine. Originale pubblicato l’otto giugno 2023 con il titolo Review: African Anarchism – The History of a Movement. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Da anarchico, sono naturalmente attratto dai movimenti anarchici non solo degli Stati Uniti ma di tutto il mondo. Mi attira molto, tra gli altri, Lao Tzu, per dire, che con il suo…
Par Dawie Coetzee. Article original: The Long Shadow of Colonialist Ideology, 16 octobre 2022. Traduction française par Éléazar Duhot. Dans le discours politique sud-africain actuel, il est tragique de constater à quelle fréquence des éléments de l’idéologie colonialiste resurgissent dans les arguments des personnes qui s’efforcent le plus de montrer qu’ on ne peut pas…
As an anarchist, I am naturally inclined to research not only anarchist movements from America, but from all around the world. I am very fond of Lao Tzu, for instance, and the Tao Te Ching author was a major influence on prominent anarchists like Peter Kropotkin and Rudolf Rocker. Therefore, I have learned some things…
California, Minnesota, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, and at least 13 other states all recently declared themselves sanctuary states for trans youth, thus further building upon the pre-existing sanctuary movement which Trump attacked years ago for harboring undocumented immigrants. Despite the conservative backlash against the movement, many have pointed out that it is an exercise in state’s…
Di Spooky. Originale: There’s No Such Thing as a Passive Shooter, dell’otto maggio 2023. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Qui negli Stati Uniti abbiamo un problema con le armi. Un problema che non può essere semplificato con frasi come “ce ne sono troppe” o “è troppo facile averne una legalmente”, ma che è indubbiamente un…
Por Dawie Coetzee. Artículo original: “None of the Above”: A Book Review of The Lie of 1652, del 17 de octubre de 2022. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. Las palabras tienen diferentes significados en Sudáfrica. La superposición de sentidos sociopolíticos específicos que surgen de un legado de autoritarismo racial ha eclipsado tanto los sentidos ordinarios en…
We in the US have a gun problem. This isn’t at all to say the problem is as simple as “there are too many” or “it’s too easy to obtain them legally,” but the presence of a distinct problem localized here in this country is undeniable, and it’s been getting worse. One might argue the…
David Graeber. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the Real Libertalia (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2023). “This is a book about pirate kingdoms, real and imagined,” Graeber begins what is likely to be the last book that appears under his name. “It’s also about a time and place where it is very difficult to tell the difference between…
Di Dawie Coetzee. Originale: “None of the Above”: A Book Review of The Lie of 1652 del 17 ottobre 2022. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. In Sudafrica le parole assumono un significato diverso. La sovrapposizione di particolari significati socio-politici, eredità del dispotismo razziale, ha oscurato, fino a perderlo del tutto, il significato ordinario con cui certe…
Di Dawie Coetzee. Originale pubblicato il 13 ottobre 2022 con il titolo The Long Shadow of Colonialist Ideology. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. È sconfortante notare quanto spesso, nell’attuale dibattito pubblico in Sudafrica, elementi dell’ideologia coloniale spuntano proprio in chi grida che non si può combattere il padrone con le sue stesse armi. Sconfortante perché…
Words have different meanings in South Africa. The overlay of specific socio-political senses arising out of a legacy of racial authoritarianism has so overshadowed the ordinary senses in which common words are used elsewhere in the world, that words are as good as lost. Thus location as denoting the “township,” the companion or shadow town…
In the present South African political discourse, it is tragic how often elements of colonialist ideology crop up in the arguments of the very people who are most wont to insist that one cannot demolish the master’s house with the master’s tools — tragic because I want them to be right! The metaphor is nonsensical…
Partition & Entanglement: Review of Home Rule by Nandita Sharma “The entire, eons-long practice of human movement into new places was pushed out of our imagination — or, perhaps more accurately, was reimagined as a national security threat. In the process, stasis was glorified as the normative way of being human.” “Only after the death…
