Direct Democracy and the Abolition of Political Parties
#DirectDemocracy#AntiAuthoritarianPolitics#PeoplePower
“As Bookchin writes, a “political party” is normally a structured hierarchy, fleshed out by a membership that functions in a top-down manner...
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It is a miniature state, and in some countries, such as the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, a party actually constituted the state itself. The Soviet and Nazi examples of the party qua state were the logical extension of the party into the state.
National Chattel Slavery
The state went from being referee of slave markets to being market maker of human commodification. That's why call it comprodo slave colonialism—the state itself is now the indirect owner/seller of its own citizens' bodies and labor.
—creating both the urgency and legitimacy for interventions aimed at controlling their population growth as a means of consolidating white supremacy .
This suggests that demographic engineering is not incidental to white hegemony—it is a core feature.
Western Multilateral Institutions and the Systematic Erasure of Non-European Peoples
Archival research on 20th-century global population control initiatives reveals that American elites launched family planning programs in Asia, Latin America, and Africa
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not primarily as responses to overpopulation, but driven by "white supremacist anxieties, intrinsically tied to fears about demographic changes" . These programs framed "non-white" people as lacking rational capacity
A small group controls the currency, the workplace, and the store. The rest are trapped — moving where they are told, selling their time for tokens, accumulating debt they cannot escape, and calling it freedom.”
From Plantation Scrip to the Global Dollar: Why Money Itself Is the Trap
“From the fichas of 1880s Cuba to the coal scrip of Appalachian company towns to the global hegemony of the U.S. dollar: the pattern is the same.
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European Money-Worshipping Cult Tradition
“European Christian culture over the long Patristic era include: the accumulation of money as a metaphor for the increasing amount of grace..."
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Number Cult—Money cult: Economics as Primitive Religion
"Do we worship money the way some of us worship God?... We devote our lives to getting money, often doing work we don't like, so we can get more of it...