Thomas BarrioIt is possible that Nazism was an obligatory passage in history. In the history of nihilists. The Nazis were not "decadent" (although drugged with pervitin), but they came from a decadent civilization: the colonizing civilization, which therefore created the concept of the subhuman, fruit of acute abstractionism and will to nothingness,... the apogee of nihilism. #Nietzsche #Philosophy
bakerjohn@homohortus the will dominate affects every civilization as fighting for power is a global endeavor
@bakerjohnj when we should be fighting to ensure that no power is seized
@homohortus there will come a point when everyone realizes how self-defeating fighting for power is
@bakerjohnj The problem is that we are addicted (the Nazis were also addicted) to comfortism, so I'm afraid I'm much more pessimistic than you...
@bakerjohnj we are dealing with an INTEGRAL struggle for power.
@homohortus We are dealing the vestiges of aristocracy and centers of power that are up against the wall. They would like us to think their power is integral as is our subjugation but one look at our advances since declaring our independence should be enough to convince anybody to follow through
@bakerjohnj The end of empires, including the British, did not restore indigenous rights: they remain in "reserve".
@homohortus Empire building continues. I don't why you're thinking this way. We are not in power. When we are in power, That is when we are sharing power, everything will change. Until then, don't expect anything.
@bakerjohnj From my view colonization is proto-Nazism (see Arendt)... Nazism on which our mode of production is modeled: Roosevelt competed with Hitler by putting industrial pedal to the metal, which was very successful for EU. Understanding decolonization is not given to everyone: been or be colonized to understand it, is prerequesite. Colonization is multi-scale phenomenon, from the individual sphere (through institutions cf Habermas) to the deterritorialized city (center) (Amin, Wallerstein).
@homohortus Our answers will not be found in relying on the viewpoints of the past. None of them understood that with the right technology we can share power globally in real time. Once you see things from this pov then everything falls into place as a struggle for this or against this. This is why religion is so powerful. Because it speaks to this. See ourselves not as an example of what's wrong with us but instead of what is wrong with fighting for power.
@bakerjohnj At the risk of sounding insistent, decolonization did not follow the declarations of independence. A neocolonialism of deindustrialization of the centers (#Nkrumah) and extractivist industrialization in the periphery is underway, in addition to plantacionocenic extractivism and the grafting of institutions from the centers of the world system (#Amin, #Wallerstein, #Quijano, #Cusicanqui) to the periphery, with the military wars that go with total economic war (#Harbulot, #Badie).