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on difference, on what drives us apart Show more
"If those in a privileged economic position are not aware of this, their attitudes towards the realities, perspectives, priorities, and expectations of those who do not share their privileged position will inevitably be patronizing, if not outright arrogant and (neo)colonial. Unfortunately, economically privileged folks within the political Left, anarchists included, make no exception here."
"Many discussions of 'aid' and 'development' still imply the conviction that there is one side that needs help and one side that is able to provide it. Needless to say, this is not exactly a promising basis for global egalitarianism."
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"Anarchism, as a set of principles opposed to hierarchy and authority, and as a political movement fighting for open and egalitarian communities, provides both a basis and a goal for transnational community building... What makes the case of the Philippines particularly interesting in the context of international anarchism is the country's rather unique colonial legacy."
@mooncake The main thing that's needed is for "developed" Western countries to stop UN-developing the global South. Stop installing and propping up governments that enforce TNCs' titles to looted and enclosed land/resources, stop pressuring Third World countries to rubber-stamp "free trade" agreements whose core provisions are copyright/patent maximalism, stop pressuring govts to sell off infrastructures created at public expense to Western corporations for pennies on the dollar...
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"Some anarchists, most notably the so-called anarcho-primitivists, reckon that even material aid is no real aid as it only draws people into an allegedly destructive process of civilization."
oh boy