The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking
it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly
flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look
into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the
back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an
unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down
before, and offer a sacrifice to…
Tag: politics injustice tyranny imperialism exploitation western-society
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.
Carl SchmittTag: politics humanity imperialism
I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil.
Jack D. ForbesTag: imperialism exploitation genocide cannibalism ecocide
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
Leon TritskyTag: imperialism
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
George OrwellTag: war imperialism britain india colonialism british-empire pukka-sahibs
One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.
Tom BrokawTag: imperialism iraq oil infrastructure
Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its earlier myth of itself—that we had always been 'the good guys,' conquering injustice around the world. The tens of thousands of mistreated half-American children born in Viet Nam are one untidy fact we have been unable to fit into that myth.
Trin YarboroughTag: imperialism colonialism amerasians viet-nam-war
Triti London itu yang mengorbankan tanah air bangsa Melayu, tidak hanya terpisah dan berpecah bentuk isi dan makna Kemelayuan Besar, tapi menjadi keping-kepingan kecil, tapi Melayu berkeping-keping kecil itu dihisap, diperah, ditekan, untuk dilenyek oleh pendatang asing.
Arena WatiTag: history imperialism malay-world treaty-of-london
Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.
J.M. BlautTag: perspective history imperialism colonialism world-history eurocentrism
No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Survival in fact is about the connections between things; in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes [that] inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter).
Edward W. SaidTag: humanity survival imperialism culture labels connections
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