Why even progressive US voters are America Firsters
"Fanon recognised that these groups, like the white labour aristocracy, were also direct beneficiaries of the imperialist system: "Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe."
Fanon added that "some Europeans were found to urge the European workers to shatter this narcissism and to break with this un-reality. But in general, the workers of Europe have not replied to these calls, for the workers believe, too, that they are part of the prodigious adventure of the European spirit".
I cite this history to show that many communists in the 1920s, like most white liberals and socialists then and now, harboured such Eurocentrism.
They were always ready to sacrifice the welfare of the rest of the world for the sake of European revolution in the case of the communists, or domestic reform in the case of US liberals, or even anarchists like Chomsky."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-liberal-leftist-us-voters-america-firsters
#Imperialism #racism #Anarchism
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