The empire does not stay still. It adapts.
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Anti-imperialism is not a position you arrive at once and then possess.
This sentence needs to be tattooed somewhere visible to everyone who has read three books about empire and now speaks on it with authority.
Because the books were written in a language.
The language has assumptions.
The assumptions have politics.
Even the canon of anti-imperial thought, from Hồ Chí Minh to Césaire, Fanon, Malcolm X, Cabral, Che Guevara, and Said, was produced in specific historical moments, in specific political contexts, in response to specific imperial formations that have since evolved.
The empire does not stay still.
It adapts.
It adopted the language of human rights and used it to justify intervention.
It adopted the language of democracy and used it to justify regime change.
It adopted the language of anti-corruption and used it to discipline governments that were not sufficiently aligned.
It will adopt the language of anti-imperialism next, if it has to.
It is already happening.
The Washington think tank that publishes a report on American imperial overreach is not your ally.
It is the empire doing diagnostics on itself.
The excavation never ends because the thing you're excavating is alive and watching and learning from what you find.
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posted by Satish Sharma at
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