But putting carrots and goodies and privileges and sticks aside, we should paraphrase the Fed Chair of Chicago from a few hours ago. He insinuated that when we zoom into our personal or perhaps even our national circumstances and situation, we find that the economy is good, but the “vibes” are bad, and we have … Continue reading Nineteenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”
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Eighteenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”
Russia also prompts the question of what exactly is it about western “carrots” and goodies and “privileges” that make them so powerful and overwhelming, that it brings one tinpot dictator after another to their knees and makes them crumble and fold? So powerful, that it makes the television Negro and Jew forget their own history. … Continue reading Eighteenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”
Seventeenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”
And perhaps in the simplest and most subtle of terms, our analysis and our frame is one of the weaponization of western goodies on one hand matching up against eastern militancy on the other hand. Our assumption up until now has been that the weaponization of western goodies is far more powerful than eastern militancy. … Continue reading Seventeenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”
Sixteenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”
In essence, conflict and war but guerrilla warfare in particular provides us a lens through which we decipher and view a broader structure or theme of class-consciousness. Arguably, it is class-consciousness which drives the social world at-large forward. Marginalization of an “oppressed” class at the hands of the “oppressor” class leads to a demand on … Continue reading Sixteenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”
Fifteenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”
As the saying goes: “One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.” Moreover, there is no one in the international system to adjudicate and to enforce what is essentially a balance of power dispute between Washington and Moscow and their competing alliance systems. It is all up to the balance of power, and it becomes … Continue reading Fifteenth Note to “Essence of Guerrilla Warfare”