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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 7, 2023, 11:03 pm
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Israelis are just like any other Western colonialists:
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> Beginning in the fifteenth century, European states began
establishing colonies overseas.
> ...
> Advocates of Zionism can be found in the early nineteenth
century, if not before, but the Zionist movement originated in
the late nineteenth century. In the 1880s, Britain’s Baron
Edmund James de Rothschild established Jewish colonies in what
was then referred to as “the Holy Land.” Rothschild’s efforts
were organized by the Jewish Colonization Society and were
championed by the Lovers of Zion
> ...
> In 1895, Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl turned a long
appeal to the Rothschild family into a book, The Jewish State.
In advocating for a state, Herzl also sought the support and
advice of Cecil Rhodes, who had established British colonies in
southern Africa (Rhodesia was the colonial state that preceded
Zimbabwe). Herzl justified his efforts on the standard grounds
of European imperialism. A Jewish state, he argued, would be “an
outpost of civilization against barbarism.”
>
> In 1917, Chaim Weizmann successfully lobbied the British to
adopt the Balfour Declaration, which committed the British, who
were to take over the Holy Land from the Ottomans and establish
British Palestine, to sponsor there a “national home for the
Jewish people.” The British didn’t commit themselves to creating
a Jewish state, but Weizmann and other leading Zionists had
exactly that in mind: a Jewish state that would become part of
the British Commonwealth along with South Africa, Canada, and
Australia. The leading Zionists of the early and mid-twentieth
century sought to create settler-colonies within Palestine that
would become the basis of a Jewish state.
> ...
> In 1947, on the eve of the United Nations decision to
partition the country, Jews still made up only 32 percent of the
population. In the partition, which the Arabs rejected, Jews got
55 percent of the land, including the most economically viable
areas, and the Arabs only 40 percent
> ...
> the end result of which was that the state of Israel, from
which about 700,000 Arabs had been expelled during the 1947 and
1948 wars, now took up 78 percent of British Palestine.
> ...
> The Revisionist Party, led by Vladimir Jabotinsky, got its
name from its opposition to Britain’s carving out Jordan
(originally Transjordan) as a separate state from Palestine. The
Revisionists wanted Palestine and Jordan as a single Jewish
state. They made no bones about Zionism’s colonial aims.
Jabotinsky, who was a protégé of Herzl, compared the Arabs to
America’s Indians and Mexico’s Aztecs. He didn’t see them as
junior associates in a Jewish state but as intransigent and
unassimilable foes of a Jewish state who would have to be
defeated and subjugated by armed force. “Zionist colonization,”
Jabotinsky wrote in 1923, “must either be terminated or carried
out in defiance of the will of the native population.”
> ...
> They formed the bulk of the settlers in the West Bank, where
many of them did see themselves as “pioneers” staking out a
Greater Israel. They have overwhelmingly supported the political
descendants of Revisionist Zionism—the Likud and the national
religious parties that make up the Israeli right. They provided
these parties with their current majorities in the Knesset.
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl
Marx
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: December 21, 2023, 12:17 am
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Hinton Rowan Helper
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> In 1855 Helper wrote the book The Land of Gold. Reality versus
Fiction, in which he said "that slave labor was less profitable
than free labor and in Baltimore, where the book was to be
published, he had run into a Maryland statute, dating from 1831,
which made it a felony with a penalty of not less than ten years
in jail knowingly to write or print anything 'having a tendency
to excite discontent ... amongst the people of color'....
Compelled to excise these comments, Hinton Helper — an irascible
man — resolved to speak out his whole mind in a book devoted
entirely to this subject."[4] The book was The Impending Crisis
of the South: How to Meet It. Expressing Helper's deep
opposition to slavery and the condition of Southern culture and
the South's lack of economic progress, it was one of the most
effective criticisms of the South. Helper argued that the
South's growth, prosperity, and cultural development were being
held back by slavery. He deployed statistics from the census to
show that land values, literacy levels, and manufacturing rates
were considerably lower in the South than in the North. He
warned of the devastation caused by slavery through
deforestation. He proposed that slaveholders be taxed to
colonize all free blacks in Africa or Latin America.[5]
>
> The success of The Impending Crisis of the South made Helper
famous overnight. It also heightened the political crisis by
raising fears among Southerners that poor landless Southern
whites might turn against slavery if they saw that it did not
benefit them.[6] The fear of class divisions within the white
community was enough to lead many Southerners who had previously
been opponents of secession to embrace it after the election of
Abraham Lincoln.
>
> After the war, Helper appeared as a post-war Fire Eater,
urging the wholesale expulsion of former slaves. He believed the
United States should be exclusively white (also excluding
Chinese, Native Americans, and other non-white groups). "A. B.
Burdick, the publisher of The Impending Crisis, testified that
Helper ... avoided all contacts with Negroes, refusing even to
patronize hotels or restaurants which employed Negroes in menial
capacities. Another man who knew Helper before the war recalled
that 'he has always been inflexibly opposed to all the relations
and conditions which have kept the two races close together; and
this ... was one of the principal grounds of his opposition to
slavery."[7] Nevertheless, Southern enemies of Reconstruction
were unwilling to forgive his previous opposition to slavery,
and he remained a marginal and increasingly unstable character
in postwar America.[8]
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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 21, 2023, 12:29 am
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Previous Helper coverage:
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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 21, 2023, 3:18 pm
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Increasing attention is being given to the Doctrine of
Discovery:
HTML https://www.axios.com/2023/12/19/us-white-supremacy-roots-catholic-doctrine-book
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> Flashback: The "Doctrine of Discovery" was issued on May 4,
1493, and stated that any land not inhabited by Christians was
available to be "discovered," claimed, and exploited by
Christian rulers.
> ...
> It became the basis of all European claims in the Americas and
the foundation for U.S. westward expansion, which would be cited
in federal court cases against Indigenous people in the 19th
century.
> ...
> The idea that God ordained the Americas as a "promised land"
for European Christians has had devastating effects for more
than 500 years, Jones told Axios.
> The book attempts to show how the U.S. story began with the
doctrine and how that legacy led to violence against Black
Americans centuries later.
> ...
> The concept would give cover for removing and killing
Indigenous people, enslaving Africans, and later, taking
territory from Mexico and mistreating people already living
there, he said.
> ...
> To illustrate his points, Jones focused on three regions in
the U.S.: Minnesota, Mississippi, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
>
> In each case, Jones shows how an episode of violence against
Indigenous people — often forgotten in history — preceded
well-known acts of violence against Black Americans.
>
> The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the lynching of Emmett Till
in 1955 occurred around areas where Indigenous people previously
faced violence, illustrating the lasting legacy of white
supremacy, Jones writes.
>
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This last point is important in illustrating how all
"non-whites" are one folk:
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Previous coverage:
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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 28, 2024, 5:54 pm
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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 22, 2024, 9:30 pm
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Continuing from:
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Update:
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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 26, 2024, 3:47 pm
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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 24, 2024, 7:37 pm
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl
Marx
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: July 15, 2024, 7:56 am
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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> Hegel's remarks on Africa in the Lectures on the Philosophy of
World History are notorious among critics and defenders alike—in
particular Hegel's claim that the Atlantic slave trade, while
unjust, was superior to native African slavery and thus should
be abolished only gradually. Joining an ongoing conversation in
black studies interrogating freedom's status as a structuring
desideratum of critical and political practice, I argue that for
Hegel, the European enslavement of Africans was essentially an
emancipatory project that would rescue the Negro from his
impenetrability to world spirit and introduce him to the long
dialectical march of world history. Specifically, I argue that
Hegel's distinction between Atlantic and African slavery
reprises his distinction between good and bad infinity in his
Science of Logic. As the case of slavery illustrates, however,
neither distinction holds. Hegel could imagine no freedom for
the Negro except in the form of infinitely more slavery—the
slave labor of the negative through which the Negro would
(never) become free. In such a project, freedom remains forever
on the dark side of a middle passage. These conclusions
challenge us to consider what radical politics without a concept
of freedom would look like.
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Source :
Andrea Long Chu. (2018). Black Infinity: Slavery and Freedom in
Hegel’s Africa. ˜the œJournal of Speculative
Philosophy/˜the œJournal of Speculative Philosophy,
32(3), 414–425.
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Re: Colonialism as viewed by Westerners
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 16, 2024, 8:34 pm
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Enemy article:
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> the diffusion of European technology has been the ultimate
factor responsible for development outside the West.
> ...
> After one examines all the varying factors involved in the
developmental experiences of non-European nations, the truly
ultimate factor, the one variable that stands apart as the most
important, has been the diffusion of technologies invented by
European nations. Geographical conditions, type of governments,
and cultural values have undoubtedly played a role in
encouraging or obstructing diffusion, but the rider in all cases
of non-European industrialization has been the diffusion of
European inventions, not whether non-Europeans were able to
invent new technologies.
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I academically agree with Duchesne. Homework: given the above,
who is to blame for all of the following?
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