Forwarded from Liberty Rising
The colonial bourgeoisie, once it realizes that it cannot maintain its hold over the colonial peoples, decides to manufacture a new form of control—this time, over its own citizens. The instruments of repression, used abroad, are repatriated for domestic use.
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
The State doesn't prevent chaos:
it thrives on it.
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Forwarded from Liberty Rising
“The governing class, having ruled the world for gain, has ended by ruling its own people for gain; and that is the last and most laughable end of the empire.”
— G.K. Chesterton, The End of the Armistice (1922)