The riots that kicked off in Los Angeles last weekend aren’t just about illegal immigration — they’re part of a revolutionary movement.
“Anti-colonialism” is a term often heard in America’s college classrooms, but off campus virtually no one takes it seriously.
It’s just another harebrained radical academic theory, right?
Yes, the theory is mostly silly — but the practice is deadly serious.
Most Americans and Europeans today feel ashamed of imperialism and racism, and they’re glad to be rid of colonies and slavery.
All that injustice is a thing of the past, however much its legacy haunts our present.
But the ideology of anti-colonialism says otherwise: Imperialism and thoroughgoing racial exploitation never ended and never can end, not until “settler” and “colonizer” power is overthrown everywhere.
Israel is the focus of the most vitriolic and violent anti-colonial rage, but the United States is just as guilty of being a “settler-colonial state.”
Mexico, and indeed all of Latin America, is America’s Palestine, and when illegal immigrants cross the border, when they resist deportation, when they and their allies riot, this is justified resistance to colonialism.
In Palestinian terms, it’s an intifada, or at least the beginnings of one.
Palestinians launched two intifadas against Israel, from 1989 to 1993 and from 2000 to 2005.
These “uprisings” involved rioting, throwing stones at police and soldiers, hurling Molotov cocktails, and violence up to and including suicide bombings, as well as boycotts, strikes and other forms of economic coercion and nonviolent protest…
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