Is it worth pushing for sanctioning and divestment from Amerika?
Sorry for the noob question. But considering the awful way that the US is treating the protests, should people push for BDS from Amerika? Like should we advocate that people not travel to the US? Not study in the US? Not collaborate with research with the US. And not buy US products.
This plan is very half baked, so crit me as hard as you want. It just feels like the US government is hopelessly fascist and dangerous for the world.
I think a blockade of the USA is inevitable because it seems impossible to invade and then pacify the USA…unless you’re using drone swarms or something. But who knows.
Any resistance is good, the ocean is made of an uncountable multitude of drops. But don’t expect to see a major shift in our lifetime.
As an aside, I would counter that the US gov isn’t fully fascist. Fascism isn’t sustainable for the amount of time the US has been in business. This is a hybrid of more sustainable subjugation of the rest of the world, some kind of neo-liberal-fasco-capitalist. It finds a balance of the contradictions, whereas fascism is blind to the possibility of contradictions and shoots itself in the foot. I feel a though the hegemony of the US is so well established that it might not ever be able to be hijacked. But I could be way off base, predicting the future is a fruitless endeavor.
No, there’s nothing you need to be forgiven here for. The US government doesn’t deserve nuance in our rhetoric. If we’re actually analyzing systems and material conditions, we need to, but in day to day life and the effects on the working class it’s a distinction with little difference.
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