"When Frantz Fanon, the Political Mind enters the battlefield, destroy all enemy permanents attached to permanents you control"-ass watermark
Good sentiment, but bullshit quote. Fanon only indirectly criticized peaceful protests.
Here's a real Fanon quote:
"Colonialism is not a machine capable of thinking, a body endowed with reason. It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence."
Dude was in literal torture prison like a month ago, I will forgive him actually
The chill homeless guy on twitter I would steal memes from who is now "leaving the left" ehhh not so much
Hard days for reposters, the slop is too sloppy
Also I got a laugh out of the gandalf slop meme & other people poking fun at me on here. Yes I have been driving constantly & I am exhausted, completely phoning it in, this is a very dumb post. So of course it got way too much engagement for no reason at all
There's something inbetween. Anti consumption, Anti work, general strike (which is still forbidden to call for here, wtf?), open source everything, community, mocking art.
All this only helps if you are many. If you start to burn mansions because you are only few, that makes domestic terror.
The Epstein class have accumulated enough wealth to ride through all of the above, some for generations.
And there'll always be enough people that'll defend and help them get away with it no matter how self-deprecating and against their own self interests it may seem. Short term benefits will be will be in high demand.
They'll happily crash the economy and make you suffer for a long time and still come out on top.
People with power only understand force.
Pretty sure this isn't a real Fanon quote. It doesn't sound like his writing style.
A search just reveals this meme, but no Fanon texts. I also searched a couple of his books with no results.
Peaceful protest is cool, it should just be done in conjunction with violent protest. Capitalists sometimes compromise with the peaceful crowd if they're backed up by the underlying threat of a violent mob making the same demands.
Good ol' radical flank theory. If anyone is interested in a great book about this, "How to blow up a pipeline" is a must read.
Oh I remember thinking this years ago during US protests, that if we could just have anarchist violence around the city then the police would be unable to corral and beat the peaceful protestors. The problem is that adding violence to disorganized consciousness raising activism does nothing. The political energy can only be absorbed and redirected by the far right. This strategy was designed by Gene Sharpe to do CIA groundwork for color revolution. Without regime change jackals lying in wait the whole thing is fruitless. Impersonating the jackals is a bad idea.
What Fanon work is this from?
The writing style doesn't 'feel' like Fanon's, admittedly this is entirely subjective. What isn't subjective is when I search it, I only see other references to this meme and no references to texts.
There is a similar quote from Arundati Roy, that's something like: "Pacifism is a theatre piece, and it needs an audience to be enjoyed". But ya I don't think this is a real Fanon quote.
"Capitalism more like crapitalism" - Frantz Fanon
That's true, it's not from anything I've read. I just reposted it because Booker Ngesa Omole posted it & he gets a bump in credibility due to actively participating in a general strike. I just post slop on this one it's gonna be automated soon too so you won't even be able to contact support this fast
You should read Fanon's Concerning Violence it's a lot meatier
I think you should delete this post and stop seeing anyone as credible, who uses famous comrades names and image to spread their own ideas. I mean, I agree with the content, but still. It's like using AI.
I mean when I post things here without verifying them there is a touch of deliberate site vandalism involved I will admit. I'll consider it
Maybe just editing it to say it's not real quote would be enough. Also, at this point, it probably doesn't matter.
There ya go. Idk why I didn't think of that. I guess my concern was also deleting the correction after people already imprinted this in their brainz
You can be peaceful while protesting if you are stopping the world from ignoring the problem. Stop the money from flowing and the business class will be forced to pay attention. Adding debris to track/road is not violent and will absolutely work. Cause them more work than it takes to protest. That's how protests succeed.