The US empire will NEVER stop making trouble (Mao’s wisdom)

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Luciana Bohne

Luciana Bohne

"Calm down?" Let me quote you Mao Zedong:
//Make trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again . . . until their doom- that is the logic of the imperialists and all reactionaries the world over . . and they will never go against this logic. This is a Marxist law. When we say "imperialism is ferocious", we mean that its nature will never change, that the imperialists will never lay down their butcher knives, that they will never become Buddhas, till their doom.//--"Cast Away Illusions, Prepare for Struggle" (August 14, 1949).
 


Would it be more historically precise to call it Anglo-Saxon supremacy? The Angles, the Saxons, the Belgae, the Franks, the Normans, the Geats, the Danes, etc were all part of the Germanic family of tribes, who took over Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, got Christianized, and formed "modern Europe." These are also the initial settlers of North America--Anglo-Saxon-Normans. The Germanic heritage tribes are still settled and identified with the North Atlantic--and they have at least a 1000-year history of antagonism to the Slav peoples, which gradually, over the development of fake race science became racist.

The Anglo-Saxon idea of supremacy over the Slav sphere found expression in Hitler's Generalplan Ost--the planned starvation and enslavement of Slavs of the East (USSR then) and the general conception of the rest of European Slavs as inferior and/or subhuman. Today the raw hatred of all things Russian could be so easily whipped up virulently-- in particular in US and UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (with Germany, I sense, showing in general less fervor)--partly because of this atavistic nominally white on white racism. I understand historically why in the US the paradigm of racist supremacy is White/Black (Colored), but that paradigm does not apply universally (especially if you're Chinese in the clutches of Japan's imperialism). This clarification has been a losing battle for me In the US but, I can't forget the holocaust of Slavs in Europe because of what was, after all, even in Hitler, an expression of Anglo-Saxon supremacy. i beg your pardon If i show ignorance of key factors and beg to be corrected.—LB


João Carlos Graça

My contribution to the discussion: the Romans used "servus" for slaves. "Slave" is actually a word coined based on "Slav" (and reciprocally work/labor in Slavic languages was the basis for "robot"), referring to trade organized by Vikings and having Constantinople as the final consumer. Then, with "Discoveries", the target for this trade shifted into Africans, hence the "epidermal" manias. The idea of "slave" was distilled emphasizing not only "forced labor", but also an eminently tradeable one (just like cattle: the "peculiar merchandise") . But then again, Germany always wanted to have its "German Indias" not overseas, but based on territorial expansion "Nach Osten". So, in a way, back to the origin. The Germans were educated into perceiving Slavs (or at least Russians) much as the "average European" was educated to perceive blacks: hence the phobias associated with rapes, for example. But arguably political power determinates both the rules and the exceptions; so, categories may always shift. From a US point of view, for example, Latin America may be perceived as non-Anglo, thus "savage"... or alternatively as belonging to "European culture", thus distant cousins (and paradoxically having to be saved from Europeans...). Think also of the constant shifts in the category "West".


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Luciana Bohne is a retired academic. She taught film and literature at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.


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