Here's a response I wrote to a friend of my brother's, who is a massive Trump/American Empire supporter, after he called me a 'leftist terrorist':
You’re an imperialist who believes in violently spreading your (evidently atrocious) ideology around the world. That's your prerogative. Allow me to have mine.
You believe this ideology to be ‘free market capitalism’ but in reality, what you support is the military industrial complex, and corporate plunder; western corporations & plutocrats stealing resources and enslaving countries in debt. Just look at what Tillerson is doing in Iraq right now. America invaded that country, let it to go to shit, million+ dead, and now they send in the corporations to ‘invest’. Big Oil has got into Libya too now. I guess the support we gave to a racist/jihadi rebellion, the resulting slave markets, the refugee crisis etc, were worth it. And no, this doesn’t mean I liked Saddam/Gaddafi. It means I appreciate the reality of the (thankfully waning) mass murdering American Empire, and it means I respect indigenous people’s right to decide their own fate and not have their lands plundered.
America has consistently supported tyrants and terrorists since WW2, and suppressed democratic movements. Just the threat of their predatory presence in the world prevents democratic movements in independent nations, as the people have to unite around that threat instead, (and authoritarian leaders obviously take advantage of it).
Why do you think America is consistently voted to be (by far) the greatest threat to world peace? Do you know better? You, in your privileged position at the heart of the Empire; No chance of America terrorising you. Well, maybe if Corbyn gets in...
What I want for now is a multi-polar world in which all nations adhere to international law, and sovereignty is respected; not a world where America/NATO can occupy countries, bomb children, arm jihadi barbarians... just generally consistently break international law and get away with it. Not a world in which the US/NATO gradually encircle Russia and China with military bases, risking nuclear Armageddon. Not a world in which corporations and a tiny % of plutocrats have all the wealth and power; the power to rule over our governments and destroy any chance of real democracy.
Eventually, I’d like borders to be broken down, but that needs to be done democratically, by the people, not by international corporations who’s priority is profit, not workers. It’s this neoliberal globalism that has led to the discontent that we see now in the west; the rise of the far right. If the true Left doesn’t pull together and offer an alternative fast, I think we’re fucked.
Is that ok? Am I allowed to think and want these things? Or are these views not allowed in ‘free’ America? Am I to be incarcerated for being a ‘commie’/‘leftist terrorist’ and join the near 1% of American adults currently in jail in this great nation?
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