I really hate how average western liberals think they know better than people actually living in other countries. They never heard of Machado before last week and yet they’ve already decided they’d prefer her to be Venezuelan president? The Venezuelan people already spoke and rejected her. Yet that’s not good enough for imperialist minded westerners, they hate when foreigners run their own countries.
I really hate how average western liberals think they know better than people actually living in other countries …they hate when foreigners run their own countries.
Facts. The racist, colonial mindset and paternalism never left them, just as their old colonial viceroys and officers intended. Colonialism, and neocolonialism today, aren’t only an economic aspect but honestly are also fucking psychological plagues that have poisoned people’s minds. Not only is it used in the West to keep justifying neocolonialism and manufacturing consent for imperialism / regime change ops on an incredibly fucking chauvinistic basis (one that’s so subtle that they don’t even notice it), and inspires class collaborationist white supremacy, but it also exists here in the Global South in a form that’s just as ugly but from a different perspective. One that’s often ignored and never spoken about.
The postcolonial “subject” mentality here (Global South) is a disgusting inferiority complex full of despair, and many of my countrymen, just as an example, suffer from it. They believe that we are worthless, “uncivilized”, hopeless, inferior, and incapable of governing ourselves - and that we “need” the “civilized” white Western countries as “partners” to “help us”. Yes, the same ones which plundered our countries in the first place and continue to impose neocolonial, unequal exchange dictates onto us to this day through institutions like the IMF, and install comprador bourgeois regimes in our countries that are foreign agents, in order to keep our countries dependent on foreign (particularly Western) capital. Idk if you’re familiar with Frantz Fanon’s works, but this is exactly the phenomenon he describes. Where a colonized or formerly colonized people internalizes the logic of the colonizer, and internalize their racism and turn it against their own people instead of using their energy for revolution, anti-imperialism and sovereignty.
You could call it “reverse” white supremacy, and it’s how the West and our comprador bourgeois ruling classes keep us manipulated and in line, because they know that revolutionary consciousness would shatter this colonial inferiority complex and make the masses realize that they don’t have to live, think, prospect, and govern on imperialist terms. One of these comprador regimes is exactly what they’re aiming to install in Venezuela right now with Machado.
I really hate how average western liberals think they know better than people actually living in other countries. They never heard of Machado before last week and yet they’ve already decided they’d prefer her to be Venezuelan president? The Venezuelan people already spoke and rejected her. Yet that’s not good enough for imperialist minded westerners, they hate when foreigners run their own countries.
Facts. The racist, colonial mindset and paternalism never left them, just as their old colonial viceroys and officers intended. Colonialism, and neocolonialism today, aren’t only an economic aspect but honestly are also fucking psychological plagues that have poisoned people’s minds. Not only is it used in the West to keep justifying neocolonialism and manufacturing consent for imperialism / regime change ops on an incredibly fucking chauvinistic basis (one that’s so subtle that they don’t even notice it), and inspires class collaborationist white supremacy, but it also exists here in the Global South in a form that’s just as ugly but from a different perspective. One that’s often ignored and never spoken about.
The postcolonial “subject” mentality here (Global South) is a disgusting inferiority complex full of despair, and many of my countrymen, just as an example, suffer from it. They believe that we are worthless, “uncivilized”, hopeless, inferior, and incapable of governing ourselves - and that we “need” the “civilized” white Western countries as “partners” to “help us”. Yes, the same ones which plundered our countries in the first place and continue to impose neocolonial, unequal exchange dictates onto us to this day through institutions like the IMF, and install comprador bourgeois regimes in our countries that are foreign agents, in order to keep our countries dependent on foreign (particularly Western) capital. Idk if you’re familiar with Frantz Fanon’s works, but this is exactly the phenomenon he describes. Where a colonized or formerly colonized people internalizes the logic of the colonizer, and internalize their racism and turn it against their own people instead of using their energy for revolution, anti-imperialism and sovereignty.
You could call it “reverse” white supremacy, and it’s how the West and our comprador bourgeois ruling classes keep us manipulated and in line, because they know that revolutionary consciousness would shatter this colonial inferiority complex and make the masses realize that they don’t have to live, think, prospect, and govern on imperialist terms. One of these comprador regimes is exactly what they’re aiming to install in Venezuela right now with Machado.
“I had to escape the authoritarian regime in (insert third world country) and I know how bad the situation is.”
Okay gusano, how about you sybau and stay where you are now!