7 Comments
User's avatar
Shaenah Batterson's avatar

This is a great piece!!! So good to hear because too much discourse these days fails to address the modern day “wretched of the Earth.” I read Walter Rodney’s book a few months ago and it is FANTASTIC. Thank you so much for writing this ❤️

Expand full comment
Lukas Unger's avatar

Thank you, really appreciate it!

Rodney is genuinely great, and so precise in his analysis. Together with Nkrumah's work on Neo-Colonialism, he is what I always recommend once people have read Lenin, because it brings people much closer to the terms of the current struggle, and the form it takes internationally to this day.

Expand full comment
Shaenah Batterson's avatar

I haven’t heard of Nkrumah, thanks for the recommendation!!! Yes, I think Lenin’s “Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism” is an absolute must read. At this point it’s practically prophetic

Expand full comment
Karyn Elizabeth's avatar

A really important article Lukas- it deserves to be, indeed needs to be, read by as many people as possible … So many people have no idea of the connections between capitalism and imperialism- between our lives of relative comfort here in the West and the horrors inflicted on those whose subjugation those comforts require … Thank you so much for writing this.

Expand full comment
ontological intifada's avatar

the “hegemonic observer” ❤️

Expand full comment
𝙅𝙤 ⚢📖🏳️‍🌈's avatar

That is a great line.

Expand full comment
Saeed ahmed's avatar

The notion of “subaltern” captures a lot of what the “non-humanity” you are referring to is

Expand full comment