insurrectionarycompassion:

I think the Left should realize that there is no revolution to wait for, no collapse to anticipate and no ending to organize towards. That suggests and accepts the liberal notion of American peace. The narrative of American peace obscures the daily violence of capitalism, patriarchy and white supremacy and says the ‘bad days’ are past us – we are now in a time of relative stability, security and peace.

The problem with this narrative is that the problems never went away. Every name you’ve heard of through Black Lives Matter, every statistic you’ve read on police violence, is only a drop in the bucket. This happens every. single. day. multiple times a day. in every American city. Why do you think urban and reservation Indigenous peoples have over 50% unemployment to this day? You’re shocked that there’s more homes than homeless people? That we throw away enough fresh food to feed every single person this planet times and times over? Surprised to hear there’s a nine year difference in life expectancy between rich and poor? This is every single day. Every single day the police act as agents of racial violence, of economic and class violence.

And despite what many liberals believe – these are not helpless and passive victims waiting for a savior. Why do you think there’s several riots in a decade? Why do you think people sell drugs and guns? Run scams? Rob corner stores and banks? Shoplift? People, including myself and my family and my community did all sorts of illegal or “unethical” things all the time and were never caught. People are doing this at rates you can’t imagine. Why do you think the Black population of Ferguson and Baltimore fought cops, threw back concussion grenades and masked up to prevent identification? Why do you think prison uprisings happen? Have you looked at the racial and class composition of these “crimes,” riots and uprisings? Have you looked at the racial and class composition of these “crimes,” riots and uprisings in the third world? Have you heard their words? America is killing them there and killing them here. This is not just to survive but to thrive – to live comfortably.

People fight and resist everyday. They know they’re being exploited. The Police then try to ‘keep the peace’ which means counterinsurgency. They try to contain the war – to fight it off for another battle. But the war is here. There’s no revolution to wait for, it is happening now and is constantly being repressed. In that case, what are you doing? What are you organizing towards? “The people’ are not passively waiting for their savior to come. There is no organizing towards a war at this point – only a response to it. You then must choose a side. Organizing should be done to help win this war and not pretend as if it doesn’t already exist.