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The Outlook for Socialism in the United States . . Categories: Library works by Eugene V. Debs
The Outlook for Socialism in the United States | |
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Author | Eugene V. Debs |
First published | 1900 |
Source | Marxists Internet Archive |
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19 September
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Kit Klarenberg | |
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Born | United Kingdom |
Field of study | Journalism |
Kit Klarenberg is a British anti-imperialist journalist who writes for The Grayzone. His work has exposed the crimes of NATO and the British Empire as well as the CIA's involvement in 9/11.[1]
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← Back to all essays | Author's essays Police Brutality and its Relation to Settler-Colonialism in Canada
by AwesomeSheep48
Published: 2023-06-13 (last update: 2024-09-19)
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If we are to understand the role that capitalism plays in the settler-colonialism that Canada is founded on, and how that relation perpetrates the racism which allows this extreme form of police brutality to exist relatively unhindered in our society, we must first understand why a state forms and who it serves. As Lenin wrote in The State and Revolution, “The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. The state arises where, when and insofar as class antagonism objectively cannot be reconciled”, from this we can understand that as long as we have capitalism as our dominate mode of production, the interests of those who the state protects will always be at odds with the interests of the vast majority of the population in that state. Since these class antagonisms cannot be rectified as the interests of the class are opposed to one another, the state creates “bodies of armed men” in order to enforce the will of the ruling class through force onto the oppressed class; it is from this reality where police brutality takes root. With this definition in mind, we can begin to explore police brutality against Indigenous peoples in both a modern and historical context.
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- ↑ "Oppose the detention of Kit Klarenberg! End British state intimidation of anti-NATO journalists!" (2023-06-01). WSWS. Retrieved 2023-06-01.