“ No day of celebration with its mandatory collective rhythms , to share with all the strangers I don’t care about. Because our grandfathers’ grandfathers, and so on, celebrated, we too should feel the urge to celebrate. That is nauseating.” —Antonio Gramsci I celebrate every defeat or even a setback of American, British, French, Russian state violence and military adventure. I would celebrate a regime change in the U.S., UK, France, Russia … I celebrated the recent French defeat in ‘the Sahel’. I celebrated the American ‘defeat’ in Afghanistan. I celebrate any defeat, a toppling of or a setback for the Arab regimes. I celebrate any setback for both NATO and Russia. I would celebrate any defeat or even a setback for the IDF and the reactionary Israeli state. I celebrate the birth of any Palestinian child. I celebrated the death of Henry Kissinger. I would celebrate the death of Hilary, George, Barack, Joe, Tony, Immanuel, Ursula, Vlad … I would celebrate any labour movement and any la
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51