I’ve been reading about the development of resistance movements in WWII, and I noticed something that got me thinking.

Resistance in a unified front (i.e. among groups that disagree politically), seems to require some form of shared identity.

  • The fighting front in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (groups including Zionists and Bundists) shared the common identity of being Jewish.

  • The united front in the French resistance (nationalists and communists) shared the common identity of being French1.

I think we can all agree that identifying with American patriotism is entirely reactionary – as a settler colony, there’s basically nothing redeemable there.

Is there an effective shared identity for people in the U$ to resist from?

I feel like the 2020 BLM protests had a shared identity of anti-racism, but it feels like that energy has dissipated.

1: not an identity without controversy, but not as directly reactionary as a full settler colonial national identity.

  • Nocturne Dragonite@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 days ago

    So not only did you not address the question of what you think real and positive Amerikan culture is, you compared a colonized people (enslaved Afrikans) to Germans who relinquished their identity to become assimilated into white settler culture, and then when asked why you think you understand the material conditions in this country more than the people actually living here you decide to just run?

    You haven’t addressed any of the counter points to your arguments, just continued to assert that Amerikans have a culture when it’s been explained to you multiple times that they don’t because any and all culture of Amerika is based on white supremacy and capitalism, and then have the audacity to say that “I don’t think this is a materialist view” and accuse others of chauvinism.