Once again I repeat, without losing any sympathy for the innocent people who suffered in the Paris massacre, and without condoning the brutal carnage carried out by the religious nutters responsible, we have to look back at history, and remember France is an imperialist power. France, like all imperialist powers, is guilty of brutal and vicious repression of the people of its colonies. Like all Western imperialists, it still stokes the fires of racism, and administers the policy of divide and conquer, to maintain its influence in its former colonies. History shapes our present, history is a step to our future, violence begets violence, war breeds war, repression spawns blowback. We reap what we sow, and we the ordinary people are now reaping the seeds of imperialist greed, and vicious brutality. How many deaths can be laid at the feet of the British Empire, The French Empire, and the American Empire? Brutal repression enters the consciousness of people, memories move from generation to generation.
While we applaud and encourage, working class memories of capitalist repression in our own lands, we are not so aware of colonial people's memory of imperialist repression. However, we ignore it at our peril. We have to break out of this insane circle of patriotism, state power, one state dominating another, for the benefit of a small elite. We have to start and start now, and build that world of no borders, no state, no dominant force, where patriotism dies and state nor religion exerts no power over the individual. We are one species, on one small planet, with no escape capsule, we have to come together, or destroy ourselves, in an orgy of illusionary superiority.
