We are hearing and reading a lot just now about a war for civilization. In some vague, ill-designed manner we are led to believe that the great empires of Europe have suddenly been seized with chivalrous desire to right the wrongs of mankind, and have sallied forth to war, giving their noblest blood and greatest measures to the task of furthering the cause of civilization.
James Connolly, A War for Civilization, 1915
Armistice Day
How the civilised celeberate slaughter, selectively.
Western-centric, arrogant and even xenophobic. The elites that sent millions to their death for the ruling classes geopolitical and imperialist interests, organise show annually every 11 November. Other people make money from selling poppies.
It is also about how much the nation-state and nationalism have made us immune not only in front of barbarism (carried out by "the civilised" or by "the backward people"), but also towards human solidarity with the dead.
Those who were killed in Iraq, Vietnam, Rwanda, Syria, Yemen ... are not worth a minute of silence; they were not our sons and daughters.
James Connolly, A War for Civilization, 1915
Armistice Day
How the civilised celeberate slaughter, selectively.
Western-centric, arrogant and even xenophobic. The elites that sent millions to their death for the ruling classes geopolitical and imperialist interests, organise show annually every 11 November. Other people make money from selling poppies.
It is also about how much the nation-state and nationalism have made us immune not only in front of barbarism (carried out by "the civilised" or by "the backward people"), but also towards human solidarity with the dead.
Those who were killed in Iraq, Vietnam, Rwanda, Syria, Yemen ... are not worth a minute of silence; they were not our sons and daughters.
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