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What does complicity mean for a people? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Marat@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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I've seen this word said a lot, specifically for Americans. I understand the basic throughline, that Americans benefit from imperialism and thus are complicit in its crimes.

But...what would be the difference in action if they weren't?

There is land back, but that doesn't include what happened in Africa and the middle east. If the average American is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, what do you do about it? Is it just supposed to guilttrip them? Is it reparations? Is it a mass trial of a couple hundred million people...?

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[–] Angry_Fuck@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a non-Statesian, I get a lot of angry thoughts and try to elaborate rants in my head, but I can never find something coherent enough to post. Maybe, one day I'll start working it down and see if I can make a nice writeup. For now, you'll have to bear with me the key points of the rants:

Nowhere in the world the populance can have guns this easily and legally;
And even to add insult to injury, usually, the most reactionaries love in states where the gun laws are the loosest;
I do believe that the ruling class believes that they can get away with it because the amount of propaganda, so people don't rebel and can't connect the dots that some violence with proper ML thought could just topple everything;
And even when someone does connect the dots, either they can't act on it, due to getting on a list, or be assassinated like the Panthers were.

Again, this is too simplistic and too emotion-laden to be a proper analysis, but I believe my sentiment of complicity stems from this.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People can barely afford food, and the most basic gun is 500 dollars minimum without ammunition or additional equipment, or learning how to operate and clean the gun. That is nearly 80 hours of wages for the gun alone, pre-tax, for a worker making 15 dollars an hour.

There’s also an idea of what they’ll even do with the gun. Run around and dome their local sheriff? Based. An assassination? That’s essentially suicide. At the end of the day this is all just random propaganda of the deed acts. Guns mean nothing without a class consciousness or organized labour movement.