From the second part
We live in the age of the global imperialist offensive. Usually, imperialism is associated with its more explicit and savage face: imperialist war. However, imperialism is a much more complex process that is manifested in the relationship of domination of the imperialist center over the "peripheries". Imperialism means war, but it has other faces: economic dependence, the exploitation of resources and the workforce and the expropriation of culture. Cultural expropriation is fundamental to imperialism. Cultural imperialism is the imposition of dominant culture and the destruction of local cultures, rituals, customs and ways of life. It is also the imposition of a story that becomes History (Single and Official).
The way imperialism influences history is revisionism. Its power is not to invent history, but to make an interested use of "historical time." As Chimanda Ngozi Adichie says, "the easiest way to expropriate a people is to start telling their story from the second half." In the same vein, Mourid Barghouti says: "He begins to tell the story from the second half, and the arrows of the American Indians will become criminals and the weapons of the whites will become victims"; likewise, "the rage that blacks can feel against whites will become a real cruelty."
The beginning of history since the second part is a mark of cultural imperialism. The second part is because it legitimizes coups, military interventions, arrests, torture and genocide.
The beginning of history since the second part is a mark of cultural imperialism. The second part is because it legitimises coups, military interventions, arrests, torture and genocide. All the Western media and politicians from the second half tell us all the conflicts of the imperialist offensive. Thus, we are told that the war in Ukraine began in February 2022, with the invasion of Russia, but not with the bombings on Donbass in 2014. They also say that the "conflict" between Israel and Palestine began with the rockets launched from Gaza to Tel Aviv and not with the colonization of Israel and the policy of apartheid. The "destabilization" of Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, for their part, whispers that it began from the power vacuum and the context of the civil war and not with the imperialist invasion. And they tell us that the misery that the African continent is experiencing started with "tribal conflicts" and not with imperialist colonizations, wars, coups and genocides.
Today, fighting imperialism is also reappropriating our history, breaking with a unique story and destroying a story that starts in the second part. It is necessary to tell history from the first section, from which we will be allowed to turn history into a battlefield and an instrument of freedom.
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