Re: <nettime> the great re-alignment

[Allan Siegel via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Hello All,

On 09/11/2024 00:34, Brian Holmes via nettime-l wrote:
> /There's no way to know if the liberal internationalist framework will 
> entirely break down, but obviously, both free trade and multilateral 
> negotiation are threatened by Trump./
All the facts (that are visible) and the actions of the U.S. (in 
particular) clearly indicate that the 'internationalist framework' has 
ruptured. This rupturing is symptomatic of U.S. foreign policy since the 
demise of the Soviet Union (although it began in to evolve in the 
aftermath of WWII). The inability of the U.N. or the EU to thwart 
genocide in Gaza is just the icing on the cake and the visible evidence 
of this decay. The West builds monuments to the Holocaust while enabling 
a more contemporary version of modern genocide.

RESISTANCE comes not only from 'the power of coherent collectivities' 
(as Brian states) but their ability, and political vision, to work in 
concert with other organizations despite differences. This is a lesson 
from the Vietnam anti-war movements, Paris 68, and other anti-colonial 
movements from the last century.

Engaging with the polarization that exists in the U.S. and elsewhere is 
obligatory if the people - as in 'we are the people' - that constitute 
civil society are going to resist the "totalitarian machine" (Roberto 
Esposito) that is the underpinning of Trump, Musk et al & the neoliberal 
apparatus that enables the Democratic Party, the reconstituted New 
Labour party and similar groupings.

Fortunately, Jill Stein, Cornel West, Rashida Tlaib, Yanis Varoufakis 
(DIEM 25) and quite a few others have openly engaged in the polarization 
that continues to dismember civil society. But these fragmented voices 
of resistance have yet to coalesce into a viable alternative to the 
existing dominant political structures. We need to engage in processes 
of coalescence that substantiate different forms of resistance.

best
allan
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