“Only 41 per cent of young people today were proud to be British” (In 2004, 80% of the same age group said they were proud to be British)
“48 per cent) of those aged 18 to 27 thought that Britain was a racist country, far more than the proportion who thought it was not”
“Only 11 per cent would fight for Britain — and 41 per cent said there were no circumstances at all in which they would take up arms for their country”
76% agree that immigration is good for the economy and society
“Only 7 per cent would trust the police a lot if they were accused of a crime” (in 2004, it was 44%)
Only 7 per cent would trust the police a lot if they were accused of a crime" (in 2004, it was 44%)
Proud to be part of making this figure happen
Naw i saw you in tesco once saying “gor blimey mate i love the old bill init”
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That’s an interesting contrast to the new polls out of the US
American media gives the impression of the public being far more progressive than it actually is
British media on the otherhand gives the impression of the public being far more conservative than it actually is
But the most interesting element is the proportion of white people; 76% UK vs 62% US, in other words further confirmation of the unique class character of settler colonialism and it’s vicious inherent drive toward fascism
further confirmation of the unique class character of settler colonialism and it’s vicious inherent drive toward fascism
Or for the fact that propaganda in the USA is working better, of for the fact that the war against organisations of the working class in the USA was more succesfull.
The media in Britain is far more sophisticated than the cucklefuck nonsense that passes as rhetoric in the US, class is actually a concept in British media
for the fact that the war against organisations of the working class in the USA was more succesfull.
The question is why was it so successful, and the answer is settler solidarity does not abide non-settler working class solidarity
Why did other settler nations did have much more succesfull working class, progressive and marxist movements? Everyone in Cuba descended from settlers. Every country in the American continent is a settler nation, many have had all sorts of leftist movements in their history. And why was it necessary that the CIA intervened in Australia to prevent a Jeremy Corbyn-like figure to come to power in the 1970s? Surely, that’s a settler nation which is very similar to the USA.
The way American leftists talk about their how settler-nations are incapable of having genuine revolutionary activity always reminds me of Bourdieu’s research in to taste and class. He was a French sociologist who researched (among other things) how different strata in society had different tastes, and he came to the conclusion that people, by their objective position in society, came to form certain tastes which just so happened to fit hand-in-glove with their material circumstances. But in that process, they convinced themselves that those circumstances weren’t forced on to them, but it was their own choise. E.g. workers didn’t eat more pork then veal because it was cheaper, no they believed they prefered it. I feel like the “settler nations cannot have a marxist movement”-theory works analogously: the left has been defeated so often in the USA, that it has develloped a theory to explain that position - but that theory isn’t necessarily a good representation of objective reality, it’s just a convenient way of thinking in certain circumstances. And it’s not supported by the evidence from other settler nations.
Cuba is most certainly not a settler country, it like Haiti was a slave society ruled by settlers, not a settler society with slavery, then it became a colony of the US; settler colonialism is a demographic land acquisition project, where population proportions become the metric of political development, its success relies on the proportions between demographics that make up it’s caste system, which is why settler colonialism failed in Southern Africa while it endured in Australia and North America and that is the crucial difference between the settler colonialism of the Anglosphere and Latin America, the Caribbean, and other European colonies (where religious confessionalism and late imperialist extraction was more important than Pan-European identification and land theft)
Also Australia is a special case precisely because the demographic proportions were so out of whack, the aboriginal people had nearly been wiped out, and their numbers were too small to trigger the class-collaborationist defense mechanism among settlers living in southern Australia (far from the reservations), so during the post-war period tensions between working class settlers and elites settlers began to boil over as there was no racial release valve to vent the pressure of class struggle, since the 70s however with the arrival of POC immigrants, that settler mechanism has kicked in and class-collaborationism among settlers defines the modern political system
The way American leftists talk about their how settler-nations are incapable of having genuine revolutionary activity
That is a ludicrous strawman and is not an opinion anyone has ever held, the theory is pretty simple, settler colonialism generates a class collaborationist solidarity between capitalist and working class settlers centered on racialized identity politics (that is an historical fact) revolution in settler nations is possible, 1776 and Rhodesia 1965 proves that, but it’s the fact they generate counter-revolutions more often than marxist revolutions that is the theory’s crux, and again (that is an historical fact)
Marxism cannot function without working class solidarity and settler colonialism is specifically designed to negate solidarity thru racialized solidarity among settlers, and it works, which is why settler nations are the most viciously anti-marxist bulwarks on earth
Doesn’t mean Marxism is impossible in settler countries, simply means Marxists have to negate the negation, and to start doing that they have to first acknowledge the negation exists in the first place, basic materialism
48 per cent) of those aged 18 to 27 thought that Britain was a racist country
Now, how many brits think that, but also think that it should be even more racist? We’re living through times where people are celebrating that they don’t have to pretend to care about minorities anymore.
Or the number who think that the country is racist against whites?
I’ve thought about that to, but I don’t believe that this fenomenon is big enough to have such an impact on a nationwide poll. Every racist I’ve ever met in my life, vehemently denies to be a racist. Plus, this hypotheses isn’t in agreement with the results on all the other questions.
maybe the kids are alright
