Thread by @BlackSocialists

The State of Israel is a settler-colonialist nation-state just like the USA, so recent IOF attacks on Palestinians at their place of worship in East Jerusalem come as no surprise.

The solution, however, doesn’t lie in more bourgeois nationalism and statism, let alone Capitalism.

Various forces – political, religious, etc. – exploit the violent, reactionary acts of the Israeli nation-state against the Palestinian people to push their own agendas.

These agendas almost never have anything to do with freedom, but rather more forms or flavors of domination.

The solution lies in transcending the nation-state model, theocracy, and the capitalist system altogether.

The solution lies in a global, confederal system that does away with colonial borders, and is defined by *directly* democratic social, economic, and political organization.

In order to pursue such a thing, those of us who stand for the liberation of all oppressed peoples and true freedom must cultivate a stronger, more collective, and more democratic imagination and level of organization.

And all of this begins with communication (beyond borders).

Please read Abdullah Öcalan’s “Democratic Confederalism” (2011):

freeocalan.org/wp-content/upl…

It is not long, and it serves as a succinct intro to why people of different colors and creeds must move together, beyond this paradigm of division and domination, and into true democracy.

The implications for Palestinian and Black American / New Afrikan people are clear:

Freedom for us can and must mean freedom for all, and the path to freedom must be marked by directly democratic methods and institutions developed by us (colonized peoples) in self-determination.

In our fight to develop cooperative, communal social relations, and directly democratic social, economic, and political institutions, we will be met with violence from reactionary nationalists, supremacists (of all sorts), authoritarians (some of whom look like us), and fascists.

The key for us is to talk to one another (globally), build (not just react) with one another, be prefigurative (reflect the values of the world we want to live in in the act of trying to get there), and step in to fill the voids left by both nation-states and private capital.

We have to defend ourselves in the system as it stands now as well, but we must also build towards a future where what we are defending is not merely the right to survive, but rather a new world within the shell of the old, decaying world that meets our needs and harbors freedom.

The State of Israel, the United States of America, and all other nation-states must cease to exist along with the global capitalist system if *all peoples* wish to survive and be free.

But they will only cease to exist in the building of something better, and from the bottom up.