Thread by @colonizedlocal

anyways, read @scalawagmag🧵

“Understanding these connections between the US South & Global South provides not only a broader understanding of global carcerality at present, but that the connection between the invention of "New World" plantation technologies…

https://twitter.com/kaimandante/status/1978300101433946261

in relation to the expansion of empire and the birth of a modern world order teaches us the ways in which power stabilizes itself through the reproduction of technologies of containment.

To understand the role of slavery, antiblackness, & the plantation in the expansion of the British Empire—and by extension, the modern world—is to also recognize it as foundational to the colonial logics that bestowed upon England the capacity to cede Palestine to the Zionist…

settler state project starting in 1947.

There’s no empire without plantation slavery and under the modern paradigm, Black & Southern unfreedom remains the blueprint upon which technologies of containment like Gaza must be deployed as the condition of possibility

for future imperial expansion. These connections are perhaps more imperative than ever, given the West's contemporary crisis of legitimacy in many ways resembles the crisis the British Empire faced in the wake of World War II devastation.

When Empire is under threat, it leverages the prison, the border, the plantation, and the slave patrol to stabilize and reproduce itself.”

scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/abolit…

and for even more structural connections from South to South, there’s this whole reading list:
scalawagmagazine.org/2024/12/south-…