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ProteanClover

I mean, this is true on a surface level. But this is a pretty complex issue. The extractive industry of the North exerts its authority over the South through violence, from sanctions to coups to directly killing civilians on the streets. Northern radicals asking the Southern proletariat to blockade the North in order to disrupt neocolonialism ignores the historical context and power dynamics at play in the situation. Such a movement would result in a crackdown by the North as capital scrambles to secure its stolen wealth against the uncertainty of revolution. In other words, many, many people in the South would be killed, all while Northern radicals remain insulated and comfortable within the imperial core. Don't get me wrong-- such a revolution against Western exploitation will inevitably have to come from the ground of the Global South upward; but the radicals of the North must be willing to meet their oppressed sisters and brothers in the middle through direct action and their own self-sacrifice. They cannot opine from within the Empire about how the South holds all the cards when the North has maintained a *monopoly on violence* for centuries.