Seeing local oppression as global colonization enables political reframing

Evidence

An older politics sought to coordinate local and global struggles, so to speak, and to endow the immediate local occasion for struggle with an allegorical value, namely that of representing the overall struggle itself and incarnating it in a here-and-now thereby transfigured. Politics works only when these two levels can be coordinated; they otherwise drift apart into a disembodied and easily bureaucratized abstract struggle for and around the state, on the one hand, and a properly interminable series of neighborhood issues on the other, whose “bad infinity” comes, in Postmodernism, where it is the only form of politics left, to be invested with something of Nietzsche’s social Darwinism and with the willed euphoria of some metaphysical permanent revolution. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I use the word interlocking rather than intersecting to describe how the systems of oppression are connected. Intersecting remains a word that describes discrete systems whose paths cross. I suggest that the systems are each other and that they give content to each other. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 149 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reading social oppression as interlocking systems, not discrete ones, reveals empire’s violence; Gender oppression is naturalized, masking its colonial material origins — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 969; Systems of oppression constitute each other rather than merely crossing paths — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 149 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Working politics requires coordinating local struggles with a global totalizing dimension #corroborates (0.88) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713
• Reading social oppression as interlocking systems, not discrete ones, reveals empire’s violence #expands (0.85)
• Systems of oppression constitute each other rather than merely crossing paths #expands (0.80) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 149
• Gender oppression is naturalized, masking its colonial material origins #exemplifies (0.78) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 969
• Colonialism framed weaker regions as feminized space inviting penetration #exemplifies (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 553