White Supremacy Rears its Ugly Head!
What does this right-wing governments recognition of Hamas as a terrorist organisation, its determination to rewrite the Treaty to deny Maaori sovereignty and its move to empower and re-arm the petty bourgeois white minority, have in common?
It is the political reaction of a settler government that lines up with the kith and kin to defend the European tradition of white racist capitalism that dates back to the 15th century, against the subhuman black and brown peoples whose societies they over-ran.
It is happening now because the historical material roots of that white settler racism is being challenged globally for the first time ever as capitalism faces its terminal crisis.
The Israeli genocide of Palestine is the supreme test for both. It brings to the surface all the old shit of centuries of colonial oppression and wars revealed in all its malignancy, as the Eurocapitalist world is shown up as a zero-sum march to world destruction.
At the same time, it makes clear to the oppressed that there is now way out but the destruction of the oppressor. So here we go as Eurocapitalist nations line up behind the US supreme settler colony turned global hegemon, including the deputy sheriffs of the South Pacific, in a last ditch stand at the Alamo of white supremacy, to defend Israel.
Why Israel? Because it is the most obscene manifestation of all that is bad in colonial settler history. It brings all the reactionary shit of the conquests of the New World, Asia and Africa and refines it as pure evil. Israel like all white settler states came into existence as the colony of imperialism.
Backed by the US and Britain, and legitimated by the UN, that gang of thieves, in 1948. It was imperialism thumbing its nose (picture Winston Churchill’s nose) at the wave of anti-colonial revolutions then taking place. It got away with it only because the Zionists who founded Israel claimed to be anti-imperialist and decolonising Israel by throwing out Britain.
This was a lie. Israel became a joint British-Zionist project with the Balfour Declaration, but not a colony oppressed by Britain. Britain and the US had an interest in a Jewish nation state to rid them of Jewish bourgeois and worker migrants. They made it possible for Israel to become the nation state of the Jewish bourgeoisie who were desperate to emulate all other bourgeois nations and have their own blood and soil.
Zionism signed a pact with the Nazis to export Jews from Europe to Israel since Jews were not fit to live among Europeans. It agreed to stop the collaboration of Jewish workers with the anti-fascist movement in Europe.
Zionism proved itself to be the fifth column for the Nazis and the main enemy of the Jews. That’s why it is a lie for Zionists to claim today that it stands for Jewish national liberation. No nation can claim to be free while it occupies and oppresses another nation. Zionist Israel exists as the pro-imperialist and anti-workers ally of the US to police West Asia (Middle East).
Lining up behind Israel’s right to exist, defending its colonial occupation, condemning the legitimate right of Palestinians armed resistance to occupation, are all the red lines that the Eurocapitalist world must sign up to. Why? Because if Israel goes down, so do the remaining neo-colonies and client states risk defeat at the hands of mass revolutionary uprisings.
This is why the NACTNZ government in power is sucking up to the US over Israel, Ukraine and China. They declare their loyalty to the declining US led Europcapitalist bloc against the rising power of the Global South and influence of Russia and China.
In a terminal crisis when the end of capitalism is ecologically inevitable, the culture of end-stage capitalism is to defend with wars and genocides the rule of decaying Eurocapitalism.
The unspoken truth, however, is that it is not its white racist client regimes that pose a threat to Eurocapitalism, it is the masses who, once aroused and armed, can take the power to end white colonial rule for good, that makes the white supremacists panic.
If we translate this global phenomenon to the situation in Aotearoa it becomes clear why the first 100 days of the new NACTNZ government is a panic-ridden rush to repeal the last 50 years.
And just as Zionism is what the Eurocapitalist world will die in a ditch to save, it is the undisputed sovereignty of white rule over Maaori self determination that becomes the cultural and political red line to defend. Like the Zionist kith and kin who annexed Palestine in order to establish its own bourgeois economy on its own blood and soil, in Aotearoa the white supremacists demand uncontested sovereignty over their own blood and soil by suppressing the land rights of the Maaori people.
