DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] Random excerpts from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> 's book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p>The Enemy of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> </p><p>"From Mother Earth to our bodies, in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalist</span></a> system everything that can be reduced to a commodity will be. As long as it can be sold, bought, or otherwise exploited, nothing is sacred. So long as the lands (and by extension our bodies) are viewed this way we will have conflict, as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> is the enemy of Mother Earth and all that we hold to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sacred</span></a>.</p><p>"In its base definition, capitalism is an economic and political system based on an unregulated or 'free' market, private property, competition, and limited government intervention. But the definition obscures the reality that capitalism is based upon extreme social <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a> and dispossession, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcologicalDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcologicalDestruction</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hyperindividualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperindividualism</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/materialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>materialism</span></a>, and its history is rooted in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cishetereopatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cishetereopatriarchy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a>.</p><p>"To be anti-capitalist is not enough, anti-capitalist propositions rooted in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/industrialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>industrialism</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> are just as invested in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecocidal</span></a> (therefore anti-Indigenous) economies. Killing the Earth is killing Indigenous existence, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonizers</span></a> must religiously convince themselves and others that the world is already dead to justify their ongoing violence against the Earth and existence. In the face of global ecological ruin, some attempt to further convince themselves that killing the Earth just a little bit less is an appropriate response."</p><p>Pages 136-137</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>