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Mark Lewis Taylor _ The Executed God: The Way of
Investigative journalist Chris Hedges citing ACLU statistics notes that between 1970 and 2015 U.S. prisons have mushroomed by 700 percent.
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Mark Lewis Taylor _ The Executed God: The Way of
With the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex working together in these ways there is a continuous, intensifying coordination of power between Lockdown America at home and imperial Pax Americana abroad. We need to feel these connections conceptually and viscerally, as did W. E. B. Du Bois in his time, because it surfaces not only coordinated powers of domination but a network of shared suffering by those exploited at home and abroad. When in the 1930s Du Bois surveyed the way industrial classes had destroyed post-Civil War Black Reconstruction in America, indeed enabling white power to be resurgent again inside the U.S., Du Bois was able also to perceive {and feel} how it also consolidated a structural violence abroad. While lamenting the devastation at home he thus lifted a lament, too, for multiple peoples abroad, for those he termed "the darker nations.
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Mark Lewis Taylor _ The Executed God: The Way of
These groups have long been present in U.S. history. Above all, black and brown dissident groups-but also those from indigenous and Asian/Asian-American, as well as white communities-have arisen to challenge their communities' dispossession. They are viewed by the state as in need of monitoring, control, even "neutralization," to use FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's term for the destruction, division, defamation, and even death that the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program {COINTELPRO} unleashed upon dissident groups in the 1970s and 1980s. U.S. officials also have often had to wage a veritable civil war against low-wage workers, farmers, and others; so much so, in fact, that historian Howard Zinn has referred to the big business war on labor as "The Other Civil War.
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Mark Lewis Taylor _ The Executed God: The Way of
The process occurs in the U.S. and globally. Thus, many analysts have found other names for such surplus populations suffering exploitation. Comparative literature theorist Rob Nixon writes of "remaindered humans" as the compacted left-overs "on whom neoliberalism's inequities bear down most heavily."{72} Mike Davis has discussed them as what the system sees: mere "global residium."{73} Annu Jalais in India references these groups as neoliberalism's "dispensable peoples."{74} Global developmental agencies building megadams {usually funded by the World Bank} create what Thayer Scudder termed "developmental refugees."{75} Yet, as all these authors stress-and this will be a main point of this book's Part Two as it develops a "counter-theatrics to state terror"-these groups are agential; they persist and can animate resistance in unexpected ways.
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