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To quote the dad of one of my favourite astrologers, Alice Sparkly Kat: "the British went around drawing little lines and now we live with the consequences." Harsha Walia fleshes out the ongoing violence of the little lines drawn by Empire(s). Extra powerful analysis, an essential explainer for this moment of colonial racial capitalist extraction, genocide, war, and destruction that is rapidly leading us to climate catastrophe.

11corvus11's review

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5.0

Excellent and important, especially the section on fascist alliances that seem counterintuitive (eg white supremacists partnering with hindu fascism or israeli zionism) and the section on ecofascism.

imiji's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

while i certainly won't pretend that large portions of the actual content and information in this book weren't new to me and good to understand, i think i was hoping for more in the analysis itself-- so many times this book starts to say something like "borders, patriarchy, heterosexism, colonialism, imperialism, ecofascism, capitalism, and racialization are all related" and then kind of stops there. the resulting effect is somewhat of a jargon soup where the bad thing isn't necessarily the jargon itself but the lack of clarity on how the pieces of jargon relate to one another. i think i wanted more on the hows and the actual mechanisms driving the linkages.