Stores like Nike and Apple cannot realistically be portrayed as social enterprises.
A professor at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research ponders whether destroying other people’s property is a “reasonable and articulate expression in itself” just in time to coincide with what is happening in Los Angeles ( and elsewhere ).
The very idea of home is murder, according to R. H. Lossin, a Harvard doctoral colleague and “leading professor of the theory and practice of sabotage” because it is” created through a combination of state-sponsored confiscation and abuse and it is defended by several forms of state-sanctioned violence.
Hence, it is merely repentant when any steps taken against it, particularly those made by previously troubled communities, occur.
According to Lossin,” we need to remember that a lot of our federal money was created through the harsh confiscation of property from Native Americans, which was later made productive and profitable through the forced labour of stolen Africans,” Lossin writes in The Nation.
Lossin adds that “people of color are reacting from thoughts rather than carrying out reasoned, calculated works with their own completely legitimate political logics,” even “appearingly friendly theories of robbery and death.”
She claims that “pathologizing” protesters ‘ activities pathologize the protesters themselves.
From the text:
Property destruction may play a significant role in the success of the latest uprising, regardless of how offensive liberal sensibilities are. It is at least what sets it apart from the numerous different recent wave of protests against police brutality. No because property damage has any moral or political significance in and of itself, but because it is aggressive. It poses a serious threat to the rule of law and the investment as well. …
It is wrong to refuse to do home damage or even theft because of a false sense of nonviolence. It disapproves of energy. It leaves politicians and officers in charge of a crucial component of the storyline.
Lossin ( pictured ) also points out that” corporate behemoths” like Nike, Apple, and Verizon cannot be genuinely described as social goods, and as a result, it’s no big deal if their stores are trashed.
Although “mom and pop” stores are “one means by which a bourgeois decision group launders itself,” they still deserve a little more love.
” [W] e should be wary of how]mom and pop shops ] are instrumentalized in the service of protecting a wealthy minority,” Lossin says.
The Point of Destruction: Sabotage, Property, and Speech in the Progressive Era, Lossin’s book,” The Point of Destruction: Sabotage, Property, and Speech in the Progressive Age,” examines issues of “property destruction, the destruction of extreme politics, and the boundaries of free conversation in the United States,” according to her Harvard professor profile.
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