#primitiveaccumulation

Letters of Blood and Fire: “Terrorism”, Dispossession, and the Distorted Mirrorings of Domination by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/12/28/letters-of-blood-and-fi... The article critiques "terrorism" as a politically biased label that delegitimizes non-state and subaltern violence while shielding far greater state and corporate violence through legal and discursive privileges. Using an anarchist lens in India's Islamophobic context, it defines terrorism as deliberate civilian-targeted violence to instill widespread fear for political/ideological ends, highlighting how states evade the label via sovereignty (e.g., bombings, militarized dispossession). Integrating Marx's primitive accumulation, Harvey's accumulation by dispossession, and Toussaint's debt imperialism, it portrays terrorism as a tool of neoliberal resource extraction: conflicts in mineral-rich areas (Afghanistan's lithium, India's Adivasi regions, Congo's coltan) enable corporate plunder, facilitated by technologies like remote sensing. Selective narratives amplify "Islamic terrorism" while downplaying Hindutva extremism, Zionist settler violence, and BJP's inconsistencies (e.g., engaging Taliban amid alleged terror-funding links). Drawing on Sāṃkhya philosophy (anyonyapratibimba) to expose power's projection of its own violence onto the "other," and acknowledging religion's psychological role alongside economic factors, the piece reframes terrorism as intrinsic to unequal global orders—driven by capital, technology, ideology, and domination—urging discriminative clarity (viveka) to dismantle these intertwined logics.

Letters of Blood and Fire: “Terrorism”, Dispossession, and the Distorted Mirrorings of Domination by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/12/28/letters-of-blood-and-fi... The article critiques "terrorism" as a politically biased label that delegitimizes non-state and subaltern violence while shielding far greater state and corporate violence through legal and discursive privileges. Using an anarchist lens in India's Islamophobic context, it defines terrorism as deliberate civilian-targeted violence to instill widespread fear for political/ideological ends, highlighting how states evade the label via sovereignty (e.g., bombings, militarized dispossession). Integrating Marx's primitive accumulation, Harvey's accumulation by dispossession, and Toussaint's debt imperialism, it portrays terrorism as a tool of neoliberal resource extraction: conflicts in mineral-rich areas (Afghanistan's lithium, India's Adivasi regions, Congo's coltan) enable corporate plunder, facilitated by technologies like remote sensing. Selective narratives amplify "Islamic terrorism" while downplaying Hindutva extremism, Zionist settler violence, and BJP's inconsistencies (e.g., engaging Taliban amid alleged terror-funding links). Drawing on Sāṃkhya philosophy (anyonyapratibimba) to expose power's projection of its own violence onto the "other," and acknowledging religion's psychological role alongside economic factors, the piece reframes terrorism as intrinsic to unequal global orders—driven by capital, technology, ideology, and domination—urging discriminative clarity (viveka) to dismantle these intertwined logics.

Letters of Blood and Fire: “Terrorism”, Dispossession, and the Distorted Mirrorings of Domination by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/12/28/letters-of-blood-and-fi... The article critiques "terrorism" as a politically biased label that delegitimizes non-state and subaltern violence while shielding far greater state and corporate violence through legal and discursive privileges. Using an anarchist lens in India's Islamophobic context, it defines terrorism as deliberate civilian-targeted violence to instill widespread fear for political/ideological ends, highlighting how states evade the label via sovereignty (e.g., bombings, militarized dispossession). Integrating Marx's primitive accumulation, Harvey's accumulation by dispossession, and Toussaint's debt imperialism, it portrays terrorism as a tool of neoliberal resource extraction: conflicts in mineral-rich areas (Afghanistan's lithium, India's Adivasi regions, Congo's coltan) enable corporate plunder, facilitated by technologies like remote sensing. Selective narratives amplify "Islamic terrorism" while downplaying Hindutva extremism, Zionist settler violence, and BJP's inconsistencies (e.g., engaging Taliban amid alleged terror-funding links). Drawing on Sāṃkhya philosophy (anyonyapratibimba) to expose power's projection of its own violence onto the "other," and acknowledging religion's psychological role alongside economic factors, the piece reframes terrorism as intrinsic to unequal global orders—driven by capital, technology, ideology, and domination—urging discriminative clarity (viveka) to dismantle these intertwined logics.

Letters of Blood and Fire: “Terrorism”, Dispossession, and the Distorted Mirrorings of Domination by DebaprasadBandyopadhyay Via Flickr: onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/12/28/letters-of-blood-and-fi... The article critiques "terrorism" as a politically biased label that delegitimizes non-state and subaltern violence while shielding far greater state and corporate violence through legal and discursive privileges. Using an anarchist lens in India's Islamophobic context, it defines terrorism as deliberate civilian-targeted violence to instill widespread fear for political/ideological ends, highlighting how states evade the label via sovereignty (e.g., bombings, militarized dispossession). Integrating Marx's primitive accumulation, Harvey's accumulation by dispossession, and Toussaint's debt imperialism, it portrays terrorism as a tool of neoliberal resource extraction: conflicts in mineral-rich areas (Afghanistan's lithium, India's Adivasi regions, Congo's coltan) enable corporate plunder, facilitated by technologies like remote sensing. Selective narratives amplify "Islamic terrorism" while downplaying Hindutva extremism, Zionist settler violence, and BJP's inconsistencies (e.g., engaging Taliban amid alleged terror-funding links). Drawing on Sāṃkhya philosophy (anyonyapratibimba) to expose power's projection of its own violence onto the "other," and acknowledging religion's psychological role alongside economic factors, the piece reframes terrorism as intrinsic to unequal global orders—driven by capital, technology, ideology, and domination—urging discriminative clarity (viveka) to dismantle these intertwined logics.