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class-struggle-anarchism:

danncove:

The Battle of Cable Street – October 4th 1936

In 1936, fascism was gaining ground across Europe. In Britain, Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirted British Union of Fascists (BUF) portrayed Jewish people as the cause of the country’s problems. East London had the largest Jewish population in Britain and the announcement that Mosley and his Blackshirts planned a provocative march through the area on October the 4th was greeted with anger and a determination that it should be stopped. A petition was signed and local politicians tried to have the march called off – but to no avail.

On the day, up to 250,000 people gathered to defend the East End. There was a fierce battle with the police when they attempted to clear a path for the march and a barricade was erected and defended in Cable Street. People in their houses threw eggs, milk bottles and the contents of chamber pots from upstairs’ windows, whilst at ground level, marbles were rolled under police horses’ hooves. The march could not proceed and Mosley was ordered to abandon his plans. It was a blow against fascism and that night there was dancing in the streets.

The anti-fascists were made up of communist, socialist, anarchist, Jewish, and Irish groups amongst the local residents and far outnumbered the Blackshirts, and indeed the Metropolitan Police. It was a significant factor in the decline of the BUF prior to the second world war.

NO PASARAN!

Happy Cable Street Day – when the people of London said ‘fuck you’ to fascism

Those hand wringing ‘its totally fine that I only focus on white guys in fiction cause preferences just happen/it’s feminist somehow/I’m dark and edgy and I only like complex characters (and white characters are more complex cause reasons)/freedom of expression as a last resort/etc’ posts are mostly people trying to convince themselves in the face of other people finally having a platform to point out that what they are doing is racist.

Just for the Record

brehaaorgana:

janothar:

lilithascending95:

janothar:

Western civilization is built on antisemitism, and western magic is built on stealing from Judaism.

Alternatively, western civilization is reliant on antisemitism, and western magic is ensorcelled with misconstruing its fantasy of Judaism.

Why are you weakening my statement? I said what I mean and can back it up.  Western civilization isn’t only reliant on antisemitism, but antisemitism is a tool that was used for wealth building by the gentile elites – both creating a scapegoat for the masses to hate instead of them and also a population that they could victimize when they needed a pressure valve or to loot something that can’t resist strongly in order to pay their debts.

As for Western magic, it really has two threads.  There’s the recent (mostly 19th century to current) theft from the far East.  But the foundations? They’re built on theft of Jewish magical forms, like Gematria.  There is virtually no piece of commonplace Western magic that doesn’t originate in Judaism and was warped and ruined by Christians.

All western neo-paganism is a tool of white Christian colonialism, if not the outright expression of it.

This is not something you can move around or escape. I would push janothar’s statement and say that there’s a third theft going on here, but that’s about it. There’s never been ANY surprises about what gets popular in “western magic circles” and neo-paganism. For centuries most of it was built on stealing from Judaism (and to a much lesser extent Islam).

The parallels are impossible to avoid: the rise of orientalism from the 18th century to 19th parallels the addition of more Egyptian/Jewish/Arabic concepts being stolen as “magic” from the “orient.” The tides of Chinoiserie brought obsessions with the “Far East,” and the colonization of India repackaged Hinduism and Buddhism for greedy white folks. So occultism is entirely stealing from Judaism and to lesser extents ancient Egyptian beliefs and Muslims; the rest of the “exotic east” is also taken at will from other religions/faiths/philosophies as spoils of colonialism. I would also fold in the appropriation/fantasy of Rroma practices in this broader orientalism.

The one thing I would add is that the remainder of “western magic” steals and leeches from indigenous practices (again, colonialism) and what remains of “revivals” of like European folk and pagan practices are pretty much nothing more than reactions to colonialist anxieties, or weird strains of supremacism.