Internal Colonization ?

Regarding a disparaging attitude toward protesters that a significant portion of the general public has toward protesters (be it the current post-election, ‘anti-Trump’ protests or other protests such as those related to Black Lives Matter, or, further back, related to opposing the US invasion of Iraq in 2003), here are some ideas.

For example, regarding the sentiment among some people in the general public that Black Lives Matter activists support the killing of police officers or that they are terrorists, or going further back, to the “for us or against us” rhetoric of George W. Bush regarding his adminstration’s response to the 9-11 attacks, what may be related in the militarization of domestic police and the mass incarceration that disproportionately affects low income and Black and Latino communities, that may foreshadow a broader political repression that may eventually affect middle class and working class white folk.

A dynamic of the power of the political elite may be dividing and conquering people. It may be a conscious, willful conspiracy among the corporate oligarchy or it may be the largely unintended consequence of mega, for-profit media consolidation.

To what extent is the neocolonist approach that has for decades since World War II been imposed on the Global South now being imposed by the corporate oligarchy on the domestic populations of the Global North?

It might be useful to use a socialist framework, to inquire into the extent to which global capitalism has run its course and now the next phase is to colonize domestic populations in the Global North, if no effective modes of resistance emerge within respective domestic populaces.

But, keep in mind, the conceptional map is an inevitably flawed representation of reality , though that map is useful. —–What are the features of ‘internal colonization’ that we may see taking shape in the US?

To what extent does it involve militarization of police, that is, police treating community members as denizens in a war zone or a territory occupied by an army: or the prevalance of low-wage jobs? What have been the types of work people in colonized parts of the world have engaged in, and how does that compare with the types of workers in the Global North (US, Canada, Australia, Western Europe?) How does this apply to the emerging professional classes in India, China, and Brazil ?