rebellion

It seems as though whenever an indigenous group take up arms to defend themselves from the burgeoning colonising of capitalists, they are responsible for all grievances of such a conflict.

This is a falsehood of history. Because history shows us that when the Aztecs stoned Montezuma II to death, then they killed the spearhead of genocide. They parried the blow of a sword held by a velvet glove. What revolutionaries do, is not to turn peace into war. But rather to turn a massacre into war. It's when the victim is no longer kneeling and praying for mercy, but rather becomes a warrior, ready to kill as they might be killed. Montezuma was mourned by the conquistadors, and he was the only Aztec out of millions to be mourned by them. The rest were killed with remorseless cruelty, and Montezuma became a martyr for representing the oppressor.

There is no doubt that there is death and tragedy in war. But there is only a propensity for it. It is when we bow our heads to bourgeois morality, when non violence is lectured to us by rulers behind rows of armed footmen, that war becomes a massacre. It is then that we see century long atrocities, where death is so common that it becomes the norm, and is then unnoticed.

It is only when we stand up and fight back, that the assured death and tragedy becomes a propensity. Rebels will always be seen as aggressors. Because it is warfare beyond the norm. We do not see the homelessness, the starvation, the depression, the toil and pain. We don't see the struggle in our everyday lives because we are born in captivity, and the cruelty of our masters look as natural to us as the barbed wire fencing does to cattle.

The possessions they take back will always be stolen in the eyes of the law. The tyrants they kill will always be murdered in the eyes of the law. The people they liberate will always be treasonous in the eyes of the law. The law is the dogma of the oppressor, and it's there to justify their deeds and admonish ours.

Bourgeoisie morality is about taking your identity as a person, and make you think with the identity of the state. That way, an enemy of the state, is your enemy. The interests of the state are your interests. This is the hardest battle to win for any individual. To win through to oneself, and to stop living in fear. To see the oppressor and to stop caring for him as though he is you.

That is the key to understanding rebellion, and to win through to yourself.