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I'm a baby leftist and still learning. You keep using this phrase. I'm sure I live in it but I'd like to know what Hexbears define as the imperial core.

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[–] captcha@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Follow up question for others: If your community is in third world conditions but your in an imperial core country, say you're in the Mississippi Delta, are you in the imperial core still?

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I'd refer to as an "internal colony".

While it's not necessarily perfectly apt as it may be erasing the racialised aspects of internal colonialism, I think as shorthand it's probably quite suitable.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Also, nation-states aren't real, and geographical relationships to the physical centers of power do not necessarily correlate with actual relationships to power.