Manufactured Division and Gang Conflict
tomas April 6th, 2007
By Tomas
In the influential and time-honored book The Art of War, Sun Tzu instructs that one of the most effective methods used to defeat an enemy is to “cause division among them.” The book further instructs, “Seduce them with the prospects of gain, send interlopers in among them, have rhetoricians use fast talk to ingratiate themselves with their leaders and followers, and divide up their organization and power.” It is when the enemy is divided that it is at its weakest and susceptible to attack and defeat.
Ensuing the Second World War, Europe was left in economic and geographic devastation. As a result, the United States became the world’s dominant super power and set forth to gain control of the world’s economies through military power and neo-liberal arrangements. Competing ideologies, such as communism and socialism, was seen as a threat to American interest. Yet, while American corporations prospered, third-world countries were ravaged by rampant capitalism and years of Western colonial rule. In the United States, the working class, especially blacks and Latinos, became unemployed and marginalized due to shifting economies and institutional racism.
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