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Libs get so worked up about typos.
Jesus Christ you're a news organization and you don't know the difference between a mayor and a governor, a state and a city, and who runs each.
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This is what I see more than any kind of clearly-demarcated conflict. Bastions of local power amid a sea of federal Nazi control.
established power extends out from cities, as these are the places where materiel and the personnel to deploy them are extremely concentrated.
the "sea" would be a place without central control, nominally contested by separate powers with lanes of more intense conflict over logistical channels and nationally critical extractive infrastructure.
the successful cuban revolution--an insurrection against an entrenched settler colonial project older than the US--started and gained power in the "sea", as the numerous abortive insurrections of the city were put down by concentrated deployment of forces and continuously fractured.
the hacienda and litifundio types of systems are the outposts of power, where manorial structures are nominally propped up by the promise of state power in an emergency, but materially expected to control the local labor force using their own mechanisms.
the effort of the francoist regime has been to depopulate whole regions of spain and push those people into highly developed urban contexts, a 20th century update to the enclosure system of proletarianism + accumulation through disposession. we see this economic dislocation and concentration of humans everywhere under capital.
we can pretend like chicago or seattle or wherever will step up to take on DC, but unless they're already building out and stockpiling underground tunnels to retreat their political leadership to when the shelling starts, the contest would be over before it began. DC has all that infrastructure for its leaders.
after that its fighting for airports, seaports, arterial highways, and a "green zone" for the occupational authority (probably north side in Chicago, generally wherever the rich live) and then, the status quo/maintenance of door kicking fire teams just outside the wire.
at a certain point, all most people living in an occupied/contested city is going to care about is drinkable water, electrcity, and being able to heat their homes in winter.
Hm, very interesting, thanks comrade. Any further reading you recommend?
Reminisces of the Cuban Revolution (Che Guevara)
Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Phil Neel)
i can't immediately think of a good text on capitalist enclosure, but im sure theres a marxist take on the highland clearances or "accumulation through disposession".
maybe peripherally, a critical geographic examination of resistance to the neoliberal order would be Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership (A. Fiona MacKenzie), though that is very academic. a more polemic and entertaining read might be Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South (Shirley & Stafford), which is maybe more of a forgotten history of insurrectionary struggles and contesting of mostly peripheral spaces where the reach of power is perhaps weaker than it purports.
my knowledge of the Empty Spain phenomenon as a historical process of intentional underdevelopment is gleaned from random articles, as its not frequently discussed in anglo media except in those weird promotional-genre articles where you can "buy a village in Spain for $500K" or a "home for $1000", which are completely uncritical and incurious, but nevertheless betray the strangeness of the present. i saw some translated doc once, but the name eludes me.