I’ve seen this word said a lot, specifically for Americans. I understand the basic throughline, that Americans benefit from imperialism and thus are complicit in its crimes.
But…what would be the difference in action if they weren’t?
There is land back, but that doesn’t include what happened in Africa and the middle east. If the average American is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, what do you do about it? Is it just supposed to guilttrip them? Is it reparations? Is it a mass trial of a couple hundred million people…?
People can barely afford food, and the most basic gun is 500 dollars minimum without ammunition or additional equipment, or learning how to operate and clean the gun. That is nearly 80 hours of wages for the gun alone, pre-tax, for a worker making 15 dollars an hour. If you want something that isn’t plastic trash? Be prepared to shell out 1,500 dollars. How do you plan on convincing a father or mother who can barely feed and cloth their family to buy a gun?
There’s also an idea of what they’ll even do with the gun. Run around and dome their local sheriff? Based. An assassination? That’s essentially suicide. At the end of the day those are all just random propaganda of the deed acts. Guns mean nothing without a class consciousness or organized labour movement.