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I am Living in a Demonocracy in the Era of the Eurokleptocene

On Attending a Talk at the Tenth Palestinian Film Festival in the U.K

Aza Y. Alam
Liberation Works
10 min readDec 10, 2024

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I only just stopped myself from jumping onto a table and screaming in distress

Author’s Photo: Civic Hall Leeds, UK. Culture as Resistance talk, with a jolly introduction by the Nigerian-born Mayor of Leeds.

Look, the so-called ‘Enlightenment’ never happened.

Let’s wake up to the ugly realities of Whyte supremacy. If you are living in Europe, the UK or one of the settler states such as the USA or Australia, you are living in a demonocracy not a democracy. And the age is the age of the Eurokleptocene.

No, no, contrary to what the usual propaganda that passes for Western neutrality and ‘objectivity’ might be saying, it is not the Anthropocene — because all of humanity are not responsible for the planetary-wide destruction that is starting to unfold as the Sixth Mass Extinction. No, that responsibility lies at the blood-drenched feet of the Europeans and their waves of migrations and expansion ( ‘like a cancer’, as Susan Sontag said) via the brutalities of colonialism. And so let’s call it what it is:

The Eurokleptocene Epoch.

We have to take charge of the damn English language and express the realities, so long suppressed. There was a reason why the British didn’t want the…

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Aza Y. Alam
Aza Y. Alam

Written by Aza Y. Alam

Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.

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