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'It is perhaps embarrassing that sectors of the metropolitan cultures that have since become vanguards in the social contests of our time were uncomplaining members of this imperial consensus. With a few exceptions, the women's as well as the working-class movement was pro-empire.' 🏴‍☠️

--- and we are done with chapter one!

teach me, edward

if only i possessed a stunning command of the english language such as Mr Said! nodding my head and underlining even random phrases just bc i like his turn of phrase ✍

'the rhetoric of power all too easily produces an illusion of benevolence when deployed in an imperial setting'

and we're done with the introduction 🎉

my first Said pray for me 🙏