The discourse of democratization proscribes an intervention based on the passivity of subjects. This requires imperialist intervention in the form of technical administration by Western experts that actively subverts movements, preserving a cycle of violence and neocolonial oppression.
Neocosmos 11 [Michael. Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of South Africa, UNISA. “Mass mobilisation, ‘democratic transition’ and ‘transitional violence’ in Africa” Pambazuka News 2011-03-31, Issue 523 http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/72163]
When ‘political conditionalities’ proved................is national in content.
This cycle of neocolonial violence is made possible by the end oriented mode of logic embraced by the affirmative. The assumption that democratization follows particular paths rooted in the production of a state and civil society necessarily excludes those which do not count in those realms, in the same way as those who are deemed undesirable were excluded from the spaces of the colonizer and left to die in ghettos and graveyards.
Spanos 05 [Adam. Strategy and Event: The Politics of Anticolonialism. Pg 104-10]
Empire, as Edward Said notes...................as a particularly colonial phenomenon.
The affirmative’s ethics are based on ideologically constructed notions of the good. This divorces the subject from her agency and responsibility for her ethics and makes you Hitler
Zupancic 00 [Alenka. Zizek’s crush. Ethics of the Real. Pg 92-7]
What follows from Kant's..................of our actions.
Our alternative is to take the stance of the militant intellectual against the affirmative who do not impose our fixed ideas on to the struggles of the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Instead, we must be present in these encounters and open to the experiences of others in order to produce truths that are open and refuse domination.
Pithouse 10 [Richard. Teaches politics at Rhodes University. “Fidelity to Fanon” http://churchland.org.za/padkos%20articles/Pithouse%20Fidelity%20to%20Fanon.pdf]
Fanon arrives alone.....................clearly, that is—dangerously” (Césaire 2000:32).
