Resistance Against Empire

545 Pages·2010·0.81 MB·English

by  Derrick Jensen

Table of Contents

Title Page

ALSO BY DERRICK JENSEN

Dedication

Copyright Page

Introduction

J.W. SMITH - Interview conducted on July 13,
2000, at his home in Santa Maria, California.

KEVIN BALES - Interview conducted on October
19, 2000, by telephone.

ANURADHA MITTAL - Interview conducted on
January 24, 2001, at Food First in ...

JULIET SCHOR - Interview conducted on June 16,
2003, by telephone.

RAMSEY CLARK - Interview conducted on
November 20, 2000, at his office in New ...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ - Interview conducted on
November 6, 2000, at the Bulletin of ...

ALFRED McCOY - Interview conducted on April 21,
2002, at his office in ...

CHRISTIAN PARENTI - Interview conducted on
March 14, 2000, at his home in San ...

KATHERINE ALBRECHT - Interview conducted in
fall 2003 and January 2004, by telephone.

ROBERT McCHESNEY - Interview conducted on
September 8, 1999, at his home in ...

ABOUT FLASHPOINT PRESS

ABOUT DERRICK JENSEN

FRIENDS OF PM PRESS

More from Derrick Jensen and PM Press:

ALSO BY DERRICK JENSEN

Mischief in the Forest (with Stephanie McMillan)

Lives Less Valuable

What We Leave Behind (with Aric McBay)

Songs of the Dead

How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth
From Civilization

Now This War Has Two Sides (live CD)

As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do
to Stay in Denial

(with Stephanie McMillan)

Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening From the
Nightmare of Zoos (with Karen Tweedy-Holmes)

Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization

Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance,
and the Culture of Control Strangely Like War: The
Global Assault on Forests (with George Draffan)
The Culture of Make Believe

Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature,
Culture, and Eros

Standup Tragedy (live CD)

The Other Side of Darkness (live CD)

A Language Older Than Words

Railroads and Clearcuts: Legacy of Congress’s
1864 Northern Pacific

Land Grant (with George Draffan and John Osborn)
With gratitude to the
Wallace Global Fund
for their continued support.
The following interviews appeared in slightly
different form in The Sun : Kevin Bales, Anuradha
Mittal, Ramsey Clark, Alfred McCoy, Christian
Parenti, and Robert McChesney.

Resistance Against Empire

© Derrick Jensen 2010

This edition © PM Press 2010

All rights reserved.

Back cover photograph by Derrick Jensen Cover
and interior design by Stephanie McMillan Edited by
Theresa Noll.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
LCCN 2009912458

ISBN 978-1-60486-046-7

eISBN : (cid:9)97-8-160-48637-6

PM Press

PO Box 23912

Oakland, CA 94623

www.pmpress.org

Printed in the USA on recycled paper.
INTRODUCTION

N othing comes free. This culture is based on
converting the living (“raw materials,” or “resources”)
into the dead: products for profit. This is as true of
cell phones as it is of solar panels as it is of
televisions as it is of cardboard as it is of F-16
aircraft. Raw materials always come from
somewhere. And there are consequences in the
taking of them.

The primary consequences are not mainly paid by
those who use these products, much less those who
manufacture them. They are pushed onto those who
are stolen from and exploited. The empire uses
violence (or the threat of violence) to obtain
whatever it requires, from the lives and labor of
human or nonhuman slaves to coltan, bauxite, and
oil. Indeed, the central purpose of empire is the
extraction of raw materials and exploitation of
resources, and the displacement of consequences
onto others.

This book explores many of the consequences of
empire and the methods it uses to enforce its
license to extract and exploit. Anuradha Mittal