Constitutionalism, Nationalism & the Dismantling of Democracy, Part Five: Empire, Empire, Empire!

Empire & imperialism have always been at the heart of the American project as defined in the Constitution. Yet freedom only for those who qualified as ‘American,’ & exclusion or death for those who didn’t, has always severely limited America’s search for greatness despite their own belief in their own exceptionalism.

Peter Winn-Brown
26 min readOct 16, 2024
Stokely Carmichael smiling.
Black power activist Stokely Carmichael.

‘Black power means that black people see themselves as part of a new force, sometimes called the Third World; that we see our struggle as closely related to liberation struggles around the world.’

Stokely Carmichael & Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power (1967)(1).

Ugly, human…

In an interesting, thought provoking article former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Jeanne Kirkpatrick wrote,

‘Marxism incorporates, at the verbal level and the intellectual level, the values of liberal democracy in its assault on liberal democracy and this is precisely why it entraps so many Western intellectuals who are themselves serious liberal democrats. Thus the slightest…

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Peter Winn-Brown
Peter Winn-Brown

Written by Peter Winn-Brown

The past can illuminate the present if we shine the light of inquiry openly, truthfully, with attention to detail & care for the salient facts.

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