Social change is a product of organic resistance, in which voices are collective instead of being told what is justice. However, to ease the political consciousness of the 60’s, the rise of the volunteer sector allowed elites to control radical movements in order to professionalize social change to make it seem inaccessible to everyone. Colonization led to genocide and displacement, but also generated ideologies which discredited indigenous ways of life. These ideologies allowed America to normalize the powers of the state, while providing little services to battle the violence they created. Various rebellions peaked throughout history, yet were co-opted with the rise of liberalism, which has ignored structural oppression and normalized mechanisms
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The nonprofit sector shadows the repressive behavior of the government, “It also helped to professionalize these movements, since only those with advanced degrees could do this kind of work, thus minimizing the importance of mass-based grassroots organizing“( Smith 7). Liberal ideologies have denounced social change, in a way that perpetuates non-transformative solutions to generate competition within the fight for liberation, and create structural dependences on the repressive state. Historically, most forms of social change and political mobilization derives from community organizing and resisting, rather than relying on the legal, economic and political services of the state (Smith 5). Co-opting radical changes comes from the notion of liberal ideals denouncing violent resistance and replacing it with a repressive state. Their idea of what is good or solutionable is instructed by liberal ideals, which dismisses the communities experiencing state violence and actively represses those who wish to liberate the chains of oppression. For instance, when talking about the liberation of women through a poststructural lens, liberalism and feminism cannot be intertwined because of the patriarchal values rooted in liberal ideology. The language of the law is never going to be beneficial for all women, because of internalized patriarchy which normalizes liberalism
The nonprofit sector shadows the repressive behavior of the government, “It also helped to professionalize these movements, since only those with advanced degrees could do this kind of work, thus minimizing the importance of mass-based grassroots organizing“( Smith 7). Liberal ideologies have denounced social change, in a way that perpetuates non-transformative solutions to generate competition within the fight for liberation, and create structural dependences on the repressive state. Historically, most forms of social change and political mobilization derives from community organizing and resisting, rather than relying on the legal, economic and political services of the state (Smith 5). Co-opting radical changes comes from the notion of liberal ideals denouncing violent resistance and replacing it with a repressive state. Their idea of what is good or solutionable is instructed by liberal ideals, which dismisses the communities experiencing state violence and actively represses those who wish to liberate the chains of oppression. For instance, when talking about the liberation of women through a poststructural lens, liberalism and feminism cannot be intertwined because of the patriarchal values rooted in liberal ideology. The language of the law is never going to be beneficial for all women, because of internalized patriarchy which normalizes liberalism