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 (DIR) Post #ADvd1ePivXPQ1eyOwK by GreenandBlack@sunbeam.city
       2021-11-30T11:43:26Z
       
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       Been thinking these questions to myself lately:What ways can we build independence outside of and without the state model?Why are our independence campaigns so reliant on some future referendum that may not even be won?How can an independent Scotland decolonise itself?Why do independentist parties continue to participate in the institutions of the greater British state?How can we separate the concept of "Britishness" from allegiance to the United Kingdom?How can an independent Scotland make reparations for its participation in the British Empire?How can an independent Scotland heal its sectarian divisions that may be exacerbated by independence?Would Scottish independence accelerate the collapse of the United Kingdom and the neo-British Empire?What could an independent Scotland do to support other independence movements?How can we build a new independent system without recreating British colonial and authoritarian structures?Etc.
       
 (DIR) Post #ADvd1g3SpGn97CZeWO by GreenandBlack@sunbeam.city
       2021-11-30T11:59:15Z
       
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       How do we avoid the construction of a nation-state around a unitary (arguably nonexistent) Scottish identity?How do we fight against the capitalist and remaining feudalist tendencies of the native Scottish ruling classes?How do we avoid falling into the trap of class collaborationist nationalism?What can we learn from historical movements for independence from the British Empire?How can independentists best work with Scotland's immigrant and racialized communities? How do we fight back against the xenophobia and racism within our own movement?What can independentists do to combat resurgent nationalism and fascism in Scotland?How can independence work to the benefit of highlanders and islanders?How do we prevent the opening of a hard (or even soft) border with Northern England? How can we integrate the Scottish diaspora into the independentist movement? What will our future relationship with the EU and UK look like?
       
 (DIR) Post #ADvd1hWDNrNref27yS by GreenandBlack@sunbeam.city
       2021-11-30T12:12:31Z
       
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       What can be done to combat transphobia within the independentist movement?How do we separate tradition from traditionalism? What effects will independence have on our ecological transition?What do we do about the massive fossil fuel industry in Scotland?Can an independent Scotland be non-capitalist or anticapitalist?How can the independentist movement work against the power of landlords, some of whom may even support independence?Will an independent Scotland institute a programme of land rights for crofters?Could we incorporate the strategy of the land trust movement as a means to build independence?What can the independence movement do to directly combat poverty?What lessons can we learn from our own history in the building of an independent Scotland?How do we achieve independence without the centralisation of power around Holyrood? What happens when the SNP collapses following the achievement of independence?
       
 (DIR) Post #ADvd1jC59gT4qnd4s4 by GreenandBlack@sunbeam.city
       2021-11-30T12:23:02Z
       
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       What relationship does the independentist movement have to populism?How can we prevent the rise of a demagogue in an independent Scotland?What do we do about the existing colonial and authoritarian institutions that will likely be carried over into an independent Scotland?How do we undo the marginalisation of the Scots and Gaelic languages in tandem with promoting the learning of foreign languages by native Scots?What do we do to ensure civic nationalism doesn't devolve into ethnic nationalism? How would we react to the establishment of federalism in the UK?Would an independent Scotland's constitution be written by the government, parliament or by a citizens' constituent assembly? In a possible future that the UK collapses, how do we establish an equitable relationship with those polities that emerge from that?Does a version of a united British island exist without centralised domination by a unitary government in Westminster?