l am made in the ghetto
Revolutionist,Historian,Artistand a free thinker non-religious
Rem: history does not repeat itself but people repeat their mistakes
They taught women to call a paycheck freedom and motherhood oppression. Imagine being told your time is most valuable when you sell it to a company, but worthless when you invest it in your own family.
There is a question worth sitting with:
Why is it that the violence of the oppressor is called "order", and the violence of the oppressed is called "chaos"?
Why is the French king’s tax collector arriving with soldiers "governance", and the French peasant arriving with a pitchfork "terror"?
Why is the British army marching through Boston "maintaining the peace", and Paul Revere riding through the night "rebellion"?
Why is the plantation owner’s whip "discipline", and Nat Turner’s rebellion "savagery"?
The answer is not complicated.
The people who write history, at least the first draft, are the people who won.
And the people who won built the vocabulary before the war ended.
"Order" means: the arrangement that benefits us.
"Chaos" means: the arrangement we don’t control.
Study that vocabulary carefully.
It is still in use.
Anyone can wave a flag.
A slogan is not a manifesto.
Shouting WanTam or TuTam doesn’t fix a broken society/country.
Anyone without ideology is like a ship without a compass: it will crash and not reach its destination.
Associating with or taking money from those who have plundered public resources, murdered and tortured civilians invalidates any claim to legitimate credentials for transformation.
No structurally defective neocolonial state can be liberated and developed without a revolution.
There is nothing like a “ballot revolution.”
Anyone who claims that a structurally defective neocolonial slave plantation can be transformed through a fraudulent West-Minister electoral process is a mediocre mentally colonized slave with no appreciation of the intractable structural, systemic and institutional problems that must be fixed before Africans realize true independence and dignity.
It doesn’t matter where you are writing, posting or reading from: physical or geographical locations are irrelevant to conceptual absorption, intellectual interrogations and/or contributions to revolutionary discourses.
Karl Marx published his tomes from England and Switzerland but that didn’t limit the reach of his revolutionary work. Vladimir Lenin wrote most of his revolutionary works from Europe. Most of Mao Zedong wasn’t written in China. Frantz Fanon wrote most of his enduring revolutionary work from Algeria but he was a Pan-African revolutionary born in Martinique. Che Guevara was an Argentinian physician and revolutionary who wrote most of his works in Mexico, Cuba, Congo and Bolivia. The Venerable Kwame Nkrumah published most of his revolutionary works in England—not in Ghana.
Focus on and contextualize the message. Avoid primitive pedantry.
Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
#SocialismIsTheSolution
#RevolutionNow
Believing a small group of billionaires are suddenly working tirelessly for the benefit of the working class requires a spectacular level of stupidity.
I’m just gonna leave this list here of all of Israel’s prime ministers; their real names, their names they changed to so they sound more “Hebrew”, and their “ancestral homeland” respectively:
• David Ben-Gurion (David Grün) - Poland.
• Moshe Sharett (Moshe Chertok) - Ukraine.
• Levi Eshkol (Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik) - Ukraine.
• Yigal Allon (Yigal Peikowitz) - Belarus.
• Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch) - Ukraine.
• Yitzhak Rabin (Yitzhak Rubitzov) - Ukraine / Belarus.
• Menachem Begin (Menakhem Volfovich Biegun) - Belarus.
• Yitzhak Shamir (Yitzhak Yezernitsky) - Belarus.
• Shimon Peres (Szymon Perski) - Belarus.
• Ehud Barak (Ehud Brog) - Russia.
• Ariel Sharon (Ariel Scheinerman) - Belarus.
• Ehud Olmert - Russia.
• Naftali Bennett - United States.
• Yair Lapid (Yair Lampel) - Serbia.
• Benjamin Netanyahu (Benjamin Mileikowsky) a Poland.
Hope this helps.
If you live in a country that sends poor people to jail for using drugs, but doesn't send rich people to jail for raping kids, you live in a shit hole country.
Getting someone to class consciousness is like walking them up stairs. You cant just rush them to the top, there are steps they must take in their minds, and you go at THEIR pace, not yours.
I don’t care how “efficient” the private sector is.
Some services should never be run as businesses.
Health care. Water. Electricity. Gas. Prisons.
If a company makes more money when people get sicker, stay locked up longer, or have no choice but to pay, that’s a system built on conflicting interests.
“I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way. Things should be explained to them as fully as possible”—Huey Newton
I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.
The ruling class funds acceptable forms of resistance like identity politics, liberal reformism, and environmentalism, but only as long as they leave out class analysis. Movements that challenge capitalism itself are starved or suppressed.
The advice for the housing crisis is get roommates.
The advice for grocery costs is cook at home.
The advice for the commute is move closer to work.
The advice for debt is cut spending.
The advice for burnout is find balance.
None of these are solutions.
They are instructions for how to be poor more quietly.
They will Tell you that Africa, Haiti, and all these dark nations are shithole countries but they will never tell you that they killed anyone who tried to fix it.
If workers don’t organize to dismantle the dictatorship of capital, life will keep getting harsher: wages squeezed, housing unaffordable, healthcare rationed, debt normalized. The system doesn’t soften over time—it intensifies pressure on those who produce everything. #FightBack
The Rothschilds, the Barclays, and the Oppenheimers. All of them.
They funded the voyages.
They insured the slave ships.
They built empires of gold and diamonds from African mines soaked in African blood.
Their descendants now wear suits,
hold hedge funds, and speak at climate conferences.
But the air still smells like sulfur when they talk of "development."