Capitalist Pigs = Swine Flu

Swine Flu, bird flu, mad cow disease. Shit is fucked up. The shit, being of course, capitalism in general and agribusiness in specific. This is what I think of these days. The media spends all this time creating this mass hysteria about epidemic after epidemic, but never makes any connections that seem to be glaringly obvious. These "epidemics" don't just happen. They are the result of the insane drive of profits by an elite who don't care about the masses and it affects all of us. This is of course, the insane logic of capitalist society that will use food to fuel cars while actually people are starving. The earth is literally being devoured by global warming...Capitalism must be crushed if we are to survive as human beings.

Racists Against Racism...Not!!

So the World Conference against racism is over . Only about 10 members of the UN did not attend the WCAR. Hmmm, I wonder which countries did not want to attend a conference against racism? wait for it--o yeah probably those countries who were built on racism, who live off of exploiting the rest of the world and would probably owe a shit load of reparations if they ever admitted these facts. Some folks seem to think the problems of the U.S. started 8 years ago...I like to call these people historical illiterates. The U.S. was built on nearly exterminating a whole race of People and stealing my People from Africa. So no, I don't when the goal became to be the head of the U.S. I'm one of those modern day field Negroes looking to burn some shit down to create something new(Revolution!) and if blood trying to get up in the big house blood deserve to burn too. I gots no love for you and you aint fooling me if you fronting for racism just cuz you got black skin.


The same countries who boycotted the Conference against racism are the same countries who got veto rights on the security council, which is a form of racism if you ask me. My problem with the whole thing is you can't get rid of racism with conferences and those countries that are benefitting from racism aren't going to willingly give up their privileges. No amount of documents are going to deal with racism, you have to deal with the economic basis of it. You can't try to curry favor with your oppressor if you serious about liberation.

The tragedy of the non-violent pirate

Yo I was kickin it wit HD who said he was kool wit the whole Somalian pirates thing until it got violent. Wow, he tried to explain how it was good business and he couldn't be mad at that but
they should be more image conscious. So, as long as the pirates fit within some liberal framework, illegitimate capitalists basically, it was all good, but violence offends his sensibilities. Right away Malcolm flashed through my head. "Revolution is bloody, Revolution aint about no love thy enemy and turn the other cheek". "The Mau-Mau wasn't image conscious". Some righteous anger is necessary. That liberal non-violent b.s. can only go so far. Non-violent piracy is about as effective as bringing a knife to a gunfight. There can't be no middle ground between those who are being oppressed and their oppressors. Those who choose to seek some kind of middle ground only end up serving the oppressor and maintaining our oppression. Until we fight for our liberation "by any means necessary" we will continue to spin our wheels trying to fit into a system that seeks to continue exploiting us.

A Revolutionary's Day Off

Just back from a weekend of partying and bullshit in South Beach. I allowed myself a weekend off from the Revolution or so I thought. Justified it to myself with some rationalization of maintaining social relations and managed to not have a crisis of conscience until Sunday-- like how could I afford to take a weekend off my Job while my people still starving? It came in the form of KP pressing me, "how can you say Fuck Obama??" At this point, I knew the partying was over and it was me the Revolutionary-- the extremist versus the whole crew. I knew it would be exhausting and tried to calculate whether it would be worth the effort trying to school these fools. Then I remembered, Revolutionaries don't get days off and went to work.

"What do you think about Obama not bowing to the Queen? that was Revolutionary, wasn't it? noone ever did that before." Hell no. that wasn't Revolutionary and I couldn't care less whether he bow to the Queen or not. What difference does that make? "You keep talking about us being oppressed by the system, what system?" Capitalism. "What else is there" ummm..you ever heard of socialism? "You like Cuba so much, you ever been there? then you can't really know what's going on there" Well I wasn't born until '82 but I know some shit happened before then, and how you know if Obama bow to the Queen or not? Were you in London? "You just hate Obama cuz you hate Black People" Nah I love my People, but I know everyone who look like me aint for me and we gotta be able to make those distinctions.

And so it went for an hour or two until I think I just wore them out and exhausted them. By the end, I don't think I was any less of crazy mofo for not wanting to fuck with Obama and I still questioned was it worth the energy. But a Revolutionary cant judge his work without having a long term view and if all they got out of it is that there is an alternative to capitalism, then I at least made a dent in their consciousness. I gotta keep reminding myself, The Revolution will not be televised.