Re: "Red" Politics / Red Blood -- And The Signal June 6 Anniversary

[MARIPOWER716@xxxxxxx]

>This is the 40th Anniversary of the legendary Jackson Movement epoch --
e.g., months of painstaking grassroots organizing under the most challenging
circumstances; our prolonged and bloody Woolworth Sit-In; massive marches;
hideous repression and massive arrests; the huge concentration camp at State
Fairgrounds; The Injunction; ambush murder of Medgar Evers; ever-more massive
demonstrations and arrests; the rigged auto wreck which destroyed my car and
seriously injured myself and Rev. Ed King; and much much more high and blood-dimmed
drama. The struggle reached out to involve Martin King on-the-scene -- and
the Kennedys from Camelot.

For years, the generally sanitized local "official" celebrations of the
Jackson Movement -- while focusing almost solely on the tragic murder and
heroic martyrdom of Medgar -- deliberately or otherwise  miss many of the other
significant dimensions  of the Jackson Movement:  the great courage of a vast
number of grassroots African American people and their non-Black allies;
brutal, wide-ranging and deadly attacks by hordes of police, sheriffs and deputies,
highway patrolmen, deputized and other vigilantes, Klan types.

And the many dirty filthy garbage trucks used to carry the many hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of arrested demonstrators away to barbed wire, police
dogs, dirty food, and tainted water.>

Hunterbear

Comments

Thanks.

There exists a very bourgeois conception concerning the social struggle in
our country, the decades of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s and a tendency to put
forth a view that the hippy movement and flower power characterized the social
movement. Equally dangerous is an inflated view of the SDS and its bastard off
spring - the New or young communist movement.

We face a very dangerous social situation today and that is all right. No one
and no power on earth can halt a historical movement because it is driven by
history logic expressing and outside the individual. This crisis is generated
on the basis of the productive forces in the purest possible manner. We face a
textbook social revolution. Our working class is the theoretical working
class Marx wrote about. Computerization, digitalized production process and
advance robotics are tearing society from its old foundation in the industrial order
and the workers can understand this because it is obvious.

The battle lines are clarifying. Reaction says people are lazy and the
individual has nothing coming; that those who protest are whining, stupid and have
no right to live. The zealots of the Bush administration have stepped forward
as the open face of a deep antagonism within capital as it exists in
relationship to the material elements of production. The ruling class is attempting to
leap to another political basis in front of the revolutionary upsurge.

The forces for changes say we have everything in society needed to live a
decent and cultured life today and the ruling class says screw the world if I
cannot profit from you. It's that simple. We can explain this to the American
people based on facts and statistics and plain talk. Things in our country are
worse than what we talk about and we are being dragged into a slow brewing
revolutionary crisis. This crisis does not look like the crisis of the past because
it is pure textbook crisis. The textbook is that of Karl Marx and Frederick
Engels. Not simply overproduction or "overcapacity" or a financial crisis but
the mode of production in rebellion as a historical configuration called the
industrial system.

The projection based on the here and now is that the bourgeoisie can be
defeated with roughly 65 million people in motion. An organization - alliance, of
roughly 150,000 committed people basically saying the same thing can transform
America and win over several million in a short space of time. Basic necessity
needs must be protected and taken out of the sphere of profit making. Food,
clothing, water and energy, reasonable minimum shelter, minimum free basic
medical care, federally mandated and funded basic education.

We can ante up for the pizza because the pizza joint is not socially
necessary productive forces. OK. ;-)

Melvin P.


Eye ay -
I against I
Flesh of my flesh
And mona my my

Two of a kind
But one won't survive

My image is reflect in the enemies eye
And his image is reflect in mine at the same time.

Eye - aye
I against I
Flesh of my flesh
And mona my my

Two of one kind
But one won't survive

Right here is where the end gonna start at.

Conflict, contact, call back.

Fight a sin where the land is marked at.
Settle the despite about who the livest.

Free world answer is whoever survive this.

Only one of us can arrive forever
So you and I can't ride together
Can't live or can't die together
All we can do is collide together.
So I skillfully apply the pressure
Won't stop until I am forever.

One.

A doorstep where death never comes
Spread across time till my time never done
And I'm never done
Walk talk why and every run
And when they moveth I ever come.


Theme from "Blade II."

 "I Against I" or Massive Attack.


Melvin P.