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Re: [Marxism] bribery and Lenin



In a message dated 6/12/2004 7:08:13 AM Central Standard Time,
Waistline2@xxxxxxx writes:

>Within the multinational state of the American Union this bribery is
institutionalized as the relative privilege of the Anglo-American people in
relationship to the African Americans, Indians, Mexicans, etc. This bribery
is expressed
as regional wage differentials and social privileges, as well as these same
divisions within historically distinct regions. Privilege is expressed on
every
level and most certainly housing patterns.<

It is simplistic to state that the industrial revolution was the result of
European landing in America but that is what happened. It is simplistic to state
that slavery drove this process and accelerated the development of heavy
manufacture . . . but that is what happened. The privileged people where of
course
those who were not the slaves and this is certainly simplistic, but the fact
of the matter.

It is most certainly a privilege to belong to a group doing the murdering and
carrying out the extermination of the Indian, taking their historic lands and
placing them in concentration camps called Reservations. This is of course
simplistic, but the basis of privilege and bribery as the historical curve. One
is not required to show what part of the surplus value institutionalize a
historically evolved intractable social position enforced by the oppressing
people
on the oppressed.

In fact this poses the question incorrectly.

The wide spread Imperial bribery of the American peoples has been very good
to them and it is coming to an end . . . not all at one time . . . but this
bribery is coming to an end. No one has to prove that men are in a position of
relative privilege in relationship to women. Here is a self evident truth.

Privilege and bribery in the American Union can never be separated from the
genocide against the Indian and their current economic and social position in
our system of production and political superstructure.

Privilege and bribery in the American Union can never be separated from
Southern slavery and the current economic and social position in our system of
production and political superstructure - in respects to the African American
people or the theft of half of Mexico's land or the slaughter of a million
Philippines and their subjugation. Then there is all of South America.

These are self evident facts even the bourgeoisie does not deny. The
bourgeoisie justifies this on the basis that all men are brothers and in
respects to
the oppressed hoards he is apparently the big brother with the rights of "first
night."

Melvin P.

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