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Originally Posted by unorthodox Just my $0.02. Throw your rocks at me. |
Nah man. We aint gonna throw rocks at you. We FAMILY!!!
I do want to "compare" and "contrast" some of my observations with yours though, because I think we are going in the same direction and WE CAN HELP EACH OTHER understand the map better if we communicate with each other.
TERMS. You ever met those people who don't like to be "LABLED?" It seems to me that "MANY" people don't like "TERMS" now-a-days. We had an interesting discussion go down in here about how we define "political prisoners." What made it so interesting? I think the proper usage of TERMS is CRUCIAL to us having a solid foundation from which to operate from. If we want to support our political prisoners, I think it would help if we CLEARLY knew what a political prisoner was. How are "WE" to get Freedom if some of us think Freedom is "a state of mind" while some of us think Freedom is "material based" (and it might be BOTH)?
I think that "strategies" are the different ways that you go about implementing "tactics" and I think that "tactics" are the way to achieving the "objective." For example...the "objective" of the A-APRP is "Pan-Africanism." We use the TERM "Pan-Africanism." We don't mind being "LABLED" as "Pan-Africanists" because thats what we are. We have a CLEAR definition of Pan-Africanism. A SOLID definition from which to operate off of. Our definition of Pan-Africanism comes out of the 5th Pan-Africanist Congress convened in 1945. Our definition of Pan-Africanism is
"the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism." Part of our struggle is to get people to understand the objective. Believe it or not, alot of our people have the objective of reforming the amerikkkan capitalist system and fully assimilating within it. Not us. How do we go about bringing forth this objective? Through a whole host of strategies and tactics.
As you have indicated, our very first step should be simply for us to get organized. If we ALL start to join organizations, we might not see it in OUR particular generation, but there will come a generation who, knowing NOTHING BUT organization, will come to ADVANCE THE LEVEL of our organization, and move our struggle forward. Organization gives us MASS consciousness. COLLECTIVE consciousness. Back in the day, when ONE Muslim in the Nation of Islam said "the white man is the devil" in New York City...you better believe that ANOTHER Muslim in the Nation of Islam in L.A. was saying the same thing.
I think I covered all the points I wanted to cover. Wait...the "capitalist" thing. I have to say that I disagree with you "somewhat" on that. I think you had it right when you said we are "consumers" (and we live in a capitalist society), but I disagree that, because we participate in the capitalist system, we are OURSELVES capitalists. This is not true based off of the definition of a capitalist (or at least the way Marx defined the capitalists).
Hopefully somebody else will add some input. This was a good topic.