which form of liberation is most necessary?

[Langalibalele]

"Seek ye first the political kingdom," Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah.

"Politics is the concentration of economics," VI Lenin.

"Political power grows from the barrel of a gun," Mao Zedong.

"Politics is warfare without bloodshed," Carl von Clausewitz.


Economic policy is determined by political forces. But revolutions are not made in the marketplace. That is where slaves have been bought and sold. When our people have to confront the pigs or rotten politicians or unscrupulous business people, that is a political struggle. Without political leadership and structure, you cannot get anything done. The greatest economy in the world cannot endure if it does not have a political leadership over armed forces prepared to defend it. The most important and primary figures in any society is its political leaders, not its businessmen or entertainers.

The every day struggle to put bread on the table, keep a roof over your fam and get an education has to do with the type of political system you live in. The for-profit capitalist system has people intellectually out of focus. Imperialism exploits and oppresses Africans worldwide, yet far too many of us just want to live in peaceful coexistence with it, to have a nice job with nice things and not worry about the rest of us. That is how the capitalist ECONOMIC theory shapes our consciousness and divides our struggle.

[G1deon]

Everything starts within before anything.

Culture teaches the spirit.
The spirit rules our righteousness and points us in our needed direction (or you lose your way).

Only when Unity is achieved, then with our strength combined, we will break this oppressive system and then could we define and shape our destiny.

Politics is our last domain to conquer... The prize!!!


"POWER TO THE PEOPLE"

[Warrior Princess]

Our beloved Harriet Tubman said (loosely quoting) "If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more." Without mental liberation, how would one know that there's a problem in the first place, that liberation is even necessary?

Our beloved sister also said "I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."

[umbrarchist]

I selected economics.

I don't think that is truly correct but in fact economics is inseparable from many other things. Several years ago I was talking to a White PhD economist who appears on television now and then and I brought up the subject of automobiles. I began talking about the internals of the machine and how they work. The man was a TECHNOLOGICAL MORON.

That is a major problem now. It is 40 years after the Moon landing. In World War II these White people were killing each other with machines that flew around at 400 mph. How can such machines be made without knowledge of aerodynamics? So why are we redesigning cars that roll along the ground at less than 130 mph? The technology has been changed for decades for no good reasons. But the economists say nothing about how much has been lost on the depreciation of all of the garbage. They say nothing about planned obsolescence even though John Kenneth Galbraith talked about it in 1959.

There have been over 200,000,000 cars in the US since 1995. At $1,500 in depreciation per car per year that is $300,000,000,000 lost every year.

So Black people talking about liberation via economics without talking about knowing technology are not dealing with today's complicated reality.

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Subversive, by Mack Reynolds

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