The Dynamics of Class Struggle

[OKULAJA]

We often throw words around like Petty Black Bourgeosie and African Working Class, etc. I feel its necessary to insure that everyone has a clear understanding of these terms. I'll explain it by using an analogy.

I often like to refer to the movie "Braveheart" with Mel Gibson. Yeah, yeah, I know its some cracka, but I like the movie for its Revolutionary ideals and good Battle scenes.

In an Idustrialized Society you have the Working Class and Bourgeosie. The Bourgeosie are the Capitalists, the ones that control the wealth that finance the means for production, ie getting the raw materials, factories, supporting industries, etc. The Working Class have to sell their labor for a wage to work in those factories, etc. In Agrarian(farmers, herders, etc) or partially agrarian societies, you also have the Peasantry.

Well in Braveheart, being that it was pre-industrialization, you had the Peasantry and Nobility(who represent the Bourgeosie). They were the landowners while the Peasantry worked the land. They were in Scotland. The English Imperialists were trying to takeover Scotland. So it was the English Imperialists vs. the Scottish Nobility (who were the leadership) and the Scottish Peasants.

The Nobility would make concessions with the English to keep certain lands to maintain their power and wealth while the Masses, the Peasantry, would suffer under the boot of the English because they were the have nots. They had nothing to bargain with. So William Wallace, Braveheart-Mel Gibson, emerged as leadership from among the Peasantry. He mobilized the peasantry to raise the Resistance against the English Imperial Occupiers, again under the leadership of the Nobility. But the Nobility sold out the Masses, the Peasantry, looking out for their own interests. So Braveheart went and attacked the Nobility or Bougeosie, and the Peasantry assumed leadership.

We say Petty Black Bourgeosie because these Blacks aren't the true capitalists or bourgeosie which are the Caucasian Colonizers that truly control the wealth. Yet they aspire to be like them, thus the use of the term PETTY. So in the African Independence Movements we see that what happened in Braveheart, happened in Africa.

The Independence Movements were under the leadership of the African Petty Bourgeosie(Nobility) instead of the Working Class and Poor Peasantry. The African Petty Bourgeosie made concessions with the Euro-Colonizers looking out for their own interests instead of being concerned with the interests of the Masses. This is why today we see once Revolutionary organizations, like the ANC, selling out the People. Countries like South Africa having Cauc Prime Ministers. The Caucs still control 87% of the land, etc. The Masses of South Africa are actually economically worse off now then they were under Apartheid. The PAC is the true revolutionary Party in South Africa. Less than 10% of the Trade that goes on in Africa is between Africans. The rest is exports to Euro-U.S. Colonizers and other countries. Thats not trade that's looting.

This is also the case with the African Liberation Movement on the U.S. front. The Revolutionary Organizations that were Mass Organzations led by the African Working Class, ie Black Panther Party, etc, were sabotaged and neutralized while the Petty Black Bourgesoie Orgs, ie NAACP, SCLC, etc, were propped up and supported by 'white' power to co-opt and misidirect our movement. Instead of pushing for Black Power, they pushed for Integration. The Petty Black Bourgeosie made and still make concessions with 'white' power looking out for their own petty interests while the African Working Class loses what strides its made everyday.

The only way Africa is going to be truly Free and regain control of its resources is by tearing down the borders within Africa that were set up to serve the interests of Colonialism and power being placed in the hands of the African Working Class and poor Peasantry through the building of an African Revolutionary Workers Organization. The African Peoples Socialist Party, parent organization of the Uhuru Movement, works dlilgently to form such organization known as the African Socialist International.

If you haven't seen the movie 'Braveheart' check it out. It will give a clearer understanding of Class Struggle.

UHURU!