The Only Way Forward to Union Government and our liberation

[RWalker]

"Here we see racism in its more sophisticated form: neocolonialism" Martin L. King, Jr.
p.175, "Where Do We Go From Here: Community of Chaos?",


"The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside." Kwame Nkrumah
p ix, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism,

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Where are we at this particular point of history? This is an essential question that we must not only ask but forthrightly answer for ourselves.

In the western societies, in the world generally racism and war, oppression and exploitation continues to grow exponentially. Why is this?

Because there is no real unity of the forces opposed to this grave phenomena.

Let us take for example the African Union (AU) -- as we have pointed out the African Union gives great lip service to the heroic lives of men and women such as Nkrumah and Dr. King...but in no way adopts or embraces the principles and actions that defined, animated and motivated such people. Indeed far too many of the individual states of the African Union continue to pursue a path of subservience to neo-colonialism. This is evident in the policies of Ghana, Liberia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Nigeria, Djibouti and others.

While loudly proclaiming their love for Nkrumah, the majority of the AU consistently side with the western powers against the policies and theories of Nkrumah. They embrace regional economic structures instead of a unified continental political economic structure; they hold up the colonial borders, unless, as in the case of Nyerere's Tanzania support of the attempted dismemberment of Nigeria in 1966, they are instructed by their western masters to ignore the sanctity of these same borders; they consider the western powers as critical partners to Africa's and Africans' development as opposed to confronting the hard facts as Dr. Nkrumah did in his policies, actions, all of which are amply documented in his many books and speeches.

In many cases the reactionary African leadership erect the false rationale that it is necessary to kow tow to the western powers in order to acquire the benefits of western know how / technology. But ignores what Nkrumah and others such as Dr. King have to say about the use of technology in the west...what did such people say about the western technical behemoth...well, here is a small example:

from Dr. Nkrumah
"The second world war, fought as it was on almost global scale, called for scientific and inventive genius in unprecedented measure, all towards one end: that of destruction. The need for vast quantities of equipment and the supply services that were ancillary to the purpose of wiping out people and cities, animated, as peace never did, governmental support for investigation and research into faster and more rational means of mass production. The United States, which became the prime arsenal and provider for its Western allies, was naturally foremost in adjusting its industrial machinery to the new methods at the close of the war. Since then the demands made by the reconstruction of ruined cities and the rebuilding of disjointed economies have accelerated the trend. The policy of containment, military adventures such as Vietnam, Cyprus and Korea, cold war stock-piling and the race in rocket assembly and space-ship building have added their quota. Automation and the use of electronics are fast spreading and, as in America, taking hold wherever large-scale production finds it more profitable to replace human labor by push-button thinly-manned mechanisms." p 228 , Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

"Economically and industrially Europe and the USA are ready and poised for socialism. There are the necessary material ingredients which could make socialism possible overnight. In the USA when automation and cybernation aided by nuclear energy reach their highest form of development, the forces of production will have been developed to a point at which there could be the classless society which Marx predicted could come only under communism. But although the USA is at present one of the most affluent and industrialized countries in the world, it is at the same time one of the most socially and politically backward."

pages 73-4, Class Struggle in Africa


from Dr. King:

"...Mammoth productive facilities with computer minds, cities that engulf the landscape and pierce the clouds, planes that almost outrace time - these are awesome, but they cannot be spiritually inspiring. Nothing in our glittering technology can raise man to new heights, because material growth has been made an end in itself, and, in the absence of moral purpose, man himself becomes smaller as the works of man become bigger.

"Another distortion in the technological revolution is that, instead of strengthening democracy at home, it has helped to eviscerated it. Gargantuan industry and government, woven into an intricate computerized mechanism, leaves the person outside. The sense of participation is lost, the feeling that ordinary individuals influence important decisions vanishes, and man becomes separated and diminished.

"When an individual is no longer a true participant, when he no longer feels a sense of responsibility to his society, the intent of democracy is emptied. When culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned, when the social system does not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull away from a soul-less society. This process produces alienation -- perhaps the most pervasive and insidious development in contemporary society."

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"Against the exaltation of technology, there has always been a force struggling to respect higher values. None of the current evil rose without resistance, nor have they persisted without resistance.
from his "Triumph of Conscience," found at p. 644, A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.

As Dr. King observed we have, can and must continue our opposition to our enslavement. We must improve, accelerate and enhance our propaganda activities, so that we are not only able to reach the sector of the students and other sectors of the pro-liberation intelligentsia, the majority of the world's African women who are keenly aware of the class, race and gender oppression they face, the African workers (that is those in the majority who do NOT identify with the neo-colonialists) and deploy these forces to awaken and spark the largest global African demographic, the people who survive by working the land, i.e. peasants; and also mobilize and organize those principled members of the existing armed services, police forces, civil services and the like, those that are willing to come over to the majority position, the majority position being the desire and hunger of the bulk of African people in the world for a better quality of life, real justice, equitable democracies, human rights and unfettered freedom to pursue a civilized existence, where ever we are in the world. To do this we must properly organize and orient our existing organized forces so that they can assist the people to unite themselves, for only the people themselves can form popular unity...not heads of states or governments.

Even then, even with this unity we will still have to fight...as Dr. Nkrumah repeatedly warned us, the neo-colonialist knows that the oppression and exploitation of the African world is key to their global domination and hence the neo-colonialist will not give up their global empire without stepping up the existing violence it employs. Hence, it is logical that our organizational principles and theories must prepare us to understand, resist and neutralize this violence against us.