The War of Words and the Struggle for Africa
The Imperialist United States power structure wages a racist class war against colonized Africans inside America to the effect that we are dragged into all of its struggles, under the cover of Democracy. While some define this war as a low-intensity conflict and others call it a counterinsurgency, rather it forms a (white nationalist) ruling class offensive to break the Ghetto (the black colony). Bill O’Reilly calls it a culture war. So if the current strategy of the bourgeoisie (capitalist ruling class) is to break the African community, by what methods and to what outcome will this strategy prevail? Or, has it prevailed already, and merely forcing its domination as far down the throats of black people as it can go?
The conditions and relationships which define this war are exhibited thru a balance of forces in the class struggle which revolutionaries must recognize and analyze; and, we must learn the historical process thru which to build a social force strong enuf to break with Imperialism.
We must not underestimate the viciousness of the Imperialist system nor fail to reckon with its black-skinned operatives, America’s neo-colonialists. US reactionary ideologues contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, after swearing to bring about its demise. They have sworn to take away Voting Rights, Civil Rights and other laws which protect the rights of America’s black citizens. The reactionaries have made it clear that they oppose the military victory over apartheid and colonialism in southern Africa, and we must be prepared to defend that as well.
It is important to recognize the important role the Soviet Union played in the stability of Africa and other regions. While anti-colonial and anti-Imperialist wars may have raged around the globe, a form of proletarian dictatorship kept the racist depredations of the West more or less in check. With the collapse of the USSR, hell broke loose. There was no “peace dividend“, as promised by the US presidents. Instead, forty years of fascist culture repressed by the Soviets became unhinged with the Serbian onslaught in Bosnia.
At the same time, tensions built up and exploded in Sierra Leone, where a ten-year-war embroiled neighboring countries and slaughtered about 120,000 people. Others were mutilated by machete in a manner performed only by European and Arab colonial overseers. This type of warfare had been committed as recently as the Eighties in Mozambique, Angola and Nicaragua by forces financed by Portugal, South Africa, Israel and the United States. Now it was being financed by Africans themselves, sub-imperialists nevertheless, who backed their power bid with blood diamonds.
Africa and the Caribbean are the crucial links to black identity in the USA. Once we become cut off from those linkages, the Imperialists may as well place the shackles back on our wrists and ankles.
Imperialism, realizing this, saturated the American consciousness with pictures and reports of African misery thru out the Nineties to demoralize blacks and drive us into the arms of the racist white power structure. Yet the Soviet Union had a great deal to do with how Africans internalized their class relationships, tribal relationships and national identities. The proletarian dictatorship had supported the wars against colonialism and apartheid around the World. When it fell, an explosion of internecine violence erupted, even within black communities across the United States.
We cannot go back and pick up the Soviets, to restore them tho they were, indeed, our noble comrades. Today we have to pick ourselves up and build our own self-led black working class World revolution.
In so doing, the pride we have in ourselves as Africans has not so much to do with our past as with our present. We will not prosper as a people without doing away with superstition, yet we must simultaneously seek a path of development which diverges from the wanton path of consumerism and waste.
We have to understand our relationship to wealth and power. We must recognize that Africa has all the necessary resources to be independent in every area, and that Africans must become absolutely committed towards its development. That demands a strategy to defeat Imperialism and its supporters in Africa. It demands nationalization and collectivization of African resources, plus political support from Africans in America’s ghetto, or black colony.
But a confrontation is necessary. A war within the black colony is necessary. It is necessary to create breathing room for revolutionary forces to define the movement and the future of African people. We cannot permit Imperialism or its lackeys to make that decision. The war of words is where we begin, but it is never where we end.
The Imperialist United States power structure wages a racist class war against colonized Africans inside America to the effect that we are dragged into all of its struggles, under the cover of Democracy. While some define this war as a low-intensity conflict and others call it a counterinsurgency, rather it forms a (white nationalist) ruling class offensive to break the Ghetto (the black colony). Bill O’Reilly calls it a culture war. So if the current strategy of the bourgeoisie (capitalist ruling class) is to break the African community, by what methods and to what outcome will this strategy prevail? Or, has it prevailed already, and merely forcing its domination as far down the throats of black people as it can go?
The conditions and relationships which define this war are exhibited thru a balance of forces in the class struggle which revolutionaries must recognize and analyze; and, we must learn the historical process thru which to build a social force strong enuf to break with Imperialism.
We must not underestimate the viciousness of the Imperialist system nor fail to reckon with its black-skinned operatives, America’s neo-colonialists. US reactionary ideologues contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, after swearing to bring about its demise. They have sworn to take away Voting Rights, Civil Rights and other laws which protect the rights of America’s black citizens. The reactionaries have made it clear that they oppose the military victory over apartheid and colonialism in southern Africa, and we must be prepared to defend that as well.
It is important to recognize the important role the Soviet Union played in the stability of Africa and other regions. While anti-colonial and anti-Imperialist wars may have raged around the globe, a form of proletarian dictatorship kept the racist depredations of the West more or less in check. With the collapse of the USSR, hell broke loose. There was no “peace dividend“, as promised by the US presidents. Instead, forty years of fascist culture repressed by the Soviets became unhinged with the Serbian onslaught in Bosnia.
At the same time, tensions built up and exploded in Sierra Leone, where a ten-year-war embroiled neighboring countries and slaughtered about 120,000 people. Others were mutilated by machete in a manner performed only by European and Arab colonial overseers. This type of warfare had been committed as recently as the Eighties in Mozambique, Angola and Nicaragua by forces financed by Portugal, South Africa, Israel and the United States. Now it was being financed by Africans themselves, sub-imperialists nevertheless, who backed their power bid with blood diamonds.
Africa and the Caribbean are the crucial links to black identity in the USA. Once we become cut off from those linkages, the Imperialists may as well place the shackles back on our wrists and ankles.
Imperialism, realizing this, saturated the American consciousness with pictures and reports of African misery thru out the Nineties to demoralize blacks and drive us into the arms of the racist white power structure. Yet the Soviet Union had a great deal to do with how Africans internalized their class relationships, tribal relationships and national identities. The proletarian dictatorship had supported the wars against colonialism and apartheid around the World. When it fell, an explosion of internecine violence erupted, even within black communities across the United States.
We cannot go back and pick up the Soviets, to restore them tho they were, indeed, our noble comrades. Today we have to pick ourselves up and build our own self-led black working class World revolution.
In so doing, the pride we have in ourselves as Africans has not so much to do with our past as with our present. We will not prosper as a people without doing away with superstition, yet we must simultaneously seek a path of development which diverges from the wanton path of consumerism and waste.
We have to understand our relationship to wealth and power. We must recognize that Africa has all the necessary resources to be independent in every area, and that Africans must become absolutely committed towards its development. That demands a strategy to defeat Imperialism and its supporters in Africa. It demands nationalization and collectivization of African resources, plus political support from Africans in America’s ghetto, or black colony.
But a confrontation is necessary. A war within the black colony is necessary. It is necessary to create breathing room for revolutionary forces to define the movement and the future of African people. We cannot permit Imperialism or its lackeys to make that decision. The war of words is where we begin, but it is never where we end.
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