MIM Notes 186 May 15 1999
Education is fundamental

I greet you with peace and blessings. I am in receipt of MIM Theory 
number 10 (1996) that you sent me the other day. Unfortunately I haven't 
had a chance to read it yet, but will as soon as possible. You know I 
was thinking about how so many of us minorities here in the United 
Snakes mainly Blacks and Latinos are so caught up in the material world 
and have absolutely no idea that they are being oppressed and 
systematically annihilated. We are so busy trying to play catch up and 
mimic the bourgeoisie while they sit back unseen planning our 
destruction. People are so oppressed that they don't even realize that 
there oppressed. An oppressed mind is the most potent tool of the 
oppressor. That is why I feel before we can have a revolution on a 
political level we must first have a revolution of the mind.

The literature that I receive from you definitely has helped me to 
enlighten others to the nature of our oppression. There's just so many 
brothers still in the clutches of the material world which has been laid 
out purposely before us the way that it is.

This is why the bourgeoisie keeps the masses away from there social 
equality, it is the science of how they rule the world. When will people 
wake up and realize that there is no catching up. This present system 
(capitalism) wasn't designed so that the proletariat could catch up. But 
as we know any thinking man made can be "destroyed". And Capital 
Imperialism are man made systems which can be and must be destroyed by 
any means. For it is the only way. A revolution is most definitely 
needed, but education into the struggle that we face is the most 
fundamental.

Your newspapers and literature is definitely a good source of education. 
I have been doing my duty to spread the message to others who I see has 
a great deal of potential to become revolutionaries. I will read this 
MIM Theory as soon as i get a chance.

In struggle, 

-- a prisoner in the east February 1999.