Intro to Revolutionary Kingism

By King Grim

For a long while I had begun to lose faith. For 
those whom have held high rank in the ALKQN they 
will understand me when I say that all errors made 
are amplified, all achievements minimized. One 
begins to doubt his own effectiveness and even to 
question whether he is a revolutionary or even a 
good persyn for that matter; but then a newsletter 
like Royal Rage comes along and brings a renewed 
sense of strength. For LKPP's we live in a world 
(prison) that can make it easy to forget the 
purpose of our movement. Regardless of the 
longevity of a member the neo-colonial mentality 
becomes an unseen enemy. The proverbial "devil" 
that battles for your "soul." We struggle to keep 
our minds clear from negative thoughts and if 
you're like me, at times, we fail. This thing of 
being a revolutionary is no easy task; it is in 
fact a struggle because being in an imperialist 
stronghold our minds are assaulted with the worst 
of mankind's motives. I still remain in struggle 
to conquer my personal contradictions, to conquer 
the contradictions within the ALKQN, and foremost 
to conquer the principal contradiction, that 
between the oppressed and the oppressor. So I want 
to ask my comrades and the masses I serve to 
forgive me my failures and to aid me in my 
mission: liberation from imperialism. From this 
day forward we will gain more of two things: 
friends and enemies. Friends because all that we 
know of the revolutionary objective we will give 
to our fellow comrades. We will help to organize a 
truly revolutionary ALKQN, the kind that will be 
recognized nationally as truly the peoples 
movement. We will aid to build leaders and not 
credulous followers who fold at the sound of rank 
due to employee mentality. We will expect you to 
challenge our minds on revolutionary theory and 
practice and we in turn will challenge your minds 
to think about a revolutionary ALKQN as opposed to 
the unchanging traditions that opportunists seek 
to maintain. By doing these things we will gain 
enemies from such opportunists, individualists, 
"Bad Jackets," "Red-baiters," those of small-group 
mentality and powerful people comfortable in the 
status quo. Comfortability is not what's important 
here. Correct practice by an ALKQN who represent 
the masses is what takes precedence. 


Do not be mistaken, with nineteen years in the 
Nation, I too was part of that wrongful 
bureaucracy walking between half-measures and 
semi-progress, giving credence to the internal 
politics of power and making countermoves due to 
lack of trust. But enough is enough! The nation 
must analyze such errors and realize an effective 
line, tactic and strategy. It must recognize 
liberation for what it is and not speak of it as 
if it were some unattainable memory of a bygone 
era. We will make revolution and Royal Rage will 
help us to do so! For it is the voice of the 
people who rule and the leaders merely 
administrate the will of the people. 

The primary goal of Royal Rage has currently been 
established as anti- imperialism. In every article 
that we enter let us make sure that our words are 
in relation to this established goal. In order to 
realize our goal let's use Royal Rage to engender 
two important functions: 1) educate the membership 
and the ONC (Oppressed Nation Comrades) on correct 
revolutionary practice and theory. 2) Gain the 
popular support of the ONC in order to wage a 
successful protracted armed struggle against 
imperialism. The time has come for the Nation to 
set itself apart from those lumpen-organizations 
(LO) who claim themselves a movement of the people 
but only show a sluggish service at best and a 
chaos to the communities at worst. Royal Rage can 
also serve to correct erroneous practice. "If we 
have shortcomings, we are not afraid to have them 
pointed out and criticized, because we serve the 
people. Anyone, no matter who, may point out our 
shortcomings. If he is right we will correct them. 
If what he proposes will benefit the people, we 
will act upon it." (Mao Tse-Tung, 09/08/44) 

Remember that there are two types of criticisms 
among us, that against the oppressor [which is 
merciless] and that in support of your comrades 
better practice; "When we deal with criticism let 
it not be one-sided and unanswered however it is 
well to remember that in the course of debate 
every revolutionary should be good at thinking 
things out for himself and should develop the 
[anti-imperialist] spirit of daring to think, 
daring to speak, and daring to act on the premise 
that they have the same general orientation, the 
revolutionary should, for the sake of 
strengthening unity, avoid endless debate over 
side issues." (Chinese Communist Party, 11th 
Plenum). Criticism is a necessary part of any 
revolutionary group because the ONC is not the 
enemy therefore force would not be the way to go 
when trying to solve contradictions among the 
people "Since they are different in nature, the 
contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and 
the contradictions among the people must be 
resolved by different methods...the former are a 
matter of drawing a clear distinction between 
ourselves and the enemy and the latter a matter of 
drawing a clear distinction between right and 
wrong...The only way to settle questions of an 
ideological nature or controversial issues among 
the people is by the democratic method, the method 
of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion, and 
education." (Mao Tse-Tung, "On Correct Handling of 
Contradiction's Among the People", Selected Works, 
Vol I) This thing of criticism is critical because 
if the ALKQN is to be a representative of the 
oppressed then it should represent with the best 
of revolutionary practice. When I was first 
exposed to the concept of the revolution of the 
mind I didn't quite understand its meaning. Now I 
do, a revolution of the mind is a certain train of 
thought that is fundamentally different to how the 
collective, neo-colonial mentality Lumpen and 
semi-proletariat people currently think in the 
U.$. It implies that however you've been trained 
by nuclear family, U.$. institutions, friends, 
convicts, current status quo communities, in 
regards to your life (especially as a collective 
people), that's not the way a Latin King/Queen 
thinks or conducts his/her life; rather s/he lives 
in service to the ONC and masses by way of 
revolutionary practice.

If your life practice can be similarly compared to 
how you lived before Kingism, then you are not 
reppin' the ALKQN correctly. I think comrades that 
we have become lost and we must find ourselves 
again. There is a Maoist saying: "dou-pi-gai" 
(struggle, criticism, transformation).

We struggle with the various contradictions and 
gain material insight, we then achieve a form of 
dialectics that will involve criticism (not 
"against" oppressed comrades per se but the 
incorrect practices in this instance) and proceed 
to gain a new truth in unity which allows for the 
next transformation. It is only by such that the 
next social evolution and correct practice within 
the ALKQN can be achieved. Having said that you 
would be doing your bro. A great service (but more 
so the people) if we were to apply "dou-pi-gai" on 
the articles written about Vieques and hip-hop in 
Volume 1, Issue 1 of Royal Rage. While I would 
agree insofar as the splendid historical dialogue, 
I think we need to analyze how to set in store the 
meaning of culture for the revolutionary and 
whether identity politics are taking center stage 
as opposed to the peoples more important 
revolutionary international struggle.

How is culture and revolution compatible? Write 
Royal Rage and comment. Next subject, throughout 
the year 2000 I was able to correspond with our 
New LCI (Las Coronas Internacional) with great 
difficulty and I'd like to mention that this man 
gives me the impression that he is revolutionary 
in the anti- imperialist sense, nevertheless I 
bring him up because he gave me a criticism which 
I took to heart; that when I write articles I 
should not mention any names.

This criticism is important not because we have a 
consciousness of guilt but because the ALKQN 
specifically is subjected to oppression. I use my 
tag because I've been to a certain limit verified 
to do so. But most of you are not so remaining 
underground is a strategic advantage against pig 
aggression. One of the downfalls of the Black 
Panther Party was that they went above ground. 
Identities exposed, the FBI pigs were able to 
apply COINTELPRO effectively against the BPP. 
Comrades, if you're going to use nicknames do not 
use the one that people know you by. Pick up a new 
"nom de plume" (author's alias) and use that name 
only when you write the articles and not in social 
situations otherwise all a pig's gotta do is wait 
around and see who answers to what nickname and 
you're exposed. Even if you are exposed use an 
alias anyway. Furthermore there is no need to 
describe your geography specifically. When 
writing, do not put your name and address on the 
letter. Put it on the envelope and use your alias. 
Street comrades with a PO Box should correlate 
your alias with your actual name and address on a 
list so all one has to do is send a letter with 
your alias on it and they'll know who to send it 
to. 

Also please do not send me or anyone else in 
prison any specifics on your internal chapter 
(i.e. geography, names and questionable acts). All 
correspondence should be political, secure-social, 
dialectical in revolutionary practice and Kingism 
practice etc... Royal Rage must establish a way to 
confirm membership so that agent provocateurs, 
"red- baiters," and "bad jackets" don't get the 
best of us or Royal Rage. 

We must be responsible. So let us be reminded that 
the code of silence means no public exposure of 
internal functions, identities and internal 
literature of the ALKQN to the knowledge of non-
members. The editors will be responsible to this 
effect and more so the writers. Lastly, I'd like 
to give a shout out to all those lumpen 
organizations like UBN, Asosacion Pro-derecho del 
Confinado - Neta, The Five Percenters, Insane Vice 
Lords, Mandingo Warriors, Mis Carnales en TX., 
FLA, AZ., SLALA-S.B., and all those in Finball, 
and last but not least the only truly communist 
vanguard of North Amerika: MIM! Pa' bajo with my 
leadership, pa' arriba with OUR leadership!!!

We the Almighty King Grim c/o MIM PO Box 20796 Los 
Angeles, CA 90029 mim@mim.org