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Everyday I try to wash away the loneliness, but
it doesn’t come off,
I have no choice but to surrender to its pain, to its scoff,
the agony that runs through my veins,
and through the chains locked around my hands and feet,
leaves me incomplete.
I am the outcome of corruption, the tragedy that feeds the trauma that
stains
my soul, devours me whole.
I ask for empathy, but my own feelings are empty,
slowly I fade out, due to a shattered life,
feeding what kills me inside,
they refuse what keeps me alive,
I refuse… my own right to remain silent,
but all they care about is confinement.
They display my mugshot like it’s a Michelangelo or a Donatello,
they will never admit fault, they will never let me go.
And why should it matter, I will always be hated by the ignorant.
My incarceration was deliberate,
part of a plan to violate and amputate.
My life is now a concrete cemetery,
each moment is a cold day in January.
Wrongfully persecuted, this system is polluted.
Its tools for change is a mockery to rehab and reform,
while the world revolves, I stand frozen in a hailstorm.
Justice for all is a sick joke, who cares I was used as a
scapegoat?
or the misconduct that was over-looked?
My back and shoulders ache from the weight I carry everyday,
how dare you not wear my shoes and tell me it will all be okay!
Who actually cares I’m surrounded by sadism and hate,
when agony and suffering is my fate?
The only thing I fear is the night, that’s when the demons come out to
fight.
I wish you were the fly in my cell, so you can see the truth I
tell.
My life has been unjustly twisted, hollowed out, a sheep heading to
slaughter.
When will the truth be seen, when I die a martyr?
Still, I must traverse through this maze,
even on days I can’t see through the haze and wish for better
days.
This is a poem to show I’m still here, I have not yet disappeared.
Please let me know I’m not forgotten, I am not who they declare
“rotten”
I’m still here all alone, this is not where I belong, I need help to get
back home.
In December 2024, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)
published an article by J Sykes titled “Marxism-Leninism and the theory
of settler-colonialism in the United States”(1), which repeats many of
the same errors that appear in eir July 2022 article (2) arguing against
Sakai’s thesis in Settlers that the white Amerikan working
class constitutes a petty-bourgeois labor aristocracy.
While Sykes does not present any particularly new or interesting
points about settler-colonialism or the imperialist country labor
aristocracy, ey does present us with an opportunity to dissect
revisionist arguments and identify the underlying theoretical errors
that lead our opponents to take up an enemy line on this question. Our
focus will therefore be on exposing how the FRSO line on this particular
question is a reflection of their general tendency toward idealist
dogmatism and metaphysical reasoning. We will see how this national
chauvinist line on the Euro-Amerikan working class is connected to their
enthusiastic support of revisionists like Deng Xiaoping and the
bourgeois counterrevolution that restored capitalism in China.
Although it is perhaps not immediately obvious, both of these
incorrect ideas arise from how they misunderstand the fundamental
contradiction of capitalism in general and conflating it with the
principal contradiction in particular.
General Remarks on
Terminology
Before getting started, a quick note on terminology is in order. The
words “white”, “settler”, “Amerikan”, and “Euro-Amerikan” will be used
interchangeably here unless otherwise noted. The term “Euro-Amerikan”
(often just shortened to “Amerikan”) is the most specific and precise
term to use for the First World imperialist country oppressor nation.
This is preferred over more colloquial terms like “white” (an
unscientific “racial” category) and “settler” (potentially ambiguous)
when referring to a specific oppressor nation in a particular historical
context.
For readers who are not yet very familiar with Marxist terminology in
general, MIM’s Glossary of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is a useful resource that is available
online and can be provided to prisoners for free upon request.
It is also worth mentioning that while the MIM line on the white
working class was significantly influenced by Sakai’s work in
Settlers, our analysis has generally focused on the labor
aristocratic (rather than settler-colonial) nature of the
Euro-Amerikan working class. This is because the emergence of a labor
aristocracy in the advanced countries is a general feature of
imperialism rather than a particular consequence of settler-colonialism.
Sakai’s detailed historical investigation on how the Amerikan working
class became a labor aristocracy under concrete conditions provides us
with enough information to theorize about the entire First World in
general. While there are unique contradictions in nations that developed
in a historical context of settler-colonialism, we agree with Lenin and
the Comintern that imperialism in general has chained entire nations to
finance capital and that these oppressor nation workers have material
interests that are more aligned with the continued exploitation of
colonized labor-power than communism.
One may reasonably ask, then, why even bother to distinguish
settler-colonialism from other forms of colonialism or imperialism? We
have both practical and theoretical reasons to make this distinction. On
a practical level, having a correct and rigorous understanding of
settler-colonialism in a particular historical context would be critical
for a revolutionary government addressing the land question and
calculating reparations owed to internally colonized nations for the
crimes of settlers (genocide, slavery, land theft, environmental
destruction, etc). On a theoretical level, it is important because we
can arrive at knowledge about the contradictions of imperialism as an
abstract mode of production in general by investigating the particular
contradictions governing the development of imperialism in a concrete
historical setting. We will see what this means in more detail in our
response to Sykes and critique of FRSO revisionism.
Responding to Sykes
on Settler-Colonialism
In this section, we will quote from the Sykes’ article so it is clear
to our comrades reading this in prison what exactly we are responding to
here and to contrast our differences in line and method. Unless
otherwise specified, all quotes in this section are from Sykes.
Sykes begins with a straightforward appraisal of Marxism:
“The purpose of Marxist analysis is so that we can know how to make
revolution, so that we understand the terrain of struggle, formulate
correct strategy and tactics, and identify our friends and enemies. We
must understand the contradictions at work in society and unite all who
can be united if we want to win. So, we need to be very careful and
precise in that analysis.”
So far, we do not disagree. We will see, however, that nobody at FRSO
is apparently up to the task of actually performing this analysis or
correctly identifying any of the glaring theoretical errors that
immediately follow.
Having paid lip service to dialectical materialism, Sykes proceeds to
abandon it completely in eir analysis of U.$. class structure and
idealist proposition that the principal contradiction in the United
$tates is “between the capitalist class on the one hand, and the
multinational working class and its allies on the other, particularly
the oppressed nations.”
If FRSO had any “theorists” who had bothered to actually understand
Marx’s work or the categories laid out by Mao in On
Contradiction, they would know the fundamental
contradiction is between the forces of production and the
relations of production. This contradiction is the driving
force of hystory. The class struggle is a reflection of this
contradiction under a particular mode of production in a concrete
hystorical context where class divisions exist. The class struggle is
not equivalent to the fundamental contradiction. The fundamental
contradiction existed in primitive communal societies and will also
exist in an advanced communist society, since any humyn society will
have forces of production (labor-power, natural resources,
tools/machines) and collectivized ownership is a form of production
relations. Class struggle is resolved through the abolition of class
distinctions under communism. The fundamental contradiction would still
exist, but it would no longer reproduce the conditions for class
antagonism. These are totally separate concepts that describe different
things. The distinctions may seem subtle but it is important for
communists to get it right, otherwise we risk saying nonsense and taking
up enemy positions, which is precisely our charge against FRSO here.
This confused and distorted use of terminology is in fact a load-bearing
pillar of Sykes’ argument, the theoretical core of an old and rotten
line.
Sykes acknowledges the existence of national oppression in some vague
sense and admits that Amerika “began as a settler colonial project,
founded on the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of
Africans”, but rarely identifies the oppressor nation in any concrete
terms. This is what Maoists call “one-sided thinking”, which completely
fixates on one aspect of a contradiction while ignoring the whole. We
cannot have national oppression without an oppressor nation, just as we
cannot replace the oppressor nation with the monopoly capitalist, no
matter how convenient it would be if we could.
Sykes continues by dressing up this ahistorical idealism as if it
actually has anything to do with Marxism:
“While it is true that the legacy of settler-colonialism in the
United States certainly persists, the systems of oppression have not
remained static. Dialectical materialism understands that the nature of
a thing is defined by the contradictions inherent to it. Things aren’t
fixed, but always changing and developing according to these
contradictions.”
What is the difference between “the legacy of settler-colonialism”
persisting into the present and actually being a settler-colony? This is
the kind of language games revisionists use to vacillate on a question
rather than take a clear, coherent and principled position. They know it
would be absurd to claim that national oppression has ended in the
United $tates, but they also want to argue that class struggle is the
principal contradiction, so they do this sleight-of-hand that places the
white Amerikan working class at the center of national liberation
struggles by saying it is the same thing now as the class struggle. It
is how they present ideas they presume, or perhaps wish, to be true as
if they are material facts. It is how they smuggle the reactionary
petty-bourgeois class interests of the Euro-Amerikan oppressor nation
into the international communist movement and to divert resources from
national liberation struggles that could actually develop the principal
contradiction and deliver serious blows to imperialism. This is a
counterrevolutionary line that runs contrary to the interests of the
proletariat.
Without providing any evidence or concrete reasoning for it, Sykes
claims that “different contradictions have taken the principal,
determining role” throughout U.$. hystory. The national question has
always been the principal contradiction in the United $tates. This
analysis so far is just a long, meandering way to argue that Amerika is
not a majority exploiter oppressor nation. It is also a strange, even
absurd, claim to make after admitting that the United $tates was founded
on slavery and genocide from the very outset.
Those of us who live in reality know that the contradiction of
national oppression cannot be resolved without national liberation. The
FRSO position seems to be that the national question was subsumed by the
class struggle in the United $tates at some point in hystory. This is
reductionist and ahystorical.
We are finally offered something resembling a thesis on what
settler-colonialism is and the role it played in U.$. hystory:
“U.S. settler-colonialism is a particular social formation with a
particular set of contradictions at the heart of it. Historically it is
a transitionary period in the early development of the capitalist mode
of production. It is characterized by the dominant role played by the
contradiction between settlers on the one hand and colonized people on
the other. This contradiction is the main thing shaping the trajectory
of the capitalist mode of production in the period of “primitive
accumulation” during its nascent development. In this way,
settler-colonialism fueled the rapid growth of the capitalist mode of
production in the early United States.”
There is a concrete, material claim being made here without any
evidence provided to support it. The definition of settler-colonialism
as being a “transitory period” is dogmatic as it is self-serving to
Sykes’ argument.
Sykes mentions that class divisions existed among the settlers, many
of whom were indentured servants or otherwise indebted. This is
presumably meant to suggest that only the upper echelons of the settler
population drew material benefits from colonialism. However, even the
lowest strata of the white settlers who originally came to the colonies
as indentured servants were eventually able to pay off their debts and
become land owners in the early 1700s. From the very earliest days of
colonization, the Euro-Amerikan oppressor nation considered access to
land and upward mobility reserved to itself.(3) Meanwhile, well after
the U.$. Civil War that nominally ended slavery (1865), white settlers
continued to struggle to keep land promised by the government out of New
Afrikan hands and expanded their land grab from First Nations.
Sykes claims that “this transitional settler-colonial period had to
give way to mature competitive capitalism, bringing forth new
contradictions”, suggesting that the contradictions of
settler-colonialism were resolved in the United $tates by “two bourgeois
revolutions, the War of Independence which overthrew the British
colonial system and the Civil War, which overthrew the slave system of
the Southern planter class.”
It would be more correct to say that the particular contradictions of
settler colonialism had a profound (and continuing) influence on the
development of capitalism and imperialism in the United $tates. If these
particular contradictions (between settlers and the colonized masses)
did in fact simply “give way” to the fundamental contradiction of
capitalism (between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat), then how do we
explain the material fact that national oppression still exists in
occupied Turtle Island today? Sykes would like us to believe the
Euro-Amerikan oppressor nation was simply replaced by the “monopoly
capitalists” at some point, conveniently resolving the contradictions
between settlers and the colonized masses. Note that this again
conflates the contradiction of nation with the contradiction of
production. We cannot simply substitute the capitalist class with the
oppressor nation and call it a day. That is not how dialectical reason
works. Sykes is resorting to metaphysics to defend an idealist
proposition by arguing backwards from the white chauvinist presumption
that national liberation is not the principal struggle for communists to
focus on today.
Amerikan independence from Britain did not fundamentally change the
class structure or relations of production in the Euro-Amerikan settler
colony. The economic base and ideological superstructure that developed
in Amerika remain inseparable from the genocidal land theft and
exploitation of slave labor that remained at the very foundation of
settler life. Whether a settler colony achieved independence from its
host country or not is an irrelevant detail, what matters is the class
structure that develops. Kanada never had a war for independence and is
still to this day a subject of the British monarchy. This did not impede
the development of capitalism in Kanada and the impact of any lingering
“feudal remnants” is limited to the realm of superficial things such as
street names, anthems and portraits on bank notes. While the
aristocratic classes in Europe certainly enjoyed the spoils of colonial
exploitation, it was settlers at the front lines who directly engaged in
the plunder and genocide.
The Civil War did have a more significant impact on the class
structure and property relations in the United $tates, chiefly by
resulting in the abolition of chattel slavery and eventually giving
limited neocolonial status (e.g. voting rights, property rights) to New
Afrikans. This did not resolve the contradictions of national
oppression, although it did transform external conditions such that the
struggle for national liberation entered a distinctly new phase of
development. According to Sakai, there were two distinct conflicts
playing out in the Amerikan Civil War. The first “was between two
settler nations for ownership of the Afrikan colony – and ultimately for
ownership of the continental Empire” and the second was “the protracted
struggle for liberation by the colonized Afrikan Nation in the
South.”(4) It should also be noted that the abolition of slavery did not
come from the class consciousness of white workers, nor did it engender
among them any meaningful or lasting sense of solidarity with Afrikan
labor.
On the contrary, white workers began to form organizations like the
National Labor Union (NLU) to protect their jobs and wages from being in
free competition with Afrikan workers. Groups like the KKK functioned as
the paramilitary wing of this reactionary class interest. The abrupt end
of Black Reconstruction in the southern United $tates and the
institution of Jim Crow laws is proof that the reactionary nature of the
Amerikan oppressor nation precluded revolutionary “multinational” class
solidarity. The NLU (the first major federation of white labor unions,
similar to the AFL-CIO today) is an instructive example on this point.
As Sakai pointed out, “when the National Labor Union was formed in 1866,
most of its members and leaders clearly intended to simply push aside
Afrikan labor” and that a major point of contention among the white
workers expressed in the first meeting was over “how the capitalists had
used Afrikan workers to get around strikes and demands for higher wages
by white workmen” and that the most “advanced” white workers argued for
taking Afrikan workers into the NLU as a means of “driving them out of
the labor market”.(5)
Similarly, it was not the monopoly bourgeoisie who organized pogroms
against Chinese workers, forcing entire villages out of their homes at
gunpoint – it was white workers acting in their own class interest. The
bourgeoisie were generally quite content to exploit Chinese labor, which
is why the white workers took it upon themselves to violently attack
Chinese workers throughout the west coast and form reactionary
anti-Chinese organizations such as the “Workingmen’s Party of
California” and to support policies like the Chinese Exclusion Act.
The most significant historical event responsible for consolidating
the contemporary class structure in Amerika was World War II, where the
United $tates emerged as the hegemonic imperialist world power and was
consequently able to expand and intensify exploitation of the Third
World to such an extent that the entire white Euro-Amerikan oppressor
nation could be subsidized with plundered wealth from abroad. Suburbs
became the new frontier homesteads on stolen land. While the rest of the
world was recovering from a horrifically destructive war, the United
$tates was able to leverage its military and economic advantages to
become wealthier than ever. This allowed the United $tates to further
shift the burdens of capitalist exploitation to the Third World and
further consolidate the Amerikan labor aristocracy as loyal subjects of
imperialism.
Sykes attempts to excuse all of eir ahystorical idealism by digging
up a quote, presented with no citation or context, where Lenin described
the U.$. War for Independence as “one of those great, really liberating,
really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few”. Sykes also
invokes a similar “famous” quote from Mao, who said that “In the final
analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the
whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles
that oppress the black people.”
Just because a great revolutionary like Lenin or Mao said something
does not make it true or above scrutiny. Mao was being unscientific in
making this assessment, which should be criticized regardless of the
context. Like all ideas, the national chauvinism of white workers has a
material basis in concrete social relations that developed in a
particular hystorical context. Lenin’s remark appears in the context of
a letter to U.$. workers in the early days of Soviet power and should be
understood as more of a diplomatic gesture intended to garner political
support for the Soviet Union rather than as a scientific statement about
Amerikan hystory. It was also perhaps not so clear in Lenin’s time that
the entire Euro-Amerikan nation was so firmly in the enemy camp,
although even in March 1919 the Comintern was focusing their attention
on struggling against the Second International and labor aristocracy by
putting out statements like this:
“At the expense of the plundered colonial peoples capital corrupted
its wage slaves, created a community of interest between the exploited
and the exploiters as against the oppressed colonies – the yellow, black
and red colonial peoples – and chained the European and American working
class to the imperialist ‘fatherland’.”(6)
For an in-depth review of the how Lenin and the Comintern actually
viewed the imperialist country oppressor nation working class, see
Lessons from the Comintern: Continuities in Method and Theory,
Changes in Theory and Conditions from MIM Theory
10.
Interestingly, Sykes admits that the United $tates does “solve its
growing crises through the oppression of whole nations and peoples…in
order to extract superprofits to prop up its rotten system” but then
draws an erroneous conclusion that “the multinational working class and
the liberation movements of oppressed nationalities [have] a common
enemy – the monopoly capitalist class.”
This term “multinational working class” is used frequently in
attempts to smuggle in oppressor nation chauvinism to allegedly Marxist
politics! They simply cannot imagine a socialist revolution happening
unless it has a white majority. This idea that a united front that
includes white workers as a class is “necessary” to defeat imperialism
comes from an idealist and national chauvinist assessment of the actual
balance of forces. They assume pandering to white workers must be a
strategic necessity and invent a political line that fits that
assumption. However, hystory shows that most Amerikans will sooner rush
to the defense of empire rather than struggle for the overthrow of a
system that places them in materially privileged position in the global
class structure.
We can draw a parallel between FRSO urging the national liberation
struggles to unite with the white working class and the NLU urging New
Afrikan workers to join their unions as a means to ensure the class
position of New Afrikans remains subordinate to the interests of
oppressor nation labor aristocracy parasitism. The practical
ramification of the FRSO line would divert resources from the internal
semi-colonies struggle against imperialism into pushing for the economic
demands of First World parasitism. This holds back the communist
movement and serves the imperialists. Hence, it is not merely wrong, it
is an enemy position!
Sykes claims that a “real revolutionary movement” in the United
$tates “must have working class leadership” and since “the working
class…is fundamentally multinational in character” any revolutionary
movement that doesn’t assume the necessity of settler leadership is
based on “wishful thinking” and doomed to failure. This provides us with
a good example of postmodern idealism, which rejects the scientific
method and dialectical materialism by reifying subjective individual
experience as the foundation for a theory of knowledge. In this context,
the term “working class” seems to be understood as more of a vague
cultural identifier rather than an objective material relationship to
production. Sykes concludes that even though capitalism places some
(unspecified and abstract) “greater pressure” on oppressed nation
workers, their “white siblings” have a shared class interest because
they are exploited by the “same bosses” and “the higher rate of
exploitation in the oppressed nations drives down living standards for
the entire multinational working class.”
If whites are exploited the same as everybody else, then why do they
own more property and control more wealth than oppressed nations within
U.$. borders? Why are oppressed nations incarcerated at such
staggeringly higher rates than white Amerikans? How can we say that
national oppression even exists if white workers are truly suffering the
same oppression at the hands of the “bosses and landlords” as everybody
else and that it is only the “monopoly capitalist class who reaps the
superprofits from national opression”?
MIM has written and distributed volumes of literature showing
precisely how the oppressor nation “workers” materially benefit from
imperialism in general and how white Amerikans benefit from the
oppression of internally colonized nations. This “monopoly capitalist”
class has bought off the entire Euro-Amerikan nation with plundered
wealth and rewarded them with preferential treatment in everything from
home ownership, access to higher education, employment in higher paying
white-collar professions and every other aspect of life in bourgeois
society. This is not only about buying off the loyalty of white workers,
it is also a practical necessity to have a large non-productive working
class to oversee administration of the empire in exchange for access to
a share of the surplus value produced by colonized labor power, allowing
the imperialist country petty bourgeoisie and labor aristocracy to
consume far beyond their own productive means. This is how imperialism
maximizes the realization of surplus value as profit and reproduces a
class structure where entire nations are chained to the interests of
capital.
Sykes argues this basic realization about imperialism comes from
“petty bourgeois ideas about the backwardness…of the working class”,
rather than a concrete analysis of concrete conditions, and that it
reflects a “pessimistic and defeatist attitude” toward the
“revolutionary potential of the [imperialist country] working class”,
rather than strategic confidence in the international proletariat.
The real “pessimistic and defeatist” line is Sykes’, who seems to
believe that 220 million Euro-Amerikans have a decisive role to play in
the movement to liberate 8 billion people from exploitation. If the
international proletariat has to wait for a majority of Amerikkkans to
wake up and join the revolutionary struggle against oppression, then it
is indeed a bleak situation. Thankfully, we know that is not the case
and have strategic confidence in the masses. It is neither necessary nor
expedient for the proletariat to tail the left wing of white
nationalism.
We should at least credit the FRSO for not calling their position
“Maoist”, even though they do claim to uphold the Chinese revolution and
dogmatically quote from Mao’s works. We can also credit Sykes with
coming up with the new argument that a desire to “copy and paste an
analysis of the Palestinian struggle onto U.S. conditions” is why
communists consider the United $tates to be a settler colony. This
absurd claim does not deserve a serious response, but at least it is
something we have not heard before!
Having squeezed all that we can out of the idealist metaphysics
lurking beneath the FRSO brand of revisionism on the labor aristocracy,
national liberation and the principal contradiction, we will now discuss
how this fits in with their revisionist line on the restoration of
capitalism in China.
Theory of Productive Forces
It is generally the case in hystory that the forces of production
constitute the principal aspect of the fundamental contradiction and
that changes to the relations of production primarily follow as a
consequence of changes in the forces of production. For example, the
rise of technology like the steam engine and mechanized agriculture
(forces of production) had a transformative effect on the class
structure of feudal societies (relations of production). This led to the
emergence of new social classes (namely, the bourgeoisie and
proletariat) with a revolutionary interest in overthrowing feudal
aristocracy and building industrial capitalism.
Deng Xiaoping’s “theory of productive forces” essentially claims that
a similar development in the forces of production was necessary to
transform the relations of production in socialist China. The
revisionist coup that began in 1976 implemented policies that replaced
socialist economic planning with a return to capitalist price
speculation and market incentives, opened up Chinese industry to foreign
investment, and forcibly shut down collectivized farms in favor of
private agriculture and family ownership. Maoists view this as a
bourgeois counterattack on the masses in China, who had achieved great
victories in constructing socialism and mobilizing hundreds of millions
to engage in ideological struggle and serve the people.
During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Mao led the masses
of China to show how it is possible (under certain circumstances) for
the relations of production to become the principal aspect of the
fundamental contradiction and consequently transform the forces of
production. This approach to constructing socialism requires mass
mobilization and sharp ideological struggle, such that the whole of
society is engaged in consciously revolutionizing the relations of
production. In practice, this means industrial and agricultural
development is oriented toward meeting humyn needs (rather than profits)
and ideological struggle against “bourgeois right” (the idea that some
people deserve to have more than others due the nature of their work,
their social position, etc) was heavily emphasized and continually
advanced. This is why Maoists uphold the Cultural Revolution as the
greatest advance towards communism thus far in history. This is also why
we view a return to NEP-style economic policies, the dissolution of
collectivized agriculture and the reification of bourgeois right as
counterrevolutionary.(7)
Criticize
Settler Revisionism! Criticize Deng Xiaoping!
FRSO has basically the same line as their predecessor organization,
the League of Revolutionary Struggle (LRS), in supporting Deng Xiaoping,
the arrest and imprisonment of the “Gang of Four”, and the end of the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR). They defended this
counterrevolution in China on the grounds of empricism and bourgeois
individualist lifestyle fixations about the Gang of Four. See MIM’s 1999
congress resolution Repudiate
sub-reformism; fight revisionism! for a more detailed polemic
against the LRS and FRSO on this topic.
We are not surprised(8) to see an organization that still upholds
Deng’s counterrevolutionary theory of productive forces consider the
Euro-Amerikan working class as being part of the proletarian camp.
Trotskyists make a similar error in how they understand the fundamental
contradiction in the context of imperialism by obfuscating the nature of
superprofits to support their chauvinist view that imperialist country
workers are actually the most exploited in the world. Both of these
revisionist errors are rooted in a one-sided view of contradiction and a
dogmatic belief that First World wages are higher because the class
struggle has advanced so much due to the more developed productive
forces in advanced capitalist countries. In reality, imperialist country
workers are able to live far beyond their own productive means by
receiving wages many times higher than the actual value of labor-power
and entire nations are subsidized by exploitation of the Third World
proletariat. The imperialist country oppressor nation is an enemy class
that cannot be relied upon to advance the struggle for communism.
For a recent critique of organizations nominally supporting the GPCR,
but still promoting “working class unity” in the United $tates, see A
Polemic against Settler “Maoism” by the Dawnland Group.
5. Ibid., pp. 99-100 6. Jane Degras, The Communist
International: 1919-1943 Documents, Vol. I, p.18 7. The New
Economic Policy (NEP) was implemented in the early days of socialist
Russia to transform backward economic conditions. It made use of
capitalist profit incentives. 8. MIM Theory 10, Coming to Grips
with the Labor Aristocracy, p. 28
On the other hand I’m over here on the McConnell Unit where I see
religious people who are supposed to be for the people work in the place
as the oppressor with the same pigs whom practice oppression. When we
look at the capitalist here in American prisons we see the state abuse
their authority by placing power and control in the peoples’ hands. Half
of the time we can’t get nothing done because every time we stand up for
what’s right here come the gang members and religious folks taking up
for the pigs and it’s your fellow inmate brother whom is putting you
farther in oppression. I myself experience this a lot.
The staff here, these officers rather, let the prisoners deal with
the prisoners, in return the officers look the other way when the
workers are dealing drugs. Just the other day a crip wanted to go on a
hunger strike for the pod going on a 15 day lock down because several
individuals got caught smoking. These same officers know the prisoners
who are bringing the smoke over here. All these individuals are working
together with a handful of gang members and religious folks. The real
revolutionary prisoners are basically stuck in the cell all day.
My question is when are we gonna connect with people who can do
something about the situation. We write grievances and file complaints
and we still can’t get anything done. I know for a fact we sent out
every letter of 35 grievances. I pack my stuff up and went to the front
desk and told them to move me back [because an L.O. runs this block that
I have a documented conflict with] and they threatening me with physical
harm and told me to go back to my pod.
The people in Israel are evil people who hide behind the Christian
religion. They want the rest of the world to follow in the Christian
faith but they can’t follow in their own faith. Israel needs to stop
oppressing Palestinians especially the women and children. America is
supposed to stand against that kind of crime. R.I.P
to Marcellus Khalifa Williams. May the brother reach the heavens and
dwell in the window of God. The injustice system can still kill innocent
Black men in America no matter what the people do, no matter how hard
the people fight. His death did not go without a learned message. Once
I’m free I’mma keep in mind that that could be me.
MIM(Prisons) adds: Yes, people inside must connect with
people on the outside to build a real movement to stop this oppression.
We can look to the national liberation struggle in Palestine and the
connection to the prison movement there as an example. We once had
stronger movements here in occupied Turtle Island. And as we build them
up again, we must build that crucial link between the inside and
outside.
I disagree with this California prisoner’s definition of snitching in
the 2nd paragraph of the “Stop
Snitching on Pigs” article (also in ULK 86). Not all
snitching is done to a “higher authority.” To snitch is to incriminate
an ally, or should-be ally, through written/verbal statements made to
anyone who could be a pig/rat/enemy, in general. If I take
incriminating info/intel to a rat, or to somebody who views the pigs as
“allies”, through gossip/rumors/incriminating raps (AKA rhyming witness
statements), then this is snitching. It’s well-known that this type of
gossip/rumors often finds its way to the higher authorities. The problem
is that this form of snitching, via gossip/rumors/raps, happens so
routinely that everybody is typically guilty of doing it, which
means that nobody’s trying to enforce
anti-gossip/anti-rumors/anti-incriminating rap. You never know you’re
gossiping to a MFer on 60-days-in, or a fuckin’ pig dressed up/tatted up
like a convict. I’ve seen many rats feed all kinds of gossip to the
enemy. Convicts gossiping about other convicts is just as bad as
convicts writing grievances on other convicts, snitch-wise, it’s just
that grievances are documented on paper while gossip isn’t always
documented. However, just because an incriminating statement isn’t
documented on paper doesn’t mean it’s not what it is – snitching.
Gossip, rumors, and incriminating raps aren’t silence, and thus, violate
the code of silence.
Why would you gossip about somebody who you claim to be loyal to,
when that “somebody” is somebody you claim you’d never snitch on? Some
say “a man’s only as good as eir word,” but if you’re using your word
behind somebody’s back, it means your words can’t be trusted. If your
word can’t be trusted, it’s no good. How am I supposed to be loyal to
people who I can’t trust? Besides, if you’re gossiping about everybody
else, then why can’t they be gossiping about you? What they’ll do to
you, they’ll do to me. An organization plagued by gossip is a ship
that’ll sink at the words of loose lips. (Mao discussed this in part in
eir essay Combat Liberalism). Plus infiltrators can weaponize
gossip to keep everybody against each other. The revolution demands open
confrontation. In a time of war (seeing as how prison is war,
gossiping to any enemy about an ally is disloyalty/snitching.
Don’t be scared to pull MFer’s up and encourage confrontation.
Gossip/rumors, as an aspect of communication, are a contradiction
within the masses that stirs up all kinds of dramatic
manipulation/schemes/disorganization/confusion/division/etc. If we’re to
wage a campaign against gossip/rumors/incriminating rap.
Criticism/self-criticism is not to be conducted behind comrade’s backs.
We need our organizations gossip/rumor-free, if we’re to succeed in our
number-one goal.
Time, for a Revolutionary, is more than just money; Time, for a
Revolutionary, is waging Revolution – with emphasis placed on the word
“wage”/“waging.” You wage Revolution against the enemy, not
with the enemy. Don’t waste much time loosening one’s lips with
the enemy, if it’s not words spoken in the name of the Revolution.
Seeing as how Communism is a society where no group has power over
any other group, I’d like our next articles to discuss how we can change
individuals, who collaborate with our powerful enemies and view them as
allies, into viewing the powerless as allies, who aren’t to be
collaborated against, or snitched on – a shift in loyalties, through
dialectical materialism’s resolution of contradictions.
In y’all’s experience, what strategies/tactics have y’all applied
behind bars, in order to internally change other prisoners’ loyalties,
in favor of Revolution? What new strategies can we come up with? How do
we get people to start caring about people who need help, instead of $,
drugs, sex, and power?
Can a communist society exist with individuals abusing powerful words
against each other, through snitching, gossiping, rumors, incriminating
raps, etc., or with collaboration against one another? (I personally
don’t see a communist society tolerating bullshit like that). What will
communication, on/off the internet, look like in a communist society and
how will it be organized? Remember, communication rules the nation(s),
so it’s very important to address this in our campaigns, if we’re to
succeed. The problem is that it’s hard enough for many of us to control
our own mouths, let alone the mouths of an entire society. How do we
organize our communications leading up to socialist Revolution?
It’s time to put the Revolution where your mouth is.
NOTE: This is why MIM said that, under the dictatorship of the
proletariat, party members will be paid the rate of the lowest paid
workers in society.
When state-level petitions fail, we now have this petition to appeal to
the Department of Justice. This federal level appeal may help put
pressure on the state corrections departments ignore our appeals
Mail the petition to your loved ones and comrades inside who are
experiencing issues with the grievance procedure. Send them extra copies
to share! For more info on this campaign,
click
here.
Prisoners should send a copy of the signed petition to each of the
addresses below. Supporters should send letters on behalf of prisoners.
Section Chief – Special Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division,
U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
20530
ACLU National Prison Project, 915 15th St NW, 7th floor, Washington
DC, 20005-2112 (for those ready to bring class action
lawsuits)
Office of the U.S. Attorney General, 1425 New York Ave. NW,
Washington DC 20530-0001
Director/Commissioner/Secretary of Corrections (for your
state)
Agency or Facility Grievance System Director or Coordinator (for your
state)
And send MIM(Prisons) copies of any responses you receive!
MIM(Prisons), USW PO Box 40799 San Francisco, CA 94140
It’s the new world order where elites and the
sheep casts the stones in their glass house with no repercussions
the ones that have the most flaws that do the judging
social media, with monarchy mind control, frequencies that ease you into
the ideology of the one-thought masses
to shake the foundation and indoctrinate to destroy individuality
the vibration is silent, the common sense factor is void to keep the
masses dumbed down playing the role of the factions
falling blindly into the tactics
its meant to be as the silent plan, the master holding the strings in
his hand to make the puppets dance
dividing individuals into color coordinations, against beliefs, morals,
values and pushing the agenda that its not me, pinning them against
we
praising false idols that never existed, keeping the masses in a sheep
mentality to control the mind, once the mental is conquered the body
falls in line
it was the master plan, to control the man, once the man is controlled
he unconsciously follows the plan
ripple effect to oppressing the woman, to think she is beneath him,
stripping the nature of the goddess and losing the true nature of
creation
the duality and the creator, the given and the taker, the mother Earth
Gaia that needs us to awaken to her greatness
into the materialism that will take your soul, temporarily make you
whole, once a happy home but now your not at home
the instant gratification, putting a smile on your face but inside it’s
hateful
masking the internal with the external, dodging the obstacles, scared to
go within because you were never taught how to
so embrace to be oneself, don’t blend in because we were born to stand
out, individuality, is a blessing, much lessons, break the chains of
what we thought, and now you are.
No average free citizen, nor incarcerated individual, has hardly ever
heard of the term “light pollution” (otherwise known as “constant
illumination”) which is very harmful to the lives of humans and
animals.
Jailers across the country continually adopt the malevolent practice
of installing fluorescent lighting within housing cells of jail and
prison facilities alike. Officials usually have complete power to turn
the light off at night, but choose not to do so. This scheme, to my
knowledge, is a sure form of corporal punishment.
To make matters worse, sheriffs and prison guards threaten convicts
and detainees with disciplinary infractions for covering the light up at
nighttime. When officials usually have a standard-issue flashlight that
can easily be used when conducting their security checks.
Scientific studies have rendered evidence, showing how light
pollution is a contributing factor to the causation of triggering
diseases. These diseases can range from hypertension, diabetes, cancer,
and a slew of other health problems.
Light pollution initially affects our circadian rhythms, leading to
the onslaught of ensuing problems that follow afterwards, which disrupt
the systems of the body. Our circadian rhythm is the body’s internal
sleep-wake-clock, which is governed by the way light enters into our
bodies through the retinas of the eyes. Light itself, is usually
measured in the fashionable method of lumens, luxes, and candle watts.
Whenever our exposure to constant illumination is 24/7 for weeks,
months, and years, could be why a bunch of us may be experiencing health
problems, while being totally unaware that light pollution is the hidden
catalyst behind our illnesses. Especially when there’s evidence of sleep
deprivation being the main culprit.
Keenan vs. Hall, a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, is one of
the leading cases amongst many others in the federal district courts,
where decisions have been made on this matter that have set precedence.
Despite this, jailers continue to practice this form of penology that
brings about the needless cruel and unusual double-whammy punishments
caused by light pollution. Over the past several decades across the
country, animal facilities housing monkeys and other creatures were
forced to shut down due to those particular animals’ exposure to the dangers of
constant illumination, that was ultimately deemed to be animal
cruelty.
The question to be answered here, should one might think to ask is
this: shouldn’t the life of a human be just as much valued as a precious
animal’s life, if not more, regardless of incarceration?
MIM(Prisons) responds:This is just one of many examples
of the disregard for prisoners’ health under imperialism. The negative
impacts on the health of oppressed peoples from U.$. prison conditions
is just one contributor to a system of low-intensity genocide in this
country.
We fight for a socialist world, where prisoners’ health is taken as
seriously as that of lab animals or of any other humyn beings for that
matter. The current system dehumynizes prisoners as part of a system of
national oppression, and control of surplus populations. Through
national liberation we will build a system of rehabilitation that
recognizes the value of restoring people who have committed crimes
against the people to citizens that contribute to society.
The Chican@ Movement continues to grow and evolve as it reacts and
responds to the social reality that we encounter today. For this we need
to put our goals in perspective so that we may build today and guide our
future guerrer@s who will continue the struggle for liberation and
self-determination for the nation. Today we delve into our predecessors’
actions and previous lessons and ideas that shaped our political line
and which guide us into the future. For these reasons it’s crucial that
we define what our true objectives are today in our movement that we
hope outlines how our movement has evolved and continues to grow into
the future.
In the 1960s many within the Chican@ movement of that period sought
Chican@ power in the form of better schools, of an end to abuse or the
murder of our people in the imperialist wars like in Vietnam. For many
others Chican@ Power meant to have community control in some form, of
having our own teachers and schools or even a parcel of land. Many
Chican@ organizations did not study political theory, even today
political education is not promoted in the nation on the level that it
should at this stage in the decaying of capitalism.
A true classification today of Chican@ power should push the
boundaries and transcend generations in ways that cut the path for our
future cadre. For these reasons Chican@ Power today can only be seen as
based in a socialist revolution and a communist future less it be
reduced to simply a defective label. Seeking more jobs or “funding” for
our community which is ultimately strangled out of the Third World by
imperialism no longer quenches the thirst we have for justice and
liberation.
The pairing of Chican@ power with revolution is the natural cause of
development if we are to take a materialist approach. We know that the
capitalist State will not hand over power, it will not unseat itself, on
the contrary the natural cycle of imperialism demands that it “eats
more”, it must in order to continue to exist. In the initial stages of
revolution a joint dictatorship of the oppressed nations will ensure the
U.$. capitalist state and all of its imperialist lechers are thoroughly
stomped out for good, thereby cutting a path for Aztlán and other
oppressed nations to finally exercise people’s power in their liberated
nations where socialism can blossom.
Today’s Chican@ movement is in agreement for the most part that we
the Chican@ Nation are a people who should be free from oppression and
who deserve to be free to organize in our own fashion and even our own
government. Where the road becomes blurry for some is what Chican@ power
should look like as the term Chican@ power can fill many different
buckets.
One challenge we have today, to be quite honest, is the rise of the
petty bourgeoisie within Aztlán, and as a result, the dominance of
bourgeois ideology is taken for granted. Taking a Materialist approach
was rarely done in the past where our concrete reality and the ever
changing conditions, very material conditions in which we exist as an
oppressed nation highlight the terrain in which we are up against.
Another challenge is the strong pull towards integration with the
oppressor nation and what these two challenges mean or how they affect
the activity of the Chican@ nation and its vision for power or what
power even looks like to Aztlán especially for those under the influence
of Amerikkka or capitalism more broadly. As communists we know that
humyn activity and how they move through life affects their production
and one’s mode of production. How and what we as Chican@s produce
defines how we are developing as people and as a nation. Production is
key to assess a people or productive forces but here in the U.S. the
“productive forces” are for the most part bourgeoisified.
For Aztlán the most revolutionary elements that push for power would
be the lumpen and migrants. The Chican@ lumpen exist in a tribal type of
structure within these false U.S. borders with a definite class
formation and antagonism between lumpen and the capitalist state. At the
same time some of the petty bourgeoisie will ride with the revolution
and we should understand these social forces collectively and build with
this in mind. All socialist revolutions proved this to be true,
including Mao’s Chinese revolution.
Chican@ Power at this stage will not come from a gun. We have much
work ahead, mental work, theoretical production to get our gente where
they need to be theoretically or ideologically. But consciousness
raising cannot elevate a nation if this effort is devoid of practice,
and correct practice does not arrive without error in which to learn
from. So practice is necessary for us to propel Aztlán onto the stage
where Chican@ power is finally realized as without practice we are left
with what Marx called “dead facts”. Within U.S. prisons I read of a lot
of resistance and theory including new Chican@ revolutionaries and
others. Some of this writing is very good but without practice and
putting some of these ideas into reality the U.S. prisons can degenerate
into warehouses of dead facts. Likewise the semi-colonies can end up as
prison houses of dead facts.
Our hystorical conditions as a semi-colony will compel us to obtain
national liberation. Our ideology will streamline this process. Our
colonizers today control the dominant ideology taken up by the majority
of the masses here in the occupied territories, even among the most
oppressed we can see and hear them parroting ruling class propaganda.
The capitalist state spends a lot of money and time from its many
agencies in order to spread its brainwashing on a mass scale. It’s our
job to counter this as best we can. Chican@ power relies on how
effective we are at this.
We should know and understand that Chican@ Power will be realized in
a world lead by the Third World. What’s more is the Chican@ Movement is
also part of the International Communist Movement (ICM) and millions of
people around the world who are a part of the ICM are also currently
fighting for national liberation just like us. They fight against class
and gender oppression just like us. We are not alone, on the contrary we
are with the majority of the world’s people in our fight for
justice.
Today Chican@ organizations should be building Barrio Committees in a
hood near you. The Barrios Committee will be the cultural center and
political laboratory for Aztlán at a regional level. The Barrio
Committee is but the seed for the Chican@ Communes. These are the steps
towards dual power and community control. This is the path towards
Chican@ Power that needs to be utilized in order to guide the nation
towards a society that is free from oppression.
In the last issue, we mentioned the removal of Spanish-language
content from federal websites. Since then, we’ve seen the Pentagon
removing information about Navajo code-talkers, Jackie Robinson,
Tuskegee Airmen and Japanese who fought for the U.$. in World War II
from their websites.
The U.$. military helps to impose fascism on the oppressed people of
the Third World when they get out of line. But now that fascism is
coming home, the oppressed nations here are the first to feel the
brunt.
There’s a long history of the U.$. military using benefits and even
citizenship to bribe people to fight for them. There’s also a long
history of the United $tates not always coming through with their
promises. This erasure of oppressed people from their history is just
one more slap in the face of those who thought they’d get in with the
Amerikans by fighting in their wars. And we see it as a petty sign of
how Amerika is taking a different approach to oppressed people in this
country.
The Regime
While Trump wasn’t so different as a U.$. president first time
around, we can look to his current cabinet to confirm the consolidation
of fascists for this second term.
Does anyone think a Euro-immigrant from apartheid South Africa who
throws Nazi salutes, and is the richest persyn in the world, is a friend
of oppressed nations? How about Pete Hegseth, the guy with the Christian
nationalist tattoos now in charge of the military that already had a
white nationalist militia problem? Who ironically closed his self-leaked
plans to bomb Yemen with:
“We are currently clean on OPSEC. Godspeed to our Warriors.”
President Trump recently told Salvadorian President Bukele to “build
five more places” to hold “homegrown” criminals from the United $tates,
referring to the giant Salvadorian “terrorist” concentration camp Trump
has begun sending people to. Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff for
policy and homeland security adviser to Trump, when asked if Mahmoud
Khalil will be deported, replied:
“Yes he will, as will anyone who preaches hate for America.”
Vice President J.D. Vance is a benefactor of another of the richest
people in the world, Peter Thiel, who also funds Curtis Yarvin, who
Vance says he takes much influence from. Yarvin believes New Afrikans
have lower IQs and that their enslavement was thus justified because
they were destined to be slaves. Yarvin is paraphrased as writing:
“He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is
to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary
confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected
to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a
rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”“(1)
This will sound very familiar to regular readers of ULK.
This is the future of prison tablets. A slow genocide that avoids the
current messiness of videos of dead babies inspiring young
anti-imperialists to destroy weapons manufacturing plants of companies
like Elbit Systems.
These are just some highlights of the current regime that have been
exposed in much more depth by others over the past year. These people do
not want us and they’re serious about it.
Peak Integration?
By the 1960s, the injustices of Jim Crow had garnered sympathy and
support from many sectors for the self-determination of the internal
semi-colonies (in particular the Black/New Afrikan nation). Since the
victory of the Civil Rights Act, that support has declined, replaced
with an imperialist project of assimilation. At this point, most of us
have only lived in an integrated United $tates, which has greatly
reduced the interest in national liberation on occupied Turtle Island.
Of course the disproportionate poverty, homelessness, murder and torture
of oppressed nations continues, but many in the internal semi-colonies
joined the Amerikan consumer class post-integration as well. As a
result, we have more Uncle Toms and Tio Tomas than ever before
(especially the Tios and Tias who continue to join the U.$. military at
increasing rates).
Black Lives Matter (peaking in 2020) and the al-Aqsa Flood in 2023
brought an uptick in support for national liberation. With the
resumption of the U.$.-i$rael war on Palestine and Lebanon, breaking peace
deals in both cases, opposition to what the imperialists are doing
in the Middle East continues to rise within the United $tates. We also
think the internal actions of the current Trump regime are already
beginning to heighten contradictions and broaden the base for possible
alliances as the fascist enemy consolidates its forces against us.
Deportations
have targeted those from Latin America and the Muslim world so far.
As the prospect of war with China advances we will also see the rise of
racism against Chinese people (or those perceived to be Chinese) in this
country, as we have seen in the past, as recently as the COVID-19
pandemic.
You Can’t Think Racism Away
While liberals think we can (and have) made progress against national
oppression by fighting “wrong ideas” in peoples’ heads, racism is in
reality a product of national oppression. It cannot be ended without the
national liberation of the oppressed.
The reason people believe in integration is that they believe that
the wealth and prosperity of the United $tates can exist without
oppressing and exploiting other nations. It cannot. And the Trump regime
has a more realistic understanding of this than most Amerikans.
As support for national liberation and alternatives to the current
system grow, we must make this point very clear. We must draw a clear
line between the proletarian line and the social fascist and
crypto-Trotskyist lines that have historically linked the struggle
against oppression with the struggle for more wealth for Amerikans. The
struggle for more wealth always wins out. This is why the
labor aristocracy is the main force for fascism, even if the
imperialists are doing most of the work so far.
Cuando las tabletas primero salieron en 2017, las primeras tabletas
los vendieron a los presos, yo fui uno de ellos a los cuales sus seres
queridos le compraron una. Luego FDOC decidió cambiar el correo postal a
correo digital, so la seguridad de FDOC recogió todas las tabletas
(incluyendo esos que los presos pagaron). Después regresaron y le dieron
una tableta gratis a todos los presos. Desde ese tiempo hasta ahora las
tabletas han sido actualizados no menos de tres veces.
Este camarada recientemente salio de Close Management (CM) y fue
transferido a Hamilton C.I. Desde que llegue a esta prisión, he
encontrado que durante el ultimo año el Sargento encargado de Propriedad
ha estado confiscando tabletas, dando reclusos reportes disciplinarios
por “manipulación de las tabletas” en la mayorídad de la veces – los
presos se encuentran culpable en 99% de los casos. Son puesto en
suspensión indefinida por poseer otra tableta y imponen un préstamo de
$130 por reconstitución que tienen que pagar. Por un tiempo, FDOC nos
dieron un poco, pero después regresaron ha quitarnos todo. FDOC nos
regalaron las tabletas, pero porque son propiedad del estado, tienen un
a excusa para llevárselas.
La Población Prisionero
Yo llevo 28 años internado en las prisiones y todo ha cambiado. Esto
ya no es una prisión, se ha convertido a un centro de guardería infantil
donde los tontos pueden pasar el tiempo. Todos quieren ser parte de una
pandilla, pero antes que tomas ese juramento, dejame recordarte que es
necesario entender porque esa nación, grupo, o pandilla fue nacido.
Nació por parte de los oprimidos para pelear en unidad (como colectivo)
contra la opresión. Y quien son los opresores? Los puercos que trabajan
aquí, la administración, la sistema, el estado, y el gobierno. Yo
conozco mi historia, sabes la tuya?
FDOC tiene un total de no mas de 30 guardias trabajando por turno
(1/4 de ellos trabajan horas extra) y eso es contando el personal que
trabaja en los controles del área en frente del prisión. Es una
vergüenza que un grupo tan pequeño de puercos puedan controlar, oprimir
y abusa a un grupo de 1250 a 1500 presos, matones, gánsteres, criminales
y pandilleros. Los presos de FDOC no tienen unidad y menos tienen
respeto a ellos mismo. Digo que no tienen respeto a ellos mismo porque
puede ser que yo tengo un deuda de una sopa de 78 centavos y ya están
listo para matarme, pero los puercos te pueden llamar un “montón de
perras” ha ti y tu dormitorio entera y no hacen nada pero seguir con su
cabeza abajo.
En el FDOC, la mayoría de los pandilleros prefieren tener un puerco
como amigo en vez de otro preso que tiene el mismo colores de uniforme.
Respetan mas a los puercos que a sus compañeros presos. Ali-al Haf de
Georgia, leí tu articulo en ULK Winter 2025 – no estas solo! Yo también
creo que esto es un virus contagioso. Ahora los presos están haciendo el
trabajo de los puercos. Revisan y chequean que las puertas de tu celdas
están asegurados, pasan correo, y ellos se aseguran que no comes dos
veces en la cafetería, hasta los puedes ven parados al lado de un puerco
como guardaespaldas. Pasan besando el culo pero al fin del día están
igual como yo; encerrado en una celda. No importa como positiva sea tu
opinión sobre los puercos, porque al fin del día ellos no van as
arriesgar sus cheques de pago para ti. Coño Preso – no seas ciego y mira
el color de tu uniforme! No te das cuenta que es un diferente color?
Aprendan la diferencia entre un derecho y un privilegio. Aprendan y
usen la sistema de quejas institucional (Grievances). Necesitas dejar un
historial pasado escrito en caso si la situación necesitar ir a otro
nivel. Un historial pasado escrito enseña prueba que trataron una ruta
de paz antes de elevar la forma de lucha.
Todos esos camaradas del pasado que sacrificaron sus sentencias,
fechas de salidos, salud, familia, libertad, y otros que hasta fueron
mártires que sacrificando sus vidas solamente para que esta generación
se tiren sus manos arriba y rendirse? De verdad? Esto es como estamos
sirviendo nuestro tiempo en 2025? Donde están tus cojones??
Unámonos todos bajo una misma linea de pensamiento. Antes de que te
quejas por no tener una tableta o por no poder ver el partido en el
tele, necesitamos a pensar sobre los precios de las cantinas, de como
ganar mas “gain-time”, como traer libertad provisional ha los presos de
vida como yo, y como mejorar la comida. Disculpame pero la prisión no es
un lugar donde vienes para pasar el tiempo con tus amigos y donde se
pasa un bien tiempo. Esto es el cementerio de los muertos con vida,
donde tu futuro se puede cambian completamente en menos de 15 segundos.
No te olvides de quien eres, de tu cultura, y de donde vienes. No te
sometes al trabajo del puerco. No me sorprendo si en algunos años
solamente ofrecen nuestra visitas por video y paran todo contacto
físico. Si no nos unimos y no nos levantemos como un pueblo, como una
familia, vamos a seguir de perder. Recuérdate que antes de que fuiste un
pandillero, fuiste un hombre, un ser humano – no un animal. Niego que me
tratan y que me tienen cautivo como uno. No quiero abrazos con la vida
hasta que mi pueblo sea libre.