Sadly far too many people who should know better believe that a sign
of “equal justice” would be if Kyle Rittenhouse was housed in the empty
cell down the tier from me. Additionally far too many people actually
felt and argued that a sign of the system working was the guilty verdict
given to the McMichaels for killing Ahmaud Arbery. However i wonder what
exactly such people believe happens when these people are in fact placed
into prison. Do people believe these people would share the same
experiences as someone from the semi-colonies? Do they believe these
people will be subjected to the same level of brutality from the state
or its representatives? Do they believe this is “rehabilitation”?
i’ve even heard far too many people state that these people should
not even be given bourgeois rights while going through the courts. Such
people obviously believe in amerikkkan “democracy” and only aim to put
and keep their people in power specifically through the Democratic Party
where they can use the levers of bourgeois civil society to dominate*
the Republican Party. This is vengeance against the Amerikan
bourgeoisie’s political party by another - not justice and definitely
not revolutionary. We should condemn this at every turn.
2020 was lost because spontaneity dominated instead of actual
consciousness. Lenin stated in 1900 that the “spontaneity of the masses
demands a high consciousness from us.” Another obvious failure was the
failure of analysis of what amerikkka’s capitalism-imperialism is and
who her citizens are and their relationship to this specific form of
late capitalism-imperialism. Had this been done there would’ve been less
talk of trying to stuff a true history lesson down the settler-colonist
throats as if this would make them see the light and instead teaching
this history to New Afrikans, First Nations, Raza, API and receptive
whites with an emphasis on self-determination struggles, self-reliance,
anti-imperialism and internationalism. A proper class analysis would’ve
concluded there’s no real opposition to capitalism-imperialism (in 2020)
and most amerikans benefit from this system. The people protesting,
thinking pigs would be or should be neutral, while their system was
under attack; that they would not welcome vigilantes and even thank them
were foolish. If any one was surprised at all by how that night played
out, regardless of the Rittenhouse verdict, they need to go back to the
ABC’s of amerikkkan history (maybe Critical Race Theory would’ve helped
them).
Not only should we not root for U$A injustice system even against our
enemies**, we should denounce bourgeois criminal behavior, not just
gangsterism but even in protests. We are not terrorists nor do we
believe in focoism or anarchy. We advocate revolutionary consciousness.
We do not lead the people to slaughter. We gather forces or at least
sympathy for revolution.
What are prisons for? We know all too well about the
school-to-prison-pipeline and who this is designed for. We know we are
considered surplus-population and prison acts as a social tool to keep
idle people idle. We also know that amerikkkans are infatuated with law
and order (and punishment). We know amerikkkans rest assured when its
carceral system locks people away for 40 or 50 years for whatever
crime…we know amerikkka does not bat an eye at such abuses. In fact
immediately after Rittenhouse’s GoFundMe page successfully got him
acquitted Vice President Harris professed her role as top-cop in
California was to make the system more “equitable” and his acquittal
means there’s obviously “more work to be done”. Again, but what are
prisons for? Rittenhouse should go inside a box (for obviously many,
many years), get old and then be judged (by a specific faction of the
bourgeois dictatorship - the democrats**) to see if it’s enough years
gone by. This is the only purpose prison in bourgeois society serves so
what kind of people advocate such a thing?
Even in prison it’s not well known what prison is used for. Not only
that, even in prison bourgeois mentality is prevalent and ubiquitous… We
sit in cages like animals. We are psychologically tortured, sexually
humiliated, manipulated and harassed. We must fight for outside contact,
safety, humanity and freedom but a majority of captives sit around in
their assigned boxes and literally direct their anger and future
violence at other captives. Not just that but rebellion against our
circumstances and capture is far too often shunned. Revolution even in
hell isn’t automatic. Bourgeois society will go down as the most
adaptable. When almost everyone has a price how could it not?
When i hear “lock em up” or that “justice” was served i know for sure
i’m in the midst of enemies. i know such people deep down believe i’m
exactly where i should be. Revolutionaries cannot parrot Jesse
Jackson, Alicia Garza, Amy Goodman or anyone else’s call to “lock em
up.” Let’s leave that to Trump and Clinton and all the other enemies of
the revolution. Instead let’s learn how to protect each other starting
with a proper class analysis. True political consciousness going into
2022 must start from the empire’s utter success in buying off all but a
small percent of its population and the knowledge that this demand and
lame-ass attempt to take over the bourgeois system “from the inside”
with this pro-police imperialism, pro-FBI socialism, anti-revolution
revolutionaries is worse than a joke.
Salutes to TX Team One, FPC, Republic of Aztlán, and the entire
USW,
NA Struggle RL NAIM CA-MLM
*Obviously if this had the potential to advance anti-imperialism in
any way it is to be considered but we will not first exploit internal
contradictions between the capitalist then as a response to this build
our forces. No, there must first be a revolutionary force to galvanize
otherwise it’s just more imperialism and pro-imperialism.
**It would have to be Democrats because Republicans believe this was
just.
MIM(Prisons) responds: We agree with this comrade’s
focus on building our forces, building anti-imperialism, building
movements for self-determination. As we say on page 2 of every Under
Lock & Key, we have a different solution to the bourgeois
prison system and that is proletarian justice. We distribute the book
Prisoners of Liberation about Amerikan spies in a Chinese
socialist prison that we use as a starting point for how prisons can be
used to serve the people and give everyone the resources to reform and
contribute positively to society.
But implementing pro-people rehabilitation on a mass scale is a ways
off for us in this country. And we agree with our comrade here that
these calls for “justice” are the battlefield of bourgeois politicians.
If Rittenhouse was given a long prison term, that would only increase
the chances of him becoming the Nazi that he has been branded already in
the media; an indication of what these bourgeois prisons actually do.
There are class enemies, and both sides will use force against their
class enemies. But we must first build proletarian institutions, before
we can implement proletarian justice.