A Great song of a Russian Communist Patriot for Libya and Muammar!
The postwar honeymoon is clearly over.
The great "capitalist revolution" touted by the Rockefellers is no more. "Humanized capitalism" is no more. Declining growth has now returned us to the age of "le capitalisme sauvage". It has triggered economic and sosial crisis in every Western country...The West, then, is itself locked in crisis. This is not a transient crisis or a "long cycle", as academic apologists would have it. It is a systemic crisis. The market system can no longer produce anything like proesperity...Government and industry leaders in the West are fully aware of the situation in one sense. They know what the statistics are. They know what the problems are. But they are not able to see that the source of the problem is the fact that, having 'achieved' very high levels of production, income and wealth, the present capitalist system has nowhere to go...Western countries are led by people who are constitutionally incapable of seeing that something fundamental is wrong... It is this blindness, grounded in confusion and fear, which has clouded the ability of Western leaders to think clearly about the risks of extending NATO into Eastern Europe. The Western system is experiencing a profound economic, social and political crisis. And Western leaders apparently see the [continual -GZ] exploitation of the East as the only large-scale 'project' available which might 'stimulate' growth, especially in Western Europe..."
Sean Gervasi
Why Is NATO In Yugoslavia?
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21008
...History, and the current period prove that white 'radicals' simply do not make good political or anti-racist 'allies'...
The "Progressive" Plantation:
Racism Inside White "Radical" Social Change Movements
So, that is why it is important that we raise class and political fights over these issues now. We should not tolerate or give poitical cover for white supremacy inside Left formations. It is the worst form of treachery and sellout in a nation based on a history of racial slavery and the super-exploitation of peoples of color. It was always assumed by many, even Blacks/POC activists, that the white Left tendencies were one of the few groupings of white people in American society that would stand with the Black Liberation movement and other tendencies of POC, but that is every day being proven not to be true. In fact, what is being proven is that they will sell out to retrograde forces in the Progressive wing, just to be part of a popular movement of the moment, rather than wage an internal anti-racist fight to end internal racism and other oppressions inside the movement. This is a decisive moment, one that tests white people especially, to break away from conformity to whiteness. White radical vanguardism is just another form of opportunism iin this period. At a time when Black workers and poor peoples are literally being wiped out by massive unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and oppression more than any other group in society, the white Left has not built any fightback movement in support, and has proven to be unwilling to force the Occupy Wall Street mass movement to raise this as a major issues for them to struggle against in support of the Black community. This treachery, as well as political and idological failings will be noted by all activists of color, and propel them to launch autonomous movements in their own defense and for their own liberation. History, and the current period prove that white radicals simply do not make good political or anti-racist allies.
Yet, we can use the support of white activists who are willing to humble themseves and recognize the fact that they are not the vanguard, and yet are willing to work with to build a new type of revolutionary political entity. Further, we need to politically educate and challenge others to join with us that we can reach. That is why a conference is being planned to deal with the issues of internal racism and colonialism in North America. That conference tentatively called "The Progressive Plantation: Racism inside white radical movments, and the way forward!" is being planned by myself and other activists now, and is expected to be held sometime in mid-to-late 2012. More information will be provided when available. It will follow the conference of Black/POC activists being prepared for the first quarter of 2012. More details as available.
In areas where the protesters are predominantly "colored", police brutality becomes very visible...and acceptable!...GZ
 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/10/09/occupy-dc-part-ii-the-black-voices-the-media-ignores We came out on the third full day of the Occupy DC Demonstration on October 8th, 2011. Once again we made it a point to seek out and speak to some of the Black activists were were in attendance since the white liberal media continues to make a habit of overlooking the perspectives of activists of color, especially those from the LEFT. The three activists we interviewed today had powerful perspectives and insights on a range of things, including the Obama Presidency to America's continued attach on youth of color, as well as the hypocrisy of the US constitution. Tune in now to here those often marginalized perspectives. Click the Link Below to Begin Listening to the Show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/10/09/occupy-dc-part-ii-the-black-voices-the-media-ignores Incredible footage emerged from downtown Oakland last night - a war zone in which police shot tear gas, bean bags, wooden dowels, flash grenades, and rubber bullets at protesters.. Continue Who Are You Protecting? Police Turn Oakland Into War Zone |
War Veteran in Critical Condition after Police Clashes:
Adam Gabbatt
An Iraq war veteran has a fractured skull and brain swelling after allegedly being hit by a police projectile.Continue
| The ability to renounce feeling and objectify "the Other" lies at the heart of Western standards of "thought" and provides the fuel that drives the engine of destruction...and to paraphrase Ward Churchill, you're locked in a room with it, as its mask of "niceness" falls away; as its cold face shows; when it looks, for all the world, like there's nothing you can do |
The next two items are must reads, in case you missed them!! GZ
"...At this juncture, the entire planet is locked, figuratively, in a room with the socio—cultural equivalent of Hannibal Lecter...An individual of consummate taste and refinement, imbued with indelible grace and charm, he distracts his victims ..., even while honing his blade. He is thus able to dine alone upon their livers, his feast invariably candlelit, accompanied by lofty music and a fine wine. Over and over the ritual is repeated, always hidden, always denied in order that it may be continued. So perfect is Lecter's pathology that, from the depths of his scorn for the inferiors upon whom he feeds, he advances himself as their sage and therapist, he who is incomparably endowed with the ability to explain their innermost meanings, he professes to be their savior. His success depends upon being embraced and exalted by those upon whom he preys...The socio—cultural equivalent of Hannibal Lecter is the core of an expansionist European "civilization" which has reached out to engulf the planet..."
Deconstructing the Columbus Myth
Ward Churchill
[Hannibal Lecter] An individual of consummate taste and refinement, imbued with indelible grace and charm, he distracts his victims ..., even while honing his blade. He is thus able to dine alone upon their livers, his feast invariably candlelit, accompanied by lofty music and a fine wine. Over and over the ritual is repeated, always hidden, always denied in order that it may be continued. So perfect is Lecter's pathology that, from the depths of his scorn for the inferiors upon whom he feeds, he advances himself as their sage and therapist, he who is incomparably endowed with the ability to explain their innermost meanings, he professes to be their savior. His success depends upon being embraced and exalted by those upon whom he preys.
Ultimately, so long as Lecter is able to retain his mask of omnipotent gentility, he can never be stopped. The socio—cultural equivalent of Hannibal Lecter is the core of an expansionist European "civilization" which has reached out to engulf the planet.
In coming to grips with Lecter, it is of no useful purpose to engage in sympathetic biography, to chronicle the nuances of his childhood, and catalogue his many and varied achievements, whether real or imagined. The recounting of such information is at best diversionary, allowing him to remain at large just that much longer. More often, it inadvertently serves to perfect his mask, enabling him not only to maintain his enterprise, but to pursue it with ever more arrogance and efficiency. At worst, the biographer is aware of the intrinsic evil lurking beneath the subject's veneer of civility, but–because of morbid fascination and a desire to participate vicariously–deliberately obfuscates the truth in order that his homicidal activities may continue unchecked. The biographer thus reveals not only a willing complicity in the subject's crimes, but a virulent pathology of his or her own. Such is and has always been the relationship of "responsible scholarship" to expansionist Europe and its derivative societies.
The sole legitimate function of information compiled about Lecter is that which will serve to unmaskhim and thereby lead to his apprehension.
The purpose of apprehension is not to visit retribution upon the psychopath–he is, after all, by definition mentally ill and consequently not in control of his more lethal impulses–but to put an end to his activities. It is even theoretically possible that, once he is disempowered, he can be cured. The point, however, is to understand what he is and what he does well enough to stop him from doing it.
This is the role which must be assumed by scholarship vis—à—vis Eurosupremacy, if scholarship itself is to have any positive and constructive meaning. Scholarship is never "neutral" or "objective"; it always works either for the psychopath or against him, to mystify socio—cultural reality or to decode it, to make corrective action possible or to prevent it.
It may well be that there are better points of departure for intellectual endeavors to capture the real form and meaning of Eurocentrism than the life, times, and legacy of Christopher Columbus. Still, since Eurocentrists the world over have so evidently clasped hands in utilizing him as a (perhaps the) preeminent signifier of their collective heritage, and are doing so with such an apparent sense of collective jubilation, the point has been rendered effectively moot. Those who seek to devote their scholarship to apprehending the psychopath who sits in our room thus have no alternative but to use him as a primary vehicle of articulation. In order to do so, we must approach him [Columbus] through deployment of the analytical tools which allow him to be utilized as a medium of explanation, a lens by which to shed light upon phenomena such as the mass psychologies of fascism and racism, a means by which to shear Eurocentrism of its camouflage, exposing its true contours, revealing the enduring coherence of the dynamics which forged its 'evolution'.
Perhaps through such efforts we can begin to genuinely comprehend the seemingly incomprehensible fact that so many groups are presently queuing up to associate themselves with a man from whose very memory wafts the cloying stench of tyranny and genocide. From there, it may be possible to at last crack the real codes of meaning underlying the sentiments of the Nuremberg rallies, those spectacles on the plazas of Rome during which fealty was pledged to Mussolini, and that amazing red—white—and—blue, tie—a—yellow—ribbon frenzy gripping the U.S. public much more lately.
If we force ourselves to see things clearly, we can understand. If we can understand, we can apprehend. If we can apprehend, perhaps we can stop the psychopath before he kills again. We are obligated to try, from a sense of sheer self—preservation, if nothing else. Who knows, we may even succeed. But first we must stop lying to ourselves, or allowing others to do the lying for us, about who it is with whom we now share our room.
Ward Churchill
Deconstructing the Columbus Myth
http://www.uctp.org/ColumbusMyth.html
...Europe now lives at such a mad, reckless pace that she has shaken off all guidance and all reason, and she is running headlong into the abyss; we would do well to avoid it with all possible speed...When I search for Man in the 'technique' and the 'style' of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders...Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the 'United States of America' became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.
Comrades, have we not other work to do than to create a third Europe? The West saw itself as a spiritual adventure. It is in the name of the spirit, in the name of the spirit of Europe, that Europe has made her encroachments, that she has justified her crimes and legitimized the slavery in which she holds four-fifths of humanity.
Yes, the European spirit has strange roots. All European thought has unfolded in places which were increasingly more deserted and more encircled by precipices; and thus it was that the custom grew up in those places of very seldom meeting man...
Let Us Leave This Europe
Frantz Fanon
Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. [Let us] Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience. Look at them today swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration...
Europe undertook the leadership of the world with ardour, cynicism and violence. Look at how the shadow of her palaces stretches out ever farther! Every one of her movements has burst the bounds of space and thought. Europe has declined all humility and all modesty; but she has also set her face against all solicitude and all tenderness.
She has only shown herself parsimonious and niggardly where men are concerned; it is only men that she has killed and devoured.
So, my brothers, how is it that we do not understand that we have better things to do than to follow that same Europe? That same Europe where they were never done talking of Man, and where they never stopped proclaiming that they were only anxious for the welfare of Man: today we know with what sufferings humanity has paid for every one of their "triumphs of the mind".Come, then, comrades, the European game has finally ended; we must find something different...
Europe now lives at such a mad, reckless pace that she has shaken off all guidance and all reason, and she is running headlong into the abyss; we would do well to avoid it with all possible speed...
When I search for Man in the 'technique' and the 'style' of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders...
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.
Comrades, have we not other work to do than to create a third Europe? The West saw itself as a spiritual adventure. It is in the name of the spirit, in the name of the spirit of Europe, that Europe has made her encroachments, that she has justified her crimes and legitimized the slavery in which she holds four-fifths of humanity.
Yes, the European spirit has strange roots. All European thought has unfolded in places which were increasingly more deserted and more encircled by precipices; and thus it was that the custom grew up in those places of very seldom meeting man.
A permanent dialogue with oneself and an increasingly obscene narcissism never ceased to prepare the way for a half delirious state, where intellectual work became suffering and the reality was not at all that of a living man, working and creating himself, but rather words, different combinations of words, and the tensions springing from the meanings contained in words. Yet some Europeans were found to urge the European workers to shatter this narcissism and to break with this un-reality.
But in general the "workers" of Europe have not replied to these calls; for the workers believe, too, that they are part of the prodigious adventure of the European spirit...
Today, we are present at the stasis of Europe. Comrades, let us flee from this motionless movement where gradually dialectic is changing into the logic of equilibrium. Let us reconsider the question of mankind. Let us reconsider the question of cerebral reality and of the cerebral mass of all humanity, whose connexions must be increased, whose channels must be diversified and whose messages must be re-humanized...
No, there is no question of a return to Nature. It is simply a very concrete question of not dragging men towards mutilation, of not imposing upon the brain rhythms which very quickly obliterate it and wreck it. The pretext of catching up must not be used to push man around, to tear him away from himself or from his privacy, to break and kill him.
No, we do not want to catch up with anyone. What we want to do is to go forward all the time, night and day, in the company of Man, in the company of all men. The caravan should not be stretched out, for in that case each line will hardly see those who precede it; and men who no longer recognize each other meet less and less together, and talk to each other less and less.
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