The Rich Will Use Crisis to Further Immiserate Workers
Over half the US workforce would be âmade redundantâ if the Wall Street and high-tech oligarchs are allowed to restructure the economy under cover of the Covid-19-induced crisis, said Duboisian scholar Anthony Monteiro. The rich want to bring about a âfourth industrial revolutionâ in which âunemployment or part-time employment and semi-employment will define what work means,â said Monteiro, an organizer with the Philadelphia Saturday Free School. Hi-tech corporations will âmake trillions in profits as they dispense with labor.â
Malcolm X was a Black Internationalist
Especially in the latter years of his life, Malcolm X represented âa reemergence of Black radicalismâ after the suppression of the McCarthy period, said Desmond Fonseca, a PhD candidate in history at UCLA. Fonseca noted that Malcolm, incensed at US subversion of the newly independent Congo, declared: âYou canât understand Mississippi if you donât understand whatâs going on in the Congo.â Today, said Fonseca, Black Democrats, including the Congressional Black Caucus, have nothing to say about Africa.
Towards a âDe-White Supremification of Amerikkkaâ
Lydia McCaskill, a masters and doctoral student a North Carolina Central University and activist firebrand in her hometown of Gastonia, proposes a process of âde-white supremificationâ in the US, similar to âde-Nazificationâ of Germany after World War Two. âThe purpose would be âto remove any, every and all things that represent or signify any type of white supremacy in Amerikka,â said McCaskill, who has launched a âStop Injustice in North Carolina Initiative.â
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In light of the pandemic, we have seen an extraordinary emergence of mutual aid strategies around the world.
Rep. Omar recently commended the US war machine for increasing the âtransparencyâ and âaccountabilityâ of its bombing of her native country.
The no-bail movement was on a roll from Vermont and New Jersey to Alaska and Georgia â and then the lock âem up mob struck back.
The COVID-19 crisis only heightens the urgency of black reparations, which is now more essential than ever.
Both see the United States as the Empire, and they agree that it must be opposed.
