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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The so-called âprogressiveâ model would have us wait half a dozen election cycles before taking real action on the demand for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.
âIt's like writing history with lightning.â â Woodrow Wilson on Birth of A Nation
Du Bois, the father of Pan Africanism and the towering theorist of race, was â just as importantly -- one of the great theorists of communism.
Trump threw a monkey wrench into the capitalist systemâs population management machine.
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