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Geoffrey Klien

We need a new Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party was a socialist black-power movement started in 1966; it began in Oakland, California under Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. It was made to challenge the segregation, subjugation, exploitation, and racism against African-Americans that was still so prominent in American society. They carried weapons to intimidate police against picking on innocent black people just trying to get by. This led to a few shootouts and deaths. They educated themselves on Marxist literature: Lenin, Marx, Mao, and even Kim Il Sung. They had required reading for new members that made sure each person was educated and informed. The party worked, not just on the basis of being for black liberation, but, for international proletarian freedom. They held themselves as the vanguard within the US, something Lenin brings up in his writings.
Past the tough exterior, the Black Panthers set up tons of welfare operations throughout the US: free breakfast for children, community health clinics, and many other things that guaranteed communal health. The party started out as a masculine-based group that championed traditional gender roles, but, years later that would be reverted and feminism and women focused on black women's experiences through womanism.

Being a leftist, black-power movement struck fear into the hearts of those at the top. A group that would not only question capitalism and bourgeois control, but the vice grip of white supremacist values and thought in the US. This was double trouble for the FBI and CIA and meant they'd be on overtime to fight this. They invented COINTELPRO to fight not only the Black Panthers, but the rise of leftism and anti-government sentiment arising. They would infiltrate these groups and sew discontent between members, gain intel, and use all this to publically propagandize anti-government groups. They'd end up assassinating people, harming people, threatening people, and lie. All of this being illegal and (the evil word) authoritarian (to quote a lib). The fact that a single group scared the administration so bad it had to resort to insane, risky missions to do anything in their power against them is crazy and commendable.

The Black Panthers exemplify exactly what we are missing right now in the US: a staunchly anti-government, anti-system group putting in the work to change their community and the nation. None of these bullshit non-profits that flounder around saying pretty words and tricking people into wasting their time. Leftists have been split apart by the government for much too long; regardless if the general people support it, leftists need to take control of the government, rally the people, tear things down, and build a true egalitarian society. Decade after decade, the government institutes another law or act that goes after left thought and actions, as that's the only kind that threatens the power structure, and every time it works and we are pushed back, people gain new dislike for leftist values even though it would fight for them. That's the true power of the US hegemony and power.
Housing prices are shooting up, groceries are getting more expensive, wages are stagnant like before, conflicts rage in and outside the US, people are divided like never before. We have all this free, yummy agit-prop just out there that can be used. Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was just elected in New York City; he pledges rent freezes, free public transport, government run grocery stores, and a rework on the NYPD to be more ready for mental illness and non-criminal situations. This shows a need for leftist change by the people of the biggest city in the US. This could very well be a catalyst for future public sentiment and socialist change.

Long live the fight against racism and long live the proletarian fight for freedom.

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Geoffrey Klien

Zohran Mamdani Elected

Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was just elected in New York City, leading with (currently, I guess they're still counting them) 8.8% over Andrew Cuomo. This comes after the landslide win for Zohran in the previous election (I don't remember what it's called). Between then and now things had really ramped up: Cuomo was posting racists and Islamophobic things and making ads, Curtis Sliwa rose into public view and attracted some people with his out-of-it style, Cuomo spent the whole race talking about Israel and Hasan Piker while Zohran spoke of policy and planning. Sliwa sadly only got around 7% of the vote, I wish he got more, but all that matters is that Cuomo did not win.
This is a huge thing: NY's first Muslim mayor, the youngest one in like a century, an open democratic socialist who will push social policy and public welfare, it's a big win for leftism in general too. I am really excited about this and it brings me hope that things are changing for the better, that a people are becoming more open to these things and are getting closer to potentially having these social systems in place while living in the least developed developed country. Highest GDP, yet, on a given day, over 700,000 people are without a home.

Hurrah for Mamdani and good luck to him and New Yorkers in the coming future, things are looking up.

~ This campaign is for every person who believes in the dignity of their neighbors and that the government's job is to actually make our lives better.

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Geoffrey Klien

I will never blame the victims

I will never blame the victims of oppression, exploitation, abuse, subjugation, genocide, war, economic bullying, etc. When the people who have been kept down by colonial and imperial power rise up and the oppressors face blowback, I will not feel bad for them—I will celebrate their karma.
These colonial powers take due care to paint those they hurt as evil, different, and unqualified for pity or freedom. The people are subliminally torn between knowing what's wrong and siding with their colonial power, because they're different and hard to have empathy for; I mean, you remember that event where they did something against us? Or how backwards their culture and way of life is? How they aren't really 'compatible?' They still feel bad for them, but there's always something there stopping them. You must always preface your talking points with condemnation and efforts to show that you know what you're talking about—because no sane, intelligent person would genuinely side with them after all that stuff they do and did.

Pro-Israel western countries require that you must "condemn Hamas" before you can even think of criticizing Israeli action. This leaves people who aren't open to the capitulation of evil criticized and shunned while those on Israel's payroll walk free. This fact remains for all other things the West supports and propagandizes. You must be against apartheid subjects retaliating against their colonizers, you must be against Koreans retaliating against their colonizers, you must be against a people in a war-torn country who were used and left to rot when they make a major strike against you, so, you must always be against victim retaliation.

This enlightened-abuser mentality must end and acknowledgement of the horrors delt upon the people of the world must be known and owned. You cannot speak of the wrongs and mistakes of the West while thinking positively of them, you cannot make any concessions to evil: "We totally destabilized the Middle-East and killed a lot of innocent people, but, we were just spreading democracy and making things better." You must reject this neo-liberal painting of things and walk away from every defending the West before things can change and be made better; you cannot help a country ruined by the US and capitalism by still employing capitalism and being under the banner of the US, you have to move away and fully understand things.

I will never blame the victims put under the West's boot when they fight back, and, to ever dream of making things better, you must eliminate the problem starter: the colonial west, the imperial core, and the neo-liberal mentality of foreign policy and action.

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