[News] Musings from the Margins # 3: The Crimes of the White West are Coming Home Again, Or as Malcom X Said, “The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost”

Wed Sep 13 17:49:13 EDT 2023

 Musings from the Margins # 3: The Crimes of the White West are Coming Home
Again, Or as Malcom X Said, “The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost”
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Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
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13 Sep 2023

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Neo-Nazi group National Resistance on October 14, 2020, date commemorating
Nazi collaborators UPA.

*Black Agenda Report’s contributing editor Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on
everything from September 11, to Haiti, to white supremacy in Biden’s
Ukraine policy, to the criminalization of dissent.*

   - September 11. Less than two years after the infamous “Powell Memo”
   that called the capitalist rulers to action to protect their system by
   launching a more coherent counterrevolution, the U.S. inspired and
   supported coup in Chile that ended the government of socialist Salvador
   Allende in 1973, imposed a right-wing neoliberal regime and signaled that
   the U.S. was committed to war abroad and domestically to maintain the
   capitalist order.

   - Why is it so difficult for liberals to recognize the role played by
   democrats in undermining the legitimacy of U.S. institutions and “liberal”
   values? Liberals seem unable to accept that the era of liberal reformism is
   over and that their party has been taken over by neoliberals coming out of
   the right-wing Reagan revolution.  By blindly embracing neoliberalism
   liberals ensured that classical reform liberalism would become
   anachronistic and open the way for rightist demigods like Obama and Trump –
   both representing competing, right-wing fractions of the U.S. ruling class.

   - I wonder why people don’t see the obvious and that is most "Karen's"
   are not republican Trump supporters but liberals!!

   - Neoliberals created Russiagate that established the ideological and
   political foundation for the expansion of the totalitarian power of the
   state. With the collaboration of the capitalist press and tech companies,
   the government produced and disseminated an “official line” on issues from
   Russia, the Ukrainian war and China to what would constitute the acceptable
   modes of political dissent - defending forest land shutting down highways,
   opposing the Biden war in Ukraine are increasingly forbidden and can not
   only get you murdered but can get you a legal case.

   - It is important to keep in mind that the foundation for Russiagate was
   erected on the repressive legislative superstructure under the Bush and
   Obama Administrations. The result? Today, opposition is systematically
   criminalized in the U.S.  The indictments of the Uhuru 3 for opposing
   Ukraine war, charges of domestic terrorism and conspiracy in the fight
   against Cop-City, and the ongoing attempts to extradite Julian Assange
   represent the consolidation and normalization of bipartisan totalitarian
   power.

   - White supremacist ideology is not reducible to race. Some of the most
   virulent white supremacists that I have encountered have been non-Europeans.

   - There is something to what I call the psychopathology of white
   supremacy. It is a “racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers
   so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the
   afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality in the same way
   as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of so-called whites
   but can affect all those who have come in contact with the ideological and
   cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.”

   - When Zelensky, Biden, Macron, talk about "common European values,"
   Africans and all non-European peoples understand its real meaning. It is a
   call for white Western solidarity in response to the global shift of power
   away from the West. It is essentially an appeal to support white supremacy
   through the maintenance of white material power that is based on the
   extractivist, parasitic relationship between the “West” and the rest of us.

   - RICO charges in Atlanta. This is what fascism looks like. Activists
   charged with felony intimidation for distributing flyers calling a state
   trooper a “murderer” for his involvement in the fatal shooting of an
   environmental protester in the woods?

   - Sanders says progressives must “demand that the Democratic Party, not
   just Biden, have the guts to take on corporate greed and the massive levels
   of income and wealth inequality that we see today." Huh? Like supporting
   Build Back Better and then caving to party bosses and separating it from
   the infrastructure legislation that they really wanted because it was
   another corporate giveaway. And what made that surrender to the party
   bosses so insulting for many democrats is the pretending like they were
   really going to pass BBB later after they passed the infrastructure bill.

   - Sanders demonstrates why he was revealed as the sheepdog that he was.
   He was never committed to struggling for real power in the democrat party.
   That is why he sold out his supporters and surrendered. Sanders is nothing
   more than an opportunist democrat and a fraud.

   - Haiti!! Oppose the racist military assault on Haiti orchestrated by
   Joe Biden and supported by his coterie of uncle toms from CARICOM to the
   mother of all handkerchief head, buck-dancing toms in the country – Hakeem
   Jeffries.

   - The democrats are the party of war, wall street and white power. To
   pretend otherwise is to be dishonest and immoral. Smash the duopoly! Both
   parties are fascist but neoliberals who control the state apparatus are the
   real leading edge of a particular historic form of neofascism in the U.S.

   - Liberal race hustlers pretend they love all “Black” people. African
   revolutionaries don’t play that game. In the U.S. the fascist convergence
   of the state and white colonial/capitalist power and expressed in the
   strengthening of the repressive apparatus of the state is taking place in
   cities run by “Black” democrats - and more specifically, Black neoliberal
   democrats. This is why I argue that democrats are more dangerous fascists
   than republicans because they face no real opposition.

   - We must continue to oppose the racist anti-Chinese bashing and Russia
   phobia that is becoming normalized in the U.S., but as Africans we will
   never forget that China and Russia threw Libya under the imperialist bus.
   Save the bullsh*t that you didn’t know that with a UN Security Council
   authorization to establish a no-fly zone that the U.S. and NATO would
   expand that authorization into a regime change operation and destroy the
   country in the process.

   - Do not lose your minds and anti-imperialist sensibilities with the
   expansion of BRICS. Multipolarity as represented by structures like BRICS
   is important and reflects the necessary alteration of the international
   balance of power away from the 500 year dominance of the Pan European
   colonial/capitalist project. However, a peoples-centered revolutionary
   project that places power in the hands of the oppressed classes, nations
   and peoples of the world as part of the transition to socialism is still
   the historic objective.

   - U.S. and NATO Out of Africa, Shut Down AFRICOM!

   - Defend the Uhuru 3!!

*Ajamu Baraka is Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the Black
Alliance for Peace and an editor and contributing columnist for the Black
Agenda Report. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace
Council and leadership body of the U.S. based United National Anti-War
Coalition (UNAC) and the Steering Committee of the Black is Back Coalition.*
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