Category: Represent Our Resistance

The lesson of Hobbs and Tocqueville can be boiled down to a brief but chilling dictum: concentrated power, whether of a Leviathan, a benevolent despotism, or a superpower, is impossible without the support of a complicitous citizenry that willingly signs on to the covenant, or acquiesces, or clicks the ‘mute button.’ -Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy…

-Toni Morrison, “Racism and Fascism,” [1] speech, Howard University, March 2, 1995 At 22 years old, a gentleman of Mississippi’s aristocracy, Quentin Compson is losing his memory. All that he remembers is fading. For as long he could remember, he has been dead. Dead! He can no longer live in the collective memory of his…

But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular, A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, Such as…

In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered… -Tacitus, Germania [Hitler’s] aims, from the campaign’s inception in 1940, were not those of conventional geopolitics. He did not want just to annex useful territory and crate a new balance of power, but to wipe out a culture and an ideology, if necessary a…

As a modern female proletarian, the woman becomes a human being for the first time, since the [proletarian] struggle is the first to prepare human beings to make a contribution to culture, to history of humanity. -Rosa Luxemburg, “The Proletarian Woman” (1914) In her day, Marxist theoretician and activist, Rosa Luxemburg, was criticized for not…

-Joseph Stiglitz, Truthout In Memory of Trayvon Martin, Rakia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, Darius Simmons They take out the garbage, make up their beds, vacuum the living room, wash dishes, and baby sit siblings or neighbor’s children, but they are not workers, and yet, they, too, are targets of the U.S. Empire’s militarism. Ever since these…

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence,’ 1967 The Root, funded under the leadership of Harvard elite, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, declares the latest shooting too ‘difficult to understand’ (June 8, 2012). The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, no friend to the Black struggle for revolutionary change and democracy, quoted the…

Either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism [democracy], that is, the conscious struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism, against its methods, against war. (�Junius Pamphlet�) [2] The dilemma humanity faces is this �inevitable choice,�…

Citizens, particularly some in the U.S. would think it tragic that these folks did not have access to cable news or to the Internet! There are no landlines, cell phones or telegraphs or modern-day postal service; nonetheless, the people received news from their government – directly from their government! In this case, news is disseminated…

Written while Luxemburg was serving a prison term for her opposition to World War I, the essay, �The Russian Revolution,� never published in her lifetime, [1] is her plea for the creation of a �revolutionary democracy after the seizure of power� (The Rosa Luxemburg Reader). It is critical of the Bolshevik leadership for their establishment…