MIM(Prisons) is a cell of revolutionaries serving the oppressed masses inside U.$. prisons, guided by the communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Under Lock & Key is a news service written by and for prisoners with a focus on what is going on behind bars throughout the United States. Under Lock & Key is available to U.S. prisoners for free through MIM(Prisons)'s Free Political Literature to Prisoners Program, by writing:
MIM(Prisons) PO Box 40799 San Francisco, CA 94140.
After coming across a
Jan/Feb 2015 issue of
ULK i felt overwhelmingly compelled, as coordinator of NAAB
(N-double A - B) to align my organization with the program, position and
principles of the United Front for Peace in Prisons(UFPP). Political
ignorance abounds within the confines of the Florida Department of
Corrections and this neo-plantation is no exception! We stand in
solidarity with the UFPP on the principles of unity and growth. We
recognize and acknowledge some of the ideological antagonisms that exist
between our organizations but as freedom-loving people we also
acknowledge the need for anti-imperialist groups to stand in
revolutionary unity for the common good of oppressed people worldwide.
This is our official statement of solidarity. The lines of communication
and dialogue are now open.
[This statement was enclosed with the letter above]
New Afrikan Anarcho Bloodism (NAAB): A Guidepost
The concept of NAAB was born out of a dire need to re-introduce all
Damu’s 2 progressive Revolutionary ideals. It is comprised of and
reconciles the best and most relevant aspects of;
the NAIM (“New Afrikan Independence Movement”)
Revolutionary Pantherism,
Anarchism (Black Autonomy Propagandized by Komrade Lorenzo Kom’Boa Ervin
and,
(The concept of) Blood (Bangin on oppression in all of it’s forms).
Revolution 1st begins Within (The Mind) so the aim and purpose of NAAB
is to cause progressive thought in the Minds of all Damu’s. All
conscious Damu’s should know that Blood is at War solely with Oppressive
Powers and never with the people. All Real Right Damu’s are in Active
and Self-less Service 2 the people. We command the respect, admiration
and love of the people by seeking 2 progressively refine all of our
way’s, words, actions and deeds. NAAB gives us direction, purpose and
the means to achieve these objectives.
“White Privilege II” Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, feat. Jamila
Woods Released January 2016
This song calls people out about attending protests and tweeting, or
being silent, instead of “actually getting involved” in fighting racism.
The song is very introspective and what might sound like Macklemore (Ben
Haggerty) dissing other artists is actually about Macklemore and Ryan
Lewis themselves. Macklemore criticizes emself along with others for
making money off a style that came from Black nation culture and
acknowledges that “I’ve been passive.” “It seems like we’re more
concerned with being called racist than we actually are with racism.”(1)
Ironically, the free song will make money for someone even if it’s just
through bringing more traffic to iTunes or YouTube, but that doesn’t
mean Macklemore isn’t saying something correct.
On the plus side, Macklemore doesn’t say anything supporting mass
surveillance or the expansion or legitimization of the federal
government’s power ostensibly to protect Blacks. Macklemore doesn’t
explicitly oppose Black nationalism. Notably, Macklemore says that
“white supremacy isn’t just a white dude in Idaho” and that it “protects
the privilege I hold” – taking issue with the idea that Euro-Amerikan
domination and oppression are just about something inside somebody’s
brain among the white trash, rural people, or Republicans. Macklemore
also raises that people’s actions – or their inaction – taken so they
won’t be called “racist” are compatible with doing nothing that
contributes to ending racism. As Macklemore might or might not know, in
2016 there is still a huge problem involving post-modernism-influenced
efforts that emphasize changes in speech and thought, and perfecting
those in increasing detail, over taking concrete action to end
repression. Simply participating in a protest or saying some approving
words about a well-known movement could become part of maintaining a
non-racist or anti-racist identity with which one can be satisfied – a
step toward contentment. Without development of knowledge and of the
motivation to apply it scientifically, it could also be premature
catharsis and a substitute for revolutionary work.
Also on the plus side is Macklemore’s passing critique of
petty-bourgeois “DIY” (do-it-yourself) culture that sometimes purports
to be isolated from exploitation, corporations, finance capital, and
imperialist oppression. “The DIY underdog, so independent. But the one
thing the American dream fails to mention is I was many steps ahead to
begin with.”
Macklemore also mentions those who would praise eir song “Same Love”
(“If I was gay, I would think hip hop hates me”) because of its support
for gay people, but disdain Black hip hop and claim “it’s your fault if
you run” in the context of police shootings. Macklemore implicates
emself in the treatment of Blacks as inferior. “If I’m the hero, you
know who gets cast as the villain.” It is true that many in the United
$tates and the West have rejected anti-imperialist ways of advancing gay
people’s rights, consider Muslim and oppressed nations to be incapable
or less capable of change on gender questions without Western
intervention, and cannot imagine how Black nationalism, Chican@
nationalism, First Nation nationalism and other oppressed nation
nationalism would help with gay and lesbian liberation.
A voice that’s not Macklemore’s toward the end of the song mentions “a
very age-old fight for black liberation.” Unfortunately, there is no
mention of Black nationalism specifically. There is no mention of the
Black
Panther Party, which at one time was Maoist.(2) The name “Black
Lives Matter” shares an acronym with “Black liberation movement,” and
there are many around or associated with #BlackLivesMatter who claim to
be for Black liberation. There are many, though, who are against even
using the term, and there are others who explicitly reject Black
nationalism, Black nation self-determination, Black nation independent
institutions, and Black nation-building. If Macklemore wanted to be
controversial, ey could have at least mentioned Black power, Black
nationalism, the BPP, Huey Newton, or Malcolm X, but Macklemore doesn’t
manage to leave the realm of a kind of political correctness despite
asking “Then I’m trying to be politically correct?” if ey stays silent.
(Maybe eir verbal support for Black nationalism will come with “White
Privilege III.” Probably only if Blacks themselves start popularizing
present-day nationalist struggles, for white rappers to tag on to.)
This reviewer would suggest to Macklemore that, from the point of the
view of the oppressed, sometimes doing nothing is better than doing
something when it comes to non-lumpen white Amerikans such as emself who
usually would do nothing to upset business as usual, including
Democratic Party business. Contentment and apathy are bad things when
there is really a potential to help the oppressed, but it is clear that
when Amerikans become militant or excited it is normally for the worse.
Militant integrationism and militant labor aristocracy politics are not
better than nothing from the viewpoint of the international proletariat.
For example, vigorously upholding certain aspects of Martin Luther King
while pooping on Huey Newton and even Malcolm X is not better than
nothing. Joining the outrageously chauvinistic and labor
aristocracy-influenced Progressive Labor Party – which opposed Black
nationalism when the BPP was around and still being ferociously
repressed – and continuing in 2016 the PLP tradition of criticizing
Black and other internal semi-colony nationalism isn’t better than
nothing. Talking about the Black nation occasionally, but all but
rejecting Black nationalism (and supporting it only nominally), and
making mealy-mouthed innuendo against Black nationalists as a group,
isn’t better than nothing. Insinuating that all oppressed-nation
nationalism is narrow nationalism, while advocating for U.$. exploiter
class/individual unity and economic and political interests, isn’t
better than nothing. Rejecting Black nationalism in the name of
“multiracial” unity for more super-profits in the parasitic United
$nakes isn’t better than nothing. Talking about white supremacy and then
actively denying the existence of Euro-Amerikan national oppression of
Black people isn’t better than nothing. Talking about oppression of
Black people only to hitch people to U.$.-centric social-democracy or a
fascist party isn’t better than nothing (in other words, voting for
Bernie Sanders isn’t better than doing nothing). Trying to rile up the
labor aristocracy and the U.$. middle class as if they were
revolutionary, instead of petty-bourgeois exploiters prone to supporting
fascism, isn’t better than nothing. Stirring up exploiters to march in
the streets to jail some bankers, without giving up their aspirations to
control and obtain more benefit from finance capital and imperialist
state power, isn’t better than nothing. Attacking Third World peoples in
various chauvinistic ways while flattering and pandering to the
already-chauvinistic and racist labor aristocracy and gender
aristocracy, of highly privileged U.$. so-called “workers” and globally
privileged Euro-Amerikan females, is not better than nothing.
Amerikkkans who are already going around the United $tates and the world
disrupting movements against U.$. imperialism certainly should recognize
the privilege they exercise in doing so, instead of, for example,
denying that viable alternatives to what they are doing exist. Both
white people and non-white people should understand how Euro-Amerikans,
including Euro-Amerikan settler nation workers, are privileged as
settlers, oppressors, and exploiters.
There is less utility, though, in whites dwelling on their particular
privilege as individuals with skin privilege, certain family history,
etc., rather than the privilege of their group in very broad social
relationships of global national oppression and exploitation. Suggesting
listeners also “look at” themselves, Macklemore talks more about emself
as an individual, than about Euro-Amerikan labor aristocrats as a group.
Focusing on race and variation in individual privilege could draw
attention away from national oppression by whites and the labor
aristocracy privilege that U.$. citizen workers have in common. Ideas
about inequality within U.$. borders have long been used to make the
political and strategic consequences of global international inequality
seem less important. Ideas about white privilege and individual
self-reflection often don’t address how the vast majority of U.$.
citizens are exploiters of Third World workers. Often these calls to
anti-racist activism end up as an exercise in that white privilege on a
global scale.
Euro-Amerikan acknowledgment of privilege could be a welcome step toward
ideological reform and taking responsibility for police and criminal
injustice system violence and other wrongdoing, how whites have
benefited economically, nationally and socially from imprisonment and
control of non-whites, war, national oppression, exploitation, and their
consequences. But this recognition would have to be more than halfway,
not partial, or it may end up obscuring and legitimizing the majority of
a typical Euro-Amerikan’s privilege under the guise of moving toward
helping non-whites.
At this point in history, the oppressed generally don’t need
unscientific leadership or militant do-something impulsive actions. That
may not leave Euro-Amerikans much to do if they decline to study their
position, and the position of the U.$. population, in an actually
comprehensive way. They can be cautious about accepting any prevailing
narrative. They can be wary of potentially following any Amerikan leader
into fascism and destruction. Labor aristocrats will do what they need
to do in anti-war or anti-single-war movements, and other movements, to
remind politicians to act in their interests and spend more super-profit
tax money on them as allegedly anti-Iraq-War Obama did. We don’t want a
broad anti-racist call to action to end up inspiring more Amerikkkans to
fight for their own global interests.
Macklemore raps about whites protesting and “seeming like you’re down”
as having an “incentive” to do so, in order to be liked and accepted.
Oppressors do have an incentive to co-opt movements or use them for
career reasons, but the oppressed have an incentive to fight. There’s
nothing wrong with incentive itself, contrary to mistaken notions that
all activism should be altruistic. The notion that whites should have
selfless pure motives in participating in or supporting a movement
around killings of Black people could actually be an admission that
whites don’t have an interest in the movement contrary to ideas about
Black people’s struggles positively intersecting with white worker, and
white petty-bourgeois individual so-called liberation. Either whites
have an interest in opposing police and vigilante brutality or they
don’t, and most don’t.
More important than whether somebody has “incentive” or not is
whether ey is standing in the way of Black nationalism or not.
Macklemore’s lyrics suggest a tension between “do something” and “don’t
do it for you.” Labor aristocracy and petty-bourgeois types would add,
“Do it, because it’s in your own interest.” There is an alternative to
more-involved labor aristocracy activism or more-energetic
integrationist activism, and that is to support anti-Amerikan Black
nationalism and movements and institutions that are independent of
Democratic Party and white exploiter interests and politics. Short of
that, Macklemore’s expression of “we are not we” (as opposed to “we are
not free”) is to be preferred to whites’ falsely identifying with
Blacks, claiming to be one with them, and derailing their movement via
“All Lives Matter” sentiments.
I am currently writing to you from inside the walls of Georgia’s Hancock
State Prison where I am housed in its Tier II program. I am writing in
hopes that I can be one of those who receives Under Lock &
Key issues because I have a supreme respect for its message. I
really value its information and am in hopes that I can help in
spreading its message to the unconscious minds that fill these prison
cells to its fullest capacity.
Also I would like to study and learn as much about Maoism, as I have
taken his views as mine thus far. Me and three of my comrades have been
rotating the few issues available among one another, and have taken to
your 6 points and 5 principles as the foundation of our Guerrilla Union.
We all come from different sides, but through awareness of the truth
taught by you comrades of MIM we’ve put these titles aside and are now
striving to build a strong unity under Maoist teachings and play our
part in the struggle towards a socialist/communist society. Whatever
must be done will be done on our end. This paper would do a lot for us.
Keep spreading the word cause with us it starts inside but continues
when we return to the streets. Please keep me in mind, for I am a
sincere comrade, and once again your paper would mean a lot to my
strive. Your brother in the struggle, UHURU. Let’s get free!!
MIM(Prisons) responds: This comrade is on the same track as
thousands of other prisoners across the United $tates who have
discovered that Maoism isn’t just words written by some long-dead persyn
from China, but a living philosophy that can be applied to current
conditions of oppression around the world. This should be no surprise,
even to the imperialists if they are paying attention. Maoism is merely
the practice and application of scientific thought, or as communists
call it, dialectical materialism. We learn from history and apply those
lessons to advance our theoretical understanding.
Prisoners, who are among the most oppressed people within U.$. borders,
can see from their everyday experiences that the oppressors aren’t
giving up their power without a fight. This is just one example of why
Maoists understand the need for a dictatorship of the proletariat after
the people overthrow the imperialist governments. We need a system that
can enforce the power of the people, even when the oppressors try to
claw their way back into power.
And once we have established a system of government that is serving the
interests of the majority of the world’s people rather than the
minority, history teaches us that we still can’t rest easy. It’s not
just the old bourgeoisie of capitalism who will present a threat, but
the new bourgeoisie that will arise and hope to seize power from within
the party and government. This drive for persynal power and wealth is a
remnant of capitalist culture that won’t disappear overnight after a
socialist revolution.
It is these lessons, among others, that prisoners must study to help
build an organization that can eventually join the oppressed nations of
the world in successfully ending the reign of terror of the
imperialists. Thankfully MIM(Prisons) distributes many of these
materials and helps run study courses on vital topics. Write to us at
the address on p. 1 to get involved!
To fight oppression We advocate secession Lest we fall, we
unite And stand tall We’re wise We heed the call To
revolt, in mass All or one, one for all To fight oppressor
class Procrastination long past Now their reign It won’t
last Oppression we slew Liberation, in full view Through
wrong We’re made strong Mass movement Brings vast
improvement We study in group We unite in troup We are
cadre Benevolent, your padre Heed to call Together let’s
stand Alone, we stumble, then fall Heed the Call
“We seldom, if ever, think of ourselves as among those petty-bourgeois
forces in need of committing ‘class suicide’ - but We must remember
where We are. Here in the seat of empire, even the ‘slaves’ are
‘petty-bourgeois,’ and our poverty is not what it would be if We didn’t
in a thousand ways also benefit from the spoils of the exploitation of
peoples throughout the world. Our passivity wouldn’t be what it is if
not for our thinking that We have something to lose.” - James Yaki
Sayles,
Meditations
on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, p. 188
I believe this quote may be of some interest to you in your development
of the First World Lumpen (FWL). I believe this applies more to the
Euro-Amerikkan than to the nationless New Afrikan who falls into the
class lumpenproletariat (LP) by default of lacking a class society of
its own.
I am aware that the New Afrikan lumpenproletariat (NAL) is more
privileged than the Third World lumpenproletariat (TWL). But not
privileged enough to make it reactionary. The LP of Amerikkka is
majority New Afrikan - or an oppressed nation, which changes the quality
of the question. So it is not just a LP, but LP of an oppressed nation.
This qualitative leap in the discussion pushes us to do a through
theoretical analysis on the LP from all sides of the question.
The contradiction may look like this: First World lumpen and New Afrikan
lumpen.
Then it can be stated as this: Euro Amerikan FWL and New Afrikan FWL
Then Euro-Amerikan FWL must be understood to be reactionary as it is
majority white nationalist (racist). They consist of oppressor nation
background.
MIM(Prisons) responds: We have a lot of unity with this comrade
on assessing the national contradiction between oppressed and oppressor
nation lumpen. As we get into in the Lumpen Class Analysis article in
ULK 51, we make a distinction between the lumpenproletariat and
the First World lumpen that gets at this comparison between the NAL and
TWL the writer points out. We find the lumpenproletariat in countries
where there is a sizable proletariat, while the First World lumpen
exists in First World countries where there is almost no proletariat to
speak of, and this later group benefits from living in an imperialist
country.
Further, we agree that there is an important overlap between class and
nation when it comes to the lumpen. The national privilege of the
oppressor nation makes it unlikely that the lumpen from that nation will
be revolutionary, while national oppression puts the lumpen from
oppressed nations more likely to be on the side of the world’s
oppressed. In fact, we believe that the class privilege enjoyed by the
oppressor nations extends to encompass any potential white nation lumpen
to the extent that they can effectively be considered part of the petty
bourgeois class from the perspective of class consciousness. And so when
we talk about First World lumpen, we are usually looking at oppressed
nation lumpen only.
Knowledge is the higher power. Thru dedication, struggle, sacrifice,
knowledge and revolution we will put Aztlán along with the rest of the
oppressed back in power. Don’t let TV and the bullshit ass propaganda
dictate what you can and can’t do, much less a bunch of sheep heads with
a stitched up patch that suppose to mean “authority say so.” Also to my
elders out in the so-called free world and the ones coming out them SHU
dungeons after years and decades of oppression, my message is this:
Avoid calling the youth “little homies” as in diminishing their status
comrade!! Instead if you are so “big,” I’m assuming in mind,
por favor embrace the youth and teach em to teach, teach em to
understand, teach em to resist, teach em to organize. Put a mirror in
front of em and give em a soul. Cuz 80% of the population are zombied
out. We all put in work the same, but you that are looked upon as elder
and leader, especially from out the dungeon, have a stage and a mic.
Remember a true revolutionary is not categorized by age, looks, material
items or what one did a thousand years ago, but by what one is doing now
and is willing to do for the causa.
Anyone can sit on a bunk and zombie out at the stupid box (TV) for all
your life. That my friend is not a revolutionary individual, an Oh Gee
or whatever you want to call it. The youth is our future. Embrace and
teach. Oh, one more thing, don’t get caught up on the goodies. The pigs
love to see that shit. I wonder why?
Also, there’s this hardcore book that just came out: Chican@ Power
and the Struggle for Aztlán. Man, everybody needs to read it. Go on
and put that paypal you was gonna spend on hold and order this book. And
don’t forget to also slide a donation to MIM to help out with the books
and material that MIM provides to the less fortunate. Think of it as the
prison kitty we have here in the yards and write in!!
Enclosed is a bit of stamps as a donation, and I’ve been recruiting. I
hope they’ll pitch in as well.
p.s. For those going to board, know that the swine is conducting a
facebook background check, trying to catch mofos on the web. Incognito
fellas, it can result in a denial of parole.
MIM(Prisons) adds: A few good tips from our comrade here who is
putting eir money where eir mouth is. While we do not promote an
idealized revolutionary lifestyle, we do think that people can often
underestimate the effect that watching TV has on people and their
health. And if that is what you are doing with all your time you really
aren’t living life.
MIM has long been cutting edge in terms of promoting good security
practices and technologies. And a while ago we realized that even
prisoners need to be conscious about security in relation to computers
and cell phones as we wrote about in Under Lock & Key 31.
Finally, if prisoners want to get Chican@ Power, it is available
for the discounted rate of $10 from MIM Distributors or for work
exchange from our Free Books for Prisoners program.
I am a true soldier for the cause of change and the fight it takes to
accomplish it. I have been housed at Pelican Bay State Prison since
2013, after being released for a sticking. My prior dealings with this
place dates back to 1996 when I did my first bid. Currently I have
chosen to embrace change and growth as well as a United Front for Peace
at Pelican Bay State Prison.
I am currently involved in “P.E.A.C.E.”, Prisoners Embracing
Anti-hostilities and Cultural Evolution. We have been going strong for
over 8 months. Our cause is based on embracing anti-hostilities and
cultural evolution amongst Africans, Hispanics, Whites, Asians,
Islanders, and Native Americans by way of partaking in tournaments of
basketball, handball, volleyball and having made a conscious choice for
change.
These efforts are not being taken lightly by this prison, and every
effort is being made to stomp our push for change. The oppressor has
refused to follow any of their own set rules and regulations as far as
Inmate Leisure Time Activity Groups (ILTAGs) are concerned and assisting
our approved ILTAG from running said tournaments without any hassle or
fear of our sponsor being prevented from performing his duties without
constant nickel and dime harassment tactics.
Pelican Bay State Prison is not open for change. I have been placed in
Ad-Seg due to what staff here refer to as “causing ripples.” I did 9
months with no charges or a finding of guilt as to that 115
[Disciplinary Report]. A comrade took on the Men’s Advisory Council
chairman job and raised many concerns of the general population, only to
find their house searched by squad numerous times, and constantly given
urine tests, though none of these tactics ended with any findings of
guilt.
I have so much to share with you all including the atmosphere on these
main lines and the new tactics being used to incite violence, chaos and
riots. I am on the front line as are so many other brethren here, but we
need that voice and the way shared with us on how to proceed in the
correct way.
I wish to further educate the masses here at Pelican Bay State Prison as
do others, but we seriously need a support system from the outside. Just
like the distance of this place from civilization, this is what it feels
like to seek rehabilitation, peace, and change at a place that
specializes in oppressing. Prisoners’ mail is not going out or coming
in, and there is no way to prove either way, the
602
[prisoner grievance] process is in shambles; even when you win in
this prison you still lose. Every action causes a reaction and Pelican
Bay is notorious for their continued nit picking until they get the
reaction they are seeking: chaos, violence, riots and disunity amongst
prisoners.
We humbly ask for your assistance in bringing change to Pelican Bay
State Prison, and the followers you possess in how to proceed. Please
include all information and knowledge needed to proceed. Contact myself,
and all will be shared with the men concerned. P.E.A.C.E.
As I contemplate my situation, I tend to be blinded by the darkness
at the end of the tunnel No light, no hope, no future. The only
future I can see is the life behind bars; under the thumb of
corrupt administrators. One man against injustices that I see, fit
for no man.
Everyone sees it, but doesn’t respond. Just giving into their own
destruction. Not a fight in them. No struggle, no sacrifices.
Content in their situation. Do me how you want to do me
attitudes. No progress, no future. Free education. They don’t get
it. Power in numbers, they don’t use it. Unity, its non-existent.
We can’t let this discourage us. There is light, there is hope. All
it takes is a little struggle, sacrifice, and unity. Never
underestimate your power.
Survival in this imperial dungeon is a must. Survival is more than
looking over ya shoulder wondering when a shank will be placed in your
back. Survival in these walls has a broad base.
First, we must be vigilant in what we eat, the reason why is food
nourishes the body, mind and soul. There are so many chemicals added to
our diet that it kills or destroys us over a period of time. We must
change our diet or balance it with more fruits and veggies. What I have
done was get on a kosher diet rich in fresh produce, and cut back on a
lot of mystery meat. How can we fight with all our strength if what we
eat is making us weak?
Another survival method I use is peers. I connect to those held captive
in the system of snakes, and politic with them so we can all be on
point. Staying away from negative energy which brings chaos. I try to
apply “each one teach one” as my everyday survival method, cause once
you help your brother-comrade in need it brings a feeling of joy.
But the enemy can come with all kinds of tricks, and once they see you
are a fighter for justice, then you’re hauled off to a solitary
confinement unit. Now that’s when you must use all the tools to survive.
One method that I currently use now while housed here is reading a lot
of material and applying the principles to my everyday life. And
spreading literature helps so us comrades can chop it up (conversate)
amongst each other and figure out ways to find solutions rather than
being a problem. But I keep a simple program so I can survive in this
imperial prison. Stocks of peanut butter in case food supply doesn’t
come. Batteries for fuel, radio to keep up with current events. And
learning more about self, so I can be prepared mentally to overcome this
injustice.
MIM(Prisons) responds: On the topic of survival in solitary
confinement, we distribute excerpts from the “Survivors Guide for
Solitary Confinement” pamphlet that was released by the American Friends
Service Committee. It is primarily authored by prisoners and gets into
many mental health tactics, including meditation, setting a schedule,
and regular exercise. These tactics are useful for any comrade who’s
serious about political organizing, whether locked up or not.
Sometimes our oppressors will put us in a strip cell with no bedding, no
warmth, no food, no water, no medical attention. In those moments,
there’s little we can do as far as relying on peanut butter reserves.
But maintaining everyday practices that keep us healthy and strong, and
with a strong ideological understanding of the reasons we’re facing
these horrible conditions, will help us remain strong and make it
through this torture. Our survival tactics may be individual at times,
but our struggle is vast.
Cien años después del histórico Plan de San Diego, se desarrolla otro
evento monumental e histórico; la publicación de Chican@ Power and
the Struggle for Aztlán (Poder Chican@ y la lucha por
Aztlán). Chican@ Power es un libro revolucionario
nacionalista enfocado en la lucha revolucionaria de la nación Chican@
contra el imperialismo Amerikano. Este libro le sirve a toda la Raza
oprimida en Aztlán y debe de ser estudiado por todos los interesados en
liberar la nación Chican@ del imperialismo Amerikano, especialmente la
Raza interesada en liberar la nación Chican@ del imperialismo Amerikano,
especialmente la Raza interesada en establecer una república de gente
Chican@ en donde se encuentra Aztlán ocupado y oprimido,
i.e. California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Nuevo Mexico, Utah, y Colorado.
Chican@ Power alumbra en la oscuridad que es opresión nacional,
una oscuridad que ha envuelto y cubierto a Aztlán. Dirigiendo sus rayos
luminosos hacia el sendero luminoso abierto para nosotros por toda la
buena gente del mundo en la lucha. La lucha de la gente en la cual las
masas heroicas del Tercer Mundo continúan probando no solo su valor en
la cara del imperialismo desastroso sino tambien la validez y
efectividad de la guerra de la gente y la ideología revolucionaria de
donde nació: Marxismo-Leninismo-Maoismo, principalmente el Maoísmo.
Chican@ Power nos manda a atacar con fuerza la opresión nacional
y criticar a los proponentes de la opresión nacional sean quien sean.
Esto significa que como revolucionarios nacionalistas y el destacamento
avanzado de la nación Chican@ es nuestro deber ser los primeros en
criticar abiertamente a nuestros líderes comprados y reformistas. No
sirve en nada alabar a opresores solo porque tienen apellidos en
español, hablan español o son Raza por nacimiento, haciendolo solo
confunde el punto para las masas Chican@s quien miran hacia nosotros
como guías de teoría e ideología. Siendo revolucionarios debemos siempre
encender el camino en asuntos de punto de vista política y conciencia,
nunca debemos rendirnos a la complacencia que traería degeneración
política. Tenemos que acabar con Chican@s nacionalistas disfrazados de
Maoístas quien en el nombre de Aztlán levantarían la bandera roja solo
para después oponerse a ella. Comunistas de la nación Chican@ deben
pararse firmes e intransigentes contra estos nacionalistas
chauvinisticos quienes con sus engaños atrasan el movimiento Chican@ de
liberación e independencia.
Dicho esto, Maoístas auténticos creen en unir a todos quienes están
dispuestos para la lucha para liberar la nación. Esto está de acuerdo
con la teoría del frente unido con practica desarrollada por Joseph
Stalin, líder de la USSR durante la lucha de la gente Soviética contra
el fascismo Alemán, y Mao Zedong en la guerra de la gente China de
liberación contra el militarismo e imperialismo Japonés. Haciendo esta
declaración se reconoce que hay una contradicción entre la unificación
de todos quienes se puedan juntar y luchar no solo contra tendencias
equivocadas entre el movimiento Chican@ pero también deviaciones
completas y revisionismo adentro del movimiento Chican@ comunista
también. Maoístas del movimiento Chican@ deben buscar resolver estas
diferencias y contradicciones ahora mismo, empezando con los elementos
más avanzados de las masas Chican@s, con el método de
unidad-lucha-unidad. No deberíamos esperar que se complete el teatro de
liberación nacional antes de tomar la lucha ideológica. Esto no debe
excluir el separarnos de otras organizaciones Chican@s a base de paradas
de principio sobre disputas científicas pues “La lucha sigue adelante
continuamente.” Debemos reconocer que en estos casos lo que no
deberíamos hacer es no unir los dos en uno, sino luchar para dividir
para poder liberar Aztlán y hacer la revolución.
También debemos reconocer que antes que el movimiento pueda formarse a
traves del poder y la fuerza de las masas Chican@s primero tiene que
haber un consenso entre todos los elementos revolucionarios de Aztlán
para poder consolidar el movimiento nacional Chican@ de liberación; sea
entre un frente unida suelto entre varias organizaciones Chican@s y
Mexican@s, o bajo una bandera unida con un solo programa, no se puede
determinar ahora. Lo que debería ser reconocido es que las fuerzas
revolucionarias en Aztlán tienen que comenzar el proceso de
consolidación para seguir moviendo la lucha hacia adelante. La mejor
manera de hacer esto en esta etapa de la lucha es indudablemente con
Under Lock & Key (Bajo Llave y Candado), la voz del
movimiento anti-imperialista trás de las paredes de la prisión. De esta
manera es el deber revolucionario de Maoístas y otros anti-imperialistas
de la nación Chican@ unirse para poder empezar el largo y arduo proceso
de liberación y descolonización de toda la gente.
El movimiento nacionalista revolucionario Chican@ debe estar en unidad
firme con todos las fuerzas Maoístas autenticas del mundo incluyendo
todas las otras fuerzas revolucionarias peleando regímenes respaldados
por imperialismo. ¡Saludo de puño cerrado! un saludo de puño cerrado
también mandamos a toda Raza y camaradas encerrados en prisiones
Amerikkkanas quienes han saltado a ganarse la liberación para nuestra
gente con la lucha utilizando el Maoísmo; el tercer y mas alto nivel de
la ciencia revolucionaria.
Camaradas deberían estudiar seriamente el programa de diez puntos
MIM(Prisiones) y también los seis puntos cardinales de MIM(Prisiones)
antes de intentar crear sus propios grupos Maoístas pues pueden demarcar
entre Maoísmo autentico y falsas organizaciones comunistas. Estos
programas deben servir como guía general al tipo de organización y como
organizarse. Celdas revolucionarais contendiendo la manta de Mao y
Aztlán deben abrirse a todo Chican@ y no deben ser contingente en
organización pasada de la calle o prisión, pero si en la creencia
profunda que Aztlán es un territorio de la nación Chican@ que tiene que
ser liberada!
A la misma vez organizaciones Chican@s Maoístas deben tener pólizas
estrictas de admisión porque la revolución no es un estilo de vida o un
juego, es una cosa de vida o muerte y por eso sólo los revolucionarios
más cometidos serán escogidos. Camaradas también deben estudiar
seriamente el concepto Leninista de “mejor, pocos, pero mejor” para esta
etapa de la lucha. Por último, camaradas deben juntar a las masas
oprimidas en la prisión, en particular Raza presa para luchar y comenzar
a trabajar con otras organizaciones amables hacia la revolución en el
espíritu y practica del “Frente Unido para la Paz en las prisiones,” no
solo porque es la forma mas efectiva de establecer la paz en la prisión,
pero también de mantenerla. Paz entre las masas no es sólo un precursor,
sino es un prerequisito a la victoria a nivel estratégico.
El Chican@ y otras masas de prisión deben darse cuenta que el
imperialismo Amerikano se pone más débil cada día, a nivel domestico e
internacional por su extenso sobre alcance hegemónico. En vez de ganarse
más poder a largo, los imperialistas con su presencia han encontrado
resistencia feroz y odio por parte de las masas del Tercer Mundo
resueltas. Las masas deben saber que el imperialismo Amerikano es un
tigre de papel y a nivel estratégico y de largo plazo su muestra de
fuerza es solo boxeo de sombra para el beneficio de los que ellos desean
oprimir y subyugar; es un monstruo de concreto con pies de arcilla y
donde intenta plantar los pies, es atacado.
“Aunque re-escriban la historia, no se puede cambiar el hecho que la
lucha de liberación nacional es la que le da tantas derrotas militares a
el imperialismo.” (“La cuestión nacionalista y partidos vanguardias
separados” en MIM Teoría 7: Nacionalismo Feminista Proletariado) Aztlán
Libre!