From Volume 3, #8, June 14, 1969 of the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service.

No, I haven’t. I tend to listen to ideas here and there, but very rarely go out of my way to full dig into single theories and ideologies written out by individuals.

Communism by its definition was originally intended to be the transitional phase between the end of capitalism and the beginning of socialism. It does describe almost exactly what I support in its eradication of class, currency, and the state, but I’m more concerned in focusing on a very specific end result of an ideal, hypothetical revolution, which would be a communal socialist structure that operated on egalitarianism, consensus, and a resource-based economy.

The countries that people cite as communist are, by definition, not and never were. I don’t know enough about the histories of other countries to say for sure, but it appears to me many countries that are now borderline totalitarian got there under the guise of proposed communism. They more or less always operated under a capitalist structure.

Capitalism in no way allows for the most human comfort. Sure, many people will flourish within it, but in order for there to be a top, there must be a middle and, ultimately, there must be a very large bottom. Those at the bottom who never benefit or survive within the capitalist system are not individuals who have simply failed at competitiveness, either; their poverty and desperation is actually a crucial aspect of capitalism. In a competitive market, there must be winners and there must be losers. I propose a shift towards a world where all people are taken care of equally, as opposed to a dog-eat-dog world where the basic necessities required to live, and thus the “right” to a comfortable life”, are seen as something that must be “earned” by the economy’s classist standards. Sure, in comparison to many other countries, America might statistically offer what is considered a “high standard of living”, but we as people are capable of a much better, more fair and just world.

I live here because I was born here. I was born poor and will remain poor. Considering how stressful my life is to begin with, leaving has never been a high priority, mostly due to how difficult it would be. It’s much easier to build a life where I already am and find loopholes in the system I abhor. It’s working out for the most part, so far.

I agree with much of it. Socialism, or whatever you wanna call a communal, resource-based economy, is really the only way to sustain life equally and sustainably, and Marxism’s entire critique of capitalism is dead-on.

Overpopulation is a contentious topic and I have yet to see any conclusive evidence that we are nearing it. While there has certainly been a dramatic, almost scary, population increase over the last decade or two, and I agree whole-heartedly that it is something that needs to be taken seriously from a social and environmental point of view, I do not believe that we are anywhere near a legitimate overpopulation of our species.

The factors that make it appear that we are overpopulating, or at least populating beyond our planet’s carrying capacity, are:
- The corporate monopolies over resources
- The subsequent misallocation of those resources
- The exclusivity of the people who have access to those resources
- The irresponsibly spacious way neighborhoods are built
- The various lands we have not yet used due to location and natural climate

People are starving and homeless because food and shelter, which is abundant globally, is owned by an elite few and can only be earned by a few certain classes of people. There definitely needs to be a strong shift in consciousness, of course, but the human race continuing to grow and flourish is not as big of a problem as how we go about living on this planet.

There are very real conspiracies in the world, and those conspiracies are always conducted by people “in the know” against those who are ignorant or naive of backroom machinations.

Past slavery was largely based on force (thus was much more obvious), but modern-day slavery is actually more widespread because global slave masters use all of the scientific tools at their disposal to win hearts and control minds, convincing us that our hands and feet are free, so we must be living self-directed lives.

There are signs that the mind-pyramids that technocrats have built to enforce their 21st-century global plantation slave system are crumbling as they press harder upon our cognitive ability to make sense of words and actions. The owners of the shoulders on which the structure of tyranny is supported are beginning to leave in droves. The pyramids are falling as slaves begin to recognize their unconscious effort, and consciously encourage others to find a different line of work.

Here are 10 ways that you can help collapse all of the pyramids of control.

Oh, the cyclically self-sustaining stranglehold of capitalism.

A really cute twelve-year old, Victoria Grant, explains how banks and loans have literally enslaved the people of Canada (and, in the same exact way, here in America) at the Public Banking in America Conference in Philadelphia, PA. This is exactly how the plutocracy that we live in keeps us enslaved using invisible money, eloquently explained to grown adults by a girl in the 6th grade.