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by David Gilbert
(1/16/2017)
“Imperialism is piracy […] reorganized, consolidated and adapted to the aim of exploiting the natural and human resources of our peoples.”
“[N]obody has yet made a successful revolution without a revolutionary theory.”
– Amilcar Cabral[1]
One of my biggest joys and most valued activities is corresponding with younger-generation—by now it’s generations—white anti-racist activists. Most of them identify as anarchist or anti-authoritarian, but knowing my history, often ask what I think about Marxism. These activists have been mightily turned off by the examples of Marxist-Leninist (M-L) organizations in the U.S. which all too often have been characterized by dogmatism, sectarianism, and heavily top-down internal power dynamics. Political “debate” frequently devolved into each side plucking competing quotes from Marx or Lenin or Mao—as though that proved anything. Perhaps worst of…
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