Why we should read Robert L. Allen’s “Black Awakening in Capitalist America” to understand the context of the #StopCopCity movement coming on the heels of the 2020 #GeorgeFloyd uprisings…
A THREAD of excerpts that speak to the current situation re: policing in the U.S. 🧵🪡
The “City” is the past/present/future battlegrounds (materially, strategically, ideologically) for Black Liberation— and therefore all our collective liberation.
“To [white liberals] the cities present not a battleground but a crisis to be managed.”
“On the one hand there was the orthodox liberal who prescribed more New Deal welfarism as an antidote to riots. More antidiscrimination legislation and expanded antipoverty programs would suffice nicely, he contended.”
Sound familiar? Reforming “the City” to maintain power.
Who are the public officials, businessmen, educators & civil rights leaders following this same formula today in Atlanta and/or your home city? You see them?
Working to *stabilize* the crisis within the system rather than overthrow the source of the crises (racial capitalism).
You could take this excerpt and replace “Vietnam War” with “War in Ukraine”… this is Joe Biden and the Democrats to a “T”.
Many thought the 2020 uprisings might lead to counterinsurgency via “concessions” (superficial reforms) but instead we got austerity & brutal crackdowns.
The DANGER of liberal cooptation of radical and revolutionary movements:
Trading “concessions”— banning discrimination in housing for an “anti riot provision which makes it a felony for anyone to cross state lines with the ‘intent’ of inciting or organizing a riot.”
Familiar?
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