AOC, Spike Lee, Maxine Waters, & Fatigue from Liberal Lies

I have a huge headache.  Its hurting because I'm really tired of this constant quest by so-called liberals within the U.S. to position their cowardly politics as the benchmark of human progress.  Possibly, my issue is I have grown up over the last several decades listening to the messages of independent revolutionary organizers who had no alliance with anything connected to imperialism.  These courageous and uncompromising souls had only one concern, the universal quest for justice in the world for all of humanity.  This list of people is infinite, but for direct influence into my life I'll go with Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Marcus and Amy/Amy Garvey(s), Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Mangaliso Sobukwe, Steve Biko, Winnie Mandela, Sekou Ture, George Padmore, Walter Rodney, etc., etc.  

All independent on a political/ideological level.  All 100% opposed to capitalist corporate influence.  All 100% committed to eliminating this capitalist system and building something better for African people (Pan-Africanism) and all of humanity.  All of them dedicated members of organizations at every stage of their political lives.  None of them believing just their subjective/individualistic opinions to ever be enough to forge a pathway for justice for our people and everyone else. 

That's my ideological and philosophical foundation so I know my headache today rages because somehow, when we fell asleep or something, that strong, courageous, independent model for African thinking, for human thinking, is slowly being replaced by voices that pretend to speak for the masses of people while steadfast sticking to a political bottom line that continues to uphold the capitalist system.  And, make absolutely no mistake about it, if you are under the false pretext that its possible to support the zionist occupation of Palestine, the continued exploitation of Africa's resources, the ongoing colonization of the Americas, while also saying you support justice for all of humanity, you are living under an unobtainable fantasy.  But, if you believe in those fantasies, than people like Spike Lee, Alexandria Osacio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, etc., these people are heroes for you.

The difference between you and me is I believe in dialectics, meaning I know that - as Kwame Nkrumah articulated - the world is a "phenom of forces in tension."  Since I understand this universal principle of change in life, I know these bourgeoisie politicians cannot be viewed in isolation and without context.  These people are not the end all.  They are simply products of the people's collective growing consciousness around the desire to be free.  If you don't believe that, rewind back to the 1980s.  No public politician would have dared talk about universal health care within the U.S.  No entertainer got up and talked about the exploitation of our ancestors and the theft of Indigenous lands.  These things are only happening now because the people's consciousness demands it, but the people expressing the people's desires are not the people who will deliver those desires.  They are incapable to doing so and that's not about whether they have honest intentions or not.

I'm sure Osacio-Cortez is an absolutely great young woman.  I have absolutely no doubt about that, but even if she, Sanders, Lee, and all of them are complete angels, they still couldn't deliver the justice we need and deserve.  Why?  Because the bourgeoisie system they are placing all of their faith in is designed to preserve power for the people who control it.  That's the entire objective of the Electoral College, the local, county, state, and federal judicial courts.  All of the state and federal legislative arms of government in this rotten country.  All of it works to protect the capitalist classes.  And, if you need evidence of that give us a holler because there is so much data substantiating that claim that you will be reading about it until you are geriatric.  And if you are already much older, you will die studying this data.

Look, we are not clueless here.  We understand people feel completely beat up by this system.  As you should.  We understand people feel the need to have some hope in something.  We agree.  We just think we can and should do so much better than just providing all of our sentiment into system people who speak out of both sides of their mouths.  They say they support universal health care, but not scientific socialism.  They say they support justice, but not an end to settler colonialism in occupied Palestine, Azania (South Africa), or the Americas.  Saying you support justice while also clinging to those hallmark systems of oppression is like saying you are a vegan in public while sneaking to McDonalds for Big Macs every evening.  Looks good in lights, but not possible.

Instead of that foolishness, why not figure out how to believe in real justice?  Why not dedicate your energies towards moving towards that real justice?  A major reason achieving it is taking so long is so many of you keep derailing to pursue pipe dreams and shortcuts.  There is no shortcut for the liberation we need and deserve.  The moment we all accept that, and stop believing we can have freedom from the system oppressing us while that system remains in tact, we can have freedom overnight.  As for me, I'm going to do what I always do.  Work through my headache until it goes away.  Work through this capitalist system until it goes away, completely.