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Fred Hampton on Racism & Capitalism
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That sounds very woke and righteous but here are the facts:
Capitalism is the reason Black Americans are the richest, most educated black people in the world, EVER. More Black people have risen from poverty under capitalism than any other system that has ever existed.
Black and Brown people around the world live under systems where there in absolutely no opportunity to escape poverty, while their leaders are their cronies insanely rich.
This is the dumbest post I've read here in months. 100% unadulterated stupidity. What's your source, Stormfront?
fred seemed like a cool guy, but he was no economist.
being smart doesn't mean he was in all areas. he was grossly wrong here.
many Black folks in all parts of the world,
conflated colonialism and capitalism.
so they ended up hating everything from western white folks and took in aocialism/commmunism from eastern whife folks. those who lived through this times can be forgiven for not knowing.
we live in now, and we see the failure of socialism.
Fred was a socialist/marxist/communist, whatever you wanna call it. All the panthers were. many caribbean and african nations tried that, even though many were market based economies before colonialism.
they all had disastrous results just like the european, south american, and asian countries did.
the communists had agents alll over these Black nations and our leaders were suckers for it.
manning johnson, george Schuyler , and a few others tried to warn us.
being smart doesn't mean he was in all areas. he was grossly wrong here.
many Black folks in all parts of the world,
conflated colonialism and capitalism.
so they ended up hating everything from western white folks and took in aocialism/commmunism from eastern whife folks. those who lived through this times can be forgiven for not knowing.
we live in now, and we see the failure of socialism.
Fred was a socialist/marxist/communist, whatever you wanna call it. All the panthers were. many caribbean and african nations tried that, even though many were market based economies before colonialism.
they all had disastrous results just like the european, south american, and asian countries did.
the communists had agents alll over these Black nations and our leaders were suckers for it.
manning johnson, george Schuyler , and a few others tried to warn us.
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Got a thread full of people talking about the stock market and another with cryptocurrencies and the same people talking “fuck capitalism”.
Marxist (socialist/communist) ideology is winless and will always be, especially for the main people promoting it.
Yeah, coming up any fucking time during the cold war lead to some serious propaganda being pushed on us. Now there is propaganda in a different form. But the same thing stands true. Those who push it want us to think in binary terms. They don't want us looking at other options.
A blend of capitalism and socialism is best. Think of it as walking on a tightrope with a safety net. Capitalism allows those who wish to take risks to take them and be rewarded for that. If they fall, social safety nets help them not get fucked up. With proper use of both capitalism and social safety nets, coming up is much, much easier. Social safety nets also help those who don't take risks. A life of complacency can be lived of the safety nets.
It's funny to me because the socialism only/capitalism evil types love the innovation and cool shit that really only come from capitalism(winners/losers) type societies, but won't admit it. At the same time, the free market/hardcore capitalism types love the socialism for the rich, but won't admit it.
Since you're in crypto, see my response below.
The stock market and crypto are highlighting what is wrong with RIGGED capitalism. In crypto, what's been happening? We went from the wild west to 'lawmakers' introducing their tilted capitalism rules. By itself, crypto was the perfect blend of socialism/capitalism.
Communities could control the ledger and money without government fucking it up, but private owners were also free to operate within that world and get rich. Shit was like the truest form of both socialism and capitalism, but the government comes in to fuck it up and 'legitimize' it.
First time in history PEOPLE had control over money and value.What just happened with the stock market? They intervened on behalf of the rich and the government did nothing. MSM already moved past the story.
I'm not against capitalism, but the system is rigged. The good new is that we know it's rigged. Big ass "BRIDGE OUT" sign, yet folks keep getting rekt.
I'm not on that marxist shit, but I am with keeping the game as fair to the little guy as possible.
I think some people who say 'fuck capitalism' are more saying 'fuck rigged capitalism.' Stop changing the rules when people who ain't supposed to win start winning. Marxist on some other bullshit though.
I only wish more of his speeches would have been recorded. His age, his fire and ability to bridge the divide between race and class would have been an invaluable tool in developing the minds of young Black men in this era.
We still fight, we still do the work with others, but we seem to lose the Black struggle in the midst of the umbrella strategy.
Fred never lost that viewpoint.
"Free Em ALL"
We still fight, we still do the work with others, but we seem to lose the Black struggle in the midst of the umbrella strategy.
Fred never lost that viewpoint.
"Free Em ALL"
Happy born day to the great ancestor.
Always pisses me off when I think about how much this brotha accomplished at just 21 years old, the trajectory his life was leading towards and how much more he could have accomplished if his light wasn't snuffed out by a sellout sambo, J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO
He would've been 81 years old today smh
Always pisses me off when I think about how much this brotha accomplished at just 21 years old, the trajectory his life was leading towards and how much more he could have accomplished if his light wasn't snuffed out by a sellout sambo, J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO
He would've been 81 years old today smh
His father died in 2008 and his mother died in 2016.
Hundreds Remember Iberia Hampton, Mother to Fred and Everyone Else - Village Free Press
Iberia Hampton, far left, with her oldest son William Hampton, center, and Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., during a 1971 news conference. | John Filo/Associated Press | Below: Hundreds crowd into the Maywood Park District’s gymnasium to remember Iberia Hampton, who died last week at the age of 94...
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Just sharing a few threads on capitalism since I did a search:
I have to go by my Amazon locker to get this book and I just haven't been this week