From a prisoner in Texas
January 28, 2020
To me the answer seems obvious now; but I know there’s a lot of People whose motto has become “Get rich or Die trying.” And look, I understand, the environment a lot of us come from is of poverty, and money is understood as a tool for survival. Without it you don't eat and you can't Provide Shelter for you and your family. So like the Hunter-Gatherers of ancient times, who would all go out there to the unknown in search for the sustenance for life (food, etc.). Some impulse draws a lot of us to go out there and hunt for money and gather coin, the “new” sustenance for life. It is that impulse, why a lot of People would go through extremes and life-threatening measures in the hunt for cash, coming up with slick and innovative ways to gather coin. It’s what Society demands of the human race today.
See that’s the difference, whereas back then, nature demanded the human race to hunt and gather its necessities for life. Today it’s society, meaning it’s People and the System they organize around. Society that demands such actions from us today. That being the case, such systems are susceptible to change. We as People can change them. I know it may sound crazy to you, but think about it! We are so advanced in human civilization that we have the means to mass produce everything. The necessities of life are mass produced every day 100 X’s over, enough to provide for the world’s children and its children’s children. But society and the system of capitalism its organized under Dictates you go through all these loops and hoops and life risking stunts to acquire a Dollar, not the necessities, but the coin. So they can sell you the necessities. And there we go, giving up our lives in the Pursuit of the Coin. Some of us driven to the extreme of picking up Guns and Knives to rob some place or somebody, risking death or imprisonment (which is almost like Death) for a Dollar. We sell poison to our fellow human to swindle them out of their coin (again) risking death or captivity for what? A dollar, a green piece of paper which has no physical value other than the promise it holds. When the promise can no longer be kept, that piece of paper means nothing! So we really out here killing, Dying and risking captivity for nothing! Yeah we say it’s for survival, and once upon a time you couldn't tell me otherwise. Until I realized that Humans made this system of capitalism. Humans organized society around that system. It’s Humans that are upholding that system, for their own personal interest. If that’s the case, Humans can change such system, we can organize society differently, this time to better serve humanity and the Planet. It’s not some omnipotent being that enacted these “facts” of life. It’s not a law of nature that organized society the way it is today. It’s Humans. So if it’s humans that did it, we can undo it and Place Something better. We as Humans have the Power to do so. We are damn near the only species on earth that can change and manipulate our environment to better serve us.
I'm not saying it’s easy, we are going to have to be about that action. If you’re about that action when it comes to block claiming, color banging and paper chasing, which amounts to being about that action over nothing really! Why is it so hard to be about that action when it comes to the betterment of you, yours and your fellow human race? I get the whole Bourgeois Propaganda that’s been instilled in you since birth, the Bourgeois Culture that’s drilled into your head every day. But we must see it for what it really is and break from it! Those pretty, glittery lights capitalism and bourgeois culture promises were not meant for everyone, and that road will only lead you to disappointment, misery, death or stuck in some Concrete Dungeon somewhere forever.
Whereas we can use that ingenuity, bravery, and Action to fight for something that actually holds weight, that actually means Something. We can be that lever that turns the tide of human history, change the course of humankind, that from the road of destruction we are on to that of emancipation and Glory for the human race.
It won't be easy, I know. You have a lot of people upholding this System that would rather destroy the earth than to give it up. But if there’s a lot of us, and if we fight hard and smart, our chances are better than none. And to the pessimist who says we will fail as our comrades in the past failed, know that their sacrifice brought with it lessons. Our deaths or failures will do the same, the next generation will learn from our mistakes, and with that, our life and death meant something as did our past fallen comrades...
...When you weight it all out, fighting for a Communist Revolution, a break from the bourgeoisie mind state, and fighting for the Emancipation of Humankind from the chains of capitalism/Imperialism, it’s something that’s truly worth living and dying for...
with a lot of Love & Respect