Revolution Online Edition, September 14, 2009
"Try to imagine a world...where we live in mutual support and cooperation"
I wanted you to know I found your letter inspiring and comforting. Being confined in what is essentially long-term solitary, it’s easy to feel completely isolated from life—like being buried alive. And it’s difficult to not begin perceiving life as a hopeless burden; as seeing one’s own life and continued existence as an exercise in futility. To think that anything I could possibly do or say could have a positive effect on the future or could possibly inspire someone else to struggle and hope for a better future is in itself an inspiration.
As I see it, under the present economic system, the world is a horror stage in which there are just two roles to be acted out: that of the vampire or that of its victim. After repeated feedings, some victims—inevitably the poor and people of color—become so sapped of life they waste away and perish. Many others remain victims all of their lives, leading lives of “quiet desperation” and drowning themselves in drugs, alcohol, and blind consumerism. Every so often victims, infected with the unspeakably evil virus, rise up to become vampires themselves, and proponents of the system point to these people and say “See? The system works!”—the system never works. The vampires themselves are but an elite, good-ol-boy fellowship of world class parasites.
The world has always been divided into two classes, that of predator and prey; it’s the law of the jungle. But, for the first time since the world began, humankind has the opportunity to rise above its animal nature and to truly become a planet of gods. This is possible—indeed it is inevitable—for the world’s humanity to evolve to world communism. It can happen in our lifetimes, or a millennium from now—the choice is ours. One thing’s certain: It’s not gonna just happen: God’s not gonna wave a miracle wand and create world communism! Do not wait on god to fix anything.
Try to imagine a world where, instead of preying on one another, we live in mutual support and cooperation. A world in which people will feel that they’re truly valuable, not just cogs in an impersonal machine, or helpless prey to be exploited and fed upon by the all-powerful parasites. Imagine a world in which people actually feel the creative power of self determination, where they won’t need to drown themselves into oblivion with chemicals and cheap, mass produced junk that falls apart before they can get it home. Imagine a world in which our precious children—our only hope for the future—our children’s children will not know what it feels like to be marginalized and hated and feared because of such an incredibly stupid reason as the color of their skin! It all boils down to one word: respect. Respect for ourselves, respect for each other and all life on the planet (barring parasites!), and respect for this most precious mother earth herself. I’m not talking about empty, touchy-feeling lip service respect. I’m talking about the kind of genuine respect that can only come about in a revolutionary communist society.
This is the world I’m living for. Indeed it’s the only world worth living for. To do otherwise is the supreme disgrace.
Looking forward to receiving the materials you mentioned and to seeing my first copy of Revolution in well over a month.
Yours for the Revolution, signed
TEXAS
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