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The role of the police is not to serve and protect the people. It is to serve and protect the system that rules over the people. To enforce the relations of exploitation and oppression, the conditions of poverty, misery and degradation into which the system has cast people and is determined to keep people in. The law and order the police are about, with all of their brutality and murder, is the law and the order that enforces all this oppression and madness.

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Denying women the right to abortion, denying them the right to decide if, and when, they will have children, with everything that means, and all the effects that will have on their lives, denying this is like battering and rape. Denying the right to abortion is a means of exercising forcible control by a male supremacist society over the very lives of women and over their bodies.

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No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, who the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.

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With all the monstrous crimes the U.S. has committed... all these crimes throughout their history and all over the world, crimes so atrocious that it is actually difficult to speak of them. With all that, they still picture themselves as “the good guys taking on the evildoers in the world” and they train and indoctrinate their armed forces and their police inside the U.S. to think of themselves as the good guys going out to fight the bad guys... which means anybody who gets in the way of the rulers of the U.S., who are the real world class evildoers.

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If you want to eliminate a problem or an evil, you must get to the root of it. If you want to eliminate the oppression and miserable conditions of the masses of people in the world today, you have to dig down to the underlying foundation, the ground on which this oppression and misery is rooted and which continually gives rise to this oppression and suffering. You cannot get rid of a poisonous plant and create something healthy in its place just by pulling off the top of the plant. You have to pull it up from the roots and then grow something completely different and change the soil too. That is what a radical solution is. Radical means having to do with the root. And this is why a real revolution is needed and this is what it’s all about.

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Capitalism, especially now that it has reached the stage of imperialism, controls, dominates, manipulates and mangles the lives of people all over the world. Many times you hear these imperialists and their mouthpieces say things like this, “Well you say we’re exploiting people. But without us there’d be no jobs.” They come out with this especially when it comes to light that they are paying people something like a few cents an hour in countries all over the Third World. No. The truth is, without these imperialists, there would still be people capable of working, people capable of planning and running an economy. There would still be natural resources and potential wealth for the people in those countries when they take control over their societies and remake them in a radical way through revolution.

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You hear these people say, “I’m on this corner selling my product, I’m regulating the corner.” You ain’t regulating shit. You’re just being regulated. You’re just being put there and allowed to be there as long as what you are doing serves the people who really regulate things, who really run the system, for as long as it serves them or doesn’t get in their way.

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The time in history, the situation in human society where things have to be this way – that time is over. The basis already exists to meet the needs of the people throughout the world. And to put an end to the vast, horrible and completely needless suffering and misery that people are going through, that people all over the world and, yes, millions and tens of millions of people within the U.S. itself are forced to endure. There’s the basis for everyone to have enough food, shelter fit for human beings and things like medical care to enable them to lead healthy lives. Yet at the same time, 40,000 children die every day in the Third World, from starvation and diseases that could be easily prevented or treated, while people all over the world, including in the U.S. are in their millions and billions denied the means to a decent life that should be possible for all.

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There is not one human nature. There is not some uniform and unchanging way that everybody is and how everybody sees the world. Human nature has different meanings in different times and for different classes and groups in society.

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In order to emancipate themselves, in order to run society and revolutionize the world, masses of people need to wrangle with, they need to think about, to discuss and debate all kinds of things.... One of the main features of socialist society, and one of the main aims of the advance through this socialist stage to communism, is for the masses of people to take up all kinds of questions and to have their creativity set loose in all kinds of ways.

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Now I can just hear these reactionary fools saying “well Bob, answer this. If this country is so terrible, why do people come here from all over the world? Why are so many people trying to get in, not to get out?”... Why? I’ll tell you why. Because you have fucked up the rest of the world even worse than what you have done in this country. You have made it impossible for many people to live in their own countries as part of gaining your riches and power.

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