Red Patch

“The Economist, that optimist conjuror of all things menacing the tranquil minds of the mercantile community…” ~Marx

“The ideology and program of fascism ... are merely an intensification of attitudes which have already been shown to be characteristic of imperialism. ...Foreigners and racial minorities are blamed for misfortunes the nature of which is not understood. So far as internal economic and social problems are concerned the program of fascism is a mass of ill-digested and often mutually contradictory proposals which are notable chiefly for their unmistakably demagogic character. ... What gives to fascism coherence and vitality is its stress on nationalism, its demand for the restoration of a strong state power, and its call for a war of revenge and foreign conquest. It is this which provides a firm foundation for rapprochement between fascism and the capitalist class.” ~Paul M. Sweezy

“Finance capital does not want freedom, but domination… It needs a politically powerful state which … will ensure respect for the interests of finance capital abroad, and use its political power to extort advantageous supply contracts and trade agreements from smaller states; a state which can intervene in every corner of the globe and transform the whole world into a sphere of investment for its own finance capital. Finally, finance capital needs a state which is strong enough to pursue an expansionist policy and the annexation of new colonies… The old free traders believed in free trade not only as the best economic policy but also as the beginning of an era of peace. Finance capital abandoned this belief long ago. … The ideal now is to secure for one's own nation the domination of the world, an aspiration which is as unbounded as the capitalist lust for profit from which it springs. Capital becomes the conqueror of the world, and with every new country that it conquers there are new frontiers to be crossed. These efforts become an economic necessity, because every failure to advance reduces the profit and the competitiveness of finance capital, and may finally turn the smaller economic territory into a mere tributary of a larger one. They have an economic basis, but are then justified ideologically by an extraordinary perversion of the national idea, which no longer recognizes the right of every nation to political self-determination and independence... Instead the economic privileges of monopoly are mirrored in the privileged position claimed for one's own nation, which is represented as a 'chosen nation'. … An oligarchic ideal of domination has replaced the democratic ideal of equality.” ~Rudolf Hilferding

“The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, … arms and ammunition must never be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.” ~Marx

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To Posterity: They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad you have it! But how can I eat and drink When my food is snatched from the hungry And my glass of water belongs to the thirsty? (...) I ate my food between massacres. The shadow of murder lay upon my sleep. (...) You, who shall emerge from the flood In which we are sinking, Think– When you speak of our weaknesses, Also of the dark time That brought them forth. For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes. In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance. (...) But you, when at last it comes to pass That man can help his fellow man, Do not judge us Too harshly.

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“From America, I tell you that you’re completely wrong on this. We need FDR’s ‘New Deal’ tyranny to fall – listen to Americans!”

“At a time when the bourgeoisie itself was playing the most complete comedy, but in the most serious manner in the world ... , and was itself half duped and half convinced of the serious character of its own state proceedings, the adventurer had to win simply because he played the comedy as comedy. Only now that ... he himself takes his imperial role seriously and imagines that the Napoleonic mask represents the real Napoleon, does he become the victim of his own conception of the world, the serious clown who no longer sees world history as a comedy but his comedy as world history.” ~Marx

“Xavaier DuRousseau”: a name that can only be Haitian, as well as the namesake of the author of the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. How is it possible to be a living betrayal of everything you are at such a deep ontological level?

“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.” ~Claud Cockburn

Certainly it has been the wish of those whom Barrack serves, for a very long time, to reduce the Arab Nation to "tribes and villages"...

“It’s depressing to think that we'll have to endure Obamaspeak for months if not years to come: a pulp of boosterism about the American dream, interspersed with homilies about putting factionalism and party divisions behind us and moving on […] I've never heard a politician so careful not to offend conventional elite opinion while pretending to be fearless and forthright.” ~Tariq Ali, 2008

“L'esclave qui n'est pas capable d'assumer sa révolte ne mérite pas que l'on s'apitoie sur son sort.” ~ Thomas Sankara

“Notre tort à nous, Africains, est d’avoir oublié que l’ennemi ne recule jamais sincèrement. Il ne comprend jamais. Il capitule, mais ne se convertit pas. Notre tort est d’avoir cru que l’ennemi avait perdu de sa combativité et de sa nocivité. Si Lumumba gêne, Lumumba disparaît. L’hésitation dans le meurtre n’a jamais caractérisé l’impérialisme.” ~Frantz Fanon

We want an angry generation To plough the sky To blow up history To blow up our thoughts. We want a new generation That does not forgive mistakes That does not bend. We want a generation of giants.

We are daily witnessing the vindication of Samir Amin's old prophecy, that under late capitalism the old nationalisms would “be replaced not by internationalism, but by a pan-European neonationalism (pan-occidentalism) with racist overtones and defining itself primarily by opposition to Asia.”