Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 01:40:17 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-G: Reply to Mark's "them or "us"....
In another letter to the list TandMark-AT-aol.com (Mark Manning, X344686, Puget
Sound IWW, Seattle) and i assume a hero and follower of the IWW wrote!
>For them to tell us what's in our working class interests!
in regards to Bob Malecki and the ICL. Well here is Bob Malecki's reply and
"Cockroaches reply!
Another thing I would like too take up here is morality, and intellectual
snobbery! There have been many times I have met people in my life
who because of circumstances have had better education's, better
morals, better everything, if one were to believe all their bullshit.
Some of these people have, but the majority of them were and are
bullshit artists. You would think that these people would treat people
like me and my friends at least as equals.
But that is never so.
They are always trying to twist and turn our heads in all kinds of
directions. All the isms, Communism, Capitalism, Fascism were introduced
to poor and working class people by people who came from another world.
These ideologies were introduced into the workers movement and the
workers and poor people were tricked into walking under one flag or
the other, usually leading to devastating effects for the worker
themselves.
One thing these people have in common is that they think that working
people and poor people have to be enlightened, educated, brought into
the light, to just some sort of ideology, in order to lead a better
life. Sort of reminds me of the missionaries who went out into the
bush in Africa to learn the natives how to be civilised. Or the
white Europeans who wripped off America from the Indians by making
deals like, "buying Manhattan for 24 dollars in trinkets" stuff.
In reality these people imposed there lifestyles on the Africans and
enslaved them. They killed off most of the American Indians and later
on in history they have been using working class people and the poor
as meat to be killed off for their latest ideological whim. They are
so self serving and smart.
They think that poor and working class people can't think and
therefore are always trying to stuff more bullshit down our throats!
Well many of us certainly can not express our thoughts in terms
exceptable to these circles. Nor even put forks and knives on the
right side when setting the table. Yeah, the rich even have rules for
this kind of stuff...
But we have one thing that they do not understand at all and that
is historical experience... That is, I mean poor and working class
people have the experience of suffering from the various ideas
presently popular in the upper-class circles. We are beginning to
understand that when these people start pointing their finger at
the enemy and scream kill, we had better watch our asses, because
it is usually poor and working class who wind up killing each other.
Everytime in history the rich became convinced of one particular
theory or another poor and working class people died in the millions.
During the second world war there was Imperialism, Nazism, feudalism,
and Stalinism. That little ideological trip cost the poor and working
class millions and millions of lives.
I took up earlier in this book a little Vietnamese girl running down
a highway in Vietnam with Napalm burning holes in her little body.
Well that little girl, who was running for her very life had something
very much in common with myself and my childhood friends. We were and
are running for our lives just as she was. We were running from the
enemy. For this little girl the enemy came from the sky, the ideology
was the domino theory.
Nick was and still is running for his life, he was a smalltime gangster
and the they was capitalism, i.e. rich people exploiting poor people
likes Nick's dad on the docks so that they could drive cadillacs.
Eddie was running away too, his experience was how the English were
and still are trying to colonise Northern Ireland and Eddies relatives
were trying to stop it by building the I.R.A.
Bob was running too...When I was a kid I was running from my stepdad
Harry. Harry was being destroyed down on the docks by the rich people.
He was a union man and the rich were trying to destroy the unions.
The problem with Harry was that he was pointing the gun at his own
stepkids instead of the fatcats. We were all running from something
that rich people and there intellectual lackies were trying to push
off on us.
Our experience is a common one.
Our history is a pyramid of skulls!
Our skulls!
A lot of these people who come from this other world are always trying
to get us killed in one way or another. Even when I read the letters in
the foregoing chapter of solidarity with my fight for amnesty I find
that these letters are permeated with ideological advice which if I
swallowed would be devastating to poor and working class people like
myself.
For many years now people have been trying to convince me of one or the
other ideologies. However I have no trust in any of it... Because
every time I turn around it is the Nick's, the eddies, the Bob's, the
Indians, the blacks, the little Vietnamese girl who are running for
there lives. It is pretty easy for these people with there nice cars
and nice houses coming down into the streets of New York, or
into the African jungles, or the Vietnamese country side in order to
convince us of the latest dominating theory in their circles. But it
is people like myself who make the pyramid of skulls throughout history.
What I am trying to say here is there ain,t nothing these people want
to give us. In fact most of the rules made up by them in society are
to protect their interests and not the Nick's or Eddies or the little
Vietnamese girl who was running for her life.
Take the latest round of death sentences being handed down. 15 and
16 year old kids who rob a store for twenty dollars and shoot somebody
in the process. They are to be executed by the state. When was the
last time the state executed a rich person for robbing millions from
working class people. When was the last time the state executed
somebody for sending working-class and poor kids off to awar that
they started with the domino theory.
How about the mining company officials on Bougainville today who
are responsible for a genocidal war against the people on the island
in order to open the copper mine for there profits.
No the death penalty is not for rich people. The death penalty was
invented by them in order to keep poor people in line. Remember how
they screamed the couple of times in history this got turned around.
The French revolution and the guillotine for the rich by the poeble!
The Bolsheviks who put the czar against the wall. Christ they are
still talking about that today.
On the other hand what about all the Vietnamese who were turned
into dust for the domino theory. Or the 55,000 G.I.s who came back
in bodybags. Oh yeah, the GI,s got a black stone in Washington D.C.
(Idealogically that stone is being used to prepare the next generation
for a new war)
In America nobody ever talks about the millions of Vietnamese
turned into dust by the bombings.No not at all because the people
controlling things are only interested in making rules to put down
anybody Vietnamese or American who get in the way.
NO THE RICH PEOPLE MAKE THE RULES AND THE IDEOLOGIES
TO KEEP POOR AND WORKING CLASS PEOPLE IN PLACE.
So don't come with any moral or ideological judgements of the Nick's
and Eddie,s or Bob's in this story. These guys are certainly not
angels. We are at least honest in saying that we were born into a
system which has never nor will never give us a fucking chance. A
system which is built up by oppressing the poor and working class
people.Your nice houses and cars and the rest , yes your standard
of living is kept up by exploiting people like us everywhere on this
fucking planet. So don't start telling us how we should try an survive
a death sentence, from the very day we were born, imposed on us by
the rich so that you can continue your bourgeois historical domination.
Go fuck your selves.
I don't like rich people or their lackeys.
I will never trust you because, Oh it is so fucking simple!, I don't
like you because I have been a victim , just as the little Vietnamese
girl was a victim. We were on the same side. You rich people with
your nice cars and houses are on the other side. Until the historical
inequalities built into this system are erased we are deadly enemies!
So long as there are rich and the poor we are deadly enemies. When
you talk about black mothers on welfare, or dope addicts, or criminals,
your talking about people who never had a chance in thisfucking
society. They are victims just as the little Vietnamese girl was a
victim.
And morals !
Nick and eddy and many other poor kids made their livings by selling
drugs to middle-class kids and rich kids coming in from the suburbs.
I remember the moral outrage about this stuff. Why there were articles
in the newspapers everyday about this stuff. Our kids are being
destroyed and all that shit. I even remember seeing articles about
middle-class kids running down to the village to buy pot or LSD being
a fucking communist conspiracy! We thought that it was great to see
kids from the suburbs come down into our part of town slumming.
Later on they would protest against the race riots and the war
in Vietnam.
Well it was people
like Nick and Eddie
Zeke and Clem who got
these kids to let
their hair down.
Let these kids know that their shit stinks just like our shit. The
Nick's and the eddies got all these kids pointed in a direction which
led to that the American bourgeoisie suffered the biggest military
defeat in history in Vietnam. The pot and LSD that the Nick's and
Eddies were selling to these kids was the motor which made these kids
drop out a short period of time in history. That drop out saved just
as many Vietnamese lives as the political organisations did.
I personally would like to thank the Nick's and the eddies of the world.
You were small time gangsters trying to survive in a world you never
understood. But you turned the youth of America on and got them in a
critical moment of history to turn their backs on their bourgeois
parents. And to think that those college kids still today think that
they were solely responsible for helping the Vietnamese win the war!
That is just a crock of bullshit.
We were watching you people long before you even became aware of it.
These kidswere digging music of black people who's forefathers were
slaves! These kids were buying drugs like pot and LSD from the eddies
and Nick's of the world and that money was financing the IRA and the
Cuban Revolutionaries! These kids were buying paintings and lots of
other shit in the village and that money was feeding workers on the
picket lines. This stuff was going on before these kids even new what
race riots were. These kids helped finance the civil rights movement.
The blacks who were dealing drugs were sending money to Martin Luther
King: These kids think probably even today think that the struggle
against inequality started on campus around 1968.
Well, guess what in 1917 the Bolsheviks had the hookers working in
the party. The Bolsheviks understood poor and oppressed people in
1917 and it worked. The point being that historically there have
been poor and working class kids that in very specials skills,
(sometimes skills which the bourgeoisie consider criminal) have had
an enormous effect on the outcome of historical struggles.
The hookers in the Bolshevik party are one example.
The Nick's and the Eddies of the sixties are another example. So I
hope the reader of these lines does not raise any bourgeois moral
arguments or political arguments which condemn my childhood friends.
There roll in history at this particular time saved a lot of people's
lives especially in Vietnam where in 1963 the American bourgeoisie
decided to take over the roll of the French colonialists after being
military defeated.
These street kids turned on a whole generation. The music came from
black slaves. the drugs came from Cuban, Mexican and Vietnamese
peasants. LSD came from Harvard, but peyote came from the Indians.
In fact the only thing the rich and middle-class kids had at this time
was money!, which they usually got rom their parents.
So no moral crap! O.K.
By the way. Max this is an answer to your letter dated 21/5/95.
The same old discussion of the "we,s"----"they" discussion.
In ending up this stuff on morals and intellectual snobbery I would
like to quote the words of a very old and wonderful blackman Willy!
Willy used to sit on the steps with us kids in the neighbourhood. Willy
was always there. This very old black man. And I remember to this very
day the words he often said to us kids on the hot, humid summer nights
of New York City. Willie would say:
"Watchit boy, this nigger ain,t got nothin never from rich whiteman!"
Oh Willie, you wonderful old man--how right you were... All these
years we sat with you on the steps and that was what you were trying
to hammer into our heads. Willie how fucking right you were. I think
Willie deserves a statue right next old Abe Lincoln. Because this man
new what the bottom line in the fight between the have,s and the has
not,s as Willie use to put. Willie with those few words new more about
class struggle then all the fucking liberals alive today.
Hats off to Willie a great black old man!
Warm regards
Bob Malecki
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