 PRINCIPLES OF REFORM AND REVOLUTION
So many people use revolution without knowing what it actually means. Africans, more than any other
population on Earth, have very little understanding of the forces of social change in societies. From primitive communalism
to hydraulicism, to planned communalism to white slavery to feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism societies live and die
like human beings. They also reproduced themselves, create hybrids, mutate, interpenetrate, implode and explode.
The revolution is merely the class changing of the guard---the end of the technological then economic, then social, then political
transformation of the society. No group of people does anything revolutionary based on just revolutionary ideas.
Revolutionary ideas are only the written/spoken expression of a group of people's economic and social well-being---a group
of people who need a revolution in order to get that well-being.
Social revolution,
the revolution of a society, the transformation from one societal form to another higher one is more than incremental change.
Its more than legal concessions, integration, civil rights, sitting on buses, voting, busing children to white schools, quotas,
militancy, yelling and screaming, radical talk, protesting, marching, or affirmative action. These were tactics, and
reforms within an economic system that fundamentally remained the same, not revolutionary dismantling of a class, race, sex/gender,
and culture's rule over a particular modern nation-state/republic. Reform is the name given to changes which leave the
power (the state, military, education system, legal system, courts, economy, government, constitution, industries) in the
hands of the old ruling class/race/sex-gender/culture.
Revolutions are not made; they evolve,
develop, grow, mature and ripen overtime---sometimes over centuries---until a particular society can no longer distribute
what it produces. It runs its course, moves into a period of decline, then degeneration, then collapse, death, decomposition
(regression/retrogression) then replacement/supersession by a form of socieity reflective of the higher form of
technology/means of production. The new society is then reorganized around the new technology, and the class that reorganizes
it sucessfully becomes the ruling class. This is fundamental societal revolution theory documented for thousands
of years.
Different types
of social revolutions have taken place in history:
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Race Revolution: complete overthrow or extermination of one race in power by another through annihilation,
subjugation, or miscegenation (example: whites over nonwhites).
- § Cultural Revolution: complete
overthrow or extermination of one cultural group (and its representatives) in power, by another; (example: Western over nonwestern;
Arab over African).
- § Sex/Gender Revolution: complete overthrow of the rule of one gender group
by the other; (example: men over women).
- § Class Revolution: [discussed
below] complete overthrow of one socio-economic class by another. It has happened between 5-6 times in human history.
The
marxist only look at class; the nationalists/racialists only look at race and ethnicity; the femenists only look at sex/gender;
the cultural nationalists only look at culture. All of them are inaccurate/incomplete independent of a comprehensive
approach to all four. Historical Conditions
Societies are socially reproduced, have specific life spans, contain internal modes of production, size dimensions, forms
of cultural expression, and rates of metabolism. No form of society is permanent, but is only a provisional stage in
the overall development of human civilization.
Decay and ultimate replacement of a society takes
place in one of two ways, internal or external. Dialectical (internal) destruction is a process in which the new grows out
of the old in a struggle which evolves to the stage of antagonistic contradiction between that which must die and that which
demands to be born, moribund versus nascent, rotten against resurgent, decaying against fresh and new.
Mechanical
destruction is an alien penetration from outside the social organism; a seizure of the internal properties, the external destruction,
crushing, dismantling, dismembering, disrobing, mutilation of a society and its classes; a carting away of the useful thought
matter, stored up knowledge in print and memory which summarizes years of material practice. Mechanical destruction
is the basis of modern global imperialism and the new world order.
A social revolution is a historical process
by which a subordinate class overthrows its ruling class, establishes itself as a new ruling class, puts in place a new political
system, and reorganizes the antiquated economic system around the newer technological capabilities, creates a new constitution
with new rights, and reorganizes relationships between government and general population. It is a process, complete
with individuals, leaders, populations, masses, classes, organizations, institutions, spheres, regions, and sometimes entire
nations all vying for hegemony as the old society passes away and the new struggles to come into existence and prominence---it's
a living phenomenon, a living thing, an organism in flux. It has a beginning, a stage of maturing, and stages of decline,
and death before a new higher revolutionary process is incubated.
Changes in the technological means
of production precipitate changes in the economy, which forces changes in society in which millions of people are organized
around technology, economy, a political system, a cultural system and a social system. After the economic crisis, and
fundamental financial dislocation the change in society/the social revolution forces a political revolution as classes battle
for power first with words, then with material weapons. If different cultures and races (populations) are involved, a fascist
movement scapegoats the ruled minority race and prepares it for extermination/genocide before the class civil war. These
stages are intertwined and exchange places as the most important factor at any given time. One thing is central:
this is a life and death battle to see which group can reorganize the society to meet the needs of its remaining population.
Each stage of the revolution has its own phases, events, crises and contradictions. Revolutions are usually recognized as
such only when they reach the stage of open class struggle or political revolution---this is late for those who want to lead
the revolution. A revolution does not and cannot come simply from the will of people: it unceremoniously grows in embryo
quantitatively or incrementally over an extended period of time, like a volcano before its eruption.
Technological Revolution
The first stage is a technological
revolution. Innovations in the tools humans use to meet their needs provide the basis on which broader societal change
becomes possible and is ushered in. Each society's life span has been shorter than the one before it, as the speed
of technological change accelerates. Similarly a change in the social scaffold surrounding them accelerates. With each
qualitative advance in the method, magnitude, volume and output of social production the time frame of which each type of
society goes from crib to grave and from grave to crib is abbreviated.
When these technological means, i.e.,
technologies, instruments of production, tools, and expert skills are transformed fundamentally, the whole society is transformed.
Even the well known dissolution of the village community, its transition into small towns, and ultimately the evolution of
towns into metropolitan cities was the inevitable process of social urban development resulting from developments in production
quality and quantity and the resulting evolution of population sizes, division of labor composition and relationships to the
means of production. This process of development is the life cycle of a society as it goes through its necessary stages- birth,
growth, development, decline, death and replacement by a higher society. If allowed to go through all the internal stages-
social production without external forces acceleration decelerating or destroying the formation-all societies have an internal
mode of development which moves from birth, growth, and ultimately to decline and replacement by a higher mode of production
and thus a higher society.
In short, one mode of production supersedes another, and no indigenous society
has ever advanced into a higher society without first internally using up all of its productive possibilities, moving
into a period of decline, or an epoch of decline, fighting for existence, regressing, decomposing and finally having its most
useful qualities sublated and used by the new society superseding or replacing it.
Economic
Revolution
For an economic revolution to take place there has to be a fundamental
crisis in the economic system of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption-something structural, something at the
heart of the society. Generally, people support revolutionary activity when they know that the system doesn't work any
more. It doesn't work anymore because it cannot distribute what it produces. This stage goes, in time, from decay to disintegration
to social disorganization to open civil war to the overthrow of the existing political order. And then to the next, more difficult
stage: social reconstruction.
Society is a system. A system is a combination of elements
and organisms forming a complex whole. The foundation of society is made up of two basic interdependent organisms of
what we call the economy. One side is the way we produce and the other side is the way that production is distributed.
In capitalism, the core of the system demands production and distribution at a profit; everything is a system
of buying and selling. The workers sell their ability to work, their labor power, and buy the commodities that are necessary
to live with the wage or salary they get from working. The capitalist buys this ability to work, the labor power, the nerve
and muscle and energy that, once put in motion, becomes work, and sells the commodities that work produces. As long
as everyone participates in this buying and selling, the system works. It works unfairly and unevenly, but it works. People
accept it, go to work, get on with their lives, make concessions---because they can. When they do not have jobs, the
arrangement breaks down.
Revolution comes about as a result of the development of the means of production.
An antagonism develops between the new, emerging economic relations and the old, static political relations within the superstructure
of the old society. The result is an economic collapse. This does not occur over night.
As the economy
collapses it drags down the society: education, health care, government, family, religion, transportation, recreation, justice,
mass media, communication, housing, nutrition, clothing---everything breaks down. The process of the destruction
of the economy doesn't mean that there isn't any production going on. The destruction of the economy means the incremental
destruction of the existing economy, which is what society is built upon. It is composed of interconnected stages of development,
each having its objective or material and subjective or intellectual sides. These stages are (1) a revolution in the material
means of production. The changes in the means of production force bring about economic upheaval and dislocation, then (2)
a revolution in society or social revolution. There then is a period of social regression, decay, degeneration, fascism, Nazism,
societal rotting. In time, the social revolution is crowned by (3) a political revolution wherein representatives of
one of the contending classes seize power and social reconstruction begins.
Social Revolution and Reconstruction
In the evolution of social production from hominid,
to human with tool, to human in forced manual labor, to human with machine, to mechanical labor, to semi-automated machine
labor, to automated machine labor and, presently, to computer automated machine production, when there was a revolution in
how humans produced the necessities of life there was also a revolution in who got what and why, i.e, the political and social
systems that were scaffold around the economy, and technological means.
Numerous remnants and pieces
of social and economic classes, races/ethnic groups, sexes, and cultures participate in the process of social reconstruction.
After the collapse of the state, representatives of all the various groups jockey for power.
The hierarchical
organization of sex, race, and ethnicity is determined by the composition of the strata of the population that originally
seized control of the means of production (technological basis) and thus organized the immense superstructure of the society
in their own interests and image. In this process, populations develop social relations that correspond to these forces.
Out of the interaction between technological means and productive relations emerge institutions, or superstructural organs,
which serve as organs for the carrying out the day to day life processes of the society as a whole.
These
superstructural organs, which take the form of religious, scientific, legal, cultural, medical, sport-recreation, educational,
and family institutions, are mere outgrowths of differentiated social production, based on a particular level of technology,
production knowledge, and social practice. The economic structures determine the political, judicial, and spiritual
superstructure of the society. Also, the ideological offspring of those superstructures are manifested through various
institutions in such a way as to reflect the economic relationships of the society at distinct stages in its development.
Social revolutions, then, are initially characterized by internal regression, decay and crisis in all primary
economic, political and social structures with varying degrees of intensity, unless of course, the change is transplanted
from without. This process is driven internally by a revolution in the technological means, the resulting breakdown
in production relations, a moribund distribution system, the deflation of exchange mediums, a resulting depression, and the
ultimate economic and political polarization between the now moribund classes who hold power and the nascent class which seek
to take.
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Mechanical Destruction: An Example
A vulnerable society can be externally penetrated and thus accelerated, decelerated,
retarded, or wiped out altogether by invading populations which carry the elements of technologically advanced weapons of
destruction in embryo.
As ancient African Kmt (Egypt), Roman, and Aztec societies
were born, developed and were in their respective periods of decline and decay, significant population invasions occurred
at a period of vulnerability for each of the three. African Kmt, at the time a moribund mode of production organized
around hydraulic technological means, was invaded externally (indigenous Africans being occupied by whites and semites) during
its period of decline (circa. 950bc-656ad) by conquerors who were semites (Persians, Assyrians, Arabs) and Europeans (Macedonians,
Greeks, Romans). European-Roman slave society in its period of decline and fall (circa. 400ad-600ad) was invaded internally
(whites being occupied by other whites) by other European-Germanic tribes. Both Rome and Egypt (KMT) were overthrown by culturally
and technologically inferior white "barbarians" (as they called them) during their respective internal transformations.
Asian-Aztec societies imperialistically organized around hydraulic technological
means was invaded externally (reds and browns being occupied by whites) during its period of decline (circa. 1300ad-1600ad)
by European-Spanish conquerors (1500's) with more advanced means of destruction, transport, and production. All
three were invaded, pillaged, and subsequently colonized. All three were set back, forced into regression. Only
one recovered (came out of its "dark-age"), the European-Roman, and thus today expresses itself in all that is European,
either in its Western or its Eastern (Russia and East Europe) wing.
Only one
of the three-the European-Roman plus European-Germanic unity-allowed for the sublation of essential, adaptable, cultural qualities
of the decaying Roman society to be infused into the rebirth of Rome in the flowering of other emerging European societies.
On the other hand, African-Kmt (Egypt) was decimated, wiped out, destroyed,
and replaced by external Arab and European populations, as was the case much later with the Asian-Aztec formation in its relationship
with invading 16th century European populations. The results of the latter two cases are obvious today: (1) Arabs, after
seizing northern Africa and specifically what they now call "Egypt" and the "Sudan" from European-Romans
and indigenous Black populations circa. 630ad have in time built Arabic feudalist and capitalist societies on the bleached
bones, architectural corpses (building and temple ruins), crumbled wreckage of once vibrant and dynamic African-Kmt societies.
(2) In Central America, Aztec societies have been wiped out then replaced with "Latin" or white economic, political
and social adaptations, dominant European populations and a Spanish variant of the European Greco-Roman cultural heritage.
Because external populations parasitically extracted from the economy, culture,
and social system all that was essential for the internal development of ancient African Kmt, the Aztec/Inca civilizations,
etc., their growths were retarded, forced into a period of regression, stagnation, devolution, and in many ways were completely
wiped out. The invading external populations, of course, transferred whatever was useful to them back to their own societies
and populations.
Lessons
Today, millions of indigenous Africans and Chechimecans ("native Americans") were retribalized,
forced into societal regression, and now exist at a lower stage of social production than their ancestors because their natural
internal life cycles were broken by external invasions, destruction and in the process having their "social brains"-their
education systems and written knowledge (both scientific and moral)-carted away along with all other stolen goods.
- 1. Human populations, whether they are white, black, brown, yellow, or red, must organize themselves around
the most advanced means of production and as a direct material result become a personification of their place in production
history.
- 2. Production, distribution, exchange, and consumption are essentially human
administered stages in the provision of life's necessities to populations within the society whose size, complexity and
composition require a system of allocating different amounts to different social groups. The same women and men, who develop
production relations in accordance with their material productivity, also produce ideas, conceptions, and perceptions in conformity
with their production relation.
- 3. Out of the interaction between technological means
and productive relations emerge institutions that serve as organs for the administration of the day to day life processes
of the society as a whole. The societies brain (i.e., its state apparatus) and its central nervous system (its other superstructural
organs which take the form of religious, scientific, legal, cultural, medical, educational, and family institutions) are the
fundamental systems which control, manage and effectively administer the offspring of ever evolving social production in quality
and quantity.
- 4. As an indirect result, each mode of production since communalism is
dominated by a strata-a race, class, gender, culture, generation-who in the natural development of society seized control
of the means of production, garnered an economic monopoly on surplus and, thus, organized the society in their own image in
accordance with their particular unique place in production history.
- 5. Classes are a
personification of their place in production history and accordingly either own the means of production in all subsequent
class societies, administer it, or are owned in some form or to some degree.
- 6. It is
in such periods that the numerous contradictions which slowly accumulate during periods of so-called peaceful development
become resolved. Revolution is much more than simply the overthrow of one class by another class. It's the reorganization
of society. Political parties contend for supremacy, the state apparatus disintegrates slowly then rapidly and the power vacuum
fills with networks of counter revolutionaries or a network of professional revolutionaries link to the mass movement for
the society's reorganization.
- 7. In the revolutionary process the various ideological
groups compete for mass political support. The group that wins mass support is able to take the ideological movement and make
it the context within which the historic economic and social struggles and striving of the people fit and move forward.
- 8. As the process of disintegration becomes critical, alliances form between the more "progressive"
sections of one group and the other; and between the most reactionary and another less reactionary. The reaction (rulers of
the decaying order) seizes power, but will not be able to hold it because it cannot answer the demands of distributing robot-produced
necessities of life while workers are still unemployed in en-masse. Conditions worsen; solutions that are final will be cooked
up and implemented-prisons for profit, AIDS, mass round ups. There will be more strikes, street fighting and insurrection.
- 9. Circumstances develop that allow the counter-revolution to launch the coup that seizes power. Revolutions
or counter-revolutions are crowned by an insurrection or a coup. The revolution or counter-revolution is not the same as a
coup; rather the coup - the seizure of political power - is like a crown to the revolution. The seizure of political power
is done by an organized and basically paramilitary force that understands how and has the ability to seize power.
- 10. The revolution is made by the masses, but the seizure of power is done by a professional political organization.
A group seizes power in the name of the masses. Then, they very rapidly absorb some of the more radical groups of counter-revolutionaries
or revolutionaries. They all have one purpose, whether they understand it or not-to computer automate society for the benefit
of its citizens. The big stakes will be that society's institutions of education, health care, housing, recreation, criminal
justice, government, law, family, mass media, etc., are collapsing, disintegrating, decomposing and either the capitalist
or the STR working class is going to take over and reconstruct the country-the question is who will do it?
- 11. Both classes will be struggling to find out which one of them is going to take power and rebuild the country
in their particular image and interest. No matter what kind of political government will be constructed, it is going to be
a nazi/police roboticised country ora working class roboticised country. The state apparatus will disintegrate
with dozens of political parties contending for supremacy and power. The power vacuum will be filled initially by those closest
to power, the neo-nazi, There will be an attempt at final solutions---mass extermination of contending scapegoat population
(primarily Africans).
- 12. In sum, the old society is being destroyed by an objective
process and nothing can stop it. The people will have to decide what kind of new society will replace the old. Only at this
point do you have class struggle. The struggle is a clash over reconstruction. It's a clash between the political representatives
of the various classes over how and in whose interests a new society will be built.
Summary
Inferences
In sum, revolution comes about as a result of the development of
the means of production. Whereas a human grows old after about 70 years, a society may take 700 years to age to a point of
replacement. Its next form grows within the womb of its economy, driven by a struggle between labor and technology,
expressed in the economic system of production, distribution, exchange, consumption, reproduction diffused through the social
system, controlled by a ruling class, race, gender, culture and generation's political system, state, mass media, and
military.
An antagonism develops between the new, emerging economic relations and the old, static political
relations within the superstructure of the old society. The result is an economic collapse, social degeneration of societal
institutions, political struggle and chaos, movements toward mass extermination, martial law and Nazi regression/genocide,
and finally civil class war over the society's reorganization. This unfolds like clock work in history, but
is not on auto-pilot. People make history by what they do in history. Nothing is ordained, nothing is destiny;
everything must be struggled out, everything will run its course based on what people do. The sum total of what people
do results in societal regression or progression, integration or disintegration, advance or retrogression, leaps forward or
leaps backwards, revolution or reaction/degeneration.
Although social reform is going on
all of the time, social revolution is impossible without a nation-wide crisis (affecting both the exploited and exploiters).
The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution. Earlier
revolutions transferred power from one exploiter class to another, which perfected the machinery of state exploitation; replace
one form of private property with another, substituted one form of exploitation for another; ended in the seizure of political
power, bringing it into correspondence with the new form of private property.
All
revolutions up to the present day have resulted in the displacement of one definite class rule by another; but all ruling
classes up to now have been only small minorities in relation to the ruled mass of the people. One ruling minority was
overthrown; another minority seized the helm of the state in its stead and re-fashioned the state institutions to suit its
own interests---on every occasion the minority group was qualified and called to rule by the given degree of economic development---they
merely reflected it.
The ruled majority either participated in the revolution for the benefit of the former
or else acquiesced in it. The common form of all these revolutions was that they were minority revolutions. Even when the
majority took part, it did so-whether wittingly or not-only in service of a minority. Time will tell what occurs this
time. But one thing is certain this time: the entire world will be changed, fundamentally.
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