Africa: since ages living in the racist abyss of capitalist barbarism
Date: Friday, April 02 @ 16:53:09 UTC Topic: Africa Focus
By Franz J. T. Lee
April 02, 2010
When we are sitting at the foot of the
lighthouse, we can barely see its warning lights of imminent
approximating danger. Currently our global ship of State, our Titanic,
is steering directly towards the huge rocks of disaster. No great god,
no
great idea, no great man, no Herrenvolk, can and will save us from this
man-made self-destruction. Of course, we will remain on collision track
unless we ourselves, ... global Society in relation to galactic Nature
... get rid of the current 'democratic-republican' Janus-faced
barbarism on a world scale: exploited Labor versus
exploiting Capital. At this moment the 'great powers' are activating
their mortal
arms of mass destruction, they are launching the Goebberls generation
of
diatribal, fascist, political propaganda and they are going for 'total
war' (Hitler), total body, mind and
thought control.
Furthermore, HAARP, dangerous geo-engineering, transgenetic
fiddling with Nature and geophysical warfare are playing havoc with our
planet.
Unnoticed by the general public, ... by the consumer bees, the victims
of
pan et circenses ... all these Orwellian measures have been
implemented since ages already.
At breath-taking speed we surpassed the pre-Orwellian age to the
post-'Big Brother' era. This has nothing to do with 'post-modernity' or
'transitional governments'. It is the inherent dialectical logics of a
closed world order of a closed globalized system.
All over, in Africa, America, Asia and
elsewhere, we can notice the devastating effects of what we have
determined as a 'Mental Holocaust'. Even here in Venezuela, the
Bolivarian Revolution has great difficulty to differentiate between
praxis and practice, between theory and ideology, between disalienation
and religion.
The global truth stares at us straight
in our bewildered faces, but very few brains are left, especially in
metropolitan countries, to know the truth, to become free, to
liberate ourselves from the chains of illusion, to evade the epicenter
of vandalism in the sky, of full spectrum dominance, of solar
barbarism. The billions of workers, the 'wretched of the earth', are
victims of centuries of economic, exploitation, political
domination and social discrimination, of racism. Especially the latter
has taken its toll, mainly in Africa, but also here in Venezuela. There
is no modern racism without capitalism, and vice versa. To eradicate
racism, is to annihilate capitalism; here we have barely introduced
some necessary social 'missions' against capitalist racism, but not yet
a real, true anti-capitalism project.
In this brief commentary, we will
demonstrate the pharisaic hypocrisy of the ruling classes, what they
say, their big lies, and what they do, have in mind to do very soon.
For example, according to Bill Gates of Microsoft, and others, the idea
is to reduce world poverty, by reducing the poor to only two billions.
This is not conspiracy theory, anti-antisemitism or 'communism' jargon.
Bill Gates of Microsoft, in a
presentation at the February 2010 TED (Technology, Entertainment,
Design) Conference, spoke about the Global Warming Challenge and
effective means to confront it, like drastically reducing the world's
population with aggressive population control measures such as vaccines
and "reproductive health services".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhwN6H8h_SY&feature=related
In Venezuela or Africa, it is not the
choice of socialism or barbarism. Billions have 'Hobson's
choice', it is a matter of immediate world socialism or to perish
within the 21st century! The 'miserables' of Africa and of all Humania
South, came into being, lived and died in barbarism since the Neolithic
Revolution, since the division of labor, since the capitalist world
market, since indentured labor and chattel slavery,
Not only were our countries in Humania
South classified by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 'Manifesto of
the Communist Party' as "barbarian and semi-barbarian countries", ever
since our 'discovery' by the European feudal and capitalist ruling
classes we lived and died in perpetual violence, in barbarism,
especially in Africa where this exploitative vandalism lasts till this
very second.
The only real and true modern
barbarism, ranging from 'democracy' to fascism, is
capitalism, is globalization.
In colonial bondage, in domination by
the Dutch East India Company in the South, by Cecil John Rhodes ('I
would annex the planets if I could.') in the Rhodesias, by
Ultra-Portuguese colonialism in Guinea Bissau, by genocidal
annihilation in the 'Belgian Congo' and by French 'assimilation' in the
North, Africa was forced into infra-human existence, into open
vegetating barbarism. Added to this economic and political subjugation
was a social, intellectual holocaust, an 'education for barbarism'
(Isaac B. Tabata). Till this day, Africa is experiencing global and
globalized educational barbarism.
Never any 'bill of rights', any
'magna carta' or 'human rights' ever were declared for Africa, no
reparation will ever be given, no truth commission organized, no human
dignity nurtured; except lip service at summit conferences; concretely
none of these ever were applied. More and more Africa is sinking into
the quagmire of imperialism, of land-grabbing, of robbery of all its
human and natural resources, and some African elites participate in
this imperialist barbarism.
For whom the following declarations
were made?
"We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
(Declaration of Independence, 1776.)
"Every political association has as
its goal the preservation of the natural and inprescriptible rights of
men. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to
oppression."
(Art. 11, Declaration of Rights of Man
and the Citizen, 1789.)
Yes, African students have to study
the 'Politeia', which states that they, the slaves, are “Speaking
Tools” (Aristotle). They do not form part of the famous "Zoon
Politikon". They are only barbaric, banausian "Speaking Tools".
We would like to hear what the
President of the United States thinks about the following statements of
the famous Prussian State philosopher, G. W. F. Hegel, of Montesquieu
and Voltaire, of bourgeois, capitalist Enlightenment.
"Characteristic of the Negro (of
Africa) is, that his world outlook didn't reach any definite
objectivity as yet, e.g., God, Law, which would reflect a human will,
and in which he could experience his essence. ... The Negro represents
the natural human being still in a state of total savageness and
wildness. ... The Negro displays a total disrespect, a contempt
towards humanity. ... For him, humanity is worthless, this takes on
incredible forms; for him, tyranny is not injustice, and a generally
accepted and sanctioned custom is to devour human flesh. ... Another
characteristic of Negroes is slavery. ... On their own continent the
Negroes experience a slavery worse than European enslavement of
Negroes. ... The fundamental expression of slavery is precisely that
man is not yet conscious of his freedom, hence he degenerates into a
thing, into something without any human value. ... We leave Africa, not
to mention it anymore, because it is not a historic continent, because
it lacks motion and development, ... it is just appearing vaguely on
the dark threshold of world history. "
(G. W. F. Hegel, Excerpts from:
LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF
HISTORY. (My free translation,
exhibiting "racist" arrogance.)
Montesquieu was very clear about who
has a soul, a white soul:
"It is almost unthinkable that God,
who is all goodness itself, could have determined to place a soul --
let alone a good soul -- in a body as black and repulsive as that of a
Negro."
(Montesquieu, "Esprit des Lois", Livre
XV, Chapter 5.)
This was the racist, ideological
justification for exploitation, domination and social discrimination,
this is pure barbarism till this very day. For the military invasion of
Arab or Latin American territories similar racist justifications are
being given by the current metropolitan powers.
Venezuela is extending friendly
foreign and diplomatic relations towards Africa. What do Mitsubishi,
Repsol, Exxon Mobil and Chevron-Texaco think about the billion Africans?
We really should investigate, what
they did and are doing to us here, to nature, to the indigenous peoples.
Voltaire, himself involved in the late
slave trade told us what a 'corporate' capitalist thinks about an
African:
"The Negro race is a species of men as
different from ours as the breed of spaniels is from that of
greyhounds. ... If their understanding is not of a different nature
from ours, it is at least greatly inferior. They are not capable of any
great application or association of ideas, and seem formed neither for
the advantages nor the abuses of philosophy."
(Voltaire, Works.)
Montesquieu stated this as follows:
"It is impossible for us to suppose
these creatures to be men!"
Yes, in case that we have not noticed
it as yet, there are two different species of Man on planet Earth:
'homo worker' and 'homo capitalist', the slave and the master, living
in global class struggle.
There we have the only true 'white
ruling class man' speaking, whilst his 'burden', the Africans,
'Latinos' and others are the "non-men", the "non-human beings", ---
yet, it is all that difficult to explain this to so many of us, already
brain-washed and brain-laundered to a large extent, have messed up our
thinking capacities..
This racist manipulation continues in
our big mass media against the Arabs, Chinese, Africans, 'Latinos' and
other 'Children of Ham'.
A century later, in 1953, the
architect of apartheid, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd clearly described the
fascist views of the South African Herrenvolk with reference to
the 'human rights' of black 'Non-Europeans'.
In a speech in parliament in 1953,
Verwoerd stated: :
"There is no place for (the native) in
the European community,"Verwoerd explained, "above the level of certain
forms of labor... Until now he has been subjected to a school system
which drew him away from his own community and misled him by showing
him the green pastures of European society in which he was not allowed
to graze."
(Quoted from African Nationalism by N.
Sithole, 1961. See: Franz J. T. Lee, The Anatomy of Apartheid in
Southern Africa, Alexander Defense Committee Publication, New York,
1966. For more information, also see:
http://www.franz-lee.org/files/anatapar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Verwoerd)
In picturing the 'blacks' as
animals grazing in the 'white' fields, Verwoerd was only using the
accepted language of the master race in Southern Africa.
In "Bantu Education, Policy for the
Immediate Future"(1954), Verwoerd wrote:
"(Bantu) education should stand with
both feet in the reserves and have its roots in the spirit and being of
Bantu society... Their education should not clash with Government
policy... If the native in South Africa today... is being taught to
expect that he will live his adult life under a policy of equal rights,
he is making a big mistake."(Ibid)
J. G. Strijdom, who succeeded
Malan as prime minister, described baasskap as follows: "Our policy is
that the Europeans must stand their ground and must remain Baas
(overlord) in South Africa. If we reject the Herrenvolk (master race)
idea and the principle that the white man can remain Baas, if the
franchise is to be extended to the non-Europeans, and if the
non-Europeans are given representation and the vote and the
non-Europeans are developed on the same basis as the Europeans, how can
the Europeans remain Baas? Our view is that in every sphere the
European must retain the right to rule the country and to keep it white
man’s country."(Ibid)
International 'baasskap', apartheid,
ideology and racism are more virulent than ever. They will only
disappear when their radix, master and slave relations, that is, when
global capitalism, will fade into galactic oblivion. This our
international heroes, even Nelson Mandela, and the 'African National
Congress of South Africa' never will understood. Frantz Fanon and Kwame
Nkrumah knew that the historic objective, radical emancipation, is the
only true serpentine road towards total freedom. The appearance forms
of apartheid have changed, its exploitative quintessence is more
virulent than ever across whole Africa,
franz@franzlee.org.ve
http://www.franzlee.org.ve
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