Globalized Apartheid, Asian Tsunamis and Racist Invasions in Africa
Date: Wednesday, March 23 @ 03:57:16 UTC Topic: Venezuela and Chavez
By Franz
J. T. Lee March 23, 2011
Whatever
were the real geophysical causes of the mega-earthquake and the
accompanied tsunami in Japan, one thing is very clear, it is only the
beginning of a century of worse natural and technological disasters.
Also in such a case, disinformation rules the scene. However, all the
damage reported, especially about the possible reactor meltdown at the
Fukushima nuclear power plant, like Chernobyl, and the escape of atomic
radiation, indicates that humanity is sitting on a time-bomb which in
chain reaction could blast the whole planet out of orbit. According to
latest reports, more nuclear reactors are now being threatened by
possible meltdowns.
Our great
corporate leaders of NATO, like global 'blood hounds', more precisely,
like 'military humanitarians', have nothing else to do than to prepare
a belligerent attack, in fact, the brutal 'murder', namely , the
'collateral damage' of thousands of innocent men, women and
children who in all probability would soon perish in Libya.
Our
international world order has become a dangerous explosive mixture of
Globalized Apartheid, Asian Tsunamis and Racist Invasions in Africa.
The
current magnates and tycoons are more interested in oil business than
in the protection of lives, of their own workers, especially on the
west coast of the USA. Where NATO urgently is needed to save lives and
to help the poor Japanese workers, this is not a top priority. Again
here we see what is social discrimination, racism; the live of a poor
Bedouin, a Tuareg, a 'camel driver', is not worth a farthing, not a
dime. Obviously, if the United Nations should approve it, then if
necessary, these 'marauding', migratory, poor devils could easily be
sent to heavenly eternity, by means of military humanism.
With HAARP
- with other similar geophysical arms of mass destruction - or
geo-engineering, wherever the power elites should desire it, their
corporate gendarmes of the globe could create droughts, floods,
tsunamis and earthquakes. They can even move planets out of their
orbits. The weather is not fine anymore, not normal; the same is also
true for the thousand of tremors and earthquakes.
Because
all these crimes are 'natural', it is impossible to catch the bellicose
culprits in flagranti. This imperialist vandalism has already a very
long racist history, especially with reference to the African continent.
As Marx
and Engels have warned in 1848, because of anarchic, unplanned
production, the capitalists have set free mighty natural forces of the
nether world, which they cannot control anymore. They want to control
the bodies, minds and thoughts of billions, but they cannot quench
their own ravenous, insatiable hunger for power, oil and profits.
Is this
the possible twilight of Humanity?
In
historic retrospection, let us now look at the imperialist roots of
this global drama. In the middle of the 20th century in South Africa
the apartheid racists were claiming that the ancestral lands and
natural wealth of the indigenous Bantu and Khoisan peoples were 'white
man's country'.
Long ago
already Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom ... from 1954 to 1958, Apartheid
Prime Minister of South Africa ... had informed us about the nature of
colonial land-grabbing in Africa.
He stated:
"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." (1)
All over
Africa, international corporations are grabbing or buying the best
lands of Africa. Like in the current case of Libya, NATO organizes the
military grabbing of the oil, gas, potable water, mineral and metal
wealth of Africa. Like how the arch-imperialist Cecil John
Rhodes, owner of the British South Africa Company, had considered
Northern and Southern Rhodesia (today Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively)
as his personal private property; today, the United States of America
with their military arm, the NATO, consider Africa (and the rest of the
world) to be their very own private booty. With racist double
standards, arrogantly they plunder natural resources, topple legitimate
governments and invade foreign territories. Nobody and nothing can stop
them, nobody can terminate this inhuman barbarism. Across the past
centuries millions and millions of heroic freedom fighters have
sacrificed their lives in the class struggles of world revolution, in
the wars of proletarian permanent revolution, alas, the Frankenstein
monster is more powerful, more violent and terrorist than ever.
Is
capitalism dialectically destroying its own negation, socialism, and
therewith inexorably it is annihilating itself? Capital without Labor
is like a Master without a Slave and vice versa.
Let us
just illuminate some forgotten colonial racist practices. Currently
this is important to understand the renaissance of McCarthyism in the
USA, of witch-hunts of Muslims and Arabs in the USA; and also of modern
forms of racism in Europe.
What is
presently happening in North Africa, especially in Libya, which easily
could spill over to Latin America, to Venezuela, is the corporate
'Second Conquest'. It concerns racism, lies, hoaxes, corruption,
land-grabbing, plunder of natural resources and massacres. This time
the imperialist conquest concentrates on total body, mind and thought
control, on 'full spectrum dominance', technologically generated by a
planned global Mental Holocaust. The reason for the production of a
slave mentality and inferiority complexes in the official
ideology factories and mass media is to avoid that African wage slaves
ever would break out of the closed corporate Moloch and create the New,
could transcend this 'vale of tears' towards human emancipation.
It is now
or never, either billions defend themselves or together with our rulers
we would end up in total barbarism.
Shakespeare
already
told us in 'Hamlet' that the unexpected could be possible:
"Horatio:
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Hamlet:
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in
heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy". (2)
The racist
ideological view of African history
Racism is
a quintessential element of global capitalist master-servant relations.
Economically, the unequal exchange on the world market more than ever
is reflecting the super-exploitation of international labor forces and
natural resources by corporate vandalism. The superstructural
ideological reflex of contemporary imperialist barbarism, also called
globalization, is simply racism. It is an integral part of apartheid
and Zionist regimes. The logical coming into being of a fascist 'one
world government' of the current capitalist mode of destruction,
militarily already launched by the USA and NATO, would drive virulent
racism to its zenith, to the possible extreme of global systemic and
systematic mass genocide and ecocide.
The
beginning of Orwellian double standard racist attacks - which are now
using sophisticated war technology - can already be witnessed in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gaza, Somalia, Sudan, Ivory Coast and Libya. It
is the advent of a trying era for humanity, for 'coolies', 'camel
drivers', 'slit-eyes' and 'niggers', for the emancipatory quo vadis of
the 'wretched of the earth', for billions of working peoples, whose
future belligerently is progressively being truncated every second by
racist hegemony and megalomania.
Racism in
Her Majesty's Language
What does
a human being from Africa, from Ghana or the Congo - endowed by Mother
Nature, by Nyx, with black pigmentation to protect him or her from
dangerous tropical sun rays - feel and think when he reads the
following words which in general pejoratively are associated with
obscure, morally negative things, with his very skin color black? How
does she feels when white skin, blue eyes and blond hair are supposed
to be attributes of a first class citizen? And from where will she
import a 90-60-90 international figure to become a 'beauty queen'? A
'Miss Universe'?
The
Christian conqueror identified evil and the devil with black, with the
African
Let us
mention just a few of the many English words which the thought and mind
control Moloch permanently is generating:
"Black
magic, black art, black comedy, black book, black cat, black sheep,
blackout, black cap, Blackshirt, Black Pope, Black Monk, Black Maria,
Black Peter, Black Orpheus, black widow, black market,
blackguard, blackballing, black faced, black browed, black headed,
black hearted, black humoured, black hole, blackwater, blackmail,
blacklist, blackball, Black Monday, Black Friday, Black Sabbath, Black
Muslims, Blackamoors, Black Africa, Black Continent, Black Africans,
etc., etc., ... "
These are
the subliminal ideological messages which we are receiving in
education, culture, socialization, in all walks of life. In
Christianity our minds are being over-flooded with white angels and
black devils. The conqueror has perpetuated racism in his very
language. He identified evil and the devil with black, with the
African. We need not only new thoughts, we need a completely new
emancipatory language.
If we do
not study the history of modern capitalist racism, that is, the
ideological superstructural reflex of the world market, of the global
division of labor, It would be practically impossible to understand how
the emancipatory quo vadis of Africa (and therewith of humanity) was
violated by colonial capitalism-imperialism. Across the last centuries,
the tremendous degree of metropolitan social scorn, political disdain
and economic contempt indicates the inhuman magnitude of merciless
exploitation and domination of Africa.
In a
nutshell, racist ideology always was a diatribal, propagandist cover-up
for capital and cardinal war crimes against Humania South, against
humanity at large. As we will see later, like in the apartheid regime
(and elsewhere), like today in globalization, these colonial, genocidal
crimes were scientifically premeditated, were perpetrated by means of
violent exclusion of Africans from the species Homo sapiens. The
European pseudo-historians, lumpen-social ideologues, oligarchic
theologians and corrupt politicians degraded (and still humiliate) the
peoples of Africa; they called them all kinds of pejorative names:
'apes and monkeys', 'truculent Kaffirs', non-whites, non-Europeans,
non-humans or even 'children of Ham'. Racist ideology was the
religious excuse, the capitalist justification to massacre and enslave
millions and millions of inhabitants of the 'Third World', in the name
of Western, Christian Civilization, in other words, of the accumulation
of capital, in the service of surplus value production, of
extra-profits, of world order and world power.
According
to historic reports, a merchant from Tunis had asked the famous
Portuguese 'discoverer of the seaway to India' Vasco da Gama in Spanish
the following: 'The devil take you, what brought you here?"
Succinctly
Vasco da Gama replied: "We have come to look for Christians and spices."
This reply
was written down in Portuguese by Vasco da Gama's friend Alvao Velho.
(3)
(
The "devil
did not take him", also not the colonial masters, but very early
already, the capitalist relationship between Christianity and Big
Business was established and consequently also with slavery of all
genres. During that European epoch of 'God, Gold and Glory', of
conquest, pillage and vandalism, Vasco da Gama was searching for
'Christians and spices', in reality, it ended up to have been a maafa,
a continental disaster, a transhistoric hunting for a transatlantic
slave trade. In reality, it was for the establishment of a capitalist
world market. Carefully the European upsurging ruling classes were
organizing the First Conquest - by means of 'discovery',
Christianization and militarization - to enslave millions of
indentured laborers and, last but not least, millions of cheap African,
'emancipated', wage slaves.
This is
also the colonial essence of current Conquest Version 2, of the planned
invasion of Libya!
In the
20th century African wage slaves were necessary for arch-imperialists
like Cecil John Rhodes to toil in agriculture, plantations, mining and
industry, especially in Southern and Central Africa.
As
Shakespeare's Hamlet told us, the above is part of the "wondrous
strange" things which happened (and are occurring daily) in African
history, about which many of us know very little today.
Body, mind
and thought control ... the exploitation of physical labor force, the
domination of the mind and social discrimination, that is,
racism, ... the wiping out of all self-thinking, of historic memory and
of social resistance, namely, the Mental Holocaust (alias capitalist
education and socialization for barbarism) destroys historic
class consciousness, working class memory, revolutionary praxis and
emancipatory theory.
Even
erudite scholars are falling prey to this avalanche of fascist
propaganda
What we
were (and are still) being told in our mass media, in schools and
universities, was that 'European civilization', 'democracy' and 'world
peace' were being threatened by scalping 'Red Indians', dazed, opiate
'slit eyes', bellicose 'camel drivers', treacherous 'coolies' and
'truculent Kaffirs'. Till today these lies are being disseminated by
the mass media about Africa. The latest disinformation distributed by
the corporate mass media about events in Libya demonstrates that 'info
war' is part and parcel of the current world wars of NATO and its
allies. CNN and other press agencies discriminate the protesting
starving Africans on the streets of North Africa as a 'cheering mob'.
This attitude towards Africans has a long colonial tradition. According
to many illustrious, racist European philosophers of the Enlightenment,
Africans were part of the 'scum of the earth', the 'white man's burden'
and are soulless pagans and 'outcasts'. For them Africans form an
inferior species of 'hewers of wood and drawers of water'; they have
been living outside civilized reality, were (and still are) 'living
outside world history' (Hegel): they have no spiritual essence, no
intellectual capacities.
Past
European and North American ruling class arrogance and racism - which
today are living on in the "international corporate crime syndicates"
(Jane Buergermeister) - knew (and more than ever know) no limits.
Worse
even, bombarded with racist propaganda, for example, big lies and
hoaxes against the Arab peoples, the majority of global workers,
especially those living in metropolitan countries, has internalized
this social racism, they have developed inferiority complexes; they
even believe in all this racist terrorist crap. Even in Libya Gaddafi
seems to believe in the United States Bin Laden and Al-Queda
propaganda myths.
Even
erudite scholars are falling prey to this avalanche of fascist
propaganda, 'information' and 'news', which are coming from the Murdoch
empire and the already existing post-Orwellian 'One World (United
States) Government'. To affirm corporate globalization all over we
could find galaxies of 'information'. To defend emancipation, to negate
corporate terrorism, to know the truth about Venezuela and Libya, we
have to look for needles in the global burning haystacks, in the wild
bush fires, in the white clouds of phosphorous rain over Falujah and
Gaza, and in the 'chemtrails' over NATO countries and even over Brazil
and South Africa.
For Africa
to be able to annihilate racism and capitalism, it never was a matter
of grabbing a gun, then to disappear in the next jungle, and to kill
the enemy forces. In this way we could never stop Microsoft, Murdoch,
the Pentagon and NASA.
The
liberation struggle against global racism and apartheid has to be
carried out on all fronts
Nearly
three decades ago, in 1983, the reporter of 'Cuadernos del Tercer
Mundo' (Mexico), German Wettstein, made an interview with me in
Mérida (Venezuela) titled "It is the moment to attack". Later
Wettstein came to the conclusion that I was a 'true academic
guerrilla'.
However,
in this interview I tried to explain the modern liberatory quintessence
of the contemporary quo vadis of Humania South. I explained
central issues pertaining to a future radical emancipatory approach
with regard to the coming global self-defense of our oppressed peoples.
Concerning the organization of a working people's international, I
explained that the liberation struggle against global racism and
apartheid has to be carried out on all fronts. Then already I
underlined the central role which "economic and technological
guerrillas" will have to play. in future socialist struggles. (4) To
read the Spanish version of this interview, click the link in the
footnote.
Whether we
like it or not, after the massacre of the guerrilla leader Raul Reyes
Reyes in Ecuador by the United States military forces, and with
Venezuela soon totally encircled by Yankee military bases, we will have
no option but to consider new tactics and strategies of self-defense.
After Libya, we may be next on the NATO list of global military
targets. We cannot wait that they fetch us one by one, at least,
humanity has the cosmic obligation to perish proudly in upward gait, in
legitimate fighting for life, for emancipation.
Today,
thanks to the small mercy of the Pentagon for having granted us the
wonderful gift, the internet, as a means of trying to disseminate the
truth about global reality. However, beware, in imperialism freedom is
slavery, no capitalist good is free, this is too good to be true ...
soon this Janus-headed gift will be totally restricted.
In the
current information wars which are raging everywhere, in Libya, North
Africa and the Middle East, our beloved toy, the internet, was switched
off, anytime it could be taken away from us again, at the earliest when
it has fulfilled its purpose of global surveillance, of mind and
thought control of Love for 'Big Brother'.
The
current nuclear disaster in Japan, like the Transatlantic Slave Trade,
is marking the crossing of the Rubicon: to Barbarism or to Human
Emancipation?
In the
epoch of the total collapse of world capitalism, in the era of multiple
world wars, why is this mega-disaster happening now, and why in an
imperialist country? Will it save world capitalism?
*****
Footnotes:
(1) For
more information about 'Education for Barbarism', see: Franz J. T. Lee,
Anatomy of Apartheid in Southern Africa, An Alexander Defense Committee
Publication. Newfile:///C:/Dokumente%20und%20Einstellungen/Franz%20Lee/Anwendungsdaten/Microsoft/Internet%20Explorer/Quick%20Launch/Desktop%20anzeigen.scf York, 1966.
(2)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5, l. 164-7.
(3) See:
http///www.jstor.org/stable/1595839
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=105026315
(4) For
the complete interview, see:
http://www.franzlee.org.ve/marxengels16.html
http://www.franzlee.org.ve
franzjutta@cantv.net
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