Constant Struggle

Kwame Ture on Constant Struggle, Socialism and Zionism

Constant Struggle - We want to make this aspect of Constant Struggle, clear of course the capitalist system of course will confuse you it presents things only as one side it's one-sided that things are only one side when they talk about the indians and the cowboys you just get the cowboy side not the indian side 

When They talk about The Struggle in Palestine it's just a zionist never the palestine i mean never the other day someone was sitting down look at a movie it was a movie about how these you know the jewish people had suffered and now because they're suffering they're going to Palestine -- Zionist picture -- so it was on television so i walked out the room someone said oh you know you are so racist i said i'm racist yes this is a story it's just a story about people suffering and just that suffering and you think i said one last have you seen a picture of a palestinian family suffering on television you will never see it -- you will never see it because they don't want to work up Your Sentiments to support The Palestinians --

So the only stories you see are suffering stories of them all the time all the time all the time one-sided view of life is given everywhere this one-sided view of life we must come to look at the other side we must come to investigate the other side and when you investigate the other side the other side falls i told you that i was a socialist and i am i know that uh i must tell you this because capitalism just confuses you the other day i told a brother so she said you still socialist yeah he said but he fell i said really he said yeah you hear about it i said no i didn't hear about it he said it collapsed i said oh he said you know about the soviet union they're gone i said really i said listen i said you mustn't get confused you know capitalism doesn't just rape your labor and rip off your resources it deforms your thinking it deforms your thinking i told the man you're not thinking he said what you mean he said i saw it happen it's finished i said you never judge a system by its adherence you never judge any system by its believers you judge it by its principles he said i understand what you're talking about i said all i'm saying to you brother is you don't judge socialism by socialist he said you're talking double talk i said am i he said if you tell me that you can't judge socialism by sources who you judged by i said let me ask you one question do you judge christianity by christians if you judge christianity by christians it fell with judas and if it didn't forward judas so many many christians in so many many ways every day violates every principle of christianity when you judge a system you judge by its principles christianity has been betrayed everywhere the pope used it to divide the world slave masters use it to bring about slavery but me i will never condemn christianity i know its principles the principles are just therefore eternal any man any woman any time wishing to live a just life can pick up the principles imitate them and lift them so it is with socialism you must not get confused socialism hasn't gone anywhere it has been betrayed yes but betrayal doesn't mean collapse perhaps they get confused because at least judas had the dignity after betraying christianity to hang himself yeah gorbachev is still running around world picking up pieces of silver you must be clear here not confused i'm a socialist one other thing i must tell you now they confuse people about socialism brother the other day said why ain't no sources i said why not brother he said cause it's a white thing i said oh really you see europe tries to make believe that everything that comes out of the world comes out of europe i told the man i said socialism ain't no white thing he said yes it is he said karl marx discovered it mark's never discovered socialism he cannot you call the laws of gravity newton's laws i'm sure there's a mnemonic device to help you on your quizzes but you certainly cannot believe that isaac newton confound that a body falls at the rate of 32 feet per second squared per second squared he can't find this he can't discover he cannot invent this he can only observe it and record it discover the law if i'm sitting in timbuktu in africa and i've never heard of sir isaac newton and i'm conducting any experiments with gravity i will come to the same conclusion that he does a body in motion tends to stay in motion unless stopped by an outside force he cannot invent this he can only observe it and record it our marx did not invent socialism if i'm sitting in libya in the desert and i'm doing any research with capital labor without ever having heard of karl marx i will come to the same conclusion that he did that any time capital seeks to dominate labor there'll be a ruthless uncompromising struggle on the part of labor until it comes to crush capital and dominated this is a fact my history demonstrates that we came as chatted slaves for centuries we fought and fought and fought until we crushed it now we're just slave of the wage and now we've got to rise up and crush that one that's to declare that karl marx didn't invent socialism is there for all to see karl marx's great contribution to the world was in the air of historical materialism and dialectical materialism something you need to know if you know about socialism but since you don't know about socialism you don't even know the words and not only does the enemy keep you ignorant you stay ignorant you won't ever read a book about socialism why read a book about socialism they already told me my glasses ain't no good you will not even read a book about somebody you don't even read a book about your history we come to inspire you to learn we come to tell you that when you come to server people you must know as much as you can the more you know the better able you are to serve the people