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Assata Shakur - Free All Black Liberation Fighters

Poster, 1973

"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots who protect them and their property."

"It should also be clear to us by now who the real criminals are. Nixon and his crime partners have murdered hundreds of Third World brothers and sisters in Vietnam, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa. As was proved by Watergate, the top law enforcement officials in this country are a lying bunch of criminals. The president, two attorney generals, the head of the fbi, the head of the cia, and half the white house staff have been implicated in the Watergate crimes."

"They call us murderers, but we did not murder Martin Luther King, Jr., Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, George Jackson, Nat Turner, James Chaney, and countless others. We did not murder, by shooting in the back, sixteen-year-old Rita Lloyd, eleven-year-old Rickie Bodden, or ten-year-old Clifford Glover. They call us murderers, but we do not control or enforce a system of racism and oppression that systematically murders Black and Third World people."

"They call us thieves and bandits. They say we steal. But it was not we who stole millions of Black people from the continent of Africa. We were robbed of our language, of our Gods, of our culture, of our human dignity, of our labor, and of our lives. They call us thieves, yet it is not we who rip off billions of dollars every year through tax evasions, illegal price fixing, embezzlement, consumer fraud, bribes, kickbacks, and swindles. They call us bandits, yet every time most Black people pick up our paychecks we are being robbed. Every time we walk into a store in our neighborhood we are being held up. And every time we pay our rent the landlord sticks a gun into our ribs."

From a letter Shakur wrote on July 4, 1973 from prison

The full letter and poster source:

Heinlein is not progressive at all... He was "egalitarian", sort of, in the fact that he (sort of) believed everyone regardless of sex or race should be equal... in a fascist/libertarian state ruled by the military. It's very telling that in Starship Troopers for examples you get Rico who supposedly is Filipino and it's explicit that his culture does not matter because everyone is human (that is, fascist)

(in the movie, he's Argentine and he, like every other character in the movie, acts like a Usamerican marine, it's actually disturbing and very appropriate to the tone of the book)

Most of his novels are also blatantly Usamerican Manifest Destiny translated into space. Farmer in the Sky, for example, looks like a quirky novel about a young astronaut coming of age until you realize it's just Usamerican pioneer fantasy. I haven't read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress yet but from what I've heard it's kind of if Atlas Shrugged was better written.

He isn't completely worthless, he was a good science fiction author and I really enjoyed some of his books. But he had really terrible politics. Most big sci-fi authors do though.

I've also touched on the fact that libertarianism makes no sense in a space setting a few times, I should do a post about it.

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