‘Table of Contents PARTL ‘THE GHETTOBRED ANARCHIST Self Respect... 2 ‘Becoming a Living Representation of Revolutionary Ideals... 2 Black Man, Woman, and Child: You're Not Inferior... 3 ‘The Anarchist Dialectic of the Master Class & the Slave Class... 5 Poverty Is Economic Oppression... 6 ‘To You Who Struggle With Self-Acceptance... 7 ‘On Becoming Dead To Your Former Self... 8 ‘The Personal is Political and the Political is Personal... 9 Dual Power... 10 (On Alchemy and the Revolutionary Mind... 13, Alchemy as a Revolutionary Science... 16 Revolutionary Consciousness... 17 PART2 ‘THE FACTORIES, THE FIELDS, AND THE FIREARMS TO DEFEND THEM... 18 ‘The Factories... 20 ‘The Fields... 21 ‘The Firearms... 23 FROM GANG WAR TO CLASS WAR... 26 (inclusion from “The Deprived & Depraved”) To Everyone With a Gun in the Ghetto... 29, “Every revolution In history has been accomplished by actions. Although words are necessary, we must create shields that wil protect us and spears that penetrate our enemies. “Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon; we are created by our conditions, shaped ‘by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets." “Let’s get down to business / mental self-defensive fitness.” Chuck D, Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black Panther & political prisoner in Pennsylvania, was released into the prison population in 2013 after serving thirty years on.Death Row. ae When | met Mumia in the prison library, | was immediately motivated by his calmness and remarkable sense of clarity. When | was in solitary confinement in the early 2000's, | had a cell neighbor, Joe Blow, who was mentally reduced to smearing his feces on his cel! wall after 3 months in the hole. How could one person whose done 3 decades in solitary come out mentally healthier than the one who went crazy after 3 months in the hole? By exercising a revolutionary mentality. Throughout his decades of isolation, Mumia managed to write numerous articles on the Struggle, rebelliously wrote books and even managed to make a c.d. & appear on the radio. A revolutionary mentality can bring order out of chaos in your life just as well — whether you find yourself in “civilization” or on a cellblock. “Self Respect” Before we can ever expect to be respected by other humyn beings, we must first uphold our own humynity and begin respecting ourselves. Self-respect liberates you from the chains of a slave-like mentality & marks the beginning of a truly revolutionary mind-frame in life. This doesn’t imply a need to wearing camouflage & biack beret hats in. your day-to-day activities. You can be just as militant-minded without such ostentatious displays of the sort. You could be a sanitation worker ‘or a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit and still carry within you this essential level of self-respect. In life there’l! be those who want to rob you of this possession — whether it be @ corrections officer or a so-called “superior” at work it could be an enemy who envies your new-found sense of dignity and privately wants to see you down on your luck instead of alive and up on your feet. Don't let them rob you of this possession. Self-respect is a fundamental need in the fight for Self-Determination for yourself and for humynity as a whole Don't let anyone take it away from you. It’s one of the most important, one of the most coveted and priceless things you could ever possess. Becomi itation of Revolutionary ideals A revolutionary mentality & the self-respect that it bestows to a humyn being can be acquired through studying & reflecting on how to make yourself a better person in ji ‘Acknowledging your importance within the world as 3 paramount individual with something substantial to contribute to it is to the transformation process within you and in the world! In a society of so many lies and facades, self-respect is an invaluable virtue in becoming a living representation of revolutionary ideals. Truth- speaking, or, Maak-heru, as the ancient Egyptians called it- is revolutionary in itself, and like MLK said: “Truth, crushed to the ground, will rise again.” Speak truth to power, and watch (coercive) power diminish in strength before you. FETT Reflect on your Revolutionary Mission in jife. Encourage those who've fallen prey to such a predatory system such ‘as that of the government - to understand their importance and ' relevance in the Struggie that we're at war in. ‘Black Man, Woman, and Child: You're Not Inferior Black man, womyn and child: you are not inferior; and-our people never were inferior. Throughout history, we've been a well of remarkable depth which has and continues to quench the thirst of knowledge-seekers from history's, ‘most eminent schools of Thought. Ancient Greek philosophers of high repute, such as Plato and Pythagoras of Crotona, studied the Mysteries of life, high mathematics & advanced astronomy in our schools in ancient Egypt (Kemet). Plato, who was initiated in the pyramid at Giza at the age of 49, opened his famous philosophical schoo! known as the Academy. Tradition has it that he was sold as a slave by the king of Sicily and was greatly persecuted for revealing such mysterious secrets of life to those who would hear it. Pythagoras, who taught that “it is the part of a miserable man to speak and to act without reflection;” received much of his philosophical light from the Egyptian temple of isis {and this after several rebuffs and refusals). He later required of his disciples that they live in complete (verbal) silence and abstinence for five years upon admission into his school. Such was the intensity level of these remarkable teachings. q Moreover, the Greek Hippocrates - the so-called “Father of Medicine” & whom the “Hippocratic Oath” of those joining the medical profession swear by ~ was 1900 years prior preceded by the great phys imhotep. He was the first-recorded multi-genius — an Afrikan who. studied medicine in ancient Kemet (Egypt) around 2630 B. ‘The Greek historian, Heroditus, wrote of how the parents of Hercules were Egyptian; and those who study history today can discover that even princess Europa ~ of whom Europe was named after - was of Afrikan ancestry, as well. This is the type of knowledge that our ancestors in time of chattel slavery could've greatly benefited from had it not been a crime for our to learn how to read and write or speak in their native tongues. No wonder in 1832, Henry Berry spoke on the floor of the Virginia House of Representatives: “We have as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may enter the slaves’ mind...[IIf we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be complete, they would then be on the leve! with the beast of the field and we should be safe.” Later on in history, as Malcolm taught, “was the fabulous, fabled city of Timbuktu. Timbuktu was a center of learning where they (Black people) | had colleges and universities; and this Timbuktu existed as a hidden city, | or a forbidden city, to the white man for many centuries. He was not permitted to go there, none of them had been there — it was for us.” (see “Malcolm X On fe: “American History,” published through So. Chicago "Not only were the Black Moors of Morocco & the universities they erected in Portugal & Spain considered the only light during the Dark Ages of Europe for hundreds of years, “In ancient times and even later there were Caucasians who regarded the Blacks as superior people.... here were...always Caucasians who were affectionately drawn to the Blacks as by some magic.” (Chancellor Williams, “The Destruction of Black Civilization”) There are volumes of Afrikan and Afro-Amerikan encyclopedias highlighting our achievernents. Generally speaking, the idea of racial superiority was an instrument of white European opportunists promoting lies, the spreading of ignorance and the de-humanizing lack of belief in Equality. Far freer than the Afrika of today, we collectively excelled in stateless and chiefless societies. Through miseducation, those in power have struggled to disarm our minds by conveying notions of white superiority and Black inferiority. Century after century, however, our people have demonstrated ~ in one way or another ~ the equal capacity of fellectual depth and charismatic resilience no authority could ever repress. Alexander Crummel (1819-1898), founder of the American Negro ‘Academy, wrote how “The ordinary, and sometimes the extraordinary American is unable to see that the struggle of a degraded people for elevation is, in its very nature, a warfare, and that its main weapon is the cultivated and scientific mind.” He further overstood that “The Negro mind, imprisoned for nigh three hundred years, needs breadth and freedom, largeness, altitude, and elasticity; not stint rigidity, ndr contractedness.” ‘Some say that a “master class” doesn't exist. This tends to be promoted ((ronicalty) by those in positions of authority and political power. This generally includes governing bodies who believe or teach that involuntary servitude died with the end of chattel slavery, in America, at least. Others proclaim that a “Master Class” does exist. This is attested by those who acknowledge themselves as slaves, in one way or another. These are prisoners (Constitutional slaves under the 13" Amendment), wage slaves in the workforce and those who suffer from inequality in social relationships in day to day life. From this we may synthesize that a slave class exists for many, while a master-class exists among the elite and powerful few. For in a capitalist society, those who have more money and military organization have the power over the necessities of life over those who don’t have it. Both classes do not deny that “class differences” exist between the higher-ups & those who struggle to survive at the bottom. To settle this contradiction is to arrive at the over standing that this can be resolved by the Destruction of “classes” & the overthrow of authority that it implies. Class-clashing is necessary in the fight for freedom as the organization of slaves involves the fight for Equality and empowerment for the ‘masses; a people who slave for a master class that needs to keep the consciousness & manpower of the people under subjection. ‘An Anarchist Revolution is thus a logical necessity for intellectual, socio- ‘economic and political liberation; in the relationship between those who govern and those who are governed. For where there's no slave there’s no master; and where there’s no master there can no longer be slave. Poverty is Economic Oppression Asa truth-seeker in the ghetto, you may strangely find yourself asking “How am / oppressed?” You're oppressed by poverty. Poverty is economic oppression. You struggle to financially provide for yourself (and your family if you have one). Every day's a struggle in a government system that could really care less If you end up homeless or not; if you die or survive. Acut-throat, capitalist lifestyle creates chaos & disorder within you & in the 'hood where drug deals erupt in turf-wars and gangbanging. ‘Gangbanging has its roots in authority. Authority can only thrive in the absence of Equality; and conversely, Equality can only be found:where authority doesn’t exist. Now, in the absence of Equality is, definitively speaking, injustice. Injustice has a profound effect on all of our minds. In every ‘hood, our people suffer from the oppression of social injustice bombarded by worries & fears ~worries & fears we watch turn many crazy, strung- out, locked up or dead in the streets. ‘These are irrefutable facts our people struggle to come to grips with, ‘and it takes the application of knowledge to fix yourself in these life- ‘condemning and twisted conditions. Conditions which breed today a ‘growing number of people lke you who find yourself reflecting.on the reality of writings like these. We know that there's no Equality in the United States as well as anywhere else where governments are found to exist in this world. if there was equality there would be no such thing as “Haves and Have- nots. If there was really Equality, there'd be no such thing as Upper, Middle and Lower classes. 6 As Anarchist revolutionary Anthony Rayson once paraphrased, poverty is one of the major causes of “crime” which needs to be eliminated. An Anarchist Revolution is necessary to rid ourselves from economic oppression & every oppressive element impoverishing you, me and the lives of our peoplé! ‘To You Who Struggle With Self-Acceptance While you may or may not care whether or not you become accepted by others; it's intimately important that you overstand the necessity of accepting yourself. Despite all the mistakes you've made; regardless of ail the mistakes you've so regrettably caused — you, like every ‘other humyn being ~ possesses the ability to mature, evolve and learn from your past. When you don't accept yourself as a humyn being, you become reduced toa level of a defeated person, to an abyss of the most disabling & groundless beliefs. Negative affirmations such as “I’m worthless;” “I don’t deserve to live,” and such, puts you in an inferior position instead of one of Equality with the rest of the humyn race. Those with authority over us don’t want us to transcend because they know of our potential - in many times, even more than we understand our potential, ourselves. it’s inconveniently ironic that we've wrested the whip from our slave masters only to use it in lashing ourselves and each other! This is known as internalized oppression. ‘The Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania describes “internalized Oppression” thus: “As the result of historic trauma, traumatized people may begin to internalize the views of the oppressor and perpetuate a cycle of self-hatred that manifests in negative behaviors. Emotions such as ‘anger, hatred, and aggression are self-inflicted, as well as inflicted on members of one's own group. For example, self-hatred amang Blacks/African Americans who act out their aggression on people who __.... look like them.* (Johnson,n.d.) In Survival Strategies for Africans in America, Anthony T. Browder acknowledged how “Africans in America and on the continent (of Africa) have been conditioned by their former ensiavers and colonizers to wage war against each other and struggle nonviolently agafhst their ‘common oppressor.” When we reflect on our lives, we can clearly see that now's the time for pas changes to be made — not only socially, but within ourselves, as well. 7. We must accept ourselves as beings of change, like @ caterpillar developing into a butterfly after it emerges from its cocoon. ‘The time for rising above has arrived. Every obstacle in our path must be overthrown & we must arrive at @ state of reconciliation within ourselves. Positive affirmations such as “I’m a revolutionary with @ Purpose,” and “I can help turn this world into a better place,” are key in re-directing our force of Resistance in the transformation from self- denial to self-acceptance. {t's unfortunate that so many of us in the world are our own worst enemy when we need to become one’s own best friend. Learn to be your closest, your best friend to yourself. Shadow can't hide from substance. With philosophical ight, acquaint yourself with the knowledge that you acquire to walk with, ‘On Becoming Dead To Your Former Self “Before we can ever become whole or healed, we must be clear about exactly who we believe we are and what we believe we are here for.” (Jacquelyn Small) There comes a time in our lives when we must begin to question our Purpose for why we're here. | Growing up in a soclety where killing ourselves and our own has become an everyday reality in North Amerika, it readily becomes apparent that a truly virtuous life is one In which we ~ as slaves in different forms — become dead to who we formerly were, {As a people out-casted from the world of the privileged, we must become one with the need to.“X" ourselves out from who we formerly ‘were; from all we've been confirmed into becoming. For us to advance, It's important we rise above the level of gangbanging, ‘organized religion, and in general, the zombie-tike following of every enstaving ideal. With this being said, it becomes unavoidably clear that something inside the revolutionary has died. The lust for personal riches, for power over others (instead of power with others), etc. becomes overstood as socio-cidal and no longer a compelling force in the experience of day to day life. 8 ‘Something inside drives the revolutionary to be willing to not only die for, but to also kill in defense of the oppressed & exploited ‘communities around the world. The systemically oppressed everywhere can relate to the characteristics of such an in- ward death, and the revolutionary overstands death as an inevitable part of life. Something inside the revolutionary has also become alive - alive like Osiris when Isis resurrected him by infusing into him life with the wings of her love and her wisdom. For love and wisdom infuses new life into the revolutionary who overstands that we must rise from the tomb of ignorance and come forth by day unto the light of intellectual liberation. ‘Something inside the revolutionary awakens like the “holy instinct of revolt” taught by Mikhail Bakunin. Compassion for the neglected _ masses (and one’s self) characterizes the nature of the ‘revolutionaries this crumbling world has been longing to see and embrace. Becoming dead to our former selves means that we've ‘accepted within us the call to not only be willing to die for but to also live for the people! c ~The Personals Political and the Politica s Personal As revolutionaries dead to the life we formerly lived (which was life of intellectual ignorance & social contradictions), and when we look deeper within ourselves and around us, it also becomes clear as day that the personal is political and the political is personel. According to “The State of Black America: 2018 Conference of the National Urban League,” Black unemployment is twice as high as white unemployment. Economic disempowerment is a centuries-old reality we've been challenged with, here in Amerika, affecting the masses of us in a personal way. Wimmin, moreover - working the same Jobs & positions as men — are still annually paid /ess than men when it ‘comes to making a living in this country. ‘Concerning the infiltration of drugs into our neighborhoods, Anthony Browder noted the way that “the CIA played a major role in the introduction of powder ‘The politics of the ghetto across amerika - such as poverty, mass imprisonment, genocidal gang, ‘banging, drug dealing, & using becomes revealed as slavery to a government system hell-bent ‘on keeping us divided and disempowered. | We're no strangers to being racially profiled by city police, humiliated __ through strip-searches in prisons where the majority of us spend over "one-third of our lives; a virtual police state where so many of us serve "0p to decades in solitary confinement succumbing to madness. | That is, madness or militancy. And in an age where so many of Us succumb to the forces of madness, a militant mind becomes one | most necessary to develop. Arevolutionary mentality is a necessary force to develop among the down-trodden of the earth who've been wrestied to the ground in the {rips of government violence. It's time we pick each other | up and overstand that the opposite of a downfall is an up-rise, |__ regardless of where we wake up and find ourselves in the world. | It means that it’s time that we strategically revolt against being | so savagely thrown down & collectively rise to reclaim our humynity, “dignity and self-respect. We must resist from any longer being compliant targets in the crosshairs of government violence and organize violence ‘against it in myriad ways. Being Black, poor & radical, it’s our obligation to turn the light of Resistance on in the minds of those who live in dire straights, ‘stumbling, and reaching in darkness. The more we realize we have the tools within us to use mentally, the closer we come to utilizing them strategically against those who oppress us! Dual Power! “Those who have maximum influence over those physical resources [i. e.: food, clothing, and shelter], are considered to be very powerful. Those who have limited influence are considered weak or certainly, lacking in power.” -Natim Akbar, (“Know Thyself") DUAL POWER has been defined as the “creation of q alternative, ieratory power to exist alongside & eventually over¢ome state/capitalist power.” (James Mumm). We need more than meré coping strategies; of wasting our lives struggling from paycheck to paycheck, from one hustle to the next. We need Dual Power fight now: the setting up counter-culture environments that meet the people’s needs, while inaiecty confronting the establishment from the ground up. ~ In Active Revolution, Mumm overstood that “Dual Power theorizes a distinct and oppositional relationship between the forces of state/capitalism and the revolutionary forces of oppressed people. The two can never be peacefully reconciled.” This implies the need to further the advancement of alternative institutions of learning (such as Liberation Schools in the streets as well as the prisons as we see beginning to resurface today). that we must be one auto-didactic (self-taught) + not only the liberating literature that we study, but also as sincere students the adventure of life! For while it’s necessary to firmly grasp the ‘meaning of life with our minds, (to paraphrase Paracelsus) - to study Nature, we must travel her books with our feet. Moreover, we need to have each other’s backs while working in tandem together. ‘As Mumm pointed out, “Counter power and counter- institutional organizations must be in relationship to each other. The value of reconnecting counter-institutional organizations with explicitly oppositional counter-institutional organizations is a ‘safeguard against the formers’ tendency to become less radical over time.” James Mumm) For DUAL POWER to begin transforming our communities & our lives, our essential needs must include, (Ona personal level}: + the overstanding that despite how poor we are and regardless of how many of us the system murders, imprisons and oppressed — we must deeply root Within ourselves a firm overstanding that we are not inferior (nor “superior,” for that matter to anyone else), ‘+ the overstanding that we have the ability of making a radical difference in the world we live in, ‘+ that we develop self-confidence instead of wallowing in the more of self-doubt. ‘On the grassroots/social level, these needs include): * “strategic non-compliance”/ using a diversity of tactics to reach specific goals. Be This should include that community organizers: «Greate a “phone tree” of contacts who know how to turn on electricity and water when landlord’s/banksters turn them off, for when we squat buildings in the city and rent-strike, with ‘the supreme goal of the PEOPLE (of which we're a inart afl liheratina the land from dictation and capitalism: hand with the training and active use of armed defense of our communities. It’s our class that’s been defending the interests of the ruling class by serving in their military abroad, while the police oppress and continue to gun us down right here in the crooked streets of amerika The only reasonable alternative for us to arrive at, as an oppressed and exploited people, is to stop working for the system and collectively begin broadly working against it. Setting our differences aside (at least long enough to collectively strike) will surely propel us forward. This change in consciousness will mentally reflect in the change in concrete conditions as well, and elevate us. é The stave-born T. Thomas Fortune wrote that “Men organize themselves "for mutual protection.” it’s evident that today, to protect | our neighborhoods from fascist police, slumlords and other predators of "the people, we must work towards overthrowing and collectively | overtaking them ~ which we can do relatively intact (as advised by Sun Tau in The Art of War). “The evil,” Mr. Fortune reminded us, “is for deeper than the throne, and cannot be remedied by striking the occupant of it~ the throne itself ‘must be rooted out and demolished.” It’s the very idea of Government that must firstly be fundamentally & thoroughly overthrown. “It is this | System which constitutes the real grievance and makes the landlord an odious loafer with abundant cash and the laborer a constant _ toler always upon the verge of starvation. Evidently, therefore,” Mr. Fortune logically reasoned, "to remove the landlord and leave the system of land Monopoly would not remove the evil. Destroy the latter {land monopoly] and the former [the landlord] would be Locally, it’s time we get out of the habit of surrendering our potential to government institutions & get into the habit of thinking along the lines of People’s Power for ourselves and our children. It’s a world-wide imperative that we organize with the working-class in other countries to effectively strike against imperialism and aggressive corporate globalization! People everywhere are beginning to stir and now's the Time to make the necessary coalitions at home & abroad with those who are solidarity-minded. Our commitment will be answered in proportion to the destiny that we question, and the question of our destiny will be answered in proportion to our commitment. The next time you find yourself depressed at a job you can’t stand or find yourself one paycheck away from being homeless, think about the ‘words of this writing. The growing thrust towards socio-economic revolution includes YOU! You're not alone in your situation, we've grown insane in civilization, where the conformity into being law- abiding citizens only leads to the exploitation and inferiorization of the masses. The hunger, thirst, and isolation of those of us who thrive on society's margins no longer find morale in being imprisoned by the ‘oppressive government powers. We can only find ourselves becoming truly cultured and sane in being un-civilized and we discover ‘our humynity ethically in becoming “immoral.” {“immoral” is an adjective and is defined as: not conforming to accepted forms of ‘morality.] Against the Establishment which is based on bloodshed, isolation and greed, we find ourselves no longer being lost. On Alchemy and the Revolutionary Mind ‘Alchemy has been described as the science of transmutating base ‘ metals into material gold. a In 1689, King Henry IV “declared the multiplying of metals to be a crime | ‘against the crown.” The Act was later repealed by William and Mary who together ascended the throne in England,” encouraging alchemists to continue honing the craft (for personal gain for the Kingdom, no doubt:) The roots of alchemy, however, reach further back into antiquity and imply the need for a deeper understanding. It was considered “the master science of the Egyptians.” Chem ( short for (Chemet, or, “Kemet”) was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both words “alchemy” and “chemistry” are a perfect reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.” (Manly P. Hall, “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”). Despite the fact that many considered it, superficially, as a science of changing base metals, they fail to realize that alchemy (on a deeper evel) involves the transmutating of one’s mental state into spiritual gold. Thus, true and personal alchemy is a Revolutionary Science; for it’s a science of revolutionaries, in the deepest sense of the word. Pe md ——<—