Below is a slightly modified speech that I gave at the 50th Anniversary Tribute to the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense on February 27th at the Solidarity Center in Manhattan, NY. Organizers requested insight on how the Black Panther Party applied revolutionary socialist theory. This is my response.
Does anyone believe that the people destroying America would give up their power peacefully? Quote from a pro-Trump video.
Catherine Austin Fitts in her latest interview said that the current level of incompetence combined with the greed of crony capitalism forces her to conclude we will have a major financial meltdown by the end of next year.
Dog eat dog?
Think of any number of all-American axioms: Survival of the fittest? Winner takes all? Those who have, rule; those who do not have are the reason for their own destitution and undoing? The meek shall inherit the earth?
Both Zero Hedge and Judge Jeanine Pirro think Mitt Romney made a colossal error with his recent condemnation of Donald Trump. Romney still does not get how much righteous anger is out there. Mitt took apart businesses that had been reliable employers, stripped their assets, sold them off and looted their pension funds. He wonders why he did not win the presidency in 2012 and presumes to lecture us on 2016!
Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
— Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
And the following advice came from Don Vito Corleone in the Godfather movie as a warning to Mafia chieftains at an organized crime peace summit:
