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Not So Fast - Freedom and
the Black Revolution The winter 1996 issue (#5) of our sister publication, Race Traitor, carried an editorial titled "Aux armes! Formez vos bataillons!" ("To arms! Form your battalions!") It said that the militia movement, like the Rodney King uprising, was "a rebellion against the massive, faceless, soul-destroying system that is sucking the life out of ordinary people in this country and around the world." The editorial criticized those on the "left" who sound like government officials in calling for greater repression of the militia movement and who actually collaborate with government agencies in carrying out that repression. The editors declared that they, as revolutionaries, agree with much of what the militias say about official society. More important, they believe that any movement that wants to reach that growing mass of people for whom "nothing less than a total change is worth fighting for" must draw a line between themselves and all of official society, including the "loyal opposition." The editorial provoked a lot of comment. Among the responses was the following, from Louis Beam. Louis Beam is a publicist among what are sometimes called "far right" circles, including the Aryan Nations and some of the militia movements. He is best known for his article "Leaderless Resistance," which calls for a decentralized movement aimed at paralyzing official society through a series of violent attacks on its institutions. The idea is that local groups operating autonomously will be less vulnerable to government repression than an organization with a central command. Beam's letter follows: Greetings. What a clear thinking essay! The lights are on wherever this essay was written. Too bad you're left wingers. We could use you on the far, far, far right! Your best move would be to join the militias and thereby become part of a true "people's army" opposed to the totalitarian dictatorship of the "brave new world." I need not remind you that your enemy's enemy is your friend. You know this. So why do you not follow through? The militias could use some fresh revolutionary ideas. Many of them (like many you no doubt know in the left) are bound by mental chains to lifeless ideologies of the past. The far right and the far left have much more in common than the right does with Newt and his boys or the left does with Morris Dees and his government-worshipping sycophants. Tyrants rule, destroy, and enslave, while the left worries about political correctness and the right insists on worshipping the flag of their oppressor. Enjoyed the essay and you may pass on my compliments to the author. One of your supporters pointed me to your site. Death to the system! Louis Beam Our reply: From our standpoint what separates Morris Dees and, say, David Duke is less important than what joins them, since they both operate politically within the system and limit their goals to what can be attained within it. So we say that "left" and "right" are largely meaningless labels. But that doesn't mean that our enemy's enemy is our friend. Yes, we want to destroy the system, but we care about what comes afterwards - and so, if the truth be told, do you. Here is our vision: a world where work is play and play is life; where all life is human and all humanity divine; where the state is the church and the church is the people (credits to G.B. Shaw). Are you with us on this, Louis? It wouldn't surprise us to learn that you are, so let's go on. In order to achieve the world of our dreams, it is necessary to overthrow the profit system and eliminate social classes, abolish race and gender (not human diversity or sex), and do away with tribalism (not tribes). The starting point is a direct challenge to the privileges of the white skin, because those privileges, more than any other single factor, blind people to their real interests. We are not asking you, or any other so-called white person, to "tolerate" the struggle of black people for equality. Tolerance is for liberals. We are asking you and every other person who is serious about revolution to embrace the black revolution, because historically it represents more than any other force a radical alternative to this society whose heaven is a shopping mall and whose hell is a concentration camp. You want to know what the new society will look like? Take a close look at the most democratic institution in American society, the storefront Afro-American church, a voluntary association where the lady who empties bedpans at the county hospital during the week enjoys as much prestige and authority as a lawyer or a doctor - if she can bake a good sweet potato pie. The black community, under assault from without and within, beleaguered though it is, is the most advanced outpost of the society we seek to build. Can you identify with that, Louis? If so, then we invite you to join our militia movement (in formation). But if, as we suspect, you are more attached to whiteness than you are to freedom, then please drop your claim to be an enemy of the state. Unless you can see the sufferings and strivings of humankind in a black skin, your revolution will only reproduce the evils of the present society on a higher level. |
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