The only constant is change...

Here's a blast from the past...early 1970s. Controversial? You bet your boots. Notice Eldridge Cleaver, super revolutionary Black Panther in his dark, dark, ultra dark Ray Bans. I had a pair of those. I still wear a pair of those. Of course, Cleaver turned right after spending time in exile in Algeria. He came home to Oakland, California and started plumping for the Moonies and American Nationalism. Don't get me wrong, there ARE revolutionaries in this clip; they're meant to contrast with the bullshit, pimp artist types who are so popular today and were so popular yesterday.

There were radical 'whites' who made Cleaver's right turn too e.g. David Horowitz. The Last Poets were criticizing the superficial black nationalist 'revos" of their day, along with their 'cultural revo' comrades. The point is that superficial radicalism will most likely end up in later life as social conservatism........'Oh, I was so mistaken in my youth." This turn has happened recently with one, David Mamet. He was supposedly a great, intellectual writer/aritst leftist...now's he's seen the errors of his ways. Now, he claims that leftists are stupid, ignorant fools. He claims that Thomas Sowell is the greatest philosopher alive. Google Sowell, if you don't know of him. Sowell is one of the "Niggaz" the Last Poets were talking about. He sits in Hoover Tower near where I used to work, typing out screeds justifying the wealth of our rulers and blaming the poor for being lazy and deserving their position in class society.

What is revolution? For one thing, it is geting rid of class society. And how do you do that? By forming One Big grassroots, democratic classwide Union of workers. This is how we can get over being "scared of revolution" because by doing this, we will understand that the revolution is us, acting together to create a society of equal human beings and, because we are organized, that we have the power to pull it off. I doubt whether the "Friends of Bill Cosby" are ready for that message.