Attention My "Conspiracy Theorist" Anti-State-Crime Friends:

Here is some advice from an egalitarian revolutionary

I happen to be convinced, like you, that the United States ruling billionaire plutocracy has done, and still does, secret (covert) evil deeds for the purpose of maintaining and strengthening its undeserved power, privilege and wealth at the expense of the rest of the people—the have-nots—whom it treats like dirt in non-secret, overt, routine, daily, in-plain-sight ways, 23 concrete examples of which I describe in detail here and of which the denial of affordable housing and health care are just two.

Like you, I want to remove the rich—the ruling billionaire plutocracy and those who are allied with it—from power. This is clearly the only way to stop the terrible secret, covert, evil deeds as well as the non-secret, overt, ones.

But UNLIKE (most of) YOU I know HOW we can remove the rich from power. I know this because, unlike you, I know what IS the main obstacle for that revolution to happen and what is NOT the main obstacle.

As I explained and proved in great detail in my earlier post here, the obstacle is NOT that too few people today want to remove the rich from power and that our task, therefore, is to persuade them of this necessity. No! More than 80% of the American public ALREADY knows we live in an unjust oppressive dictatorship of the rich and wants very much—would love!—to remove the rich from power. As my earlier post also explains, you can verify this for yourself if you overcome your fear of actually talking to ordinary people where you live about the goal of “removing the rich from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor,” and ask them if they think that is a good or a bad idea (which is an entirely different question from whether they think it is possible—they don’t—or whether they want Socialism or whether they want this or that party in power or whether they think [pick your favorite conspiracy theory] is true.)

The chief obstacle to building the massive egalitarian revolutionary movement is this: people think that hardly anybody else agrees with them in having their egalitarian revolutionary aspiration (i.e., to “remove the rich from power, etc.”). They therefore feel hopeless about the possibility of such a revolution. The ruling class’s #1 priority is to make sure that the have-nots feel hopeless about removing the rich from power. That is what prevents revolution. The ruling class does this by censoring any and all expressions of the egalitarian revolutionary aspiration in the mass and alternative media and every other main institution. This makes people believe that nobody else has this aspiration. THIS is the #1 purpose of government propaganda, as I discuss here. People even self-censor any expression of egalitarian revolutionary aspiration among friends and neighbors for fear that if they expressed their actual feelings they would meet with unpleasant disagreement, scorn, or even ostracism from their social circle. So they keep their egalitarian revolutionary aspiration a secret.

Here’s where you, my fellow anti-state-crime “conspiracy theorists,” are WRONG

You are wrong in believing that the main obstacle to removing the rich from power is that too few people currently want to do that.

Based on this wrong assumption, you draw the wrong conclusion that what’s necessary is to educate the public about the SECRET, COVERT, evil deeds of the ruling class because, (as you wrongly think), the NON-SECRET, OVERT, evil deeds of the ruling class just aren’t sufficiently evil and shocking and horrifying enough to make people change their mind and switch from approving of the status quo to hating it. (Marxists are similarly wrong-headed, as I discuss in this footnote¹ and revolutionary fear-mongering is also wrong-headed as I discuss in this footnore².)

And so you devote all of your activism time and energy to learning about the ruling class’s evil COVERT deeds and trying to persuade others of their existence.

The problem is that in doing this you are not building the egalitarian revolutionary movement because you are not doing what that currently requires, which is to do things that help the vast majority of have-nots learn that in wanting to remove the rich from power, etc., they are NOT a tiny hopelessly weak minority but in fact are the VAST MAJORITY. (Read here how you can start doing that right now!)

When people gain confidence they are the vast majority, THEN and only then do they start taking the concrete steps to ACT like the vast majority to organize to remove the rich from power (as I learned in 1969.)

We need to persuade people WHO ALREADY AGREE about wanting to remove the rich from power to tell others they have this aspiration

I displayed this banner in the Brighton, MA Faneuil branch library (my neighborhood library) October 29, 2019. The banner contains photos of more than 500 people--all in Brighton, MA, zip code 02135—each posing for their photo by holding a sign saying "We the People want affordable housing for ALL. To get it we aim to remove the rich from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor." People at the library loved it! (Some of them had their photo in the banner.)​

To see the individual photos displayed in high definition so you can read the sign that people are holding CLICK HERE. To view a YouTube video  slide show of these photos with my narration CLICK HERE. 

How can we persuade other people who already agree about wanting to remove the rich from power to declare that aspiration publicly instead of keeping it a secret?

In my experience the way to do this is to talk to people who are already angry at some particular NON-SECRET, OVERT, evil deed of the ruling class (such as the denial of affordable housing or good health care, etc.) about why it would be a wonderful idea for them to declare to the general public that they want to remove the rich from power, etc. By talking to random people in my neighborhood about the lack of affordable housing and just asking them to pose for a photo holding a sign declaring their revolutionary egalitarian aspiration I easily (no persuasion to agree with the sign was required!) found 500 people whose photos are in the banner you can see above.

Even people who are totally pessimistic about the possibility of egalitarian revolution still want to gain maximum support for their reform struggles such as union efforts to get better pay and working condition, or efforts to stop corporate pollution, etc. We need to inform these people that if they declared their egalitarian revolutionary aspiration as well as the specific goals of their reform struggle, then they would GAIN, not lose, enormous support from the general public. Don’t believe it? Watch this video (2nd half) and see for yourself, or better yet, ask your own neighbors. Here’s an article about this written for Amazon Labor Union members.

Yes, you can do the same thing by talking to people who are already angry at some SECRET, COVERT evil deed of the ruling class, but…

I understand, fellow anti-state crime “conspiracy theorists,” that you really REALLY like talking to people about SECRET, COVERT evil deeds more than about NON-SECRET, OVERT evil deeds such as the denial of affordable housing and good health care. Fine. Talk to people who already agree with you about these evil SECRET, COVERT, deeds and PERSUADE THEM TO DECLARE PUBLICLY THEIR EGALITARIAN REVOLUTIONARY ASPIRATION! That would help build the egalitarian revolutionary movement.

Yes. Do that! Talk to those people this way.

What? You don’t know that they DO have such an egalitarian revolutionary aspiration? Well, ASK them and find out. If you find out that they—unlike the vast majority of regular people—do not have this aspiration, then I strongly suggest saying goodbye to them and talking to different people. That is, if you intend to remove the rich from power, which is the ONLY way to stop the ruling class from doing the evil SECRET, COVERT deeds in the first place, right?

But…

If you want to build the egalitarian revolutionary movement, why would you want to limit yourself to talking only to the VERY small minority of people who agree with you (or whom you can persuade to agree with you) about those SECRET, COVERT, evil deeds? Why would you not want to also talk to the HUGE numbers of people who are ALREADY angry at the NON-SECRET, OVERT, evil deeds that they know about from DIRECT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE without having to rely on trusting you or some other scientists or technical experts as is the case with the secret, covert, evil deeds?

Please don’t tell me that only the people who agree (or can be persuaded to agree) with you about the SECRET, COVERT, evil deeds are “true” revolutionaries. That is an absurd, false, and frankly elitist view point. Please don’t go there, OK. :) That’s exactly where the CIA wants revolutionaries to go, into a sand box where they will never build a mass, successful, revolutionary movement.

1. Here is an email I received from a trained Marxist. As you can see from his words, he does NOT think we should be telling people that they are right, and most importantly are in the vast majority, in wanting to remove the rich from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor (i.e., egalitarian revolution.) No! He thinks we need to essentially manipulate people (who, he wrongly presumes, do not want an egalitarian revolution) into wanting it. The manipulation he advocates is this: mobilize people to demand a mild reform (e.g., to get RFK, Jr. confirmed as Secretary of HHS) and then, when people get outraged at the ruling class not granting the reform they will join a movement for a bigger reform (e.g., for medical freedom) and somehow this will lead eventually to “people will rise up, and change the system, and empower themselves.” This is all based on a profoundly wrong understanding of ordinary people and a wrong notion about what is the actual obstacle to egalitarian revolution. It reflects the wrongheaded elitism of Marxism, which is based on the wrong notion that ordinary people do NOT have values opposite to those of the capitalist class and have the same self-interest motives as the capitalists. (I discuss this based on Karl Marx’s own words here.)

Ken has beguiled us with these conspiracy theories about these relatively harmless social democrats,  Piven and Cloward, for one meeting after another, and called them communists.

It's all bunkum.

But there's one thing I think is very ironic.

Now that Bobby Kennedy is poised to take over the Dept. of HHS, pending Senate approval...

we may indeed take a page from P and C.

There strategy was NOT to overthrow Western civilization (which they upheld).

But to build a popular movement around voting rights.

And then when the ruling class--yes, Ken, there IS a ruling class! But there is no Santa Claus!--acts to suppress this movement, to stop people from voting, the people will rise up, and change the system, and empower themselves.

That's what we need to do, to turn this into a win-win situation.

By acting now to build a popular movement to get Bobby into the DoHHS, two things might occur, both to our advantage.

1) We put him in. We put enough pressure on the Senators to consent to his nomination

2) he doesn't get in, Big Pharma "wins"--but only temporarily. Once that happens, the people we mobilized for the movement to get him in, our OUTRAGED. And the movement for medical freedom just gets bigger, as we expose the corruption of the Rhinos and the Democrats.

We're talking here about building a Piven and Cloward "Poor People's Movement", folks!

And we owe it all to P and C.

Who are NOT communists. They never were. They are Social Democrats. With some good ideas about how to build a movement.

So get busy. Volunteer to build the movement! Table, canvass, talk to people, hold meetings! etc. etc.

In the spirit of those "dirty communists"--Piven and Cloward!

LOL!

Thomas

2. An example of revolutionary fear-mongering is to tell people that, “Oh my God! If we don’t make a revolution right away then there will be a thermonuclear World War III and we’ll all die!” Well, maybe it’s true but saying it doesn’t cause people to make a revolution. People don’t make a revolution when they feel hopeless and all alone in wanting a revolution. They just don’t.