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The minority puts a dogmatic view in place of thecritical, and an idealist one in place of the materialist. Theyregard mere discontent, instead of real conditions, as thedriving wheel of revolution. Whereas we tell the workers:You have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars andnational struggles, not only in order to change conditionsbut also to change yourselves and make yourselves capableof political rule; you, on the contrary, say:
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We mustcome to power immediately, or else we may as well go tosleep.
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Whilst we make a special point of directing theGerman workers' attention to the underdeveloped state of the German proletariat, you flatter the national feeling andthe status
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prejudice of the German artisans in the crudestpossible way
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which, admittedly is more popular. Just asthe word
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people
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has been made holy by the democrats,so the world
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proletariat
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has been made holy by you.Karl Marx
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on the 1850 split inthe German Communist League
3rd EditionOriginally published under the title
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Mythology of the White Proletariat: A Short Course in UnderstandingBabylon
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Introduction
One day a friend introduced me to a young New
Afrikan
brotherwho was selling things on the sidewalk outside a large office building.When our talk turned to this book, the young brother looked up proudlyand said:
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I already know
everything
about the White Man, and he knows
nothing
about me.
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As we were talking away I couldn't help thinking howmany people
had
the same thought. Because they know that the whiteman is completely racist and treacherous, they wrongly assume that theyknow
all
about his society. This is really the point that this book beginsfrom.In, fact, the 1960's breakthrough of
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ethnic studies programs
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atuniversities has been dialectically turned around and used against us. Weare getting imperialist
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sponsored and imperialist
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financed
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Asian studies,
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Black studies,
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Puerto Rican studies,
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Indian studies,
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ethnic studies
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pushed back down our throats. Some of the most prominent Third
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Worldintellectuals in the U.S. Empire
are
getting paid good salaries by the impe
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rialists to teach us our histories. Why?
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