They Huey P. Newton Reader

on the Peace Movement:
August 15, 1969
he Peace Movement is extremely important, morc important than
TI thought it was tw"o years ago. The reason I place so much more
emphasis on the Peace Movement is that I now see that if peace
were to come about, it would revolutionize the basic economic composition
of the country.
We all know now this is a garrison state, a warfare state. And not
by accident. When capitalism rcaches a point where it can no longer
expand, it Looks for other avenues, other deposits, other places to
expand the capitalists interest. At this time super-capitalists (General
Motors, Chrysler, General Dynamics, and all the super companics­
I understand there's about seventy-six that control the whole economy
of this country) and their companies are the main contractors for the
Pentagon. In other words, super-capitalists are now putting their overexpanded
capitalistic surplus into military equipment. This military
equipment is then placed in foreign countries such as Vietnam and the
Dominican Republic. With the wedding of industry and the Pentagon,
there is a new avenue to invest in. Military equipment is an
expendable avenue, because the purpose of the equipment is to explode.
Therefore, you must keep building new explosives. A perpetual process.
We know that the U.S. has a secret pact with Thailand. These pacts
are all part of a super-plan to keep the economy going. What would
happen then, if peace were to come about? There would not be that
final depository for expendable goods, and the surplus could then be
returned to the country. The military plants, related defense plants, and
industrial plants would be brought to a grinding halt.
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