They Huey P. Newton Reader

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Question: I'm wondering: Now that you have established an ideologywith
whieh to view the kinds of imperialism going on in the United
States, what do you do once the revolution has taken place? What happens
once you have taken over the structures made by capitalism and
have assumed responsibility for them? Aren't you going to encounter
the same struggles between the dominant forms of government and
the inferior?
Newton: It's not going to be the same because nothing remains the
same. All things are in a constant state of transformation, and therefore
you will have other contradictions inherent in that new phenomenon.
We can be very sure that there will be contradictions after
revolutionary intercommunalism is the order of the day, and we can
even be sure that there will be contradictions after communism, which
is an even higher stage than revolutionary intercommunalism. There
will always be contradictions or else everything would stop. So it's not
a question of "when the revolution comes": the revolution is always
going on. It's not a question of "when the revolution is going to be":
the revolution is going on every day, every minute, because the new is
always struggling against the old fo r dominance.
We also say that every determination is a limitation, and every
limitation is a determination. This is the struggle of the old and new
again, where a thing seems to negate itself. For instance, imperialism
negates itself after laying the foundation for communism, and
communism will eventually negate itselfbecause of its internal contradictions,
and then we'll move to an even higher state. I like to
think that we will finally move to a stage called "godliness," where
man will know the secrets of the beginning and the end and will
have full control of the universe -and when I say the universe, I
mean all motion and matter. This is only speculation, of course,
because science has not delivered us the answer yet; but we believe
that it will in the future.
So of course there will be contradictions in the future. But some contradictions
arc antagonistic and some contradictions arc not antagonistic.
Usually when we speak of antagonistic contradictions, we are
talking about contradictions that develop from confEcts of economic