They Huey P. Newton Reader

the technology question 1263
What would Hitler have clone? "Let's stop the crucifixion of the
Jews." The United States will stand for civil rights, and "stop the crucifixion
of blacks," because now the imperialists can let blacks share
in it. The U.S. capitalists will say, "We will continue to rip-off Southeast
Asia; we'll continue ripping off Latin America and Africa." With
the acceptance of the sharing will come the end of our whole political-type
ideological war, because the people of this nationalist empire
will have a bid in the shackling of the whole world. This is the rcason
why politics at this stage is so complicated. For in reality, it is noopolitics.
It does not matter who takes over, as long as the people with
the big interest, those that get the big money, can pay off enough people
to keep them quiet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did it in World War
II. He delivered a job and a guaranteed income based on the war effort.
Everybody rallied to the war. Americans, black and white, who had
hated the government only two years before that, turned right around
and saluted.
At present, however, corporate America can boast that if you are a
Communist, you can run for president. What they will not add is that
this is so because the president is relatively unimportant. The technological
question is unopposed-as far as who benefits from it,
because we all do on one level or another-that so it becomes very difficult
to deal with. It is difficult for us to move against that mythical,
politically reactionary ruling circle, or to point out the target, because
it relates back to the statement that we have to deal with in the end,
that "Ye, who is not guilty, cast the first stone." It is difficult to cast
the stone, because those holding the stone can say, "Will I be out of
a job; I'm looking for a job. Will I join the forces that cannot hire me
at all? Will I be fired from General Motors?"
The problem, finally, is at what point will the centralization, coupled
with the welfare state, no longer be useful in its reactionary form?
Moreover, how long will it take the people to see it? Americans are in
a position of dependency on the people outside the U.S., those who
arc getting ripped off. How long will the U.S. imperialists have the
ability to pull the masses? They have already shot down the First Workers
State. Now it seems that even the Second Workers State is threatened.
The world is in a predicament, and we do not have a world policy.
We, the people, do not have a worldview. Why is Ford one of the