No challenge!
The citizens "spake not a word/But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,/Star'd each on other, and look'd deadly pale."
In just under a minute, my fellow citizen's voice has snapped, and he sees me now and those eyes no longer colorblind, see, for a moment, no longer the "fanatic" but the runaway, the escaped, and his feet move backward. 1964 has come and gone, but it's been replaced with the anger. He has opinions! And a right to them! "Don't I? Don't I?" Just read this! I am not the bowing "Black" Buckingham, honored to be recognized by the Kingdom. Corporate ruler, you have been granted personhood! I have no soliloquy for your representative at my door, but your soliloquy seems to have faltered, however briefly and unprepared I am at the moment.
Contempt!
Our corporate rulers today are as cunning as the Duke of Gloucester. "All ruling classes," writes Rosa Luxemburg, "fought to the end, with tenacious energy, to preserve their privileges" ("Want Does the Spartacus League Want?"). [4] As "a theoretician, journalist, teacher, politician, and revolutionary," [5] the Marxist scholar traced the evolution of historical ruling classes. Luxemburg continues:
The Roman patricians and the medieval feudal barons alike, the English cavaliers and the American slaveholders, the Walachian boyars and the Lyonnais silk manufactures--they all shed streams of blood, they all marched over corpses, murder, and arson, instigated civil war and treason, in order to defend their privileges and their power.
As a class, the capitalist are imperialists, "offspring of the caste of exploiters," in fact, Luxemburg argues, this class "outdoes all its predecessors in brutality, in open cynicism and treachery."
We are not now talking about the old days of the Duke of Gloucester, Richard III, or monarchies, but so-called democratic, modern-era civilizations in which the capitalist regime will defend "its profits and its privileges" to exploit anywhere in the world "with methods of cold evil" demonstrated by its "colonial politics" and "in the recent World War." Here she means WWI, but we have witnessed the war to end all wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, invasions of so-called "un-democratic" countries in Latin America and in Arab and Muslim lands, as well as CIA-backed regime overthrows of uncooperative CIA-puppet-overseers.
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