One's Reward For Opposing The Empire.
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Obviously, these people are Marxist revolutionaries and the author of this piece, is melodramatic but in a world where there are no political solutions, we can learn lessons from all types of people and or creatures.
Anyone clever or lucky enough to survive the jaws of the empire, will have valuable lessons to impart to us. There is always time for learning. Just remember, the time when the empire showed its true motives towards you and those you trust or love.
Remember also, which side we're on. Remember that we are not the government and the government is not us. We the people are meant to be their chattel, their slaves, their livestock, to be herded like cattle. We the people, is the tool used to gain our allegiance, whenever it is convenient.
Assata Shakur: Autobiography of Liberation, Indictment of Empire
They called her a fugitive, a terrorist, a threat to the republic. The newspapers splashed her face across their pages like a wanted poster, as if she were a bandit who had robbed America of its innocence. But the truth is simpler and sharper: Assata Shakur robbed America only of its lies. She stood in a long line of Black women who refused to bow, and for that, the state unleashed its entire arsenal—police raids, kangaroo courts, prison cells, and finally, the machinery of demonization.
Her autobiography is not the tale of an individual against the odds. It is the voice of a people under siege. When Assata writes of police stop-and-frisks, of sudden violence erupting out of nowhere, of the suffocating net of surveillance, she is not writing “personal memoir.” She is indicting a system built on the permanent occupation of Black life. To read her is to hear the echo of every ancestor chained in a slave ship, every comrade gunned down on a city street, every child taught that freedom means learning to survive without dignity.
