What's Wrong With Thinking Like an American?
August 24, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
"Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First."
BAsics 5:8
"The interests, objectives, and grand designs of the imperialists are not our interests—they are not the interests of the great majority of people in the U.S. nor of the overwhelming majority of people in the world as a whole. And the difficulties the imperialists have gotten themselves into in pursuit of these interests must be seen, and responded to, not from the point of view of the imperialists and their interests, but from the point of view of the great majority of humanity and the basic and urgent need of humanity for a different and better world, for another way."
BAsics 3:8
Bangladeshi child laborers work at a balloon workshop in Kamrangir Char, 2009. Industries from designer
clothing to recycling, and everything in between, contracted by the U.S. and other imperialists to countries like
Bangladesh, India, and Africa, involve vicious exploitation and child labor.
Fallujah, Iraq, 2004.
"The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism."
BAsics 1:3
What we need is an actual revolution—and if you are serious about an actual revolution, you have to get seriously into BA.
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