Just as the depraved police murder of Tyre Nichols demonstrates once again the bankruptcy of insistence on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) leadership1—which fails (or refuses) to recognize the fundamentally oppressive nature of this system of capitalism-imperialism, which the police serve and protect with unrestrained violence, regardless of the “identity” of particular police—the same applies to the role and actions of the first Black U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, with his extremely dangerous war talk and actions on behalf of the very same system which, by its very nature, subjects Black people, along with masses of other oppressed people in this country, and billions throughout the world, to horrific oppression and devastation, and threatens the very existence of humanity not only through its ongoing and accelerating destruction of the environment but now also through the immediately increasing danger of war among nuclear-armed imperialist powers, in particular the U.S., Russia and China.
A Brief Word on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
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FOOTNOTES:
1. See Bob Avakian on “BIPOC Leadership: There Is No Such Thing. The Fight Against Oppression and the Leadership That Is Needed” [back]
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