The Problem with Juneteenth

Juneteenth was a people's holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate exploiters and cynical politicians to show pretend concern for Black people. At best Juneteenth provides a history lesson and an opportunity for much needed political education.

The Civil War is rarely taught properly. The well documented struggle for liberation is left out of the story. The enslaved people who fled to Union lines whenever they were able forced Lincoln to state that ending slavery was the object of the conflict. He only reluctantly agreed to establish the United States Colored Troops, who were more invested in victory than any other group in the country. Of course, he never gave up on his dream of an all white country. Shortly before his assassination he still expressed a desire to send Black people away and to compensate the Confederacy for its lost free labor.

Instead of pointing out these well documented facts, Juneteenth is an amorphous celebration of Black people. The best it can accomplish is to point out that freedom itself is ever amorphous in this country. Enslavement was soon followed by lynch law terrorism, the sharecropping system, and the convict leasing system. Mass Black incarceration at the end of the 20th century brought about a new system of free labor, as vicious as that in the Jim Crow south.

This widespread acceptance is actually proof that the effort was misguided. On the one hand, we are told to hate the likes of republican leaders like Mitch McConnell, but suddenly celebrate when they toss a bone. When Joe Biden signed the law which made Juneteenth a federal holiday his remarks were replete with platitudes about the sin of slavery, the redemption of American progress, the importance of HBCUs and home ownership, and just for good measure, a plea to be vaccinated against covid. The laundry list of topics was further proof that a people’s holiday has become meaningless.

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The Trend Toward a Multipolar World is Defined by Class Struggle

The emerging multipolar world is the result of struggles for national sovereignty and self-determination, which are connected with the world wide class struggle.

Vladimir Lenin is perhaps the most well-known Marxist revolutionary to advance a modern theory of international relations rooted in the class struggle brought about by imperialism. Lenin concluded that the ascendency of monopoly and finance capital divided the world into colonies and oppressed nations. The self-determination of these nations would therefore form a core pillar in the struggle for socialism worldwide. Without self-determination, workers and oppressed people of the world would suffer immeasurable losses from the scourge of colonial domination and its triple evils of military occupation, economic plunder, and racial discrimination.

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{China and Russia are in the vanguard of the multipolar world. China’s socialist governance system has balanced entrance into an unstable, capitalist dominated world economic system by maintaining state control of the commanding heights of the economy such as energy, land, transportation, natural resources, and finance. This has allowed China to ascend to the top of the economic ladder as a top innovator of high-technology and address socialist imperatives such as poverty, climate change, and public health. Russia has dug its way out of the disastrous collapse of the Soviet Union to regain national sovereignty and become a major economic and military power in rapid time.}

In the past I have warned that there may be a time where the US may become a target and made out to be the problematic source of the world power structure. As this Ukraine issue continues it becomes more evident the US is absorbing the brunt of a narrative heading that direction. {In Africa, Western plunder and militarization led by the U.S. has led many countries to pursue stronger relations with China and Russia.} Along with faltering European economies who will either further diminish if they continue to refuse Russian resources, resulting in larger revolt from citizens, may be forced to also turn away from US domination.

This resembles my statements on Caitlin Johnstone of primarily directing her opposing commentary at the US while leaving out her own countries involvements in this power structure. As I've attempted to get people to recognize how history is currently being erased in many aspects, European countries seemingly now have the ability to erase their own also within a false narrative to a point they can all point their fingers at us. As I have said in the past, we're being used. When the ruling class power structure is done using, what do they do? Toss it to the wolves and buzzards. Our collection of ruling class will manage to escape what they created. Along with many of our politicians they own.

But this isn't the first time European countries sacrificed themselves and their citizens for the benefit of the ruling class. They've always come out on top of the game at the end. But where will we be at the end, this time? Their Ukraine game didn't fair so well like the Germany game did for them. Their societies aren't as indoctrinated as in the US. They're going to be forced to either walk the talk of face large scale revolts.

The structure of global power and economics is going to change assuredly, possibly under a major confrontation. And there isn't any current guarantees on what the sides are made up of. All indications though are that the probability of Russia and China are on one side with the same goals for a united international front. And quite frankly, they hold a better outlook for us than what has been running the show for centuries. And they've done quite well for themselves against those who constantly make enemies of them. That's a hard team for other nations not to want to be a part of.

Well, Danny goes into reiterate my statement in other words.

{The Ukraine crisis has exposed how the U.S.’s war on multipolarity threatens to bring about a global war even more destructive than the prior two global conflicts of the 20th century fought among the capitalists for the domination of the planet. By waging ceaseless counter insurgency war maneuvers meant to provoke Russia and China, the U.S. empire is playing with fire. This is evident in the U.S.’s complete refusal to negotiate with Russia in December of 2021 to prevent the Ukraine crisis from escalating and its increased military expenditures to Ukraine and Taiwan over the same period. U.S. imperialism has been the instigator of war and the violator of self-determination all along, but the wall-to-wall misinformation of the Western media has convinced many in the North America and Europe to believe otherwise.}

Vastly more so in the US, sadly. You will not recognize this though if your only tuning into or reading the US MSMs.

{The question becomes: which side are we on? The side of the imperialists led by the U.S. seeking maximum profit for the fewest people and nations or that of China, Russia, and its allies striving for self-determination and integration in an effort to meet the needs of the people and the planet? Our collective answer will determine whether progressive forces in the West stand by and watch the war on multipolarity or whether they are organized to follow Lenin’s advice and take up the struggle to defeat their own imperialist governments at the root of it.}

Which seems better to you? A reality of the past where wars were built to sacrifice our families to benefit the few, millions of innocent have lost their lives, while the planet suffers in all aspects, or a structure where it and we all have a sense of importance?

I don't know about you, but I've long been tired of being a productive member of a society that only exploits me for the benefit of a few thousand people and has emptily sacrificed the people before me in vain. Quite frankly, I'm tired of those who refuse to educate themselves to this recognition.