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UHURU

                           March 7, 1992

Last night I was hanging around at
Nassim's place, with Kavi and Walt,
and a housemate I hadn't met before
came home: a young black woman
named Rachel.  She and Kavi
immediately began talking about
some all day confrence she had been
at, evidently a Black Uhuru
meeting.
 
I had trouble understanding what
exactly she was talking about for a
while.  For example, she kept
talking about "counter-insurgency",
which is evidentally their jargon
for FBI actions against black
rights organizations.      
                           
Toward the end, she and Kavi
were getting into a captailism
bashing mode that I didn't
have the energy to deal with.
Captialsim is evil because the        Appaling, because it's a        
wealth it generates is all            conception of wealth even more  
stolen, e.g. land of native           primitive than the Marx labor        
americans, labor of black             theory of economics. Marx 
slaves, and so on.                    thought of wealth as being	
                                      created soley by physcal        
                                      labor...  but these folks 
				      wealth isn't created 
                                      at all, just stolen.  No room    
                                      for the role of intelligence,   
                                      etc.                            
                                                                      
                    But on the other hand... if you   
                    believe in property rights, if you
                    believe in inheritence... then    
                    doesn't someone owe quite a bit of
                    restitution to the desendants of  
                    slaves, of native americans?      
                    Libertarian economic theory has no
                    good answer to this that I'm aware of. 
                                                       
Anyway: the major thing to be
learned from Raquel is that she
claims there is extensive FBI
covert activity against the Uhuru
movement, and that there's a
tendency to ignore unjust violence
against black groups.  This is
something to look out for...
			    
(Her example was some actions
against the Panthers that no one
remembers, versus the events at
Kent State... )

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