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UHURU

                                                   March 7, 1992

Last night I was hanging around at Nassim's
place, with Kavi and Walt.  A housemate of
there's I hadn't met before came home: a
young black woman named Rachel.  She and
Kavi immediately began talking about some
all day conference 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 evidently their jargon
for FBI actions against black
rights organizations.

Toward the end, she and Kavi
were getting into a capitalism
bashing mode that I didn't
have the energy to deal with.
Capitalism is evil because the        Appalling, 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 solely by physical
                                      labor...  but these folks
				      think 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 inheritance... then
                    doesn't someone owe quite a bit of
                    restitution to the descendants 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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