Author: Franz J. T. Lee
Publication:
Date: October 7, 2004
URL: http://www.cmaq.net/en/node.php?id=18394
The oligarchic "opposition" and
its national mass media have no respect for anything: currently, Radio
Caracas TV (RCTV) is preparing commercials for its mind-controlled adherents
to celebrate "Día de la Raza" (Colombus Day) next Tuesday -- October
12, 2004.
This big lie, this hoax ... about
the 'discovery' of America by Christopher Columbus, still infects the minds
of millions in Latin America.
Although the name of this public
holiday has officially been changed to the 'Dia de la Resistencia Indigena'
by the Bolivarian Government, the mass media continues their mind control,
indoctrination and manipulation -- with a trans- historic European Mental
Holocaust launched against the peoples of the Americas and elsewhere.
Columbus was not among the first
to know that the earth was round ... the ancient Mediterranean peoples
already had this knowledge. He did not 'discover' America ... already centuries
before, the Africans had fleets that crossed the Atlantic and they had
a vivid, healthy, trans-cultural intercourse with the American indigenous
peoples. Their artefacts and traces of their ancient cultures can be found
all over Central America.
* Based on their maritime knowledge
and astronomic maps, Columbus organized his own infamous travels ... and
he knew exactly where he was sailing. In fact, in his own diary he confirmed
the African presence in America.
What the oligarchic Latin American
ruling classes are still celebrating these days is the beginning of the
Conquest ... of the pillage and genocide, that their forefathers had disseminated
in the 'New World.'
Columbus himself confirmed the capitalist
aims of his voyages: "to sum up the great profits of this voyage, I am
able to promise, for a trifling assistance from your Majesties, any quantity
of gold, drugs, cotton, mastic, aloe, and as many slaves for maritime service
as your Majesties may stand in need of."
In this way, he launched the "Bermuda
Triangle" of the World Market, the international division of labor, that
would eventually blood-suck the whole continent ... especially Central
and South America.
In reality, Governor Columbus had
discovered nothing ... on the contrary, he was the first to introduce a
European, feudalist, absolutist 'government' in the Western Hemisphere,
accompanied by brutal institutions of slavery.
Fray Bartolome de las Casas documented
the horrors perpetrated by him ... for example, gambling to see who had
the remarkable quality of perfectly cutting a slave in half with one stroke
of the sword. This is the kind of atrocity, that the Venezuelan opposition
is still celebrating till this day. In this way, Columbus' government was
the first to institute an active onslaught of brutality against the native
peoples.
Now, what are the masters of this
world really celebrating on Columbus Day ... in fact, on the first Labor
Day of the Americas?
* On a world scale, have over 5
billion obsolete manual labor slaves really something to be joyful about?
* Are we celebrating our discovery
by Europeans to be massacred thereafter?
* To be told that we are inferior
races?
* Are we celebrating the victories
of alienated labor and capital in the Americas?
At least, here in Venezuela, the
Bolivarians will be celebrating their victories over golpism, sabotage,
racism and fascism, generated by Big Brother and his local lackeys on a
global scale.
However, what are slave labor, wage
slavery and exploited labor forces all about? Are they really things to
celebrate?
Precisely these are the things that
Columbus brought to America.
For those who have studied capitalism
and imperialism in the Americas, it is no secret at all that the source
of metropolitan wealth, of power and of so-called progress is simply exploited
physical and/or intellectual human labor-force. It is also amply known
that it is labor-force, and not labor in itself, which is the generator
of capital, wealth, power and giga- Profits ... but at the same time, also
of the production of arms of mass destruction, of most horrible and abominable
misery and poverty.
Like elsewhere, ever since the days
of the 'Discovery' here in the Americas, all social problems revolve around
the phenomenon of labor ... exploited labor force.
Not to take this universal fact
into account in Venezuela, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean is equivalent
to not to understand that precisely by means of ruthless economic exploitation
of fundamentally physical labor forces, millions of pauperized and dehumanized
peoples ... also in the diaspora ... have already for centuries been heinously
plundered, murdered by ruthless, oligarchic elites.
And they will still be pillaged
mercilessly for many decades to come; that is, if we do not urgently change
this current world order. Many of our indigenous peoples are already rooted
out; in Africa, only a handful of BaThwa or San ... the so- called 'Bushmen'
... survived colonial and apartheid conquest.
In Europe, ever since the XII century
until today, the process of labor, production, transformed itself progressively
into industrial labor and eventually into corporate capital that dominates
and determines all current global events, including Bush' Economic World
War.
Today, as a result of the profound
crisis of corporate capitalism, the matter is even more grave, grave-like.
Consequently, the only way to annihilate the quintessence of current labor
production is to transcend its economic exploitation, political domination,
social discrimination (racism), fascist militarization and terrorist dehumanization
(alienation). This can only be accomplished by global resistance, by world
revolution, that transcends toward global emancipation, not of slaves,
but of humanity itself.
What happened on the first "Day
of the Race" in America ... what occurs on earth, in the universe, in the
Clouds of Magellan ... have nothing whatsoever to do with bourgeois ethics,
with religious norms, metaphysical formal-logic, fake human rights, racist
absolute evil, fascist infinite justice etc.
Excluding all our authentic, sacred,
indigenous beliefs and values, all of them are fantastic inventions of
ruling class, megalomaniac, kleptocratic man, that were forcefully implanted
into the very soil and soul of the Americas, to serve European colonial
and imperialist interests.
We have to nurture our own Science,
to cultivate our own Philosophy, and to make our own History.
* However, if we just look around,
we'll notice historic, emancipatory relations all around us. Seek and ye
shall find!
Concerning the current transition,
the transmutation towards the galactic unseen, beyond the Milky Way ...
at this very moment, knowingly or unknowingly, the Bolivarian Revolution,
objectively, subjectively and transjectively, finds itself in the ALBA,
in the Aurora of revolutionary emancipation.
Next Tuesday ... October 12 ...
thanks to Chavez' revolutionary government, indigenous emancipatory efforts
are really something worthwhile to wholeheartedly celebrate!
