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your own thing" is what the revolution is all about. Cultural Imperialism on the part of the reactionaries is all too well known by everyone under the tentacled grasp of the
bellicose and perfidious U.S. Empire.
However, we must now contend with
a new kind of cultural imperial ism,
that of the cultural provocateurs and
intellectual elitists of the white middle class "left''. (I might add that
I am young, white, and middle class
myself.) While claiming to be revolutionary, these people are proletarian
in formt but bourgeois in essence;
revolutionary in form, but reactionary
in essence. They fail to draw the necessary distinction between tokenism and
true representation, and between re-
Activities.
such as pot-smoking,
pools
with .jeUo,
Jesus worship, metaphysics., the occult, and other such
forms of. escapism and self-indulgence, are their idea of "cultural
revolution." Oblivious to the oppression and exploitation of the people
in America and the world, these white
bourgeois pseudo-revolutionaries eschew revolutionary violence as an
eventually necessary means of attaining our liberation (unfortunate though
it may be)~ and insist that ''doing
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