The revolution has failed. Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.
George Jackson, born on this day in 1941, was the revolutionary author of “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson” and co-founder of the Marxist-Leninist Black Guerilla Family.
In 1970, Jackson was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of prison guard John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. The same year, he published “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame.
Jackson was killed during an attempted prison escape on August 21st, 1971. Quoting communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, Jackson freed twenty-six prisoners and took hostages at gunpoint. Jackson and five other men were killed.
Fay Stender, George Jackson’s former lawyer, was shot and paralyzed for her alleged betrayal of Jackson by Black Guerilla Family member Edward Glenn Brooks. Brooks entered her home, tied up her family, and forced Stender to say “I, Fay Stender, admit I betrayed George Jackson and the prison movement when they needed me most” before shooting her several times. Left paralyzed and in chronic pain, Stender testified against Brooks and committed suicide a year later.
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
George Jackson
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I recently got curious after seeing an ad (I got caught
) for a brand of instant ramen I hadn’t heard of. The ad itself wasn’t really all that convincing, but the novelty of trying something new got me anyway.
Go to the supermarket and find it and its at least double the price of most instant ramen. I hesitated for a bit, but then my curiosity got the best of me and I bought a couple of different flavors. One was a spicy garlic flavor and the other was a creamy chicken.
First pang of disappointment came when I opened the first package and there was only a powdered flavor packet. I saw the “add your own toppings” on the package, but I figured it’d have something since you could do that with most instant ramen anyway. Also the noodles themselves were this weird dull brown color. Cook it for around the recommended amount of time and honestly it doesn’t look all that great. Broth wasn’t too bad, and had a little kick, but nothing that screams that its worth double the price of other instant ramen. And the noodles… ugh. Terrible. They had like a grainy and chewy texture. But not chewy in a good way. The best way to describe them is rubber band-like, which is what I ended up seeing from other reviews because I just had to look online to see if this was really supposed to be like that.
Anyway, sifting through the reviews I see that the company was founded by a couple of tech bros and suddenly it all made sense. Especially since the ad was trying way too hard to drive home the “start up entirely built out of our home kitchen” story and how much they invested in R&D (???) to develop these instant ramen to be healthy alternatives to all the big brands.
In conclusion I’ve come away very impressed with the tech bros’ capacity to completely ruin anything they touch in an attempt to “reinvent” it.
The less of the text on the instant ramen packet is in english the better