The Ideology of the Working Class
If the working class is to liberate itself, it needs to understand the ideology of the capitalists and embrace an ideology of its own – and that ideology is dialectical materialism.
Strikes and Seizing the Means of Production
The capitalist state — the police, military, courts, and associated legal scaffolding — allows individuals to privately own the resources that are used by the society to produce its needs. Under capitalism, production is social but ownership is private. This ownership of the means of production is the source of capitalist power. The strike is the first weapon at the disposal of the working class to break that power.
Capitalism and the Black Working Class
Why do we center the Black working class in our revolutionary struggle? It is because of the acute and historic exploitation of Black people in the US and because of their revolutionary history in struggling against this oppression.