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THE ROUTE HOME
This poem, originally published earlier this year in Brooklyn Poets, where it was awarded poem of the week January 15th-21st, 2024. As LOM spends the next several months examining the way forward for Black struggle from the perspectives of activists, organizers, educators and more, Nyrie Benton illustrates the way it is and has been.
A Place We Call Home: the Story of Malcolm X Academy’s Opening Day
Educator Dejay Bilal recounts the opening day of the Malcolm X Academy for Afrikan Education and the role it has played in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, CA.
“pushing the democratic party left?”
(or Black Liberation in Class Struggle)
“Liberation movements ultimately have to be powered by the people, not something that comes from liberal democratic organizations. The most revolutionary liberation forces have their roots in socialism…”
THE LEFT OUT DISCUSSION OF CLASS
In order to understand what class struggle means, first, we need to understand what class is. Generally speaking, economic classes are split into three groups, upper-class, middle-class and the poor but in reality there are only two classes. The bourgeoisie and the working-class, or the haves and have-nots. Income does not determine someone’s class status, although it may influence their political orientation. Class is determined by an individual’s relationship with the means of production “you either own it or you work for it.”