George Jackson (activist) Quotes (19 quotes)

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Famous George Jackson (activist) Quotes

“An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die. The holder of so-called high public office is always merely an extension of the hated ruling corporate class.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 72

“Revolutionary change means the seizure of all that is held by the 1 percent, and the transference of these holdings into the hands of the remaining 99 percent. If the 1 percent are simply replaced by another 1 percent, revolutionary change has not taken place.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 9

“Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 50

“Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.”

George Jackson (activist)

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=miuCcUGkuYMC&q=%22Patience+has+its+limits+Take+it+too+far+and+it's+cowardice%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage to his parents from San Quentin Prison, 2 May 1965, in Soledad Brother (1970), p. 61

“Prestige stands between the masses and a revolt against their class enemy. The aura of magic, glamour, luster and splendid permanence covers the fascists like a protective layer of fat. The slimy scales of majesty shield and conceal the dilapidation of the old bourgeois reign of terror.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 47

“The fascist arrangement tolerates the existence of no valid revolutionary activity. It has programmed into its very nature a massive, complex and automatic defense mechanism for all our old methods for raising the consciousness of a potentially revolutionary class of people. The essence of a U. S. A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 138

George Jackson (activist) Quotes about people

“This is a huge nation dominated by the most reactionary and violent ruling class in the history of the world, where the majority of the people just simply cannot understand that they are existing on the misery and discomfort of the world.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 72

“There are no good aspects of monopoly capital, so no reservations need be recognized in its destruction. Monopoly capital is the enemy. It crushes the life force of all of the people. It must be completely destroyed, as quickly as possible, utterly, totally, ruthlessly, relentlessly destroyed.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 109

“Waiting for power to move to its inevitable collapse is suicidal for all concerned. Blacks and other Third World peoples have the very imminent prospect of genocidal tactics to contend with, and we can now all see that the modern industrial state, motivated by exclusive groups of capitalist masters, cannot regulate itself to make possible an inclusive production and distribution of goods, or production without a massive waste of resources and destruction of all that stands about. The debate ends, the action begins. It is not question of the necessity of violence, but of how to organize it.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 51

George Jackson (activist) Quotes

“Our aim is to stop the life cycle of the enemy culture and replace it with our own revolutionary culture. This can be done only by creating perfect disorder within the cycle of the enemy culture's life process and leaving a power vacuum to be filled by our building revolutionary culture.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 59

“Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis. It is the result of a revolutionary thrust that was weak and miscarried — a consciousness that was compromised.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 137

“Hierarchy has had six thousand years of trial. It will never succeed for long in any form. … My opinion is that we are at the historical climax (the flash point) of the totalitarian period.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 130

“When any election is held it will fortify rather than destroy the credibility of the power brokers. When we participate in this election to win, instead of disrupt, we're lending to its credibility.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 26

“How can the establishment protect an electrical supply line and the thousands of transformers, etc.? Effective positioning of the guards is militarily impossible. … We must call strikes to enforce our demands on capital. To enforce the strike we must stop the plant's power source. Standing in the gateway with a placard and a pamphlet alone will not dull a worker's short-term interest in wage slavery.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 83

“The mass psycho-social national cohesiveness has trembled on the brink of disruption and disintegration repeatedly over the last fifty years, threatening to fly apart from its own concentric inner dynamics. But at each crisis it was allowed to reform itself; with each reform, revolution became more remote.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 118

“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 (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 120

“After the fascists have succeeded in crushing the vanguard elements and the threat they pose is removed, the ruling class goes on about the business of making profits as usual. The significance of the “new fascist arrangement" lies in the fact that this business-as-usual is accompanied by concessions to the degenerate segment of the working class, with the aim of creating a buffer zone between the ruling class and the still potentially revolutionary segments of the lower classes.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 119

“Intellectuals still argue whether Amerika is a fascist country. This concern is typical of the Amerikan left’s flight from reality. … This is actually a manifestation of the authoritarian process seeping into its own psyche.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 120

“From its inception, the fascist arrangement has attempted to create the illusion of a mass society in which the traditional capitalist ruling class would continue to play its leading role.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 121

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