George Jackson (activist): Power

George Jackson (activist) was activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family. Explore interesting quotes on power.
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“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

Life , Perfection

“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

“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

People

“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

People , World , Motivation , Question