Featured Poem

The white man killed my father
Because my father was proud
The white man raped my mother
Because my mother was beautiful
The white man wore out my brother in the hot sun of the roads
Because my brother was strong
Then the white man turned to me
His hands red with blood
Spat black his contempt into my face
And in his master's voice:
"Hey boy, a pastis, a towel, some water."

Author: David Diop
Title: Le Temps du martyre

Terrorism

Groups like Eta, Al Qaeda, FARC, Tamil Tigers, and others around the world are labeled "terrorist groups" by the European Union, the United States, and other countries and governmental organizations. But what qualifies as terrorism? NATO operations in Afghanistan, for example, continue to kill countless civilians, yet is NATO labeled a terrorist organization? China continues its long history of human rights abuses, yet has any nation had the courage to label it a "rogue state" or accused it of terrorism? The answer to both questions is no, and one has to beg the question as to why.

Truth, History, & Hate

As to the Laws of the New Love Movement, we refuse to hate anyone, proclaim hate for anyone, or assume violence upon anyone. But this does not mean we ignore the truth, are afraid to tell the truth, or have short term memory loss when it comes to human history.

On Communism

Communism is first and foremost an economic theory. Because of the powerful systems of propaganda in place in the United States, many people do not, and cannot accept this fact. Communism does not dictate political relationships, it does not claim a political system, and it does not seek to create and control government. Communism is solely a theory of capital, an idea for the best system of economics for a nation.

In the United States, we see quite clearly that the government does not mirror the economic system (formally) and vice-versa. If you think of the concepts of Representative Government, voting, Democracy, and Republicanism, it is hard to see this visible in the economic system of the country. Are corporations democratic? Is a C.E.O. elected? Do workers get to vote for their supervisors? The answer to all three of this questions is frankly, no. That is because the system of economics in America, Capitalism, is not the same, and is in fact an entirely different subject from the governmental one, Democracy.

It should be clear, then, that just as in the United States, where an economic system exists apart from the governmental one, the same is true of Communism. Democracy and Communism are not opposed to one another. They can co-exist side by side, one being the effective political process, and one being the economic one.

[A further post on the intertwining of government, politics, and economy will be posted in the future]

Insignificance

No people are insignificant.
Not because of:
religion
country
place
region
color
creed
race
hair
eyes
politic
strength
weakness
music
or art
or history
or lack.

All people are within love for all live within the warmth of this mother we call earth.

Names?

What's in a name? Why is the concept of New Love called "new love"?
The concept of New Love is exactly that, to re-define, or re-conceptualize, love, in that sense then, the new definition/conceptualization is a new idea of love, distinct from our former and what has already been asserted, erroneous ideas of love. That love is dead, and if we are ever to try to achieve anything within our conditions as human beings living on this Earth, we need a New Love. But I'd like to be wary with this word "New" as I don't presuppose that this New Love has not existed before, perhaps the mission of the New Love Movement is to re-discover that which has been lost, to re-capture the True Love which our world and existence is in terrible need of...