The Decadent Worker

…I have describe it (the Iroquois Constitution) in some detail, following (Lewis H.) Morgan, because here we have the opportunity of studying the organization of society which still has no state. The state presupposes a special public power separated from the entire body of the permanent members of the given society… (p. 112)

And a wonderful constitution it is, this gentile constitution, in all its childlike simplicity: No soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles, kings, viceroys, prefects or judges, no prisons, no lawsuits — and everything takes its orderly course. All quarrels and disputes are settled by the whole of the community affected, by the gens or the tribe, or by the gentes among themselves; only as an extreme and exceptional measure is blood revenge threatened — and our capital punishment is nothing but blood revenge in a civilized form, were many more matters to be settled in common than today — the household is maintained by a number of families in common and is communistic; the land belongs to the tribe, only the small gardens are allotted provisionally to the households — yet there is no need for a trace of our complicated administrative apparatus with all its ramifications. The decisions are taken by those concerned, and in most cases everything has been already settled by the custom of centuries. There cannot be any poor or needy — the communistic household and the gens know their responsibilities towards the old, the sick and those disabled in war. All are equal and free — the women included. There is no place yet for slaves, nor, as a rule, for the subjugat- of other tribes. When about the year 1651 the Iroquois had conquered the Eries and the ‘Neutral Nation,’ they offered to accept them into the confederacy on equal terms; it was only after the defeated tribes had refused that they were driven from their territory. And what men and women such a society breeds is proved by the admiration inspired in all white people who have come into contact with unspoiled Indians, by the personal dignity, uprightness, strength of character, and courage of these barbarians.

We have seen examples of this courage quite recently in Africa. The Zulus a few years ago and the Nubians a few months ago — both of them tribes in which gentle institutions have not yet died out — did what no European army can do. Armed only with lances and spears, without firearms, under a hail of bullets from the breech-loaders of the English infantry — acknowledged the best in the world at fighting in close order — they advanced right up to the bayonets and more than once threw the English into disorder and even put them to flight…

That is what people and human society looked like before the division into classes… It is by the vilest means — theft, violence, fraud, treason — that the old classless gentile society is undermined and overthrown. And the new society itself during all the 2,500 years of its existence has never been anything else but the development of the small minority at the expense of the great exploited and oppressed majority; today it is so more than ever before. (p. 112-6) — Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1978)

LANGUAGE IS THEFT/Indian giver: A term coined by early white settlers to designate anyone who gives you something — such as the Western Hemisphee — and then wants it back afterwards. — Ho Chi Zen

ASSASSINATION BY LIST (ABL)

So who do you assassinate by list? Not the obvious targets the politicians narcs and pigs. They are servants who obey orders. So the targets are not the front men but the higher-ups behind the scene. You announce that you have a list of these secret controllers and that they will be killed one after the other. The list is guesswork of course but the real higher-ups will soon expose themselves. So for a start we assassinate a Swiss banker, never wrong on that. Just get a list of high Swiss bankers and pull his name out of a hat. This is Assassination By List (ABL). The rich an powerful cower behind guards and electric fences.

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