13502689, no problem and likewise... seeing your initial reply was an impetus...
Posted by Walk On, Thu Apr-25-24 08:03 PM
preface, I'm still learning and can only share from a perspective at this moment that can and will shift...
i view the "think tank" / "lobbying" and the capital that funds it separately... maybe more precisely... "differently" than what is status quo...
...our think tanks are the colleges, book clubs, 3rd spaces, message boards, revolutionary/leftist/pan-african/socialist organizations, 3rd places, brave & true artistry... are our* forms of think tank...
...i feel (still learning) our solutions must be dialectical to what the oppressors leverage...
such as the funding aspect...
...based on the a quick forbes search, Koch family has 2 of the top 25 richest people in the world... the few "wealthy" (morseo "rich") we have... are at the whim of their distributors... none of ours control the faucet... nor should it be a pursuit... b/c outside of it being a losing game... it's an exploitative game...
all that to say... since we wouldn't fund* entities like a think tank in that manner... thus our "think tanks" wouldn't be as such...
it's the status quo think tanks that seek ways for the system to adapt in order to maintain it's function... so our counter must be counter...
...i hope i conveyed my aim in the response...
essentially, it would be...
pursuit of think tanks leveraging capital we don't have shouldn't be our objective... the black capitalists are turning up being spokespeople for the system at best...
...radical political organized action has been the instrument of freedom globally...
...and frankly, borrowing from Dhoruba bin Wahad, there hasn't been a fight/right/battle we've won in the history of this american construct without bloodshed.
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