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      BlackPantherism

      / Black Panther Party's Marxism / Huey P. Newton's Marxism / (there are a few other people you could equally point out as putting together 'uniquely Black Panther' theories, add them later. these are for completeness, I honestly just say "BlackPantherism" instead of these) -> United States. one of the most effective North American Marxisms, but largely gets erased today. many people will claim it gets forgotten due to racism but I think there are actually other reasons it gets forgotten, one of them being that a great number of Black people have become anarchists and don't want to remember their own Marxism. (and a few of them have become Gramscians or critical theorists. not that that isn't respectable at least 1% of the time with people like W.E.B. DuBois. it improves when you throw minority demographics into it. I think it's White people doing critical theory that are more likely to make me tired.)
4166. 4166BlackPantherism gets the violet swatch simply due to the notion it correctly applies Materialism at small scales and "did a number of things right". the violet swatch doesn't mean it's literally the first known MDem, or that it's literally the first application of meta-Marxism. what it does mean is that whenever I write about what I think an MDem would be like I periodically reinvent something that sounds like what the Black Panthers did without being fully aware it happened; meta-Marxism "predicts" after the fact that they did things right. so I think it only makes sense to use swatches as if "molecular BlackPantherism" was the first named Marxism for meta-Marxism to be aligned with. that particular MDem is still totally hypothetical but it at least is closer to having been real than any other one.
4166. 4166it's worth noting that one big reason "Black people don't want to remember their own Marxism" is... the end of the series of events where all the Black Panther leadership was caught. [1] from the outside, it would appear that people in the Black subpopulation observed that their subpopulation had not been powerful enough to outlast everything around it, determined that creating a "decentralized resistance" was somehow more viable, and then went around informing White people that this also made sense for White people when the conditions weren't really the same and if the Black Panthers proved that liberating the United States starting at a self-contained Black Marxism wouldn't succeed, then they also logically proved that feeding Black people and White people the same strategies or expecting them to be part of the same movement was the wrong thing to do. I really wish anarchists would stop treating "revolution" as an abstract quality and just shamelessly appropriating stuff from Marxism when they very explicitly don't believe in it. it makes me want to sneer every time they say "revolution" because of the way it doesn't refer to a material process and doesn't actually mean anything.
4166. 4166BlackPantherism -> this has its own swatch now. it's mauve, so it will still be vaguely violet, but it's also dark like the symbols of the party. on the HTML stylesheet I made it about as dark as black coffee. on the terminal swatches I made it about eggplant color so it would show up. because 'eggplant' seems vaguely insulting in the age of the internet I prefer to call it the nsafu/safou swatch, still keeping the analogy to 'strawberry' and 'orange'. you can probably get something unflattering out of the shape of that or the way it's full of avocado-like oily mush but, well, at least those aren't popular metaphors as of right now that would occur to everyone.

Construction

618. weapons of mass construction (Assata Shakur) / "They do not understand the first thing about revolution. It's about creating" (Kwame Ture) -> yes. I've always said this too.
     these two people were affiliated with the Black Panther Party or the period leading up to it. I am not sure whether the Black Panthers will be under the violet swatch or not, but I'll grant this motif a violet swatch because they've got it
618. weapons of mass construction / molecular revolution (concept of revolution as specifically the set of processes of constructing a new functioning republic or socially-linked society of people rather than primarily the process of breaking up the old one, which instead is claimed to be the final step of the process and almost an accidental artifact) -> one thing I've noticed about Molecular Marxisms is that when I attempt to describe the transition from nobody knowing anything to movements to workers' state every so often I keep accidentally reinventing things the Black Panthers said, finding out they said it or put it into practice somewhat better than I'd been able to imagine, and going "whoa. they really had this figured out." yeah. Black Panther allies are some pretty "meta-Marxism endorsed" sources. I absolutely wouldn't mind if you took something they said to correct some weird error I said. if you only have time to read a book by them instead of comb through mine, you might be fine.
     (note: "MX" does not stand for "Malcom X", if you were suddenly thinking that. as cool as turning Malcom X into an abbreviation would admittedly be; I wouldn't have been above doing that if the violet swatch had initially been for BlackPantherism specifically. but it wasn't, BlackPantherism was put into the violet swatch after the fact. MX is just an abbreviation for "meta-Marxism", with an implied shortening of "MMX" into "MX".)
618. weapons of mass construction / means of world-making (Ismatu Gwendolyn) [2] -> this essay is. weirdly caught in that trap of thinking revolution is a special thing that happens strictly before new societies are built, even as it's trying to say otherwise.
618. transition of survival [3] -> important core idea of BlackPantherism / mauve Marxisms.
618. Without imagination, what do we take up arms for? [4]
     note: this is the "hating reading" author. [5] I knew I remembered the mention of Sierra Leone! aw man. that's wonderful.

Madness / frenetic break from Cartesian reason

618. Sanity is not how you stay standing / Sanity is not how you survive a field of dead bodies [6] -> honestly. mauve or violet. I have different ways of conceptualizing this same thing in violet Marxism, that are frankly a little less cool, but are there.
618. To negotiate reasonability is to negotiate with terrorists / We live in a world created by terrorists. Why would I allow them to tell me what is possible? [7] -> gosh people from Africa can be so absolutely metal at times. I enjoy that kind of theory
     this reference to narratives and breaking narratives is... easy to co-opt. it could definitely sometimes turn strawberry. but given all the other stuff here I'll say that within this article it was mauve

Ideology codes

• BP / BlackPantherism
• BP / Black Panther Party
• BP / ismatu gwendolyn