Didn’t the black panthers (and the IRA) have harsh policies towards drugs? The “cia crack thing” is exactly the same strategy as the British opium trade

“And there, always there and ever willing, for a price of course, to meet the addict's demand for dope is the cop-man, the dealer, purveyor of poison, distributor of death, merciless, murdering scum, of the planet, vile capitalists, salesmen of death on the installment plan, the dope pusher, the plague-man.”

“We are the only ones capable of eradicating the plague from our communities. It will not be an easy task. It will require tremendous effort. It will have to be a revolutionary program, a people's program. The Black Panther Party is presently in the process of formulating a program to combat the plague. It will be controlled totally by the people. We, the people, must stamp out the plague, and we will. Dope is a form of genocide in which the victim pays to be killed.”

I could be wrong but this seems pretty clear

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1970/dope.htm

[–] MidnightPocket@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You're both right.

Drug-dealing is a crime against the working class and the Chinese socialists along with the Black Panthers were so negatively impacted that they had no tolerance for it in their revolutionary praxis.

That doesn't mean that a petty dealer deserves the same ire as US military members. If that were the case, every convenience store clerk is also an agent of reaction and death. Maybe you were specifically talking about opium? Even still, the other poster was also being bombastic rather than writing a thesis.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I’m a little confused by this response, I never said a drug dealer deserves the same ire as the foot soldiers of imperialism, just that they can serve the same purpose to the imperialists in the domestic sphere. Not sure what the convience store clerk example has to do with this and I wasn’t specifically talking about opium, crack is an upper but served the same purpose as heroin or opium

[–] MidnightPocket@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

convience store clerk

alcohol is pretty destructive

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You don’t think there’s a distinction between alcohol’s penetration into all American communities and the targeted attacks against the black community by planted narcotics?

Also could you address the rest of my comment? Thx

[–] MidnightPocket@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't know what the current disagreement is, especially given that my comment centrally agreed with both you and the other commenter. I just pointed out that you were talking past each other in an unproductive manner.

You don’t think there’s a distinction between alcohol’s penetration into all American communities and the targeted attacks against the black community by planted narcotics?

As you claim, it is just a difference of scope. The Quote which constitutes most of your comment, at least without further context, doesn't seem to be stressing the discriminatory drug sales but rather the pernicious nature of drug sales.