(ThyBlackMan.com) Karl Marx once said through the eyes of a white narrative that “capitalism is a progressive stage”.
I severely disagree with Marx’s notion that “capitalism is a progressive stage” because parasitic capitalism requires the oppression and enslavement of African people to even function.
There’s absolutely NOTHING good nor progressive about parasitic capitalism because it will NEVER be progressive to African people like myself.
Parasitic capitalism parasitically sucks the blood, labor, wealth, and resources from colonized African workers. Most African workers in Africa and particularly here in America live on an artificially low wage of $2 a day, that’s also a form of parasitic capitalism because mostly parasitic capitalist white male bosses fatten their own pockets at the expense of the African workers.
But nowadays, African people and other groups of oppressed people around the world and especially here in The Belly Of The Beast called America are now fighting back against this parasitic capitalist system that has stolen the resources and wealth from Africans and other groups of oppressed people for over 600 years.
The first African commodity led to the creation of the global economy that’s known today as colonial parasitic capitalism.
Under the system of colonial parasitic capitalism, mostly parasitic white male capitalists produce nothing but control, exploit, and steal the means of production, labor, wealth, and resources from African people as well as other groups of colonized people.
Parasitic capitalism also requires an extreme amount of violence in order to maintain this system of oppressing and exploiting Africans and other groups of oppressed people like The U.S. and British Imperialist Militaries illegally invading and terrorizing other counties like Korea, Vietnam, South America, Iraq, Afghanistan, and especially Africa for the purpose of extracting the wealth and resources from those countries and to fatten up the pockets of mostly parasitic white male capitalists.
Gentrification is also a major part of parasitic capitalism because African communities historically and today have been razed for the interests of parasitic white capitalist economic development projects like sports stadiums, highways, parks at the expense of the poor working class African communities across the country.
The U.S. colonial prisons are also another major part of parasitic capitalism because it brings in billions of dollars in jobs and resources for the sole purpose of only fueling the parasitic white capitalist economy at the expense of the poor working class African community.
Another part of parasitic capitalism that a lot of people don’t talk about in our community is The NCAA known to me as The National Capitalists Against Athletes. The reason why I call them The National Capitalists Against Athletes is because they parasitically extract over a billion dollars a year in labor and wealth from the young African men who come from deplorable conditions imposed on them by The System via gentrification, police containment, police violence, poisoned water, horizontal violence, etc.
In the NCAA system, the parasitic capitalist business model is very similar to the prison system and corporate America which are all forms of modern day slavery in which cheap/free African labor pays big dividends for mostly greedy, money hungry parasitic white male capitalists from coaches, commentators, administrators, and parasitic corporate sponsors.
An example of this parasitic capitalist exploitation of young African male athletes by The National Capitalists Against Athletes is when the recent college football playoff made over half a billion dollars that were generated by mostly young African male athletes that were risking paralysis and brain damage for their Massa on the football field, but the money went mostly to parasitic white male coaches, administrators, commentators, and to predominantly white sports like tennis, baseball, softball, and golf.
The NCAA’s notoriously hypocritical when they always say that “they can’t properly compensate African male athletes for their labor”, but recently they just awarded a $75 million dollar contract to a parasitic white capitalist coach named Jimbo Fisher at a colonial university known as Texas A&M and this of course is coming at the expense of young African male athletes who generate the most money each year for The NCAA particularly through the two biggest revenue generating sports in football and basketball.
According to the parasitic white capitalist president of The NCAA in Mark Emmert, who also enriches himself at the expense of the unpaid and exploited labor of young African male athletes, he said in an interview that 90% percent of the revenue that’s generated in The NCAA comes from their biggest exploitative parasitic capitalist extravaganza, March Madness. And most of the guys that are generating the money for March Madness every year are young African males who’s labor is not only constantly exploited by The NCAA, but these young brothers are also chewed up for a few years and spit right back out in the hood with no adequate education and like a rapper once said back in the day, “They’ll find a new n***a next year”.
Whenever you go into any African community across this country, you see nothing but economic deprivation, despair, homelessness, very little resources, jobs, and opportunities as well as the extreme poverty that comes as a direct result of parasitic capitalism and the parasitic relationship that we have with this corrupt, toxic, and very parasitic social system.
Parasitic capitalism breeds and not only creates situations where African people are desperate, but it also causes us to engage in committing horizontal violent acts towards one another where it’s robbing, stealing, fighting, shooting, or killing one another.
The Conclusion – I am a firm supporter of socialism because I firmly believe that African workers should be able to control not only the means of production, but also their own labor and resources. African people must reject parasitic capitalism and embrace socialism.
Staff Writer; Kwame Shakir (aka Joe D.)