8/3/2019 The Desire for Leadership
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The Class War Battlefield
The Desire for Leadership and Structure
You know whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of
slavery in Egypt; he had a favorite, favorite
formula for doing that. What was that? He kept the slaves
fighting among themselves.Martin Luther King
Jr.,Ive been to the Mountaintop (I See the Promised Land)
When they found out that this black steam roller was going to
come down on the capital. . .they called in these
national Negro Leaders that you respect and told them, Call it
off. . .And old Tom said, Boss I cant stop it
cause I didnt start it. . . .They said Im not even in it, much
less at the head of it. They said These Negrosare doing things on
their own. Theyre running ahead of us. And that ole shrewd fox, he
said, Well if you all
arent in it, then Ill put you in it. Ill put you at the head of
it. Ill endorse it, Ill welcome it. Ill help it, Ill join
it.Malcolm X, The House Negro and Field Negro
The media is clamoring for it; the Institutional Left is crying
fowl about it; Corporate Conservatism uses it as a
weapon to vaccinate their consumers against its practitioners
and many more people, mainly the participants,
ignore its non existence. What Im talking about of course is the
supposedly leaderless structure and lack of acohesive message of
the Occupy Wall Street Encampment and their mirror sites sprouting
up across this county
(excusing the world for this moment). After hearing so much fuss
about these two single points, I began to
wonder why it was so important. After excusing the press for its
retrogressive fascination with the hippiequalities of OWS; I
noticed there was a deliberate echoing of the same questions, now
always in words but
definitely in context. This reminded me of the near lock-step
media march that occurred during the last greatsocial uprising, the
1960s and 1970s. During this time period, institutional forces
utilized the media to debase,
disgrace and dismantle agitator groups using carefully
choreographed strategic moves meant to expose their
leaders and discredit their group in the public eyes. Through my
knowledge of this time period and my
subsequent reading of Robert Greenes, The 48 Laws of Power; I
came to see the demand for a leadership
structure as a tactical move, employed by the courtier class,
aimed at achieving two ends.
The first is the institutionalization of the stress being vented
by the occupation; this move would deflate its
populous energy and draw the people within the higher
echelonsthe organizers, into the political process by
promising gradual structural reform. Simultaneously an attempt
would be made to corrupt their morality by
exposing them to the high life, promising them prestigious
positions within the same institutions they were
revolting against. If they agreedand because the consequences of
not agreeing include jail time, imageassassination, actual
assassination, exile and a host of other problems, most people do
agree their loyalty to
these institutions would be tested immediately because theyd be
called upon to corral their followers into the
stock pens known as D.C conventional wisdom which, if I may take
a moment to speak out of context, states
{about said system} that the general public has electoral power
granted to it by the corporations who provide
the media spots and campaign dollars to the politicians, any
problem with the system denotes a severe sickness
of Marxism, Socialism, Anarchism or Unpatriotic Fever. Sound
familiar? But I digress. . .This first process
would serve the purpose of isolating the Sheppards from
theirflocks; setting both up for the second end, a two
hit death blow; hit onethe fomenting of turbulence within the
upper ranks by planting false information or
over blown statements in the corporate media or creating
jealousy within the group by offering more lucrative
positions to some and not to others; hit twothe complete
co-option of the methods used to release the stress;
turning them towards the reinstatement of the norm, lulling the
public to sleep with piece meal structuralchanges wrapped in loop
hole ravaged policies meant to leave the current structure
unchanged.
This plan was used successfully against the Black Panther Party,
Dr. Kings SCLC, the Anti-War Movement,
Environmental Groups, Conscious Music Stars and various other
agitator groups. Readers who are interested in
understanding these tactics should read the Church Committee
Reportand the 42nd
Lawof Robert GreenesBook, its title hints at my analysis; Strike
the Sheppard and the Sheep will Scatter.
Too close I want to summarize the above information into two
quick points. [1] A leadership structure gives the
enemies of such movements pressure points to manipulate, exploit
and ultimately deconstruct its participants.
