EDITOR—This video packs one of the most important and exhilarating discussions of the course of history in the US in the near future, as Dr Anthony Monteiro sorts out the multiplying trends and signs that indicate the US working class—at long last—may be detaching itself from the influence of duopolist oligarchy, and dumping the official narratives that have heretofore supported it. We should not fear the working class on the move, says Dr Monteiro, even if, in the absence of a clear and dependable leadership, it may (momentarily) stray into fascistic deviations. The current system is unsustainable. Its main vehicle, the Democrat Party, to control dissidents, is dead. The Trump phenomenon is unpredictable. No matter what he and his clique do, change of the real kind is coming, albeit not as envisaged by the ruling billionaires and most Americans. The massive, spontaneous positive reaction to Luigi Mangione’s killing of UHC’s CEO, Brian Thompson—an act of “propaganda by the deed”— shows the working class is not likely to return to the barn that easily. And while anarchism may lead nowhere in terms of actually assuring the masses’ ascent to power, it marks a turning point in the possible use of violence for political ends.
Anthony Monteiro
Anthony Monteiro
Dr. Anthony (Tony) Monteiro teaches in the African American Studies Department at Temple University. He is a scholar/activist. He writes in areas having to do with W.E.B. DuBois Studies, Marxism and race. He lives in Philadelphia where he is active in social, economic and political struggles. Temple University, located in the heart of the African-American working-class community of North Philadelphia, has continued its plan to corporatize public higher education at the expense of its neighbors. While it pushes deeper and deeper into the community with its student housing, sports facilities and hospitals, it also seeks to whitewash its curriculum. Home to the country’s first doctorate program in African-American Studies, Temple has since its founding been a university that has offered an excellent education to the working class. For the past ten years, Dr. Anthony Monteiro has mentored and taught hundreds of students at Temple who would become activists. The students have led Occupy Philadelphia, the fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, and more recently have been in the forefront of the struggle against gentrification and police brutality near Temple. Monteiro has regularly given Saturday classes on Black Liberation and Philosophy to hundreds of community members and students.
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ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH

