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We, The People's Council, reject the authority of our so-called elected representatives. Throughout the history of state power, governments have used violence and the threat of violence to protect and grow its own power and control over The People. It wields this power most notably in service of the protection of wealth, typically to the detriment of The People, The Land, and other creatures. Increasingly the protection of wealth means doing the bidding of corporations. While it is true that corporations comprise people, corporations are not people. They operate as entities devoid of empathy, compassion, morality, or the capacity for human relationships. They have but one objective: Profit.
While this has always been largely the case with Capital and Government, the situation has become dramatically worse over the past half century. No longer do corporations simply externalize costs and exploit The People's labor in pursuit of profit. Now these inhuman monstrosities have but one legally mandated aim: increasing stock price. They need not create anything of value. They need not even generate profit. They need only to cause the price of shares to go up.
In order to pursue whatever strategy will yield the best near term stock performance, it is essential to maintain both political control and worker impotence. This is accomplished with ease through manipulation of media, legalized bribery of politicians, a constant flood of distractions and addictions, undermining of education, use of state violence, and the fomenting of divisions and culture wars among the working class.
This strategy is not fragile, but its durability is entirely predicated on the unlikelihood of The People to awaken to the reality of their circumstance. But we are awakening. The cracks in the foundation of The Prison are expanding. There is no need for guillotines or resistance fighters in the coming Revolution, because the power has always been only in the hands of The People. The corporate power is the power of the state. The power of the state is the power of arms in the hands of its agents…who are, simply, The People, who have only to awaken to the lies of their weak masters to cease aiming their rifles at their fellow People, and the Revolution will be accomplished.
We, The People, do not need states with monopolies on violence. Maybe we can have some leaders, maybe some richer folks, maybe some celebrities, but we may not need laws backed by force. Some taboos might be worthwhile though. We have a lot of useless and many harmful taboos, but there is one taboo that we lack: a taboo against mercenarism. There will always be some degree of power and resource inequity within any free human society, but the existence of any kind of market for violence will inevitably lead to extreme imbalances. The Sellsword Taboo must be a paramount feature of Revolutionary social order.
Long Live The People. Arise.
- - -A Living People's Manifesto- First Edition: July 22, 2024 by The Truth & Propaganda Ministry of the Appalachian People's Council
appalachianpeoples@proton.me
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