Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, born on this day in 1947, was a decorated military veteran and a high-ranking associate of the Black Panther Party in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at UCLA under the GI Bill and began working with the Black Panther Party. Pratt was also a target of the FBI's COINTEL program, which sought to subvert black power movements.
In 1972, Pratt was wrongfully convicted for murder and served 27 years in prison, eight of which were in solitary confinement. Pratt was freed in 1997 when his conviction was vacated due to the prosecution concealing wiretaps that proved he was not at the scene of the murder.
"You can't look back twenty-seven years and say it was a lost. I’m still living. I run about five miles every morning, and I can still bench press 300 pounds ten times. I can give you ten reps. Also I hope I'm a little more intelligent and I'm not crazy. It's a hell of a gain that I survived."
- Geronimo Pratt
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The only argument you need against "communism no work because people lazy" is real life. Point to Wikipedia, the FOSS community, Skyrim mods, insulin, polio vaccine, whatever. People like producing things and feeling accomplished, they're going to do that shit regardless of the profit motive. Likewise, capitalism is a historically specific system of production a few hundred years old at most. The world got along just fine before the profit motive in terms of "great works" and plumbing alike, and it'll do so afterwards as well.
It really seems like when people say "people are lazy" it's really "capitalism has existed forever and even prehistoric relations were in some way capitalism"
Yeah, that's how the capitalist brainworms really burrow their way inside. As soon as capitalism ceases to be something historical and instead becomes natural, capitalist realism takes hold and you can't imagine any alternative. The bourgeoisie do everything in their power to make us forget, whitewashing the past with a coat of capital.