{"title":"Gradients","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"capitalism-is-the-prison","title":"Capitalism Is The Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCapitalism Is the Prison: All Prisons Must Be Abolished names the deep connection between the cages of the state and the economic system they protect. The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with nearly two million people behind bars. They are overwhelmingly poor, and disproportionately Black, Latino, and Indigenous. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime, and in that exception the old system found a new life. Convict leasing after Reconstruction, chain gangs, and the prison labor of today, paid pennies an hour, show how imprisonment has long served as a tool for controlling and exploiting labor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbolitionist thinkers and organizers have shown that prisons are not a response to crime so much as a response to the crises of capitalism. In Golden Gulag, Ruth Wilson Gilmore traced how California built dozens of new prisons as deindustrialization left surplus workers, land, and capital with nowhere to go, and as the state abandoned schools, hospitals, and jobs in working-class communities. Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, described the prison-industrial complex and asked in Are Prisons Obsolete? how society might be organized without cages. From George Jackson's letters to the work of Critical Resistance, the movement has insisted that prisons protect the property and power of the ruling class while warehousing the people capitalism has no use for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbolition is not only about tearing down walls. As Gilmore puts it, abolition is about presence, not absence: building the housing, health care, education, meaningful work, and community safety that make prisons unnecessary. Capitalism imprisons people both inside and outside the walls, through poverty, debt, and dispossession. This print calls for the abolition of all prisons as part of a larger struggle to free humanity from a system built on exploitation, and to create a society where everyone can live in dignity and freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41097491251371,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/files\/capitalismistheprison2PosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1794172754"},{"product_id":"dialectical-materialism","title":"Dialectical Materialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eDialectical materialism is the method of understanding the world developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and carried forward by revolutionaries from Lenin to Mao, Cabral, and Fred Hampton. It begins from a simple but radical idea: the material conditions of life, how people produce and reproduce their existence, shape human society, ideas, and consciousness, and not the other way around. Dialectics adds that nothing in the world is fixed. Everything is in motion and develops through contradiction, the struggle of opposing forces within it. Societies change not through the gradual unfolding of good ideas but through the conflict of classes and the contradictions within each system until something new is born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat method asks revolutionaries to see the world as it is, in all its complexity, rather than as we wish it to be. It is especially valuable for understanding the societies that have tried to build socialism. The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Cuba, and others undertook that task in poor, war-torn, and colonized countries, under constant siege, sanction, and military threat from the most powerful capitalist states. They achieved what capitalism had denied their peoples for generations: mass literacy, universal health care, land reform, the end of famine, and some of the greatest reductions of poverty in history. They also faced serious contradictions, setbacks, and mistakes, which socialists continue to study and debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dialectical materialist approach refuses two easy paths. One is the idealist demand for a perfect socialism that has never existed and never could under such conditions; the other is the Cold War caricature that erases the achievements of the working people who built these societies. It holds achievements and contradictions together, learns from both, and keeps moving forward. This print is a call to think and struggle dialectically: to embrace complexity, to hold dissonance without abandoning the cause, and to keep working toward a better world from the conditions we actually face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41817065291947,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/DM11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1696990441"},{"product_id":"fred-hampton-quote","title":"Fred Hampton QUOTE","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFred Hampton’s declaration that “we’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists” comes from his speech known as “It’s a Class Struggle, Goddamnit!” It captures the scientific heart of his revolutionary politics. For Hampton, revolution was not built on dreams, slogans, or wishful thinking but on a sober analysis of the material conditions of the people. Dialectical materialism, the method of Marx and Lenin, meant studying the world as it really is, its contradictions, its class forces, and the concrete needs of the poor, in order to change it. Dealing with reality whether we like it or not meant refusing illusions about the system and about the movement itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBorn in 1948 and raised in Maywood, outside Chicago, Hampton was a gifted organizer while still in his teens. At twenty he became chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Under his leadership the Chicago Panthers fed thousands of children through the Free Breakfast for Children program and opened a free medical clinic. He built the original Rainbow Coalition, uniting the Panthers with the Puerto Rican Young Lords and the poor white Young Patriots in a common class struggle. He taught that racism had to be fought with solidarity, that the enemy was capitalism, and that the people would win through organization and political education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe state understood the threat he posed. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police, working with the FBI and guided by an informant’s floor plan of his apartment, raided the home where Hampton slept and killed him and fellow Panther Mark Clark. Hampton was twenty-one. Years later, the families and survivors won a settlement from the city, county, and federal governments. His words remain a guide for revolutionaries: to base the struggle on reality, to unite the oppressed across every division, and to remember that the fight for liberation is, at its core, a class struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41817067684011,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/FHQUOTE11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1696980014"},{"product_id":"amilcar-cabral-quote","title":"Amilcar Cabral QUOTE","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e“Compromises with imperialism do not work” distills a lesson Amílcar Cabral learned in decades of struggle against Portuguese colonialism. Imperialism does not hand over power in good faith. Whenever a colonized people begins to organize, the colonizer offers concessions, reforms, and partial autonomy designed to divide the movement, buy off its leaders, and leave the system of exploitation intact. Cabral understood that accepting such offers meant surrendering the substance of liberation for its appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCabral’s own movement faced these maneuvers directly. In the late 1960s, as the PAIGC liberated more and more of Guinea-Bissau, the Portuguese governor, General António de Spínola, launched his “Better Guinea” campaign of schools, clinics, and reforms. It was meant to win the population away from the liberation movement, even as his forces bombed villages in the liberated zones. In 1970 Portugal secretly invaded neighboring Guinea in an attempt to overthrow its government and destroy the PAIGC’s leadership in Conakry. Cabral refused every half-measure and pressed the struggle forward until victory was within reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCabral also warned of a subtler danger, neocolonialism, in which a nation wins its flag and anthem while foreign capital and a compliant local elite continue to control its economy. In “The Weapon of Theory,” he argued that true independence means the liberation of the productive forces and the people’s control over their own history, not just a change of rulers. He was assassinated in 1973, months before Guinea-Bissau declared its independence. His words remain a warning to every movement that liberation cannot be negotiated away. It must be won and defended by the people themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41817071452331,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/ACQUOTE11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1696981223"},{"product_id":"assata-shakur-quote-communists","title":"Assata Shakur QUOTE","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAssata Shakur’s observation that we are taught from an early age to oppose communism without having the faintest idea what it is, and that only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is, comes from Assata: An Autobiography. In the book she traces her own awakening from a young woman who absorbed the anticommunist lessons of school, television, and the Cold War to a revolutionary who questioned them. She recalls how, as a student, she found herself defending American policies she barely understood. She came to realize that her ideas about the world, and about who her enemies were, had been handed to her by the very system that oppressed her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAnticommunism has been one of the most powerful weapons of the American ruling class. During the Red Scares, from the Palmer Raids to McCarthyism, it was used to purge unions, blacklist artists, and jail and deport organizers. Abroad, it justified wars, coups, and mass killings, from Korea and Vietnam to Guatemala, Indonesia, and Chile. At home, the FBI used the charge of communism to target the civil rights and Black liberation movements, branding Paul Robeson, Claudia Jones, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Black Panther Party as threats to national security. Teaching working people to fear communism without understanding it has been a way to keep them from imagining any alternative to capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAssata’s words are a call to think for ourselves and to look at who benefits when we are taught to fear and hate. The same lessons are repeated today against Cuba, against China, and against socialist movements everywhere. Refusing to accept an enemy chosen for us by those in power is the beginning of political consciousness, and of the solidarity that the oppressed of the world need in order to get free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41486273282219,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/files\/ASQUOTE11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp_322af242-a4a3-4326-9f09-ba5859ada8c5.jpg?v=1696980965"},{"product_id":"ella-baker-quote-imperialism-capitalism","title":"Ella Baker QUOTE","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElla Baker spoke these words at the Puerto Rico Solidarity Day rally at Madison Square Garden in 1974. Thousands gathered there in support of independence for Puerto Rico, a nation held as a US colony since 1898. In a few sentences she joined the two great themes of her life's work. The first was that freedom in the United States is impossible while capitalism and imperialism endure, whether at home or in the colonies abroad. The second was that liberation will not be handed down by leaders, politicians, or saviors. It must be won by ordinary people who recognize that the struggle belongs to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer presence at that rally was no accident. For Baker, the fight for Black freedom in the American South had always been connected to the struggles of colonized peoples elsewhere, and she worked with the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee and supported movements for self-determination across the world. She understood that the same system that segregated and exploited Black workers in Mississippi ruled Puerto Rico as a colony and waged wars across the Global South. Freedom for one could not be separated from freedom for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the center of her words is the conviction that guided all her organizing: the people themselves must make the struggle, every day and every year, until they win. Baker spent her life building organizations that nurtured local leadership, especially among women and young people, because she believed movements built around a single charismatic leader were fragile and that power must grow from below. Her call remains a challenge to each of us: freedom is not an event or a gift but a daily practice of struggle, sustained by organized people for as long as it takes to win.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41817074630827,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/EBQUTE11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1759501648"},{"product_id":"frantz-fanon-quote","title":"Frantz Fanon QUOTE","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis passage from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, from the chapter \"The Pitfalls of National Consciousness,\" exposes how the ruling classes of the capitalist world use the language of democracy. Fanon observed that a strong, secure bourgeoisie can afford to proclaim universal ideals of freedom, equality, and human rights, because its power is not truly threatened. Those ideals cost it little as long as the economic order beneath them remains in its hands. Democracy, in this sense, is a luxury of the powerful: something they allow when it serves them, not a principle they will defend at any cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFanon wrote from experience. The French Republic that celebrated liberty, equality, and fraternity at home carried out torture, massacre, and collective punishment in Algeria. The same was true across the colonial world: the European powers and the United States preached democracy while ruling colonies by force and backing dictatorships abroad. Aimé Césaire made the same point in Discourse on Colonialism when he argued that fascism was colonial violence brought home to Europe, the methods long used against colonized peoples turned against Europeans themselves. When the bourgeoisie feels its power slipping, through economic crisis, revolt in the colonies, or a rising working class at home, its humanist ideology falls away and the repression underneath is laid bare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFanon's insight remains a warning and a tool for analysis. Rights and freedoms granted by the ruling class can be withdrawn the moment they become inconvenient. We see this whenever protest is criminalized, emergency powers are declared, and governments that speak of human rights arm occupations and crush dissent. Real democracy cannot rest on the goodwill of the powerful. It must be built and defended by the organized people themselves, as part of the struggle to end the system that treats freedom as a privilege it can revoke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41817076367531,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/FFQUOTE11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1696980133"},{"product_id":"kwame-ture-quote","title":"Kwame Ture QUOTE","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eKwame Ture’s insistence that the power behind racism and sexism comes from capitalism, not from attitudes, cuts against one of the most common ways oppression is explained. It is often treated as a matter of personal prejudice, to be fixed through better feelings, diversity training, or changed hearts. For Ture, attitudes were not the root of the problem but its expression. Racism and sexism endure because they are built into the economic system and serve it, dividing working people, justifying exploitation, and keeping wealth and power in the hands of a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBorn in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1941 and raised in the Bronx, Stokely Carmichael joined the Freedom Rides as a student at Howard University. He was jailed in Mississippi’s Parchman prison, and he organized with SNCC across the Deep South. In Lowndes County, Alabama, he helped build the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, whose black panther symbol later inspired the Black Panther Party. In 1966, as chairman of SNCC, he raised the call for Black Power. His book Black Power, written with Charles Hamilton, introduced the concept of institutional racism and showed how racism operates through institutions and systems, not just individual acts of bigotry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTure’s politics grew steadily toward revolutionary Pan-Africanism and socialism. In 1969 he moved to Guinea, took the name Kwame Ture in honor of Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sékou Touré, and spent the rest of his life organizing for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, greeting comrades with the words “Ready for the revolution!” He died in 1998. His words remind us that changing attitudes is not enough. Ending racism and sexism means ending the system that profits from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41817077579947,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/KTQUOTE11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1696978103"},{"product_id":"edward-said-quote","title":"Edward Said QUOTE","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEdward Said wrote these words in 2003, in a new preface to the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his landmark book Orientalism. He wrote them as the United States invaded and occupied Iraq in the name of freedom and democracy. In a few sentences he captured the oldest trick of empire: every imperial power insists it is different from the others. Britain claimed to spread civilization, France its mission civilisatrice, and the United States democracy and human rights. Each claimed to use force only reluctantly. Behind every such claim stood the same reality of conquest, plunder, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBorn in Jerusalem in 1935, Said saw his family displaced in the Nakba of 1948, and he grew up in Cairo before studying and teaching in the United States. In Orientalism, published in 1978, he showed how centuries of European and American scholarship, literature, and art built an image of the “Orient” as backward, irrational, and in need of Western rule. That image was not innocent knowledge but a tool of domination that justified colonial conquest. In Culture and Imperialism and The Question of Palestine, he extended this analysis and became one of the most powerful voices for Palestinian liberation in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSaid reserved special scorn for the intellectuals who lend their talents to empire, the commentators, scholars, and experts who offer comforting words about benevolent intervention while cities burn. For Said, the duty of the intellectual was to speak truth to power and to refuse to let the language of civilization and democracy hide the destruction carried out in its name. He died in 2003, months after writing this passage. 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The line closes a poem of wordplay built on Chinese characters. In the original, taking certain strokes away from or adding them to one character turns it into another: the character for prisoner becomes the character for nation, worry becomes excellence, and the character for cage, stripped of its bamboo radical, becomes the character for dragon. The poem's argument is carried in the writing itself: suffering and captivity, endured with loyalty to the cause, are transformed into the strength that builds a nation. The cage becomes the dragon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dragon holds deep meaning for the Vietnamese. In the national origin story, the Vietnamese people descend from the union of the dragon lord Lạc Long Quân and the fairy Âu Cơ, and they call themselves the children of the dragon. In Ho's poem, the dragon stands for both the revolutionary steeled by prison and the Vietnamese nation itself, caged for eighty years under French colonialism and soon to break free. Ho wrote these lines as he was preparing to return to Vietnam to lead the Viet Minh, and within three years the nation he imagined declared its independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem also reflects Ho's theory of revolution. He understood national liberation as a long and patient struggle in which setbacks, imprisonment, and repression become schools that temper the people and their leaders. He believed in building the broadest possible unity of the nation against the colonizer, rooted in the peasantry and guided by a disciplined revolutionary party, and in drawing strength from the people's history and culture. His later conviction that nothing is more precious than independence and freedom grew from the same faith. 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When the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, they did more than overthrow a tsar. They declared the right of every nation to self-determination and called on the workers of the imperialist countries to unite with the colonized peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Lenin's theses on the national and colonial question, adopted by the Communist International in 1920, placed the liberation of the colonies at the center of world revolution. For millions who had been told their subjugation was natural and permanent, it was a sign that the old order could fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat message reached far beyond Russia. Ho Chi Minh wrote that reading Lenin's theses moved him to tears and showed him the road to Vietnam's liberation. Black radicals such as Claude McKay, Harry Haywood, and George Padmore traveled to Moscow, and some studied at schools established to train revolutionaries from the colonized world. Hughes himself journeyed to the Soviet Union in 1932, spending a year traveling as far as Soviet Central Asia. He wrote of a society that claimed to have abolished racial discrimination at a time when lynching and Jim Crow ruled the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Hughes's poem, Lenin's walk across frontiers and continents becomes the spread of an idea no border can stop: the idea that working and colonized people of every color can unite, take power, and build a new world together. The poem belongs to the revolutionary internationalism of the Black radical tradition. That tradition saw the struggle against racism in the United States as part of a worldwide struggle against capitalism and empire. This print honors that vision of solidarity across every line of race and nation, and the belief that the oppressed of the world share a common cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs far as I know, the poem is titled \"Lenin\" and was first published in the 1940s in the magazine New Masses, but I haven't checked that here. Confirm the title, date, and exact wording against a published collection of Hughes's poems before printing. 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It takes many forms: the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 and the wave of bans on abortion and reproductive care that followed, domestic violence and femicide, the unpaid and underpaid labor of caregiving that keeps the economy running, and the poverty wages of the domestic workers, farmworkers, and garment workers who are disproportionately women. For working women, Black women, Indigenous women, immigrant women, and trans women, these harms multiply, a reality Claudia Jones described as triple oppression and the Combahee River Collective named as interlocking systems of domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe war on women has also been waged by the state itself. Under US colonial rule, roughly a third of Puerto Rican women of childbearing age had been sterilized by the mid-1960s through a program called simply \"La Operación.\" In the 1970s, federal programs and the Indian Health Service sterilized thousands of Black, Latina, and Native women without meaningful consent, and as recently as the 2000s, women in California prisons were sterilized under pressure. Around the world, imperialist wars and occupations turn women's bodies into battlefields, from sexual violence used as a weapon of war to the killing of mothers and daughters under bombardment and siege.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWomen have always fought back. Their resistance runs from the textile strikers of Petrograd and the women guerrillas of Vietnam, Algeria, and Guinea-Bissau to the Black women who founded the reproductive justice movement, the Argentine women who launched Ni Una Menos against femicide, and the domestic workers organizing across the world. 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Born in 1926 in eastern Cuba, he led the 1953 assault on the Moncada barracks against the Batista dictatorship. At his trial he declared that history would absolve him. After prison and exile, he returned on the Granma in 1956 and led the guerrilla war in the Sierra Maestra that triumphed on January 1, 1959. Under his leadership the revolution nationalized land and industry, carried out a national literacy campaign, and built free health care and education for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWashington answered with war in every form. In 1961 it sponsored the invasion at Playa Girón, the Bay of Pigs, which the Cuban people defeated in less than three days. It followed with sabotage, terrorism, and biological attacks, along with assassination plots against Castro himself that Cuban intelligence counted in the hundreds, and an economic blockade that continues today despite the near-unanimous condemnation of the UN General Assembly year after year. Castro saw that the danger only grew as the empire’s power grew. After the fall of the Soviet Union, a United States unchecked by any rival launched wars from Iraq and Yugoslavia to Afghanistan and Libya. In his later years he warned repeatedly of the threat of nuclear war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAgainst that logic of war, revolutionary Cuba practiced internationalism. Cuban troops helped defeat apartheid South Africa’s armies in Angola, and Cuban doctors have served in dozens of countries across the Global South. Fidel Castro died in 2016. 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For Freire, dialogue was not polite conversation but the practice through which people come to understand their world together and act to transform it. A school, a workplace, a government, or even a movement that silences people, treats them as objects to be managed, and hands them answers from above denies their humanity. Such a structure cannot be reformed from within its own logic; it must be transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFreire developed these ideas while teaching peasants and workers to read in Brazil’s impoverished Northeast. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, written in exile after the US-backed coup of 1964, he described the “banking” model of education, in which teachers deposit knowledge into passive students, as a tool of domination. Against it he proposed problem-posing education, in which teacher and students learn from one another by examining the real conditions of their lives. Real dialogue, he argued, requires love for the world and for people, humility, faith in people’s capacity to create, hope, and critical thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFreire applied the same principle to revolutionary movements. He warned that leaders who refuse dialogue with the people, who decide for them instead of with them, reproduce the very relations of domination they claim to fight. Liberation cannot be delivered to the oppressed; it must be built with them through collective study, reflection, and action. This print is a call to build organizations, schools, and societies where every voice is heard, and to change any structure that stands in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42192454942891,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/111x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp_b2675783-1ce6-4fc6-b09e-f546acb8b26d.jpg?v=1696976778"},{"product_id":"grace-lee-boggs-quote","title":"Grace Lee Boggs QUOTE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"History is not the past, it is the stories we tell about the past\" comes from Grace Lee Boggs's The Next American Revolution, written near the end of her century of struggle. For Boggs, history was never a fixed record handed down from above. It is a field of struggle, shaped by who tells the story and for what purpose. She argued that how we tell our stories, whether triumphantly or self-critically, rigidly or dialectically, shapes whether we advance or cut short our own growth as human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuling classes have always understood the power of the past. Textbooks that erase slavery, colonization, and resistance, and national myths of progress and exceptionalism, are part of how a system wins the consent of the people it exploits, what Antonio Gramsci called hegemony. The movements of the oppressed have answered by telling their own stories. They do it through people's history, freedom schools, oral histories, archives kept by the communities themselves, and art that keeps alive the names and struggles that power would rather forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoggs also warned against telling our own history as a simple tale of heroes and villains. She insisted that movements study their failures as well as their victories in order to grow. Telling the story of the past is a revolutionary act, because the way we understand where we come from shapes what we believe is possible now. This print is an invitation to reclaim history as a living tool and to tell the stories that help us build the world we need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42209567146155,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/111x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp_0eb8a71a-cc68-402d-afa2-ce46a2598bc4.jpg?v=1696979369"},{"product_id":"end-u-s-imperialism","title":"End U.S. Imperialism","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe United States maintains the largest network of foreign military bases in human history: roughly 750 installations in about 80 countries and territories, more than every other nation combined. Most of that network was built after the Second World War, as Washington took the place of the old European empires and needed a permanent military presence to secure trade routes, oil supplies, and governments friendly to US capital. Bases became the hardware of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are launch points for invasions, coups, and bombing campaigns, listening posts for surveillance, and a standing threat to any people who try to nationalize their resources or choose a path outside Washington’s orbit. Their cost falls hardest on the people who live beside them. To build the base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, Britain expelled the entire Chagossian population in the 1960s and 1970s. In Okinawa, generations of residents have fought land seizures, military crimes, and contamination of their soil and water. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Puerto Rico, the people of Vieques lived for decades with Navy bombing practice on their island until mass civil disobedience forced the Navy out in 2003. Guantánamo Bay, held against the will of the Cuban government since 1903, became a symbol of indefinite detention and torture. From Guam and Hawaiʻi to the Marshall Islands, Indigenous lands have been taken for runways, ranges, and weapons testing. Across Africa, the expansion of AFRICOM has brought drone bases and US troops to a continent that fought long wars for its independence. Yet wherever bases are built, resistance follows, from the Filipino movement that forced the closure of Subic Bay and Clark to the ongoing struggles of Okinawans, Chamorros, and Puerto Ricans. 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In it hooks turned her attention to the subject she believed Americans were most determined to avoid. The United States likes to imagine itself a classless society, where anyone can rise through hard work and poverty is a personal failure. hooks argued that this myth hides the reality of a society divided by deep and growing inequality, and that the refusal to talk about class keeps working people from seeing their common condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1952, hooks grew up in a working-class Black family in the segregated South. She took her pen name from her great-grandmother and wrote it in lowercase to place attention on her ideas rather than herself. Her journey from Kentucky to Stanford and the halls of elite universities made her acutely aware of how class shaped every space she entered, and of how race, gender, and class were bound together. In books such as Ain't I a Woman, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, and Teaching to Transgress, she named the system she called imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, and she drew on Paulo Freire to imagine education as a practice of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Where We Stand, hooks examined how consumer culture and the worship of wealth corrupt solidarity, including within Black communities, and how the privileged turn away from the suffering of the poor. She called for honest dialogue about class, for living simply and sharing resources, and for building solidarity across the lines that divide working people. She returned to Kentucky to teach at Berea College and died there in 2021. 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Marxists of his time often believed that capitalism would develop step by step until socialism arrived almost on its own, and that revolutionaries could only wait for history to do its work. Lenin rejected that passivity. He argued that the crises of capitalism create openings, but only an organized, conscious working class, led by a disciplined revolutionary party, can seize them. In What Is to Be Done? he laid out the case for such a party, and in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism he showed why the chain of world capitalism could break at its weakest link.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Simbirsk in 1870, Lenin was radicalized as a young man after the tsarist state executed his older brother. He spent years in prison, Siberian exile, and emigration, building the Bolshevik Party and debating how the working class could take power. When the tsar fell in February 1917, most socialists were prepared to support the new provisional government. Returning to Russia that April, Lenin called for all power to the soviets, the councils of workers and soldiers, and demanded peace, land, and bread. That fall, while others hesitated, he insisted that the moment had come and that delay would be fatal. In October the Bolsheviks led the insurrection that brought the soviets to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLenin's revolutionary government took Russia out of the First World War, gave land to the peasants, and declared the right of colonized nations to self-determination, inspiring liberation movements across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He died in 1924. His lesson remains essential for revolutionaries today: crises alone do not bring liberation. History moves forward when organized people recognize their moment and act decisively to make it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42748877832363,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/files\/LeninQuote11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1696977848"}],"url":"https:\/\/anotherworldpress.org\/collections\/chromatics.oembed","provider":"Another World Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}