A very large portion of The Black Re-Acitivist Revolutionary community believes that if you come up with an idea for a product, you shouldn’t be able to make money/profit off that product. They believe that you should produce the product and sell it at cost. If the company doesn’t do this then the employees are wage slaves, and you’re a de facto slave master!
By equating laborers to slaves, they hope to get an emotional rise out of their followers and provoke anger so that their reasoning will be clouded, and they never get a true understanding of what capitalism really is. Thus they can continue advocating against capitalism, while not building the very businesses and institutions needed to sustain the Black population in this country, if they were somehow able to overthrow capitalism one day.
Capitalism is referred to as the “White Supremacy Capitalist System”, and if you support it in any way you are called an integrationist, a sellout, a coon or an Uncle Tom, but they overlook the varying ways they support the system and give themselves a pass for what ever reason they see fit to give themselves a pass. Another thing that they say is that a Black owned corporation that wants to make a profit is nothing more than a white owned corporation with a Black face in charge!
The reality of the situation is, most of them have not tried in one bit to create this utopian socialist community that they speak about; yet 100’s of thousands of them claim they want to see it come into existence. So I postulate that they really don’t want to try to create it because they know that opening a business is hard as it is, but once the profit motive is taken out of it, it becomes harder.
This is undoubtedly one of the reasons why so many of them shun opening businesses themselves, they simply don’t want to put in the work that it takes to open businesses and create institutions if they can’t profit from them, but they wont admit that! If not, why else aren’t they doing it?
And no, its not because they don’t know how, they always seem to quote the authors that have put together socialist economic plans and have written about how to build communal neighborhoods, but very few have actually tried to reproduce them in the real world, not even the authors! The thing is, without the profit motive, 99.9% of people will not seek to take on the daunting task of creating a product or opening a business
So to put it short, the BRAR Understanding is molded by a flawed ideology that seeks to remove the profit motive from the economic viability of a community, which leads them to not advocate for their followers to create businesses and build institutions, less they’d otherwise be lumped in with the coons and sellouts that they call other Black business owners.
So they’re course of strategy has been to advocate for Black businesses owners, the ones that they call sellouts and coons, to open businesses in the community that they don’t seek to profit from, to make white owned corporations shun their capitalist profit driven ways, and to demean anyone with a difference of opinion on what the Black community needs to sustain itself in the future.
And as you can see neither of these things have moved us from wage slaves to I’m guessing, wage freedom. None of them has put as much as a scratch on the “White Supremacy Capitalist System”!
This is part of the mentality that drives the Black consumer to walk into a Black owned establishment and immediately feel like they should get a discount because they’re Black, as if the business owner owes you something for being born Black! Every Black business owner has had this happen to them at some point along there entrepreneurial journey.
The BRAR has successfully conditioned Black people to immediately discount each others offerings, while simultaneously holding full value for any other businesses products. They’ve been able to spread an ideology that states that corporations shouldn’t make profits in a way that makes it seem as if they are being the champions of the Black Race for standing up to the White Supremacy Capitalist System! And this is why so many Black people buy into it, it feels like the right thing, but its not! All it has done is decrease the value associated with Black Entrepreneurialism, and slowed down our progress.
If we do not learn how to embrace capitalism for what it is, and utilize it to move forward, many of us will never move beyond the point that we are at today, and those that don’t will fully believe that some system and the racist that control these systems are the reason why they never moved forward. Never coming to realize that the capitalist system needs new businesses and ideas in order to survive, and there are millions of people trying to get to this country, and millions of people in this country that are already trying to build that next idea into a business, so why not you!
If you don’t do it somebody else will, and you’ll just be a “wage slave” to them, so why not be on the other side of the coin, because based off the BRAR’s ideology and how they fight the “White Supremacy Capitalist System”, it will be around for at least another century! And guess what, we will be in the same position within it unless we learn how to use it to our advantage!