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For those guessing at the identity of the highlighted cracker at that cracker table of genocidal feasting … no, that was not Lurleen. That was Tammy.

Same amerikkkan sisterhood, different individual cracker.

Put simply, conversancy with the language of the oppressed is measured in terms of capacity to speak the truth and comprehend the truth when truth is spoken. Like everything else, “truth” is a political construct. How much truth gets spoken is determined politically. The greater the significance to the oppressed, the more truth expressed, and, in turn, the greater fluency demonstrated in speaking the language of the oppressed.

Bartolomé de Las Casas was a goddamn liar. In the terms just explained this means that Las Casas lied about things that were of critical significance to the oppressed, like what is the proper response to oppression (Las Casas said it was surrender) and who the oppressed should count as friends (Las Casas said it was the imperialist Spanish monarchy). By definition the liberal imperialists like Las Casas will always be goddamn liars – if they told enough of the truth to no longer deserve the label of goddamn liar, then they would have changed their class stance sufficiently so as to no longer be liberal imperialists. And Las Casas sure maintained his class stance as an oppressor and a goddamn liar.

So how do we make good on our title’s claim that Las Casas was in fact somewhat conversant with the language of the oppressed, since that necessitates speaking truth? Well finessing that little bit of analysis is actually a breeze if we remember that liberals can at times be of some use to the oppressed. Take Comrade John Brown’s war on amerikkkan slavery. To the extent that Comrade Brown received any outside financing it was mainly amerikkkan liberals who contributed to this glorious venture. Sure, they had to be tricked into it, or at least not fully informed. And sure, after Harper’s Ferry most of these liberals ran and hid and denounced Comrade Brown like the liberals they were. But for a time they had been of some use to the oppressed. Or, probably more importantly, take the liberals who were among those making up the Underground Railway, spiriting slaves to a degree of safety in the north. The existence of the Underground Railway made feasible Comrade Brown’s battle plan of guerilla war and building an independent state of Black resistance in the north. In both cases liberals were helpful to the oppressed. Of course Comrade Brown didn’t succeed in fomenting a Black rebellion against white slavery. But he did succeed in dividing the white enemies against themselves to the point where they killed off each other by the hundreds of thousands and gave the Black Nation a little breathing room. Liberals were helpful in the good outcome of that venture.

The oppressed can take from this that at certain times and for brief periods these genuine enemies can be of use, and such opportunities shouldn’t be missed. But don’t hold your breath – that’s the indispensable corollary. Case in point: Las Casas.

You don’t really have to do any analysis to see that, although fundamentally a lying oppressor, this liberal imperialist spoke enough of the truth to be of some possible use to the oppressed. Throughout this article we’ve featured Las Casas’s illustrations of the Spanish genocide of the Americas. In their stark depiction of the carnage, the drawings themselves speak an important truth and thus display some conversancy with the language of the oppressed. The same goes for Las Casas’ writings:

“They saw themselves each day perishing by the cruel and inhuman treatment of the Spaniards, crushed to the earth by the horses, cut in pieces by swords, eaten and torn by dogs, many buried alive and suffering all kinds of exquisite tortures …” (1)

You’d have to say telling this much of the truth about the European genocidal butchery in the Americas sounds every bit like the language of the oppressed. And this would seem to have potential benefit for the oppressed. Of course in Las Casas’ time no benefit to the oppressed was realized. Because Las Casas, being the goddamned liar he was, wrapped this truth in so many foul layers of oppressor ideology that the truth had no discernable impact.

But the Las Casas descriptions and images, sans the Las Casas lies, can indeed helpful. The oppressed can sure use the documentation. Of the real genesis story – the birth of the first world in the bloody carnage of the Third World. For the oppressed that’s handy to keep in mind.

Further, it’s helpful to the oppressed to have a reminder there were few Europeans like Las Casas who even took enough notice of their genocide of a continent to even remark much on it. Reminds the oppressed of what to expect from the oppressor nations when it comes to friends and enemies. That’s a help.

Also, the oppressed can always use another exposure of oppressor nation liberalism. Here we’re finding a use for Las Casas but it’s, like, 400 years later. So don’t hold your breath with the liberals.

And there’s one more way in which Las Casas is conversant enough with the language of the oppressed to be of help. But to explain that we’ll have to admit that to this point we haven’t given Las Casas his full due in terms of his truth-telling abilities. Because he did say, however belatedly and briefly, a bit more of the truth than we’ve reported so far; he spoke the language of the oppressed a little more fluently than we’ve reported so far. We didn’t really hide it. We actually began this article with a quote demonstrating it. We’ve just neglected commenting on it so far. Here’s the quote again:

“I believe that due to these godless, evil and ignoble acts perpetrated in such an unjust, barbarous and tyrannical manner, God will direct his ire and fury upon all Spain, as all Spain has taken its part, large or small, of the bloody wealth usurped at the price of much ruin and many massacres.”

This is actually a shitload of truth. It’s almost an indictment of imperialism. Oh, there’s some slippery ambiguity – there’s some room to think that if the “bloody wealth” had been “usurped” with less “ruin and massacres” everything would’ve been ok. And there’s no real hint that the proper response to oppression is to destroy the oppressors; so we don’t know exactly what ideology Las Casas is offering the oppressed here. But still, it’s not the usual Las Casas celebration of imperialism. Moreover, there’s that “all Spain” part, which presumably includes the monarchy that Las Casas is usually wont to exonerate from the genocide of the Americas. So we have to admit that here Las Casas is not much of a goddamned liar at all.

Now, this doesn’t contradict all our previous discussion of Las Casas nearly so much as it seems. Because Las Casas came to this take on things pretty late in life – the quote above is taken from his will. Rest assured that he lived the great bulk of his life as every bit the goddamned liar we’ve claimed. But he did become more truthful in his very last years. Those very last years were of course after he had lived his entire life watching genocide right under his nose, and then, finally, he stopped lying so much. It’s not the political stance generally associated with Las Casas because it’s not the politics that he preached or acted until he was almost dead.

Our interest, though, isn’t in the persyn but the politics. Especially the part about “… all Spain has taken its part, large or small, of the bloody wealth …”

This is extremely truthful as the needed indictment of the entire Spanish nation for being beneficiaries of the holocaust in the Americas which they supported. That’s very instructive generally for the oppressed today as a class analysis of the first world. It’s a big help.

And more particularly it’s a help to the oppressed in sizing up the reactionary first world so-called “left.”

Look, here we’ve got a guy, a liberal imperialist, who’s an outright jubilant celebrant of imperialism even when millions are being slaughtered right before his eyes and the loot is just pouring into Spain. Genocide historically unparalleled, right before his own eyes. A full long lifetime of watching this horror while still cheering on the Spanish monarchy before, finally, he admits the truth. But he does, essentially, admit it: “all of Spain” has a vested interest as enemy of the indigenous peoples of the Americas – “all of Spain” has an interest in the genocide of national oppression.

And that one pathetically late admission, by a proud and certified agent of imperialism, is light years of political advancement beyond today’s first world so-called “left,” who are constitutionally inadequate to the task of admitting this one simple and manifest fact about their own respective parasite nations. Who are constitutionally inadequate to the task of speaking the language of the oppressed by admitting that the truth that the first world is wholly enemy to the Third World. Whose lies fronting for the first world enemies of the oppressed can easily and fully match Las Casas in his glory days as a goddamn liar fronting for imperialism.

Previously on Shubel Morgan we’ve gone over in detail the profound extent to which the all-amerikkkan white nationalist so-called “left,” the standard bearer for the first world “left” generally, is inadequate to the task of speaking the language of the oppressed. Here we’ll just say that if the Las Casas lesson for the oppressed regarding liberals is to proceed with caution and don’t hold your breath, the Las Casas lesson for the oppressed regarding first world so-called “leftists” is don’t touch ‘em with a 10 foot pole. The oppressed would be better off with a 400 year old priest whose life was dedicated to cheering on the most massive genocide in history.

Sources:

Stannard, David E., American Holocaust, New York, 1992.

1. Stannard, p. 74.