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This pamphlet was laid out and printed onto a computer. It fits onto a piece of paper, folded into thirds, and is printed on front and back.

Each heading begins on a new page. The cover's marked with the Carthian symbol and a communist star, and the title and other information below it.

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Who Is The Enemy?

by Simon Shea

Copyleft November 26th, 2007. All rights reversed. Print what you like.

WHAT DO WE OPPOSE?

We, as Carthians, oppose tyranny and unchecked power. We oppose systems that seize power from the many and concentrate it in the hands of a few. We oppose stagnation.

Too long has power been taken from those who work for it and granted freely to those who have "earned it" only by age or birth. Too long have the masses stood by for their own abuse and disenfranchising. The time has come in our society's history for the disenfranchised of the Kindred world to rise up, band together, and speak with one voice against the political and economic justices that have dominated our political discourse.

BUT...

Too many Carthians forget what we do and blindly oppose the Invictus instead.

The Invictus is merely a symptom of a broader problem. It is a symbol and an easy scapegoat, one that can be tackled without approaching the underlying injustices in our society. Attacking the Invictus is like attempting to cure a disease by attacking the symptoms: it makes one feel as though one's doing something nice and productive, but does nothing to deal with the conditions that brought it about. The true problem remains.

We do not stand with the Invictus, per se. But to reduce the problems in our society to binary good-bad covenantal distinctions will make no political progress. If the Invictus disappeared tomorrow night, arbitrary hierarchy, repression, subjugation, ageism, classism, and yes, even feudalism would still exist.

WE MUST TAKE A BROADER STANCE.

Abandon your simple prejudices. Some Invictus take a better stance toward rational government than Carthians do. Some Carthians are more repressive, autocratic, and reactionary than any hoary Invictus elder.

We must not fight battles for the sake of fighting battles. We must not sink into simplistic ideologies, and morasses of hate. We must consider each idea, each individual on their own merits--a courtesy we would gladly do any Carthian comrade.

The stance we must take is not anti-Invictus but more anti-oppression, -repression, and -injustice, whatever forms it comes in. But more importantly, we must be passionately and fervently pro-Carthian, standing up for the well-being of the proletariat masses and our brethren in the Movement.

The only enemies we have are ourselves: our reluctance to change, our authoritarian tendencies, our laziness, our imprudence, our timidity. How can we hope to change the broader political arena when we cannot even better our own Movement?

-- Simon Shea

Atlanta, GA

November 26, 2007