Imperialistic exploitation

A quote from Ulrike Meinhof.

She gives her name to the Baader Meinhof group and co-founded the Red Army Faction.

Ulrike Meinhof was born in Oldenburg, Germany in 1934 and died in prison in Stuttgart in May 1976. It was said that she died by suicide but in recent years there have been suspicions as to how she died.

Her parents moved to Jena in 1936, where her father was the director of the city museum. He died of cancer in 1940 and Ulrike and her mother retured to Oldenburg in West Germany in 1946 so as to avoid living in Soviet-controlled Jena in the GDR.

Over 4,000 people attened her funeral in West Berlin in May 1976. She was 41 when she died.

Does this have something to say to us and our predicament today?

“But that is who we are, that is where we come from. We are the offspring of metropolitan annihilation and destruction, of the war of all against all, of the conflict of each individual with every other individual, of a system governed by fear, of the compulsion to produce, of the profit of one to the detriment of others, of the division of people into men and women, young and old, sick and healthy, foreigners and Germans, and of the struggle for prestige. 

"Where do we come from? From isolation in individual row-houses, from the suburban concrete cities, from prison cells, from the asylums and special units, from media brainwashing, from consumerism, from corporal punishment, from the ideology of nonviolence, from depression, from illness, from degradation, from humiliation, from the debasement of human beings, from all the people exploited by imperialism.”