Christ & Communism: My Black Power Gospel Politic

Jesus Black life aint matter, I know I talked to His Daddy

— Chance The Rapper

While many throughout history have perverted the image of Jesus Christ for their own sick gain, which is often at the expense of exploiting Black and Brown Indigenous People’s, let me stand on my belief clear: Jesus Christ was the first real communist, and His life is the foundation of my politic as a Pan-Africanist Abolitionist. Now I know what you’re thinking: Communism hates religion! Well, let’s re-examine what communism is and is not. Communism is a theoretical framework in which common people control the means of production, each person is afforded what they need and no one goes without. Communism is typically linked to Karl Marx but the theory, ideas, and practice of communism that Marx penned traced back to indigenous folx on the Continent (Africa) and on Turtle Island. These African and Indigenous societies lacked the hierarchies and were structure in a way for the common good. In communist theory, the people are tasked with building a world without private capital, and wealth is distributed as needed, where human beings are able to just be citizens of the world and walk the earth with their basic human needs met. We, the people, are not of this world and therefore do not own it and it is not ours…