Morning Comrades. I have to revisit this topic today and only this topic today, not because I am any calmer/clearer than I was Sunday, on the contrary, I’ve been struggling to find the calm to put my anger into words all day. Apologies in advance if I swear too much today or the usual clarity is amiss but as the days pass the louder I want to scream.
In an effort to re-focus this frustration into actual aid, I am going to be re-releasing this classic from the Flux of Pink Indians on Friday to raise money for Doctors Without Borders, specifically the teams still working in Afghanistan providing Trauma Care in several areas of the country. The supporting comrades of this newsletter will be getting an early bird email on Thursday with a link and their discount code and the general release taking place Friday at the usual time and place. You can become a supporting comrade at the end of this email.
Coming back to Afghanistan. I am not going to be sharing the horrific images of people clinging to airplanes and falling to their deaths. I am not going to be talking about the brain rot and manipulation coming from the so called centrist political area, let alone the insanity of outlets such as Fox, who flat out blamed the fall of Afghanistan on Gender Studies - yes, I am dead serious- or the outrageous takes from the pundits across the US and Europe that will utilize any and all catastrophe paid for by their bosses to further push the narrative towards White Proto-Christian Fascist New World Order.
Fuck all that and Fuck All of Them. We have their names and addresses. They will have their place after the Revolution as we say here.
I am also not here to wax poetical about how “we” all saw this tragedy unfold 20 years ago, I am not going to be sharing pictures of my comrades protesting this war crime before it even started. Fuck all that self-glorifying holier than thou internet-lefty bullshit. We knew and we didn’t manage to stop this atrocity, when we marched to Westminster with well over a million people and that ghoulish War Criminal Tony Blair still, for “religious reasons” as he so calmly proclaimed ( as Bush did ), invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq. An important note to remember that no matter how big your protest is, without an actionable plan to stop these murderous vampires, nothing changes. That is however a story for another day.
No, I want to take this opportunity to hammer down the reality that what we are witnessing now has always been intended by our governments that are in pay of the Industrial War Machine - Capitalism in its purest form - and any and all outrage should be harnessed to once and for all ending these crimes by holding all of these bastards accountable. Fuck any and all faux-moral outrage in regards to what is unfolding in Afghanistan - this has been going on not just for the last 40 years, but for nearly 200 years, globally - crimes against humanity committed by the colonial powers that are Britain and France, the US, Germany and the rest of the fuckers. If you need a history lesson in brutality I urge you to click on the below picture and follow through the blood we British have on our hands, in the case of Afghanistan, alone.
Let these final days of the European-Based Christian Capitalist Imperialism radicalize you to the realization that entirety of the moral framework of our societies, the so-called democracies, the so-called freedoms and the so-called civility are NOTHING but lies to hide the ugly truth that our Lords have used to hide their most brutal, racist, violent plunder of the world for their wealth. The entirety of our welfare, and let’s hear from the Marxist here: is still only the tiniest fraction we have bled for these past 250 years and resemble the scraps the Capitalists had to concede, the entirety of our fraudulent smoke screen we employ to obscure the fact that OUR governments utilize our labour and life to exploit, murder and destroy the world for their benefit. I never remembered once being asked if I am OK with any this and once questioned you immediately get gaslight into apparently not understanding “how the world works, dreamer” - I am done. I longer accept these crimes in my name, and by paying taxes and voting I legitimize all of this. No more.
Let these horrendous atrocities radicalize you to understand that every politician, especially here in Europe, especially here, that is now raging and raving about how we simply will not take in any refugees, is nothing more than them utilizing the power we gave them to protect the financial bottom lines of their masters. It’s an ugly, old, violent European Racism, perfected in the US Empire, that veils the greed the early Christians apparently failed to beat out of us. Let the knowledge radicalize you that the German army brought home 20`000 liters of booze last week without helping any local partners escape a sure death sentence “because zeee papers were not in order”- or just yesterday sending a fuck off huge military transporter back to Kabul seating several hundred but only picking up SEVEN people, because, again “zeee papers” - a wonderful example of the cold cruel German variant of Imperial Racism. Small examples of the brutality we unleashed post 9/11 across much of the world - let all that radicalize you in stopping this absolute inhumane insanity by all means necessary. I have written often about organizing and this is the most satisfying and effective way for you and me to becoming the cog that stops our respective war machines across the West. Find existing local Socialist / Communist / Anarchist orgs and say hi, I want to help. If there aren’t any in your neighborhood, start your own. It’s time. Let these days, this rage, this feeling of helplessness radicalize you to end this. We can. We have done this in the past and we will again in the future. I will will leave you with the powerful and encouraging words from one of my favourite thinkers / writers, Ursula Kroeber Le Guin: