Morning Comrades.
Monday, we finished the dispatch with the words: “Their fear is palatable and it is time to push” and this is what we are going to lean into, their fear, the superficial contradictions of and in capitalism, crisis theory and so much more. Why you ask, well, I can smell their fear and I’ve been working toward for decades and more importantly, as Assata Shakur said: “Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory”.
In theory, the ruling class across the west has never been more powerful. The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power. If current trends continue, the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years.1 With this increase of wealth, came and continues to come and ever increasing surveillance apparatus based on ever increasing repressive violence. As more and more people across the Western Empire are broken back to feudalistic servitude the more their power over life and death, increases.
For all intents and purposes, at least according to their warped sense of reality, they should feel exceptionally comfortable in their power, and a lot of them appear to feel so. The way they move and act without impunity is reminiscent of a pre-revolutionary France and yet, the opposite is true.
When shit-rags such as the WP make a note of the above something is afoot. Let’s get into it.
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