Obedience is Death

Imperial Violence, Sovereignty, and the Revolutionary Imperative

Morning Comrades.

The world has been taught a lie, that submission brings peace, that if nations just “cooperate” with Western powers, they will be spared violence. This lie is not benign; it is a death sentence. Compliance is not protection, it is an invitation to be dismembered. The history of modern imperialism is soaked in the blood of obedient nations. Iraq dismantled its arsenal, submitted to humiliating inspections, opened itself to predatory Western markets and was annihilated. Libya voluntarily gave up its nuclear ambitions and was reduced to a slave market. Syria collaborated with the West’s intelligence apparatus in the post-9/11 world and was rewarded with foreign-sponsored warlords burning its cities. Meanwhile, Pakistan as well as North Korea, having secretly built a nuclear weapons program in defiance of Western control, were granted leverage, influence, and a seat at every negotiation table that mattered.

This is not an accident. It is the inevitable result of imperial capitalism’s drive to dominate or destroy all that it cannot own. The West doesn’t fear the compliant, it consumes them. It doesn’t respect weakness, it feeds on it. And those who choose compliance over confrontation are choosing not life, not dignity, but consumption and death.

The truth is brutal: only organized resistance, militarily, economically, politically can break the cycle of imperialist predation. Appeals to human rights, democracy, or “international law” are theatre. Revolutionary defiance is the only path to survival, let alone liberation.

Marxism alone arms us with the tools to see this clearly. Let us dissect the machine of imperialism and expose its operations with precision, fury, and revolutionary clarity.

Capitalism’s Growth Requires Destruction: Why Obedient Nations Are Consumed

Beneath every so-called “humanitarian war” lies the grinding machinery of capitalist expansion. Marx’s axiom remains law: “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutalization at the opposite pole.”¹ The destruction of weaker nations is not collateral damage, it is the prerequisite for continued imperial growth.

This necessity is intensified in moments of capitalist crisis. As Western economies stagnate, their corporations turn outward to weaker states, needing new markets, new cheap labour forces, and new access to raw materials. Debt is the preferred first weapon; when that fails, bombs follow. John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hitman documents the decades-long, systematic application of this policy.² Entire nations are targeted for privatisation, oilfields sold off, water systems auctioned to multinationals, healthcare gutted, unions outlawed. Compliance simply means the destruction happens faster.