Afternoon Comrades and greetings from Rome. I am technically still on holiday but today is the dreaded travel day and since I have found myself with a few hours to kill, a few words, on this given day.
I had blocked out that October 7, an infamous anniversary that has changed our perception of the world similar to events such as 9/11 and WW2, happened to reoccur on this trip and hadn’t given any thought about writing about it. Throughout this morning many conflicting thoughts kept popping up, in regards to the purpose of writing about this day, what happened and what it means. In the end, writing, especially in this format and with such a large and engaging audience, serves several purposes, but the most prominent one is the same that rests at the core of our politics: the communion and union of purposely alienated people.
On that note, I don’t have any need to engage in any of the usual talking points, the majority of which come from the enemy in any case and any engagement thereof serves nothing but a reaction, but let’s share a few thoughts in the hope of making the 30K plus people on here feel less, alone, I presume is the right word. It is a dangerous reality that the ruling classes across their empire have created in which so many of us clearly see the world for what it is - irrespective of the juvenile shit talking of the terminally online pseudo-political trolls - and yet a world, in which the majority of us has their sanity challenged by the hegemonic structures that determine so much in our life.
Materially, the Palestinian organized resistance fought back against their fascist, genocidal oppressors in the shape of the state of Isreal on October 7. Not for the first time since the oppression began some 75 years ago and most definitely not the last time. Isreal’s reaction also was nothing new, they have continuously engaged in land theft, massacres, genocides and apartheid like ethnic cleansing since the British and US governments, followed closely by the majority of the NATO world, specifically Germany, have given them the green light, money and weapons to do so.
What has transpired since is new only in its scale, public awareness and the destruction of the western narrative thereof. Yes, that is significant, extremely so. The suffering forced upon Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and all its people therein are, almost beyond words. Not a day goes by in which the world is presented with heinous crimes against humanity committed by an even more heinous organized ideology dressed up as a state. When I refer to crimes against humanity I am not arguing in any bourgeois legal construct, meaningless as they are, but a definite moral one.
To be sure, these have happened almost continuously since the inception of Israel by England’s ruling class but be it for the scale or the tools of modern communication, something has changed, irrevocably. For clarities sake, I very much disagree with “scale” point - there is no fundamental difference between killing 1 person or a 1000, murder is murder. The difference is our capability of dealing with it. When its one person committing murder we have process in place, as wrong as the mostly are, to commit to justice, when it is an entire country, well, seemingly, we are a little overwhelmed - when, realistically, it should be the other way around, but that’s a different topic all together.
What infuriates me most, is that it has taken a year long televised genocide, for so many of us to get involved in dismantling this fascist outpost of our western democracies. Yes, of course, I am thankful that it is no longer a fringe, “left-wing” position to oppose Zionism, but at what price? Frankly, my failure as much as much of the committed opposition to Zionism’s failure is that the last year happened in the first place. Granted, that is taking the oppositions, which most definitely includes the Western Ruling Class, fanatical commitment to capitalism not into account and yes, it always takes two to tango, but it is an important note to consider, and consider deeply. As important as the growing, organized resistance to what Zionism represents is, we have to care deeply about the people whose lives were taken for us to reach this point. It is their liberation, first, not ours, and they are the ones paying the ultimate price, for, a moral correction on our part.
Yes, the last year has cracked open the seemingly impenetrable fortress of Capitalism’s Hegemony, on the battlefield, on the battlefield of information, on the battlefield of morality and ideology. So many more of us can see through their piss poor attempts are division, diversion, oppression and violence for the maintenance of power across the world and for that we owe the Palestinian resistance and its people an unspeakable debt. Their bravery and sacrifice have helped push open the flood gates, whose waters will eventually bring down this sickening reality created by them via capitalism. No one believes a word they say anymore, more and more people are acutely aware of the murderous reality called foreign policies across the West and more and more people are understanding that us all together can put an end to the genocides committed in our names, with the profits our of labour, for the enrichment of a violently dangerous minority.
Again, for that we owe a debt. This is what I would like to bring to the table in terms of this day.
We serve the revolution.
Yours, warmly,
V.