Morning Comrades.
Today’s dispatch is a little different as sadly, these times, once again call for it. This one is for everyone, the 2nd patreon-only dispatch of this week is written and I will, time permitting, send that one out over the weekend. Today also very much off the cuff as I have just come home from my shift and needed to blast this one out to everyone as quickly as I can.
Many of us have been screaming out warning signs about what modern day fascism in our oh-so-holy-freedom-fries democracies will look like, for decades to be honest, but a few connecting dots crystallized themselves in my head last night as I was once again confronted with legions of robo-cops chasing youths across my neighbourhood for simply taking to the streets and telling the ruling classes to fuck off.
What’s frustrating from a writers point of view is that any and all change is incremental and history never happens in a linear fashion- and whilst these three connecting dots I am about to dissect for you may appear relatively unconnected and irrelevant on a grand scale, they aren’t and I do feel the need to send out another massive warning shot to you, especially, those of you reading this that are organized in any and all anti-fascist/capitalist/racist orgs- the time is here to go dark, genuinely assess your op-sec and stay the fuck off the internet.
Two new facts and one semi-older one: The sentencing of an anti-fascist here in Germany yesterday, the escalating shit show over in Atlanta, USA in regards to the Cop City and the increasing thought-crime insanity back in the UK, specifically the Public Order Bill. I have linked background stories to all three of them above, I am assuming that the majority of you know what I am talking about, if not, read these.
“What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.”
Rosa Luxemburg
I have long since argued that any level of legality, the idea of rights and protections even against an overarching state here in the West, is nothing but an illusion. An illusion created by the property owning classes to give an appearance of moral righteousness that argues their case, that argues for the reality that we are being ruled by people whose interests are directly opposed to ours. Anyone that has ever taken up against the interest of this class in whatever shape or form will at some point in their activities have been confronted with the reality that “law and order” only applies to people that follow these rules, no matter how immoral they are. Up until 9/11, across the West, dissent against the interests of the ruling classes was accepted to a point, but all masks went off after that fateful date. We have witnessed the greatest erosion of privacy, “rights” and “freedoms” since then. Granted this process has also not been linear but the end goal has always been clear:
Growth and the continuous increase of profits will be protected by ANY MEANS POSSIBLE.
Make no mistake, any culture war and actual war distraction is irrelevant in their subjective story, ultimately, it all boils down to profit and the security of said profit. The state, our elected officials, the entire concept that they have sold us called democracy is nothing but a smoke screen to hide this ugly fact, that we, who create this profit, exist solely to produce and consume for them. Any dissent up until a few years ago was met with the intensity of the the state’s power, from defamation through their press ( oh some rich famous person did x - nah, they didn’t ) to disappearance and torture ( Guantanamo Bay is still open for business ) but at this point, with ever increasing pressures to maintain perpetual growth, the capital protecting operation, aka, our democracy, is deciding that all pretence of social liberal democracies are pointless and with that we are at the point where we not only need to draw a proverbial line in the sand, but acknowledge the fact that the infamous day x is here and we need to act accordingly.
When the German government decides to jail a young person and labelling them a terrorist, without any real substantial evidence for 5 years for allegedly using potential deadly force against known violent neo-nazis all masks are off.
When, in the US, three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund are arrested by Atlanta Police officers and stand accused of money laundering and charity fraud, when in reality they were collecting money for Bail Funds, all Masks are off.
When, in the UK, the secret police can arrest and disappear you for merely planning a protest, all masks off.
Obviously, I could name thousands of additional examples right across every damn country in the so called free West but these three are closest to my own personal home.
We absolutely have to face the fact that the ruling class in deeply entrenced in an intersectional class war against all of us, especially those of us who dare speak up against them. I specifically use the term intersectional because they are fighting a multi-dimensional war on all fronts. Economically, Culturally and Politically. They know they are losing and shit is only going to get real, real soon. If anything it is my duty to say so, I know enough of you to not only care, but know what you are potentially affiliated with. There are a tons of resources in my archive on how to get though this and more on sites like Crimethinc - get into them. To be absolutely clear,
Capitalist) democracy is a brilliant scheme for the ruling class because it gives off the appearance of freedom via constitutional documents, legal systems, voting, and a variety of supposed civil/human rights. However, beneath the facade is an extremely strict power dynamic represented primarily by class distinctions. We are repressed and controlled in nearly every way possible within this arrangement. Injustice is a daily part of our lives that we learn to accept in an attempt to survive the drudgery. In some instances, where gross injustices occur, we are awarded the "right" to appeal to the systems that exist on the surface, but this "right" always places the burden of proof on us.
It is incredibly rare for any sort of justice to materialize against a powerful state/class that has seemingly unlimited amounts of time, money, energy, and resources to oppose us. In this never ending, losing scenario, the ruling class and all of their institutions that including schools and media can simply say: "we gave you inalienable rights and encourage you to use them if you feel wronged," knowing very well these rights, and the systems put in place to exercise them, are nothing but manufactured deadends hidden behind virtual freeways.
It is an Intersectional Class War and we need to get our shit together now to oppose their insanity. I say, if they want a fight, and clearly they do, they can have one.
Yours, dusting off the knuckle dusters once again,
V.