To Shape Our Future

Aux Armes

Morning Comrades.

A New Year, in our Gregorian Calendar at the very least and before we get straight back into business as usual here with this project of ours a few words, ideas that have been lingering. A brief excursion if you may though and speaking of calendars, granted, the Gregorian is the one we in the “west” use and considering the lingering hegemony one that is understood around the world, there are 6 calendars in use, today, and it serves us well to de-centre our inherent western outlook.

As it stands, the outlook for our future, short-to-long term is anything but good. The beast that is being forged by our enemies is bursting beneath the surface of our current reality and demands to be released. We’re either fully committed to a fight, or fighting to climb the no-longer existing financial ladder to not be bothered by the beast when it arrives, which, also, is a lie by those that have climbed the proverbial ladder by whatever means for all the obvious reasons. Whether we understand this or not is arguably irrelevant as this is the status quo.

As the Overton Window has moved so far towards the authoritarian / fascist side of what we consider perceivable, the ruling class has achieved something I always considered to be almost impossible, juvenile as that was, that is, fascism is here and frankly, it has become not only acceptable but even desirable for many of those around us.

It was never about copying what Mussolini or Hitler did in the 20th Century here in Europe, that overt brownshirt-ing and assault on the other white European races was never part of their grand old plan and it will not be repeated, potentially in the short run if it serves Capital, but I highly doubt. No the total erosion of accountability in the shape of whatever passed as democracy is here, the west is run by a mixture of mob-style psychopaths and megalomanic 21st Century Capitalist, supported by accelerationist fascists that run the tech industry aka the surveillance / automated mass murdering complex. Fascism was never about replicating the bullshit your dad watches on TV over Christmas, but the total submission of democratic control to capitalism, the union of the state and business, and that’s happened.

We are, then, at a junction. Not for the first time in history, luckily, as we have experiences, lessons and plans from our collective history to look at, learn from and ultimately adapt for this struggle. As Rosa Luxemburg famously observed, humanity’s historical trajectory offers two divergent paths: socialism or barbarism. Writing in the tumult of early 20th-century Europe, Luxemburg grappled with capitalism's inherent contradictions, its crises, and its devastating propensity to degrade human life and the environment for profit. Today, this dilemma looms more urgent than ever. Climate breakdown, escalating inequality, fascism, and the existential threats posed by capitalist accumulation push us closer to the abyss of barbarism. However, Luxemburg’s words remain a call to action, affirming that another world—a socialist future rooted in collective liberation and solidarity—is possible.

In her critique of imperialism and the capitalist mode of production, Luxemburg asserted that capitalism necessarily leads to crises because it depends on endless expansion into new markets to sustain profitability. This dynamic manifests today in profound and terrifying ways. To be absolutely clear, capitalism and its current usage and form of and with fascism will lead to one reality, and one reality only: total war.

It always has and always will. There is no future within it and for.

David Harvey describes contemporary neoliberalism as the "financialization of everything," a process that privatises social goods, intensifies labour exploitation, and generates precarious conditions for billions. The 2008 financial crisis was one such rupture, exposing how capitalism cannibalises the real economy, leaving workers vulnerable while bailing out financial elites.

Beyond economic collapse, John Bellamy Foster draws attention to the ecological crisis inherent to capitalist accumulation. Foster’s theory of the “metabolic rift” emphasises how the logic of profit creation systematically alienates humanity from nature, leading to ecological destruction on a planetary scale. From deforestation to global warming, capitalist extraction is rendering the planet increasingly uninhabitable. Without intervention, humanity faces an apocalyptic future marked by environmental barbarism: mass displacement, food insecurity, and escalating conflict over dwindling resources.

Similarly, Silvia Federici points to capitalism’s relentless assault on reproductive labour and the social fabric. The privatisation of healthcare, childcare, and education mirrors the broader degradation of communal life and solidarity. Under capitalism, the unpaid work of women sustains the system while perpetuating inequalities in care and labor. In this way, capitalism does not only ravage the earth but also corrodes the foundational relationships that bind societies together, paving the way for barbarism in the form of atomisation and despair.

Again, this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. It is vital, nonetheless, to point this out. It is equally important to understand how far the Overton Window has been moved to not only challenge the demanded submission to a non-existing different reality, but to know, to feel, to entirely believe in the fact that a different reality is absolutely possible. Alienation leads to Nihilism and nothing other than continued slavery, misery and death is the result.

We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Consider this the rallying cry for what is to come. The violence of capitalism is being unleashed here, after devastating the rest of the world for the past 500 years and no one is save, no one will get out of it and it is up to us to ensure that we once and for all end this continuing downward spiral towards death for their profit.

It is an honour to do this with you. I’ve always liked a challenge and I’ve never had anything but disdain for the bastards.

Forever hopeful, organised and willing.

A Happy New Year to us all.

Yours,

V.