Morning Comrades.
As hinted at on Monday we are going to be talking about war, peace, pacifism and explore a lot of the cracks within these topics. To be absolutely clear from the get go, I genuinely abhor war, have always posited myself deeply within the anti-war idea from both personal and ideological reasons. Nevertheless, without a root cause analysis all these identifiers become and are useless, irrelevant even, as they are deeply entrenched in identity chauvinism unless they can and are backed up by the above as well as material praxis.
As far as I can remember the countries that I have lived in, even be their “citizen” for what it is worth, have been at war, a solid 45 years at this point. War has been and is omnipresent and yet since time immemorial it has been decried as the worst reality humanity can experience, and rightly so, it truly is beyond imaginable horrors. Our bourgeoise indoctrination has us believing that war is the collapse of humanity, a noble cause of defence and all the other bullshit that moralizes working class poor to go into a meat grinder for the capitalist class. Most aptly, I recall the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz when he said: “war is the continuation of politics by other means”. I posit to go even further and say that war is the continuation of capitalism by other means, as capitalism posits on class war, the exploitation by any means necessary to increase profits. In addition to the horrors and suffering that are the results of war, this understanding war as the continuation of capitalism by other means is what has always and will always pit me against it and the root cause that brings about these horrors.
With the failures of the anti-war movement in our generations I wanted to get into it a little deeper here, first with a root cause analysis of what we are looking at and the ideally on Friday on the surface level contradictions of pacifism and class war. Additionally, to be utterly clear, one of the primary end goals of our revolution is the end all wars, the end the conceptual need for it, so let’s get into it.
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