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system which is daily put under the microscope, cell phone videos
and scholarly studies, which are exposing state-sponsored sick and
inhumane brutality, torture and harassment committed by openly
racist and gender biased cops who act more like a gang of racist
thugs than ofcer Joe Friendly. It is no secret that black families
have to teach their youth to behave in an obsequious manner
before the cops lest they become victims. Federal studies show
conspiratorial and deferential targeting of populations to control
and excise taxes in municipal judicial rackets. These are shown to
keep black and brown populations in cycles of poverty.
We need to create politically independent organizations of the
working class and the oppressed, which are self-empowering,
which convene and construct the new forms of workers democracy,
of workers ownership and control which have the primary aim of
seizing the commanding heights of the economy and unseating
and replacing the capitalist democracy with workers democracy
in which all workers and specially oppressed peoples have their
say and votes counted.
To end the endless wars, to end the threat of inter-imperialist
war, to end the grinding poverty and lives lived in fear, and to
address the environmental crisis, the full productive capacity of
humanity needs to be engaged; only the workers organized as a
class can take the means of production from the capitalists and
plan and execute a rational future.
Capitalism is locked into structural cycles of ever-deepening
crises. These crises compound generational poverty and are
most acutely felt by specially oppressed minorities, immigrant
workers, the elderly and the youth in the rst world, while in the
under-developed semi-colonies billions live in abject poverty and
millions die daily of preventable disease, hunger, thirst, wars and
proxy wars over which imperialist power will control and extract
the wealth from the subjugated global south.
The ruling class knows there is no way out! They know its systems
innate inequality, which gather vast stores of capital to itself as a
class, has a social cost. They know that the compensation for a
workers labor power is driven down as low as possible to counter
the downward pressure on prots, both in the imperialist centers
and in the semi-colonies. To maintain their power, the bosses
must keep the masses demoralized, terrorized, disorganized and
without their own politically independent organizations. We
call for labor strikes to defeat the imperialist war drive and
to turn imperialisms wars abroad into a revolutionary civil
war against the capitalist ruling class at home. To throw off
the rule of the capitalists we need to build a revolutionary
workers party in every nation, parties that link workers into a
new revolutionary international workers party with a general staff
that builds for and guides the international workers revolutions,
defeats the imperialists and takes the economy into the workers
own hands.
our labor power creates, and you divide it among yourselves through
your complicated games of stocks, bonds, insurance derivatives,
back room conjuring of currencies, and speculative bubbles that
concentrate the appropriated wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
So our class demand is that because your capitalist organization
of production cannot supply decent conditions for the people and
a decent environment for all species your existence is no longer
progressive. As a class you no longer advance the needs of the people
or the planet, and your class is no longer necessary or welcome: your
organizational forms of production are a fetter (that are holding back)
the advance of the forces of production, holding human social relations
in an old paradigm of exploitation based on the commodication of
everything including our lives, our labor power, our desires and our
personal data trails. And your class strategy is one of propaganda and
repression which reinforce each other.
The bosses maintain a propaganda war on all fronts. First they send
the condescending pundits who, for thirty pieces of silver, blame
the workers and the poor for their own poverty. While they will
not convince us, they do cater to the guilt and fear of the haves
providing an ideology of entitlement based on the myth of individual
achievement which provides the moral backbone for privileged layers
of the middle and upper middle class to collect their share of the beef
and gravy at the tables of the master class (the 0.1%).
This ideology, with its many faces (libertarianism, neo-liberalism,
white superiority, misogyny class/pedigree privilege) creates and
spreads the poison of condescension and hatred of workers who
demand decent contracts, a hatred of the poor who require assistance,
of the immigrants who are blamed for taking low wage jobs and
clogging up the underfunded public systems. Their ideology has
its material basis in the experience of the small businessman or
artisans who become businessmen, the Horatio Alger rags to riches
mythology. The anachronism of personal success, which in a mass
society is real for millions (although the top 0.1% were generally
born with the platinum spoon in their mouths,) and it shapes the
consciousness of tens of millions duped by our class enemy. This
mythology is the bedrock ideology upon which the true intellects
and servants of the capitalist elite construct their propaganda and
media lies they use to repel the threat of an emergent and spreading
revolutionary workers socialist consciousness.
The capitalist liberal elite (spanning from right to center right)
from the Rockefellers to the Kennedys, Bushes, Clintons and their
adversarial pool from Schlesinger, Hightower to John Foster Dulles,
Brzezinski, Kissinger, Albright, Summers and Reich all play holier
than thou from their vaulted heights and dismiss the economic
disparity, the class, gender and racial hatred as well as the unending
invasions, blockades and sanctions against small countries, and the
spate of confrontations over markets and resources as just the
hand they have been dealt, the chess board they nd themselves
upon, the cost of doing business. And their business, the business
of America (as is in all capitalist countries) is providing markets for
national capital, which is then falsely promoted as acting in the
national interest.
With the far right pundits backing up the neo-liberal elite in the
middle, the left forces (such that there are) prop up the neo-liberal