The abrupt “withdrawal” from Afghanistan by the United States which, after decades of “exporting democracy” (shady alliances, the financing and training of ambiguous groups and factions: in a word, the precise bases for the present chaos), reveal their own recurrent and equally elusive “vocation for isolationism”. The pious rush to get out by the western powers which only yesterday were gathering in the country in large numbers to secure “good business” behind the shield of the Stars and Stripes, suddenly find themselves without protection. The umpteenth proof of the non-existence of Europe as a united political entity and its being instead a rocky terrain where obscene national egoisms clash and are indeed inevitable in the realm of Capital and Profit. The long arm of China and Russia extending towards a region of extreme geo-political and economic interest, with its rare landscapes, its oil and gas, its talc and, yes, its opium - a precious raw material for general stultification. The role of bloody slaves played by the clans, the warlords, local bourgeois factions, always ready to put themselves into the hands and hire of one imperialist power or the other and change sides as soon as the wind veers in another direction. Added to this pretty picture are the other tensions that continue to balloon and explode in the nearby Middle East or which break out in the not so far-away Mediterranean (such as the recent ones between Algeria and Morocco)…
In all this the eternal tragedy of civilian populations persecuted by wars, divisions, changes of régime and alliances, merciless repression of all sorts, the difficulty of surviving from day to day, hunger and famine, refused by everyone - those everyones who, with their hands dripping blood after having plundered and tormented territories and populations in their infinite “missions of peace and civilisation”, now shed crocodile tears over the “sad fate of the refugees”.
What more is there to say, except that another disgusting chapter is being written in the infamous history of imperialism, the peak phase of capitalism?
This many-headed monster must be eliminated once and for all, if we wish to avoid the proliferation and aggravation of hotbeds of local warfare, the death throes of capitalism, a mode of production historically outdated and in deep crisis, generating a new collective massacre, a third world war.
The enemy is in our own homes: it consists of the national bourgeoisies, thirsting for profit and in relentless competition. What proletarians must do is unite and prepare to fight them and overthrow them! As always, we communists are and always will be alongside them, demonstrating the urgent need to practice once again that anti-patriotic defeatism against the national economy and growing military involvement of their respective bourgeoisies and working towards strengthening and establishing the roots of the revolutionary party, able to guide them towards seizing power and implementing the dictatorship of the proletariat, on the path to communism.
25/8/2021
