CONTENT
o Presentation / Class War
o Venezuela: Capitalism And Classe Struggle (Materiales)
o The Myth of the Left is Ripe to Collapse (La Oveja Negra)
o Venezuela: Crisis, Protests, Inter-Bourgeois Political Struggle And the Threat of Imperialist War (Proletarios Revolucionarios)
o Popular Power And Socialism in the 21stCentury / The Modern Clothes of Social Democracy (Proletarios Internacionalistas)
The year 2026 is off to a roaring start! For years, we and other communist minorities have been saying that the world is on a determined course towards generalized world war, which all the bourgeois gangsters who exploit us see as the solution to the (economic, social, political…) crisis inherent to the capitalist mode of production and accumulation. And the war in the Ukraine will not prove us wrong. Nor will the killings in the Gaza Strip. Nor even the recent events in Venezuela…
Overall, what we see is a worldwide militarization of society, both physically and mentally, a widespread rearmament, a development of warmongering propaganda, and designation of an “enemy” (always the bourgeois camp on the other side) and therefore also a crackdown on the proletariat and its attempts to defend its own interests as an exploited (and therefore revolutionary!) class, both its immediate and historical interests.
And once again, we are witnessing the same crude campaigns to rally the proletariat behind flags that are not its own: we are being asked to choose between the plague and cholera, to choose one bourgeois camp over another, a “lesser evil” over a “worse” one… Either the camp of “imperialism” or the camp of “anti-imperialism,” knowing that the latter is also just imperialism, that of the “opposing” camp! There was a time when we were asked to defend the Vietnamese or Palestinian or Chilean “people” against “Yankee imperialism.” Today, all factions of international leftism (from libertarians to Leninists) are ordering us to defend (more or less critically! or simply!!!) “our homeland and socialism” in the Bolivarian style against the “American ogre.”
Faced with this antagonistic situation, we can only affirm once again that the proletariat does not have, has never had, and will never have a homeland to defend, that socialism or communism or anarchy, in short, a classless, stateless, moneyless, propertyless society, without exploitation… will not be built by defending one so-called progressive bourgeois faction against another so-called conservative or reactionary bourgeois faction. Neither Trump nor Maduro! Neither Putin nor Zelensky! Neither Netanyahu nor Khamenei! Neither the USA nor Venezuela! Neither Russia nor the Ukraine! Neither Israel nor Iran nor Palestine! Neither ISIS nor Rojava! Neither the left nor the right!
The proletariat struggling in Venezuela (for decades now, let’s remember the Caracazo in 1989 and its 3,000 dead) needs neither US intervention to get rid of its own Bolivarian bourgeoisie (the Bolibourgeoisie), its own exploiters; but neither does it need this pseudo “international solidarity” which consists precisely in defending this local faction of the world bourgeoisie. Our only response is the class against class, internationalist solidarity with all sectors of the proletariat struggling against their own bourgeoisie: internationalist solidarity with the proletarians struggling in Venezuela against the Bolivarian bourgeoisie, internationalist solidarity with the proletarians struggling in Iran against the bourgeoisie of the mullahs, internationalist solidarity with the proletarians struggling in Palestine against the bourgeoisie of the PA and Hamas, internationalist solidarity with the proletarians struggling in Rojava against the national-social-liberationist bourgeoisie…
Faced with the determined course towards generalized world war that our enemies, all our enemies, are preparing for us, the proletariat has only one response to assert in letters of fire on the stage of human prehistory: Revolutionary defeatism against all bourgeois camps! Let’s transform capitalist war and peace into world social revolution!
PS: We are taking this opportunity to republish here several texts written by comrades in the 2010s denouncing the myth of “21st-century socialism,” the “Bolivarian Chavista experiment,” and so on.
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