The Fight for Communism

The fight for communism is anti-political. Because any politics, whether "left", "right" or "centre", simply means the administration of capitalist misery; it is part of the organization of scarcity, dependence and alienation. "Revolutionary" politics is one of the varieties of power (politics); it has done its duty. It has demonstrated its true character not only in Russia in 1917 and in Spain in 1936, and has demonstrated its inability to free people from capitalism. "Revolutionary" politics is as much a part of the problem as it can be part of the solution.

The fight for communism is anti-identitarian. Because every identity under capitalist conditions is the product of existing divisions and the starting point for new ones. That is, our fight is simultaneously anti-proletarian and anti-bourgeois. Identities reduce and chain us to the system, they are its product. Human identity can only develop beyond the capitalist economy. It is not about recognition as a worker, etc., but about the possibility of becoming or being fully human. It cannot be about realizing the rule of the working class, because communism is about the abolition of all classes.

The fight for communism is anti-national. Because every nation is an artificial construct; every nation is a forced collective that excludes some and includes others. The nation is a state of illusory community. It is a prison like religion and all other identities; it is part of social control. It is an obstacle on the way to social revolution; therefore there are no "oppressive" and "oppressed" nations, because nation as such means oppression. There can be no "national liberation", only liberation from the nation. National liberation movements strive for the right to their own state and thus to participate in the national and nationalist state madness.

The fight for communism is anti-religious [We are not fighting people, but ideologies and power! - R. Devil's note]. Because every religion, like the nation, is an artificial construct and a coercive collective. Every religion, whether Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, in short, any religion, represents an obstacle to social revolution, an obstacle to human development. Religion, like the nation, is one of the opiates of bourgeois society.

The fight for communism is anti-state. Because every state is an organ of oppression and an expression of class society; it is an instrument of domination by the ruling class to keep the dominated class down. Therefore, there is no "proletarian state" to be realized or defended. The experience with such states is enough for us. The state is not the opposite of the market. The implementation of the capitalist economy in its forms of trade, war and wage labor is not conceivable without it.

The fight for communism is anti-capitalist. The capitalist economy is the origin of existing human misery and the prevailing absurdity. Capitalism is not a means to eliminate or alleviate poverty in the world, but rather the very cause of the existence and continuation of this poverty in all its material and psychological manifestations.

The fight for communism is anti-union. Every union acts as a haggler over the price of the commodity labor. No matter how "revolutionary" it may appear, it has accepted the capitalist basis of business when it haggles over the level of pay and the conditions of sale of the commodity labor by means of strikes and negotiations. Unions are part of class society. They are an instrument of integration and co-management. They are no more suitable than the organizational form of the party for abolishing class society.

The fight for communism is anti-democratic. Democracy is one of the political forms of rule of capital, alongside fascism, military dictatorship and their hybrid forms. From its Greek origins to the present day, democracy has always been part of a class society. It is not to be realized as a "direct", "socialist" or "real" democracy. As an ideology and political form of rule of capital, it is a means of stirring up illusions in us. It is a means of integration, not emancipation. Our fight will not eliminate the capitalist economy through the ballot box, but the ballot box along with it.

The fight for communism is anti-spectacular. All forms of politics and power (state, unions, capital, etc.) try to put on a spectacular show in order to sell their goods or to preserve the commodity society. But the point is to put an end to the capitalist scenery, to all the dreariness, instead of participating in the misery in any way.

The fight for communism is anti-static. After all, it is present in the human movement that is taking place before our eyes. It does not call itself the "fight for communism" and does not usually consciously set itself the goal of communism. Its clarity and its goals arise in the fight. It is present in all fights just as it is a response to the existing conditions, the conditions of survival under the dictatorship of the capitalist economy with its wage labor, its money and commodity economy, its state and its politics. It cannot be modeled, it cannot be predicted. No matter how quiet it is: it exists, simmering away in the underground of bourgeois society. Those who have taken it on have neutralized it, integrated it and its fighters, defused its weapons and its criticism, cheated its fighters out of their "wages".

But the fight for communism is not only anti, but also for something. In the negation of the negation of human life, in other words in the negation of capitalist survival, the desire for an end to survival is expressed every day, which is at the same time a desire, sometimes clear, sometimes unclear, for a life that deserves its name, for a life that is "worth" living and loving.

The fight for communism is all of these things, or it will inevitably reproduce one or another variant of the system.