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/ CLASS WAR / This May 8, 2025, large sections of the bourgeois class are celebrating the eightieth “anniversary” of the end of the Second World War, this gigantic bloodbath that left over sixty million human beings, proletarians, dead on the altar of profit and nationalism. Yesterday, today and tomorrow, it’s in the name of anti-fascism (for some) or fascism (for others), in the name of democracy, freedom, “the country in danger”, religion, peace, that these massacres are perpetuated.
Capitalism seems to have reached the end of a cycle: too much devalorization, too many accumulated commodities, too many machines, too many proletarians, not enough profitable markets… The contradictions between the different national sectors of one and the same global bloodthirsty being, which feeds on the exploitation of our bodies, our flesh, our energy, our lives, our prospects, these contradictions take warlike forms, and warmongering blocs are beginning to re-form to carry out the enterprise of destroying the living, so necessary to the revitalization of this empire of death, i.e. the capitalist mode of production.
Today, rearmament is the order of the day, and billions of dollars and euros are being invested in the most advanced technologies for this morbid task of wiping out surplus proletarians and means of production. The army is in the limelight, patriotic flags (whatever they may be) are flying in the wind of the destructive fury of our class enemies, radio and TV programs, the press of the powers that be (and those to come), all the propaganda of these lackeys of the capitalist order are roaring with one voice: full speed ahead toward war!
Capitalism lives from war, capitalism is war: commercial war, military war, permanent war between different values in their search for more profits, etc. War is in the DNA of capitalism! “Money is the nerve of war”, as the saying goes, but the opposite is just as true, if not more dialectical: war is the nerve of money! And faced with this reality, our only response as proletarians, in tragic times of war as in times of (social) peace, is the class strike and war, sabotage of the economy, revolutionary defeatism, insurrection, revolution…
It’s on this occasion that we republish here a text by the Internationalist Communist Group (ICG), which dates back thirty years and which, at the time, was written on the same anniversary of the end of the Second World War, to remind us that capitalism needs war, and that on its altars of death, it’s always our class brothers and sisters who are sacrificed.
Fascist or anti-fascist, the dictatorship of Capital is democracy, its peace and its war!
CW – May 8, 2025.
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