The worsening climate disasters and the brutal wars now raging in Europe, Africa and the Middle East show that capitalism’s tendential destruction of our future is accelerating. Furthermore, the wars are used, not just in the conflict zones themselves but all over the world, for massive propaganda for nationalism, for drumming up support for the expansion of the repressive powers of the state, for war preparation.
This acceleration of history puts the political groups and individuals who oppose supporting any side in these wars between capitalists nations in which the working class is always the victim, and who want to expose the system’s drive towards destruction and the possibility to end capitalism, before a challenge. If they really want not only to interpret the world but to change it, to paraphrase Marx, now, more than ever, they need to find ways to speak louder and with more clarity, and in order to do so, they must seek to communicate and collaborate.
So it is a positive sign that there were several pro-revolutionary encounters this year in which the question how to understand and oppose capitalism’s war drive was at the top of the agenda. The Beach Communists, who organized such a meeting, a week-long ‘summercamp’ in Poznan (Poland) published a list of them (not all on the subject of war alone).
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