We within the proletarian, anti-imperialist struggle have a mandate to fight back against the anti-human project that our ruling class is carrying out. This project has been formally named “dark woke,” with the phrase coming from a Democrat rebranding campaign aimed at taking back power through any means necessary. “Dark woke” has come to represent something bigger than the Democratic Party, though; it’s a fusion of the different wings of anti-social reactionary ideologies, both Hitlerite and Zionist, with the aim of crushing the people and making way for new extermination campaigns.
This is a new evolution in the machinations of our ruling class, beyond what “dark woke” originally meant. It’s a way for the elites to repudiate all aspects of our society which embody community spirit, constructive industry, or class solidarity, with the aim being to destroy these things through any means necessary—including terrorism.
The right has been pointing to the menace which is “dark woke,” but the right is completely incapable of fighting against it, because dark woke gets its power from the same monopoly financial forces that are behind today’s “rightist” politics. You cannot defeat the destructive agenda of liberal modernism while you yourself seek to reinforce that liberal status quo; this is the reality that undermines both the soft, neocon Charlie Kirk right, and the “dissident” Nick Fuentes far right.
These ideological currents are opposed to an independent organization by the working class, which is the only thing that can empower the masses. In the absence of popular dual power, where the people have built their own institutions which stand against capital, dark woke will win. It will cut through all of the flimsy democratic protections that the capitalist state has, and reshape our society to fit the elite’s psychopathic technocratic vision.
When we clarify this reality about dark woke—that it’s specifically a tool of finance capital—then we can lead the people to fight against the right enemy. This being a class enemy, the enemy that exists within the monopolies and the international banking interests which they’re fused with.
As Dimitrov said about fascism, the predecessor to dark woke: “Fascism is not a form of state power ‘standing above both classes -- the proletariat and the bourgeoisie,’ as Otto Bauer, for instance, has asserted. It is not ‘the revolt of the petty bourgeoisie which has captured the machinery of the state,’ as the British Socialist Brailsford declares. No, fascism is not a power standing above class, nor government of the petty bourgeoisie or the lumpen-proletariat over finance capital. Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia. In foreign policy, fascism is jingoism in its most brutal form, fomenting bestial hatred of other nations.”
I say that fascism is dark woke’s predecessor because within capital’s violence, fascism is no longer necessarily the operative force. Fascism, as it properly existed, defined a specific era in capitalism’s history; one where many of the core imperialist countries felt the need to utilize ultra-nationalism, and consolidate their power by unleashing the full violent power of the state. Finance capital is headed in a comparable direction now, but the nature of its violent campaign in our era is going to look different from Mussolini or Hitler. Instead, it’s going to look like Trotsky; like an aggressively militaristic project that seeks “permanent revolution” through the enactment of endless, borderless bloodshed, with some of the biggest targets being the rural or conservative masses who Trotskyism views as the enemy.
This is the distinction between traditional fascism, and the Trotskyist “progressivism” that dark woke represents. Fascism relied on nationalism, while dark woke is part of a distinctly transnational project. The Davos, WEF banking elites who are behind dark woke have centralized their empire in the United States, but they hold an intense disdain towards the American nation, as well as essentially every other nation.
Their ideology is one of pure, postmodern disregard for the value of the collective and the value of humanity itself, which is why they promote not just national nihilism but also omnicidal propaganda about how “humans are earth’s virus.” Hitlerism had anarchist origins, but with dark woke, those anarchist aspects are made fully bare; the ideology that’s being pushed by today’s international financial order is compatible with the anarchist slogan of “no borders, no nations,” and ultimately compatible with the “anarcho-primitivist” elements that advocate for an end to industrial civilization.
Since the Biden era, the “dark woke” camp within the elites has needed to do a tactical retreat, and let Trump win out of hope that he’ll enact radical reforms which save the empire. But this camp is preparing to strike back, and when it does, there will be a greater chance that it successfully carries out its goals. That it uses climate, public health, or another pretext to orchestrate a rapid, unprecedented degrowth of our economy. The elites have been partially effective in advancing this goal, but they haven’t yet gotten nearly as far as they’d like. They want to collapse the economy, as well as the social fabric, to an extent where the masses have been not just brought to their knees but alienated from collective solidarity.
The only way that finance capital can get the economic shocks it wants without this triggering a revolutionary crisis is if the crisis becomes demoralizing to the people, turning their anger towards cultural battles and putting them at each other’s throats. While finance capital has consolidated enough power to target the people in horrific new ways, though, it will find that the people won’t respond in such a self-destructive fashion.
The big encouraging sign when it comes to the United States is that our society already passed through a phase where people were at each other’s throats, and then overcame this in a matter of a few years. In 2020, the people reacted to the pandemic by becoming angry at one another, with the dual forces of public health panic and freedom-desiring anger clashing explosively. This division carried over into that year’s protest outbreak, which the state successfully diverted into the Democratic Party. Then, when the MAGA base, independents, and a growing number of former liberals came to agree that Biden had utterly failed the people, this disunity went away.
By 2024, Americans were overwhelmingly unified in opposition to the status quo. And this unity will translate into a resistance against the next attempts by our government to destroy our living standards, start a new big war, or paralyze our communities with orchestrated shootings. The conditions for a popular front against the dark woke menace are there; let us organize the people with the confidence that they’re already on our side.
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