Above: Gaza’s only power plant after the Zionist occupier struck it in 2014.
The Gaza genocide should give a new sense of perspective to the Americans with a mindset of preparing for future collapse scenarios. It shows us that no matter what kinds of disasters our society is going to face, they won’t come close to the level of catastrophe that Gaza’s people have been living through for the last three years.
No doubt the empire seeks to bring this same model of civilizational murder to more places, and this is the plan that Washington has for the next generation. The war that the imperialists are waging is about subjugating the entire globe’s working class, and no one is safe. To understand our own position in the fight against this scheme, though, we have to understand just how extreme the true worst-case scenario is.
Aside from being attacked by a nuclear weapon, there’s no situation worse than being confined to one small strip of land, then having an occupier systematically bomb your infrastructure while mass-murdering those within your community. The victims of these crimes have been rendered helpless. Gaza’s water, food, and medical supplies are controlled by a government that wants to get rid of the Palestinians, and only gives them anything because of international pressure.
Reminding ourselves of this is critical for properly responding towards the electrical breakdowns that big tech’s AI scramble will bring upon our own communities, because Gaza shows where the primary contradiction is within our political struggle.
Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Iran, and the other targets of Washington’s genocidal offensive are the first victims of the global cataclysm that finance capital will manufacture in the 21st century. As this destruction reaches into the heart of the U.S. empire, it’s not exactly fitting to call this an “imperial boomerang,” because being bombed is on a level far above merely losing electricity. We will experience severe blackouts due to capital’s misuse of AI, and this will have a disastrous human impact; this impact shouldn’t be minimized, but we must see the bigger process that’s playing out. Whatever crises we next experience, this cannot distract us from the duty to defeat America’s war machine, which is the main source of worldwide catastrophes and is the greatest obstacle towards overthrowing the system behind AI collapse.
This reality is exactly what our ruling class wants us to overlook as our systems fail, and the parasites at the top of capitalist society profit from its demolition. There is an insidious mindset that’s gaining traction, called “military nihilism,” which says that it’s unavoidable for the world to be assaulted by Washington’s ever-expanding war campaigns. It tells us to passively accept living in a society that’s effectively run by the imperialist military, since if this is the natural way of things then imperialism should be embraced.
It’s a very strategic psyop, directed at the people who’ve been cut off from opportunities and have resigned to lives as shut-ins. Logically, though, when collapse comes it’s these shut-ins who will be some of the least equipped to survive. If you have nothing, acquiescing to a system in collapse guarantees your doom. Our only hope for ending the coming dark age is to take example from the peoples who’ve been forced into resistance, and collectively fight back against the imperial death machine.
Something we must understand about this machine is that its global designs can continue as the internal collapse accelerates. Imperialist war depends on austerity for the U.S. working class, with the coming systemic breakdown being just a more advanced version of this austerity. The military nihilism psyop is so dangerous because it preemptively destroys the potential for those who’ve been disenfranchised by this system to assert themselves. Its purpose is to ensure that when collapse becomes much more pronounced, the military will take control unchallenged, as the working class won’t have built its own source of sustenance and political power.
This outcome, where the masses are brought to their knees, is something that absolutely could happen even while the masses become radicalized against the imperial state. As long as a people don’t have the means to defend themselves, the imperialists can get away with murdering them on a mass scale, and this is something that Gaza has shown them.
For military nihilism to win out, and successfully stop the masses from fighting back, our ruling class will need to sustain the present stagnation within politics. It will need to keep the people paralyzed, and react to the next crises by retreating into their own silos. There is a real danger that this will happen, and parts of America’s younger population have gravitated towards such apathy amid the Iran war’s fallout. But we have a clear idea of how to mount a counter-narrative.
The reason why military nihilism has a large potential base among “Gen Alpha” is because when you’ve been born into a depression, the incentive is to reject idealism. This generation’s concern is what will materially benefit them directly; which can be translated into working-class consciousness, but only if one is provided with a clear connection to the workers movement.
Only if the concept of being working class is given tangible meaning. Without that clarity, it can feel like you might as well submit to the ideology of the ruling class, and embrace your role as one of those who will be sacrificed for big tech. The only answer towards a mindset like this is to induct the American masses into the same struggle which the empire’s global victims are waging. To bring them into the American front within this existential battle.
Right now, we’re facing two dangers that will accelerate every trend in our collapse: a potential super El Niño, and the drive by our rulers to bring war with China. The only reason why the Trump White House hasn’t oriented around China yet is because of Iran, and the Democrats have been the ones pushing Trump to escalate on Taiwan. They feel comfortable with doing this in part because of Gaza, which revealed the threshold for how many imperialist crimes our society will accept and how far the war on the working class can go. Even as climate destabilization reaches levels that will soon catalyze early versions of the AI blackouts, those in power don’t expect we’ll resist. We need to make this confidence backfire, and rally the masses to revolt in a way that the class enemy couldn’t have anticipated.
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