Iran’s heroic example in defying the Satanic Epstein regime’s aggression is something that can inspire Americans to fight back themselves. To recognize just how illegitimate their government is, reject both imperialist parties, and strike back amid this war that Washington is waging against the entire world’s working class. This moment has great potential to make West Asia’s resistance movement spill into the heart of the beast, and catalyze the American popular uprising that brings the greatest blow U.S. imperialism has ever suffered.
Such is the foundation of the hope that those of us within the anti-imperialist movement are feeling right now, even as we see our enemies go on such a gargantuan rampage. To give the people a path towards victory against their government, and sustain the struggle’s progress during the next dark developments, we must translate their anger into a concrete plan. A plan that’s informed by the history of how the working masses have made imperialism’s designs backfire.
We must draw attention to the analysis which Lenin made about why only the revolutionary path can let us end imperialist war. How he pointed out that “The distinction between the reformists and the revolutionaries, among the Social-Democrats, and socialists generally, was objectively bound to undergo a change under the conditions of the imperialist war. Those who confine themselves to ‘demanding’ that the bourgeois governments should conclude peace or ‘ascertain the will of the peoples for peace’, etc., are actually slipping into reforms. For, objectively, the problem of the war can be solved only in a revolutionary way.”
This is a message that Marxists must always be sure to get across. In the presentation of this article, I’ve used the popular language about how we’re fighting against a Satanic regime, and against an Epstein class. The imperialist apparatus can be described in these ways, and that the masses already recognize such terms means there is a place for them in our rhetoric. But we must also convey the nature of the economic structure that’s put Satanism and pedophilic sadists in charge of our world; we must make clear how it’s the global financial system that’s behind America’s accelerating economic decline, and the expanding wars that Washington is waging. This is how we explain why Lenin was correct about all reformist paths being false solutions, put forth to stop the workers from throwing off the rule of banking.
“There is no possibility of this war ending in a democratic, non-coercive peace or of the people being relieved of the burden of billions paid in interest to the capitalists, who have made fortunes out of the war, except through a revolution of the proletariat,” continued Lenin. “The most varied reforms can and must be demanded of the bourgeois governments, but one cannot, without sinking to Manilovism and reformism, demand that people and classes entangled by the thousands of threads of imperialist capital should tear those threads. And unless they are torn, all talk of a war against war is idle and deceitful prattle.”
When we bring these analyses into the conversation, and clarify what a revolutionary solution actually looks like, we can overcome the attempts to divert America’s people from doing what truly endangers the imperial system. The sentiments of heroism and defiance are there, but we have yet to build the mass organizational structure which the people will need for putting these sentiments into practice. The role of materials like this one is to delineate between the reformist responses towards the Epstein war, which can only lead us in a circle; and the revolutionary path that can bring the masses to victory.
This must be how we build upon the revolt against Epstein and neocon wars which is happening inside of MAGA: by exposing these realities about how finance capitalist power works, and what needs to be done in order to dismantle the power structure. Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens are playing an important role by speaking out against the war. On their own, though, these efforts repeat that pattern of merely demanding peace, without a program to overthrow the economic system which prevents peace. This problem applies even more so to the politics of the “progressive” Democrats. They aren’t even acting in good faith, as their purpose is to sheepdog people back into the two-party system.
With the antiwar MAGA trend, there’s actually a possibility that the trend will lead somewhere revolutionary, which is why Marxists of my type have called our tendency “MAGA communism.” The DSA’s politics are such total controlled opposition that our strategy with DSA must be to actively draw its followers away from their present camp. With the many Trump voters and independents who’ve been listening to what people like Candace have to say, our posture must be different, because these Americans have already come to basically think within a communist framework. Unlike the DSA they’ve come to reject the duopoly; and by necessity, they’re engaged in an intense investigation of the current conditions, seeking to stay up to date about what our ruling class is doing.
We do not need the majority of the people to become communists, as this has never happened in any country which has undergone a workers revolution. With dissident MAGA, though, we do need to reckon with two major problems. Those being the prevalence of anti-communism, and the tendency to rely on consumption of “alternative” media as a substitute for actual organizing. There is still great confusion about what communism is, since dissident MAGA has emerged from the right-wing politics that views Marxism as a tool for finance capital. We are capable of overcoming such confusion, though, and building a real organized popular effort, if we accompany our educational work with serious coalition-building.
Creating a united front does not mean trying to get everyone to adopt your own ideology, it means taking the lead in unifying everyone who shares your goal. If we build an anti-Epstein coalition in this way, and resist the war on Iran in this way, then we’ll prove ourselves to the people as being worthy of respect. There are many efforts right now to smear communism, including from individuals who aren’t even ill-intentioned. But we can thwart these efforts by making the anti-communist dogmas run up against the practical realities of political struggle, and showing why Marxism offers the path forward.
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