Our rulers increasingly desire to implement the Jakarta Method, the model for mass killings that was carried out by the 20th century’s CIA-installed dictatorships. This practice, first implemented when Indonesia’s military junta took hundreds of thousands of lives, was what would ultimately let Washington win the Cold War. Given its success in preserving banking power, we have every reason to expect our government will use it against Americans themselves. The way to fight back is through a combination of internal organizational preparation, via secret work; exploiting the conflicts between our different class enemies; and building a popular coalition that brings together all Americans who oppose our dictatorial regime.
At this point the regime is just looking for the right moment to attack us. The question is what form the violence will take. Under a social-democratic presidency, the political murders would likely be directed at the communists and anti-imperialists in particular, letting the socdems form a coalition with the far right based around crushing their common enemies. Or it may look like a purge against the broader left and civic society, which the Zionist right seeks to do through its long-standing Jewish terrorist formations. These disagreements among the enemy are things we may be able to take advantage of; but unless we establish independent organizing power for the masses, the people will be the ones who get defeated.
Those in power have been seriously considering a mass-scale purge for a long time now, likely since the 2008 economic collapse and no doubt since the pandemic. The more apparent it’s become that the United States wouldn’t be able to remain stable, and that the American people will need major intimidation to be kept from rebelling, the closer the ruling class has gotten to embracing such drastic solutions. But if the American people unify around fighting back, they’ll be able to outmaneuver their class enemies, who themselves are increasingly divided.
This rift inside the imperial structure comes from a shared panic among the two major wings of capital. Neither the “globalist” international banking capitalists, nor the domestic bourgeoisie, can find a way to bring back the stability that U.S. capital enjoyed during the mid-20th century. Therefore as China’s rise continues, and advancing technology brings unprecedented threats to the old productive mode, the bourgeoisie fight with each other over how to respond to these crises. If the American people assert their own interests within this class conflict, they’ll be able to make the elites destroy each other before they can carry out a Jakarta Method here.
For us to gain this advantage, we must learn from what led the forces of capitalist genocide to win in the past. We must look at the consequences of lax preparation for confronting an enemy, something that Indonesia’s communist party admitted was its failure:
In order to prove that the road followed was not the opportunist "peaceful road", the Party leadership always spoke of the two possibilities, namely, the possibility of a "peaceful road" and the possibility of a non-peaceful road, and that the better the Party prepared itself to face the possibility of a non-peaceful road, the greater would be the possibility of a "peaceful road". In fact, such statements show precisely the existence of dualism concerning the road followed by the Party leadership. By doing so, the hope for a "peaceful road" which in reality did not exist was always implanted in the minds of Party members, the working class and the masses of the working people.
In practice, the Party leadership did not prepare the whole ranks of the Party, the working class and the masses of the people to face the possibility of a non-peaceful road. The most striking proof was the gravest tragedy which happened after the outbreak and the failure of the “September 30th Movement”. Within a short space of time, the counter-revolution succeeded in massacring and arresting hundreds of thousands of Communists and non-Communist revolutionaries who found themselves in a passive position, paralysing the organization of the PKI and the revolutionary mass organizations. Such a situation surely would never happen if the Party leadership did not deviate from the revolutionary road.
This is a lesson that’s critical to internalize for all Americans who oppose the regime, not just the communists. Any person or organization which goes against our banking dictatorship needs to be truly prepared for a scenario of peril. This is something that’s understood by the libertarian movement, and communists understand this too. The obstacle to unity between these forces, and to a coherent response towards the state’s counterinsurgency, is America’s separation from its historic working-class patriotic culture.
In tandem with its mass murder campaigns abroad, our ruling class systematically dismantled this culture during the postwar era. It stripped down the unions, drove communism to the margins, and cultivated a new paradigm of individualism that denied the collective nature of America’s formative struggles. After this culminated in a massive expansion of the war on the working class, the response from the most advanced among the masses was to form libertarian militia movements.
These armed sovereignty efforts, ascendant during the 1990s, were revolutionary in a way. But because the working class had been robbed of organization, during this time counter-hegemonic politics had a character of radical individualism; or at least this is what it looked like on the surface. In practice, they were an effort to restore the collective popular fighting tools that America’s masses had lost. Within America’s mass politics, the negation of the negation had appeared. And this happened at the same moment when the U.S. empire would negate its post-Soviet triumph by launching the self-destructive War on Terror.
As China and the other counter-hegemonic forces have taken advantage of Washington’s faltering, the empire has sought to capture the libertarian forces into its desperate war efforts. But the Zionist right-wingers have failed to sell their neocon agenda through hollow rhetoric about “liberty”; the right is now dead, and the MAGA base is looking for an authentic version of popular politics.
The new psyop that’s being pushed on the MAGA base is designed to portray communists as Zionists who murdered millions of Christians, as the narrative promoted by Candace Owens says. This narrative’s purpose is to divide the popular forces at a critical moment, preventing a united front and reinforcing the confused individualist sentiments that were instilled in the boomers. If we overcome this obstacle, the banking regime won’t be able to overcome the American desire for sovereignty.
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