The I.C.E. gestapo are a product of capitalism. If you hate what I.C.E. is doing, you have to also recognize its root cause in capitalism or you’re focusing on the symptom but ignoring the disease. Correctly identifying the root cause of the a disease is absolutely necessary before the disease can be treated.
“Capitalism as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.”–Albert Einstein
Capitalism is a plague on society. Like a cancerous growth, it is compelled to continually expand despite the harm this causes on its host. Thanks to the contradictions inherent in capitalism, inflation is inevitable. (Unlike under communism where it’s generally non-existent.) Thanks to inflation, a business under capitalism must have continuous growth in order to survive. However, we do not live on an infinite planet, and unequal exchange is only sustainable for a finite period of time. Eventually there’s nowhere else to expand and the entire system begins to collapse.
It’s because of this inevitable failure inherent in capitalism that we are where we are. Prices continue to rise while wages have been stagnant for decades. Eventually the working class will have no choice but to revolt or perish.
The capitalist class knows this, but rather than give up one rotten cent of their wealth and power, the bourgeoisie will turn to fascism, just as they have in the past. Wealth and power changes a person and makes them physically incapable of seeing reason.
The Epstein case is a symptom of the corruption that’s inherent in capitalism. When you have so much wealth that you’re no longer living a normal human life it changes your brain in such a way that you lose touch with humanity, in effect you stop being human altogether in any meaningful sense. It’s been documented by scientists.
Unfortunately, not only is fascism evil in terms of the toll in human life, but it is also entirely incapable of resolving the contradictions inherent in capitalism so it too is doomed to fail, but not without an extremely high toll in human lives. It blames the failures of capitalism on scapegoat minorities, the more marginalized the better. It seeks to divide the working class against itself by distracting the working class from the class war with culture wars and invents an enemy to justify grabbing all that power. “Look over there,” the fascist says while he robs you blind and takes away your freedom.
Fascism has never been overthrown by nonviolent means. Despite Western propaganda minimizing the contributions of the USSR and overblowing that of the Western imperialists, the primary driving force behind the defeat of Fascism the last time around were the communists.
It’s worse than just taking more credit then due though, because the USA actively imported, sheltered, and integrated literal Nazis into government positions in Operation Paperclip. As you can imagine, switching flags does not magically make a person grow a moral compass, adopt better values, nor absolve them of crimes, so they brought those ideals with them.
However, fascist ideals didn’t start in America with Operation Paperclip. In fact, the Nazis studied America’s evil Jim Crow laws for ideas on how to put their racist ideology into practice. Ironically, even the Nazis found some of the policies around in America too barbaric even for them. So fascism isn’t new to America, it’s always been here waiting just under the surface. (And for many minorities, always was.)
So what’s next? What can you do? Luckily, you don’t have to guess, there’s already a guidebook. Put in simplest terms, educate, organize, resist, in that order.
Like it or not, the only force capable of permanently putting Fascism in the ground is communism, as it is uniquely equipped to address the contradictions which leads to its rise. Despite the propaganda, when studied scientifically it was proven to be more capable of providing for the general welfare than any other economic system. There’s a reason the Soviet economy was expected to overtake that of the US. That’s why Regan ordered the CIA to sabotage it. Capitalism couldn’t compete, so it cheated.
Only a planned economy owned by the working class is capable of keeping the corrupting market forces at bay. When you have markets, you have competition. When you have competition, you have winners and losers. This means that consolidation of wealth and the power that comes with it is always going to be inevitable when the profit motive survives.
However, the bourgeoisie are never idle. Billionaires spend millions on anti-communist propaganda annually and works tirelessly to keep the working class divided. The McCarthyist era especially did a lot of damage to the psyche on the working class in America. This is going to be an uphill battle but it is absolutely necessary.
Therefore, education comes first. If the people don’t understand what’s happening and why, they are doomed to reactionary behavior. Raising class consciousness, studying the science of dialectical materialism as well as history, and uniting the working class ideologically is a must before any other action can take place.
Organizing comes next, and the majority of this is going to come in the form of alternative structures of power and resources. A resistance that has no leadership or supplies cannot succeed. For a resistance to succeed it needs the backbone to support it and that comes in the form of a strong network providing the material conditions for success.
When I talk about organizing, I’m not saying to immediately start forming a militia. You need to start organizing by structures of support outside the control of the bourgeoisie. Nothing else can move forward without the material conditions that makes it possible.
I highly suggest you get a copy of Trotsky’s book Fascism: What it is and How to Fight It. Read it and pass it along. If we get the working class educated and organized, we stand an actual chance. If not, things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better and as history shows us, a lot of people won’t survive. Without communism, we’re all eventually doomed to own nothing and depression.
“Not a wheel turns, not a phone rings, not a light bulb shines without the kind permission of the working class! Once this enormous power is mobilised, no force on earth can stop it.” –Karl Marx
