Franz J.T. Lee, July, 2009
Rosa Luxemburg still saying: Peace means the worldwide revolution of the proletariat!
For those whom the bell is already tolling now in America, it is time to be tactfully and diplomatically crystal clear about the formal logical "contradiction": violence and peace. Since the military coup in Honduras and its seemingly diplomatic, 'peaceful' aftermath, we should be fore-warned of things to come under the Barak Obama 'Democratic' administration.
Beyond any doubt, whether we realize it or not, we are currently facing the fleeting moments of emancipatory truth, of fierce coming class struggles, that is, we are living and dying in one of the most virulent and violent epochs of world production, of exploited labor forces, of human history.
We are being confronted with the forerunners of the bloody grimace of a coming era of mass destruction of infrastructures, means of production, labor forces and capital; in other words, of nature, society and humanity, of a cruel mode of destruction and merciless self-destruction. The latest stations of the Via Crucis of humanity were the massacres of the Twin Towers, of Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Bolivia, Falujah, Gaza and Honduras. By throwing it to the savage hound dogs, Barak Obama and others destroyed more capital that ever impoverished Humania the South under world capitalism could ever dream to accumulate within a million years.
Here in Venezuela, the five snow-capped peaks of Merida are becoming gray, and soon Pico Bolivar will lose its age old glacier forever.
In the USA, as a result of electromagnetic smog, millions of bees cannot return to their hives anymore. Albert Einstein warned that if this would happen, then our days are counted. On the radio-active islands of the South Pacific, the turtle babies have lost their sense of direction, they are becoming easy prey for the seagulls. Epidemics are being elaborated in military laboratories, within the context of stockpiling arsenals of Arms of Mass Destruction ... Ebola, AIDS, MAD COW disease, bird and pig flu.
The detonation of powerful atomic bombs in the Van Allen Belt, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, "accidents" like Chernobyl ... all blaze the bellicose trail towards apocalyptic times for billions of poor workers who have become obsolete; these include the 'new poor,' the homeless and jobless metropolitan middle classes who are now rot under bridges or are now vegetating in tent cities.
Of the some six billion years of the existence of planet Earth, of Mother Nature, according to scientific estimates, over millions of years, at least three times natural disasters, ... collisions with other heavenly bodies or sudden drastic climatic changes ... had annihilated over 90% of then existent life, destroyed a myriad of invaluable cosmic experiments of living beings. So-called homo sapiens sapiens probably underwent a premature birth, compared to cockroaches and crocodiles, it, the 'crown of creation,' ... deliberately using a neutral pronoun ... barely could survive.
Only
thanks to the natural genes that he was sharing with chimpanzees and
pigs, especially with his creative brain (wo)mankind was able to
survive. Brains in cooperation with his thumb, early human praxis and
theory, saved man's life. Across the millennia the above formed his
only formidable weapons of self-defense in a violent natural and
social habitat.
With very few exceptions which prove
the golden rule, also not to fall into the claws of euphemistic
ideology and its corresponding malpractices, we can safely say that
no matter what the real historical reasons might have been, modern
humanity was not precisely humane or humanist to itself and to
nature. Currently it is becoming more aggressive, self-destructive,
alienated. It is drifting further and further away from its own quo
vadis, its own Eros drive; at the moment, we are on a Socratic drive,
on the highway heading straight towards Thanatos, towards
Golgotha.
For us in South America and elsewhere, it is
important to note that the coming disaster, the Second Conquest, will
not be natural, it will be social; it is man made. For this very
reason exploited, dominated and discriminated Man himself at this
eleventh hour could still stop the global catastrophe, could
eliminate its root cause: world capitalism.
However, we
in Venezuela, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cuba, Ecuador,
Nicaragua and Bolivia, have to be very clear, internally and
externally the counter-revolution, the counter-emancipation, is being
organized at high speed, imperialism is preparing rainbow
"revolutions", is training death squads, is infiltrating
spies, ready for overt and covert action, is converting the
police into fascist "storm troops", refining the 'war of
ideas' and carrying out continental 'full spectrum
dominance'.
Precisely within the field of the 'war of
ideas', by using our mighty weapon of self-defense, our brains, we
need clarity about many strategic concepts, among them, revolution,
praxis, theory, practice, ideology, violence, peace and emancipation.
Concerning the last three, we are having extensive discussions among
our organized comrades, in forums and councils of the people
and university classes.
Below we will present the
internet links to our latest popular videos in English.1)
Spanish
versions are published on our website. 2)
For ages the
oppressed peoples were bamboozled, were confused by indoctrinated
ideology. Surely nobody wants violence, is affirming violent acts;
neither the master, for obvious reasons, nor the slave, who in any
case suffers violence his whole life.
* Capital needs
peaceful liberty to expand itself.
* All capitalists, bankers
and speculators want to realize capital, to gain profits in a
favorable, peaceful climate.
* All capitalists want peaceful
elections, a peaceful state, peaceful private property of the means
of communication, production and destruction, the monopoly of
violence by state order, that is, a violent commonwealth, so that the
loot and spoils, that trillions of taxpayers' money fraternally could
be divided among themselves in democratic times of economic crisis
and depression.
Rosa Luxemburg, who like so many other
brave Marxist women, who was violently assassinated, was very clear
about the concepts violence and peace in modern globalized corporate
imperialism. She agreed with Jesus Christ:
"I did nor come
to this world to bring peace but the sword?".
Comrades,
against imperialist violence, Rosa Luxemburg, in "On the
Spartacus Programme (December 1918)" is still saying today:
"Peace means the world-wide revolution of the proletariat."