We are totally unsurprised by the recent events upsetting the world, bringing discussions over the „third world war“ into bars and TV talk shows. We are not interested here in attacking the more or less fascist bourgeois right wing: it is a declared enemy. The problem instead consists in the reformist false friends, pacifists and democrats: all of whom have deceived and continue to deceive our class, maintaining that it is still possible to improve capitalism, eliminating its contradictions. At times they even pretend they’re communists: but communism is the active and organised negation of bourgeois rule, both in its democratic and in its fascist guises. Being communist means opposing all imperialist wars, declaring open war on capital and first and foremost on our own bourgeoisie.
When wars break out, the game is up, above all with false revolutionaries and pacifists! Pacifism has never stopped a war: on the eve of battle, the pacifists have always sided with their own country, always managing to find high moral justification to cover up their about-turn. The reformist and democratic Second International fell to pieces when every socialist party voted for war to defend its own nation. Then Stalinism dragged the proletariat into the slaughter of the Second World War in the name of defending a so-called „socialist fatherland“ and a miserable democratic and inter-class anti-fascism. Only proletarian revolutions have stopped wars, as in the practical and historical examples of the Paris Commune and the October Revolution. Faced with the betrayal of the Second International, the slogan of the Bolsheviks and the communist Left was unanimous: „Transform the imperialist war into civil war“! Only the communist revolution can put an end to the infernal cycle of world wars, through which this mode of production moves – no more than an assassin at this point.
But now, as then, democrats, pacifists, reformers and fake communists refuse the slogan. They are afraid of it! And this is why we shout it even louder: „transform the imperialist war into a war against our own bourgeoisies, working for defeatism against all States and for armed fraternisation between all proletariats“. In an authentic perspective of struggle, this slogan explains to proletarians and young people who feel the need for radical change, who their allies are and who their enemies. Being revolutionary and internationalist communists means supporting and driving forward the battle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie right to the end: right up to the need for the violent conquest of political power, with the dismembering and destruction of the bourgeois State and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the indispensible tool for the definitive shift to a society with no social division of work, no private property, no borders and no classes.
We must unmask those who say they are against this „war-mongering Europe“ and make believe there is a possible „Europe of democratic peace and work for everyone“, driving their proletariat to side with „European imperialism“; worse still when they blather about being against war, whilst experiencing Italy, Germany, France, Spain or Palestine etc. as the „Fatherland“ to sacrifice their lives to. Proletarians have no Fatherland. Being communist means fighting for the destruction of all nations and moving beyond nationhood, starting out from the Fatherland-prison you are born and exploited in.
If today we are at the lowest point in the history of the proletariat, disorganised as it is and almost totally incapable of defending itself, this is precisely because it has been dragged in the direction of conservative democratic and pacifist objectives, for the „defence of the Constitution“ and democratic nationalism. Faced with the disaster taking place before our very eyes (growing poverty, desperate masses of people obliged to migrate, genocide in Gaza, wars in Ukraine, in Africa, epidemics, environmental destruction, acute inequality), these false hopes are a desperate attempt to keep the old world on its feet! We are accused of repeating obselete analyses, of standing outside history, but communism represents the future, the necessary euthanasia of a system that is now damaging and in decay. It is not an ideology amongst many others: it is the movement that changes the present state of things, carried forward by the masses who are obliged to fight against capitalism from conditions that are increasingly less sustainable, guided by their revolutionary avant-garde, internationally organised in the communist party! This is what we work towards.
It is time to be clear about what we are fighting for, without falling into reformist traps!
Class struggle exclusively for the defence of our class interests, independently of compatibility with the national or company economy. Defeatism against our own national States!
Only a movement with these objectives and a class war guided right to the end by the revolutionary party can oppose war: a whole different thing from whining speeches and pacific processions of well-meaning blabbermouths!
