Woke Imperialism is Still Imperialism
Any hope of salvaging society must come through socialism, not through the imperial war machine, no matter how “woke” it may be.
Any hope of salvaging society must come through socialism, not through the imperial war machine, no matter how “woke” it may be.
Militant unionism and working-class solidarity may be our only hope. We must break the capitalist machine in order to survive.
As the failures of the Squad prove, sending individuals to the heart of the machine will not change the machine, it will change the individuals. The parties and their machinations are too powerful.
The two dominant factions of our politics, conservatives and liberals, often wage wars of rhetoric and culture against one another but actually work together.
The capitalist dumping of externalities is oppressing and killing the best of humanity.
If work is really to be a second home, each workplace must be organized, unionized at the bare minimum, and made into a real community where each worker does fulfilling work while receiving the full value of their labors.
“That this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.”
It will take true revolutionary action to overcome the corrupt system that murdered the Haymarket martyrs and continues to oppress the working class to this day.
Lenin defined imperialism succinctly as follows, “If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.”