A Manifesto for revolutionary defeatism!

The war in Ukraine, like all capitalist wars, is a war against the working class: a war against the working class in Ukraine, who are used as cannon fodder for the defence of imperialist NATO in the interests of the rotten homeland, and a war against the working class in Russia, who are sent to the front to kill and die on the nation’s grueling altar. And indirectly, war against all working–class people, from the EU to those in the NATO countries and on to the “holy coffin of the motherland”! We, the exploited of capital, pay dearly for all this: for the supply of arms, for increasing defence spending, for the strengthening and development of military and industrial complexes, and above all by cutting wages and pensions, by the blood–spreading deterioration of health care, and by rising prices. Capitalism’s existence in the death valley is radically worsening our already shit–filled and rotten lives. capital is turning an increasing proportion of the wealth produced by the working class into war, turning the war economy into a state of emergency.

The opportunity to fight against capital is at the disposal of the working class – but the firing order is in the hands of capital!

So your weapon against Capital and the bourgeoisie is to aim and shoot at them!

And why this vehement defeatism?

“The horror of war projected from afar inevitably triggers waves of anger, pity, regret, and feelings of powerlessness that our bosses and their states themselves exploit to steer any awakening resistance into an impasse of charity. They manipulate us into making false partisan decisions in favor of one war party or another. This is the real fog of war, trying to blind us to what should be obvious – the bosses on both sides are our enemies because workers on both sides are suffering and dying in action, in anticipation of our class solidarity.”

Because our weapons are generally aimed at capital, and, at a particular level, at the nation–state in both wars, and we must pull the trigger, not for peace (Faced with the horrors of war, it is easy to make the mistake of crying helplessly for peace. But capitalist peace is not peace. Such a “peace” is in fact a continuation of the one that gives birth to war again and again) but for the communist revolution.

Only the communist revolution will abolish the relation of master and servant, the civilization of private property!

But why is it revolutionary if you fire at them? Because the bullets can set off a vulcanic eruption of internationalist proletarian revolution. The democracy of capital is a mausoleum of the brain dead; we must destroy the reproductive mechanism itself by destroying the capitalist world! Self–defence in war is also, like it or not, the defence of the rotten capital and its nations, which promise nothing but more intensive wage–labour, and only the vigorous and determined radicalism of class struggle can free our lives from the prison of capitalism! What reason do you have to defend your exploiter and his nation?

“The Ukrainian state, for its part, is neither “better” nor “less bad”, nor more or less “fascist” or democratic than the Russian state, since it is qualitatively no different from the latter, but only quantitatively, since it is smaller and has less imperialist power, but is just as bourgeois and anti–proletarian.“

Death to capital and its nations; death to wage labour, death to class history!

Let us look around, beyond the virtual reality that dreams of luxury: in front of us, misery, agony, wage labour, death, fear and addiction, a stagnation, nihilism, self–abandonment. The working class everywhere is in a state of defeat, lacking self–organisation and vegetating in self–consciousness, leaving us no alternative: to live for the sake of our will to live, in the fever of wanting a new life, against deprivation, and everywhere against our dispossession. By bringing the “absurd” to life, we want the unthinkable, the impossible, against the dystopia of today. Life where life lives! Not for 5 meter plasma TVs, bought kisses, smartphones of 2027, or other commodity–heavens, but to make the revolutionary defeatism come true. The revolutionaries’ manifesto against war has always been and is still this: let us transform the imperialist war into a class war for the communist revolution!