The principle I'm going to explain now is a temporary Vanguard Dictatorship. Now as we know immediately after the Revolution a power vacuum is inevitable, and we know that this power vacuum cannot immediately be filled by the Communistic social structure. Thus, it is necessary to install a Vanguard Party, or a Political Party made up of those who truly represent and serve the people and the Revolution, which would then take power in the Revolutionary country. The Vanguard Party will then establish itself and it will bring about the process of consolidation between the people and the new Revolutionary society. This Party will then begin to institute the policies of Anarcho-Marxism, such as abolition of private property, mass nationalization, de-centralization of the state, the setting up of mass committees in which everyone can participate in the running of their own lives. As these policies start to take effect and the Revolutionary Socialist Society begins to develop into an Anarcho-Communist one, the people will begin more and more to run their own lives and to govern society themselves. Thus, after about 5 - 7 years the need for a Vanguard Party will fade away and, in accordance with the Anarcho-Communistic society, as the need for it fades the Vanguard Party itself will fade away too, creating a true Anarcho-Communist society without money, class, or the state.
However, the Vanguard Party shall have to consolidate the people with the Revolution in its immediate aftermath. Of course we know, by common sense, that the dethroned ruling class will not want to give up its power or its profit: it will fight back with armies, terrorism, etc. Thus, in the immediate aftermath of the Revolution there is a very serious and veryy real threat of Counter-Revolution. Thus, materials harmful to the Revolution must be gotten rid of: this includes books, essays, films, TV series, internet links and websites - everything which might bring about the risk of Counter-Revolution. However, as Anarcho-Communism takes hold and Class structure, the Vanguard Party and the state begin to fade, teh risk of Counter-Revolution, too, will fade, because the classes that want to fight back will disappear as Class and Class Structure in general disappears. Thus, after a certain time (1, 2, 5, perhaps 7 years) these things, books, essays, films, TV series, Internet links and websites will be restored, re-released to the general public because they will no-longer be dangerous. Even people arrested and not vaporized under Revolutionary justice will be released into the general public.
This is not to say that the Revolutionary society shall descend into an Authoritarian State: people will still be allowed to criticise, write and publish books and essays, make films and put up websites, as only pre-existing records need to be gotten rid of. So some degree of personal and mass 'freedom' will still exist, and we shall not become a Stalinist State. And the freedom increases as the risk of Counter-Revolution and, eventually, the Vanguard Party itself fades away.
Of course, some people will have to be 'gotten rid of'. The criminals of the old regime; the monopoly corporate officials, the huge bankers, the generals, the war criminals, the high-ranking government officials, etc. will be given public trials. And by public trials I do not just mean a trial where the public gets access to the proceedings, I mean a trial where the public decides the fate of the criminal. There will be mass gatherings in the courts, the evidence will be shown, and then the people will vote on what to do with the criminal. And by vote, I do not just mean choosing options that the Vanguard Party gives them, I mean they write down their sentence on pieces of paper.
But of course many will have to be gotten rid of, including bankers, CEOs, Government Officials, Religious Extremists, Fascists, Racists, etc. as these people are very great threats and the leading advocaters of Counter-Revolution, not to mention the fact that they are criminals, exploiters and persecuters anyway.
The last thing I will say is that it is to be encouraged that people work for the good of the whole of society above their own personal gain: put the community above themselves. Because if everyone works for the good of everyone else, then each individual's life will be improved, and that individual improves the lives of everyone else too.
So Comrades, the temporary Vanguard Dictatorship may have to be brutal and may have to use considerable repression and brutality to do that, but if we look at the results we can see that, in this case at least, the end certainly justifies the means: it wil be worth it in the long run.
Hasta la Victoria Siempre! Viva La Revolucion!
Thursday, 28 February 2013
The Revolution!
Right, so, I have a blog now. I don't quite know how to work it, how to get to it, how to send messages or anything like that but...well, I could do with some help. But Mark my words, Comrades, once I get this thing really up and running then I can get an audience and spread knowledge and the Revolutionary ideal to everyone whom I can find. Hasta la Victoria Siempre, Viva la Revloucion!
A Critique of the Established Order
My friends, my Comrades, the established order and the way of things is beginning to fall apart. You see, Comrades, for decades now there has been an established, e.g. Capitalist, Westernized way of things, and this has seen oppression all over the world. Whereas to the west, like the U.S.A, Canada and Europe, Capitalism has brough prosperity, growth and profit, the case is not the same across the rest of the world. For example in Latin and South America, many puppet governments were installed to safeguard the interests of the U.S in the region; the puppet governments were mostly harsh dictatorships which denied freedom of speech, punished questioning let alone criticism of the government and either locked up or killed anyone even vaguely on the left. The way things were done in these Latin and South American countries were simple: a person claiming to be an anti-Communist (usually a right-wing extremist or a high-ranking military officer) was funded by the U.S and Europe to stage a coup. The country then became a dictatorship in which all forces of the state including police, secret police, the military and the special forces, were used to 'keep the people quiet' and silence any criticism or questioning. They were places in which a a person could be ordered under threat of execution to do something by the police, and then be arrested and executed for carrying out the order by the military. What's more, these police forces didn't crack down on real criminals, just people who criticised the government. Therefore, as long as you kept your mouth shut about politics, you could become very powerful in the underground, criminal society; hense why it is drug lords and arms dealers, not governments, who control much of the urban population of Latin and South America.
We must also look at India. This is a nation with a space programe, and yet millions upon millions of people live in slums on wages of perhaps $40 dollars a month with very little if any electricity and conditions so bad that disease is rampant. This has been brought on because these people are not wealthy enough to take part in Capitalist competition, and they are not wealthy enough because Capitalist competition has made the things they need to compete too expensive; thus they are driven to poverty because they cannot compete, and they cannot compete because of competition.
We also look at Africa. People these days do not like to discuss Africa, thinking it a 'lost' or a 'hopeless' place. Why is that? Well, most of the African nations, having taken out massive loans from European and American sources, are now in so much debt that they have to 'scrape the bottom of the barrel' to pay it off, and thus they cannot afford to do anything for their people such as establish decent healthcare or education systems. Their people have been reduced to dire poverty, hardship and often famine because they need to pay of their massive debt. The strange thing is, whereas the African nations cannot aford to pay their debt, the nations they are paying it to (e.g. Europe and America) can afford to go without it. What's more, because Africa is so ignored because of its apparent 'hopelessness', people can get away with things in Africa that anywhere else in the world they'd be either locked up for life or executed for. These activities include trafficing vast numbers of people and drugs, doing illegal arms deals worth sometimes tens of millions and, most ominously of all, committing genocide on a massive scale. There are seven peacekeeping missions going on right now in Africa alone, and they are not working. Hundreds of so-called 'rebel' groups (which they are not, because rebels actively rebel against tyranny and oppression, they don't cause it) are fighting governments and committing atrocities all over Africa. M23 is causing mass destruction in D.R Congo, Kony and his rebels are committing atrocities and kidnapping children to use as child soldiers in Uganda, Muslim extremist groups are waging civil wars and vicious armed conflicts in Somalia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria and along the Sudan-South Sudan border. These groups are committing massacres, and the world is simply looking the other way. What's more, the governments of Africa are not much better. Whereas the U.S descreetly funnels the wealth to 1% of the population, the African leaders simply hoard it, and whereas the rich in the U.S invest or found companies, the African leaders splash out on palaces, private armies, national armies and simply indulge themselves. When the people of Africa question whether this is right, like in Zimbabway, Nigeria, Kenya or Angola, the government shuts them up by locking them up and killing them. Africa really is in a pit of despair, ruin and hatred, and it is Capitalism and the Capitalist system that has inflicted this hardship on the over 1bn people of the African continent.
Even in the former bastions of Capitalism, the United States and Europe, things are no longer going so well. Essentially, competition became more expensive here too, not just between different companies, but between nations in the case of Europe, and between conglomorates in the U.S. Therefore, the European nations had to borrow more than they were able to pay back from other European nations as well as from the U.S, and now that the time has come to pay the money back, and they can't, cuts and the vicious programme of austerity have gripped Europe. This austerity policy is meant to solve the European economic problem, and the face of austerity is German chancellor Angela Merkel. However, this austerity is forcing people out of work, the people that are working have to work a lot longer and for lower wages, and higher (in some cases unpayable) taxes are placed upon the people. This has sporned into the so-called Eurozone crisis, and all the economic problems of every uropean nations are the fault of the Eurozone crisis, and why? Because the Capitalist economies are so interlinked that no event can happen in any one nation without effecting the others and, since the events are almost always extremely bad, the effect on other nations is terrible too. In Greece, we have seen violent street protests, Anarchist and Golden Dawn patrols and a call from Golden Dawn (the far-right) for Civil War against what they call the 'emigrant influence' in Greece, as well as bombs and tear gas in the streets. In Spain, we have seen a strike and are soon going to witness a general strike, in Portugal we have seen demonstrations that have shaken the government to the roots, in the UK we have seen mass Union action and a number of demonstrations, in Italy violent clashes with police, in France the election of a Socialist government, in Austria the Communists taking over the Social-Democrats in the polls and so on. The only nation not in termoil is Germany, because she is the only nation that can afford all this without going bust.
The U.S eonomy is relatively stable compared to that of Europe. She makes out that she is in terrible debt and that her economy is crumbling. In reality the U.S economy is stable, and has been kept that way through the brutal oppression of the working and even the middle classes, and that is no exaggeration either.
If we look at the situation, then, the state of the worl under the established order is decaying fast, and it seems a question of not 'if' but 'when' in terms of massive upheavals and Revolutionary change: we have already seen the Arab Spring and the Civil Wars in those countries. It seems only a matter of time before anti-Capitalist Revolution spreads throughout the globe. The direction in which that Revolution will go is as yet uncertain, but one thing is for sure: its task, no-matter what its convictions, will be to throw the oppressive Capitalist system to the ground and crush it under the might of the oppressed mass of the global population. My friends, that is exactly what will happen; it is only a matter of time.
We must also look at India. This is a nation with a space programe, and yet millions upon millions of people live in slums on wages of perhaps $40 dollars a month with very little if any electricity and conditions so bad that disease is rampant. This has been brought on because these people are not wealthy enough to take part in Capitalist competition, and they are not wealthy enough because Capitalist competition has made the things they need to compete too expensive; thus they are driven to poverty because they cannot compete, and they cannot compete because of competition.
We also look at Africa. People these days do not like to discuss Africa, thinking it a 'lost' or a 'hopeless' place. Why is that? Well, most of the African nations, having taken out massive loans from European and American sources, are now in so much debt that they have to 'scrape the bottom of the barrel' to pay it off, and thus they cannot afford to do anything for their people such as establish decent healthcare or education systems. Their people have been reduced to dire poverty, hardship and often famine because they need to pay of their massive debt. The strange thing is, whereas the African nations cannot aford to pay their debt, the nations they are paying it to (e.g. Europe and America) can afford to go without it. What's more, because Africa is so ignored because of its apparent 'hopelessness', people can get away with things in Africa that anywhere else in the world they'd be either locked up for life or executed for. These activities include trafficing vast numbers of people and drugs, doing illegal arms deals worth sometimes tens of millions and, most ominously of all, committing genocide on a massive scale. There are seven peacekeeping missions going on right now in Africa alone, and they are not working. Hundreds of so-called 'rebel' groups (which they are not, because rebels actively rebel against tyranny and oppression, they don't cause it) are fighting governments and committing atrocities all over Africa. M23 is causing mass destruction in D.R Congo, Kony and his rebels are committing atrocities and kidnapping children to use as child soldiers in Uganda, Muslim extremist groups are waging civil wars and vicious armed conflicts in Somalia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria and along the Sudan-South Sudan border. These groups are committing massacres, and the world is simply looking the other way. What's more, the governments of Africa are not much better. Whereas the U.S descreetly funnels the wealth to 1% of the population, the African leaders simply hoard it, and whereas the rich in the U.S invest or found companies, the African leaders splash out on palaces, private armies, national armies and simply indulge themselves. When the people of Africa question whether this is right, like in Zimbabway, Nigeria, Kenya or Angola, the government shuts them up by locking them up and killing them. Africa really is in a pit of despair, ruin and hatred, and it is Capitalism and the Capitalist system that has inflicted this hardship on the over 1bn people of the African continent.
Even in the former bastions of Capitalism, the United States and Europe, things are no longer going so well. Essentially, competition became more expensive here too, not just between different companies, but between nations in the case of Europe, and between conglomorates in the U.S. Therefore, the European nations had to borrow more than they were able to pay back from other European nations as well as from the U.S, and now that the time has come to pay the money back, and they can't, cuts and the vicious programme of austerity have gripped Europe. This austerity policy is meant to solve the European economic problem, and the face of austerity is German chancellor Angela Merkel. However, this austerity is forcing people out of work, the people that are working have to work a lot longer and for lower wages, and higher (in some cases unpayable) taxes are placed upon the people. This has sporned into the so-called Eurozone crisis, and all the economic problems of every uropean nations are the fault of the Eurozone crisis, and why? Because the Capitalist economies are so interlinked that no event can happen in any one nation without effecting the others and, since the events are almost always extremely bad, the effect on other nations is terrible too. In Greece, we have seen violent street protests, Anarchist and Golden Dawn patrols and a call from Golden Dawn (the far-right) for Civil War against what they call the 'emigrant influence' in Greece, as well as bombs and tear gas in the streets. In Spain, we have seen a strike and are soon going to witness a general strike, in Portugal we have seen demonstrations that have shaken the government to the roots, in the UK we have seen mass Union action and a number of demonstrations, in Italy violent clashes with police, in France the election of a Socialist government, in Austria the Communists taking over the Social-Democrats in the polls and so on. The only nation not in termoil is Germany, because she is the only nation that can afford all this without going bust.
The U.S eonomy is relatively stable compared to that of Europe. She makes out that she is in terrible debt and that her economy is crumbling. In reality the U.S economy is stable, and has been kept that way through the brutal oppression of the working and even the middle classes, and that is no exaggeration either.
If we look at the situation, then, the state of the worl under the established order is decaying fast, and it seems a question of not 'if' but 'when' in terms of massive upheavals and Revolutionary change: we have already seen the Arab Spring and the Civil Wars in those countries. It seems only a matter of time before anti-Capitalist Revolution spreads throughout the globe. The direction in which that Revolution will go is as yet uncertain, but one thing is for sure: its task, no-matter what its convictions, will be to throw the oppressive Capitalist system to the ground and crush it under the might of the oppressed mass of the global population. My friends, that is exactly what will happen; it is only a matter of time.
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