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.
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