The Age of Liberal Revolutions Never Ended
The war against reaction, not class struggle, is the fundamental conflict.
The Age of Liberal Revolutions never ended and we continue to live in an era where they, including ours in the United States, are under direct assault by reactionary powers. The erasure of this state of affairs is deliberate and purposefully obscures what a true radical agenda in the United States would look like.
A truly radical USian agenda would have nothing to do with giving rich kids free money or racists a higher minimum wage, The Palestinians, or, bizarrely, a modern twist on 20th-century geoengineering fantasies.
A truly radical agenda would consist of mass mobilization for total war against the Axis and nothing else.
It would be mass rearmament. Increasing the defense budget by five, ten, forty, then eighty times from current levels - higher than what the US spent in 1944 but still only about three times current US annual GDP levels. For the new left/liberal MMT evangelists who are suspiciously shy about running up a bill to defeat the new fascist Axis swiftly and mercilessly but who can’t wait to give us all personal charging stations, Japan already has a national debt twice as large as its annual GDP.
The sudden penny-pinching is the tell. There was not a single great war in modern history that wasn’t followed by unprecedented gains in social and cultural liberalization. This is contrary to leftist dogma about the nature of wars against and between reactionary powers.
Wars only weaken reactionaries and redistribute combat capital to “the workers” and away from praetorian units such regimes traditionally rely on to maintain order. As such, wars against and between reactionary powers should be encouraged whenever possible. At a certain point, revolution is not a feasible path to overcoming existing means of social control.
Even the Iran-Iraq War gave way to the doomed 1991 Iraqi Uprisings, no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq, and a general weakening of Saddam. The war also degraded the Islamic Republic’s ability to fully implement its agenda within Iran and to export itself. Likewise, the current level of freedoms and democratic representation in the United States only exist due to the previous war against the 20th century’s Axis and the later efforts to contain the Soviet Union, which provided a material base for implementing radical social changes within the United States.
True radicalism is the annihilation of reaction in the flesh and blood. Not paying off its student loans. Not giving it $15 an hour. Not begging it to emit less carbon. Which is why leftists and the liberals they have compromised are so intent of ending the (nonexistent) “foreverwars” (while enabling the Axis in waging their real ones), implementing demilitarization, and achieving “peace” with the Axis.
A truly radical project in the United States would be centered on defending and exporting the Civil Rights Revolution by force of arms. Not by the pseudo-opposition of Warrenism that fake “China hawks” like to push, but by hard military power - the one thing all leftists and left-exposed liberals contort themselves to avoid. This is why all leftists and left-compromised liberals sided against the Arab Spring and with the then-nascent Axis that formed around crushing it (before retconning themselves as devoted revolutionaries after 2013/2014).
The Arab Spring represents the opening of a mass new front against a reactionary belt that had escaped previous upswells in neighboring regions. As leftists are inimically opposed to liberation and at all times seek collaboration with reactionary elements due to their adherence to a false ideology now rooted purely in anti-Americanism, they of course, sided with the Axis, openly or, more lethally, tacitly while aping opposition, even as it turned to fascism as a counterrevolutionary tool.
It doesn’t take much to see where this leftist warmismia leads and what it has in store for us if left to go unchallenged.
There is one simple reason why leftists are always in the service of fascists across time and space - the Age of Liberal Revolutions never ended, but all leftist ideology is premised on the notion that it has.
Marx and his princeling comrades positioned class struggle as the real battleground for liberation even as emergent liberal democracies and their forerunners have consistently struggled for their very survival against reactionary powers.
It’s no coincidence that so many prominent Marxist/greater “Left” figures come from disposessed nobility. Centering class struggle as the “real” liberation struggle affords them a way to bypass the leveling effects of free societies and reclaim their former privileges by assuming a vanguard role in a revolution against “bourgeois” democracy.
That this rejection of war against reactionaries always leads to the indiscriminate massacre of leftists is of no matter to them, because they simply exist as hosts for reaction. Having served their purpose as its incubator, they are historically disposed of freely once the parasite reaches maturity.
That’s why Rosa Luxemburg agitated so feverishly against the war. If she wanted a successful liberatory project, she should have been the most vocal supporter of Germany’s war on the grounds that the Allies could finally destroy the Junker power base. She should have worked to sabotage the Armistice, not fight for it. The military destruction of the Central Powers would have opened the way to revolutions across Europe, Asia, and Africa. Instead of completing Princip’s work, the future Freikorps members she spent years trying save murdered her for her efforts.
That’s also why Lenin’s implementation of revolutionary defeatism and his ensuing 1917 coup wasn’t directed against the Tsar but in service of his German allies against the then-successful Kerensky Offensive and Russia’s new democracy. It’s also no coincidence that in their joint struggle against the c*pitalists, the USSR later served as Nazi Germany’s great storehouse - which they looted anyway.
That’s also why leftists are so eager to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher while decrying the Falklands War. That’s also why they bring up Operation Condor to score sympathy points whenever anyone suggests the US do more than simply sit and take Axis blows. Without the Falklands War, the Galtieri’s regime, which was the fulcrum of Operation Condor and which alone was responsible for a plurality of the executions of “fellow leftists” through its Dirty War, would have persisted for years longer than it did and might even remain in power today, giving leftist more martyrs they crave. But eye on the ball of advancing reaction as always, leftists invoke how Thatcher was friendly with Pinochet to derail having to engage with any of the above.
Leftists can only ever serve as saboteurs for reactionaries, yet they have been allowed to set the discourse for what true radicalism would look like. As such, the idea of a new Grand Army of the Republic facing the Axis with its terrible swift sword and fulfilling the promise of Reconstruction, a vision which destroyed a world-historic criminal entity that actually was fundamentally rooted in white supremacy, is actively banished from the popular conscience.
The growing consensus pseudoradical vision that leftists and liberals are converging toward is premised on a subversion of the liberatory promise of wokeism, the energies of which are redirected into varying flavors of America First From The Left. We will not see true Reconstructionism. We will not live to make others free. We will be simply be ready to take in refugees as the Axis scours the planet of undesirables, lowering emissions in Fortress America as liberals beg not to be put on the block themselves and leftists eagerly slit their own throats for the fascists.
You are arguing for perpetual warfare. And accusing everyone ELSE of being fascists. Cute. Maybe go join the military if you want to go kill people so badly. Go do anything at all with your life. Quit posting blogs that just exist to let people insult you and make you sad. Go fight for your moronic beliefs. You coward.
Hey Bappin what are your thoughts on Mao?