We Need a Revolution: Part I

 

When capitalism went down hard in the 1930's the world was unquestionably ruled by white people.  China was a basket-case and India was ruled by the British.  Japan was the only truly autonomous non-white country.  And in the 1930's, the rise of tariffs in all the European nations, the USA and Canada, and Australia, devastated its export-oriented economy.  There was a non-capitalist Soviet Union pursuing its autarchic industrialization.  This served as something of a threat to the capitalist countries.  Communists and socialists were rising political movements in their many countries.

Then, as now, the capitalist class wasn't smart enough to have invented fascism to save itself from socialism.  Mussolini, Hitler, and others arose organically from out of societies in distress from the First World War, the post-war dislocations and then the Great Depression.  But the capitalists in Germany and Italy certainly saw how useful they were to push-back against the challenge from socialism.

Britain, France, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries, Canada, the USA, Australia, ... maintained social cohesiveness.  Spain went socialist and then fascist.

In the end there was a war. The war replaced the suppressed demand caused by capitalist inequality and financial sector mismanagement with state-subsidized industrial expansion and full employment.  The greater resources of the USA, the British Empire and Commonwealth, and the Soviet Union produced their victory and gave the Soviets forty-five years of super-power status and the Anglo-American bloc seventy-five years of global hegemony.

 

We are now in a slow-motion, drawn-out crisis similar to that of the 1930's.  Except that this time our elites have knowledge (gained through experience) of public-sector financial management, social welfare policies, and propaganda/brainwashing that has so far allowed them to remain securely in power.  They aren't consciously aware of this.  They insist on un-learning all the lessons of the 20th Century in order to pursue their short-term narcissistic goals.  But the continued immiseration of the public, the homeless camps, the rise in household debt and insecurity, combined with the growing inequality and the elites' short-sighted, narcissistic compulsions to destroy those few remaining concessions to reality (welfare policies, fiscal and monetary policies) that provide some comforts for the majority, have led to a return to fascism.

Immigrants are scapegoated.  The lunatic ambitions of the zionist project in Palestine add fuel to the fire.  But this time there is no Soviet Union and no domestic socialist movements of any importance.  There is China and there is Russia.  Czarist Russia was backwards.  Soviet Russia was a clumsy colossus.  21st-Century Russia is a battle-hardened, resource-rich, militarily-focused, independent, more experienced nation.  Sobered by the fall of its empire.  China is an economic and technological powerhouse constrained by the realization that when the population's needs outstrip the resource/economic base, disaster follows.

India, Brazil, Iran, ... they're strong enough now to not be pushed around.

 

Israel was the last case of a European colonialist society.  After 1945, every other European imperialist country was formally giving up their colonies and settler societies (like Canada, the USA, South Africa) had ceased expanding, with some of them making at least token steps to ameliorate some of the worst aspects of their racist pasts.  (South Africa intensified its apartheid regime, but formal white political supremacy was lost by the 1990s.)

Meanwhile, Israeli zionists, to the present day, believe in a racist fantasy of a "Greater Israel" encompassing parts of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.  This while continuing to impose intense apartheid on the Palestinians and expanding into the West Bank.

If Israel and the United States are defeated in this crisis, it means the end of the era of European imperialism.

And that is what Iran intends.

Can Iran do it?

 I don't know obviously.  I don't have access to inside information about US and Israeli military hardware and tactics.  Nor do I have information about the Iranian side.  But I have seen the results of the June 2025 12-Day War and I saw that Israel was about to be completely overwhelmed after two weeks of fighting.  And at that time, Iran hadn't taken out the USA's radar installations in the Arab puppet dictatorships.  Last June, the Israelis had 30 minutes warning about incoming Iranian strikes.  Now it's said that is down to five minutes.

That's enough for today. 

Pete Hegseth: Imbecile

War Secretary Pete Hegseth is the sort of person whose entire view of the world is informed by his utter stupidity.  He does not understand the world.  He does not understand how to interact with other people.  In his confusion he says and does stupid things and other people regard him with contempt.  Which makes him angry.

Hegseth is afraid of things that are different from him.  That is why he is racist.  He has to believe that he is superior to non-white people because he sees them as threats and the best way to defend his self-confidence is to embrace white supremacy. 

Hegseth is afraid of women because they are different.  Because they sometimes deny him what he wants.  He is vulnerable to them and it kills him when they don't submit to him.  So he joins a church that ordains that women be submissive to men and even advocates taking the vote away from them.

I don't know if Hegseth suffered any childhood traumas (physical or emotional abuse, neglect, whatever) or if his fear and anger is entirely caused by his inherent stupidity.  Whatever the case, Hegseth needs to belief in large, powerful things to sustain his world.  "God" is the all-powerful father who controls the world.  The United States of America is the greatest country in the world and can  never be defeated.  Trump is the great leader, chosen by God to lead the USA to greatness by defeating its enemies, both external and internal.

It is an indictment of USA society that such a complete moron has been elevated to such a powerful position.  The whole MAGA movement is so disgustingly stupid and deluded.  The whole culture has become so debased.  Some sort of painful catharsis will be needed to purge this whole political bowel movement.

This regeneration will not come from the Democratic Party.  A political party that leaves itself open to criticism when its members complain about Trump's genuine mental deterioration, because they themselves foisted a dementia patient on the electorate, is incapable of what is needed to bring sanity back to the USA.

 

CBC Propaganda

 

All throughout the ongoing genocide in Gaza, if you only read CBC News, you could be forgiven for not grasping that a genocide is happening.  So little did they, and have they, reported on it.  (This would not be the case for readers of the National Pestilence, which celebrates it with perverted glee, like the racist subhumans that they are.)

I suppose the same could be said about the Russia-Ukraine War.  There you would have followed a progression; from Russia's dastardly "unprovoked" assault, to their subsequent unspeakable war-crimes, to their massive losses and incompetence combined with their grave threat to rest of Europe despite those losses and incompetence, arriving at the "stalemate" as plucky Ukraine continues to resist.  (Case in point of the mainstream media's garbage coverage was their reporting that the [fascist] Azov Battalion's being "evacuated" from Mariupol.  When, by "evacuated" they meant "surrendered into captivity.")

If you blinked you might have missed the perfunctory mentioning of Putin's attempts to negotiate a security agreement with NATO based on formalizing Ukraine's traditional neutrality and their dismissal by NATO leaders.  Perhaps the CBC provided some brief accounts of the massive corruption that diverted NATO military and financial assistance for Ukraine into the black market and the bank accounts of prominent Ukrainian oligarchs, politicians and fascists.  Some US mainstream media reported briefly on these matters so it's possible the CBC did as well.  

But the main point is that from any of these mainstream propaganda outlets, you would never know that Ukraine has lost at least 500,000 men while Russia's losses are only around 100,000 (as opposed to the million dead that NATO claims). 

I've noticed the same sort of stupidity when it comes to reporting about the USA and Israel's illegal attack on Iran.  Let's look at today's headlines as a case in point:

Mark Carney's Brain

 

I got a delayed email response from my MP about how the Liberals' wholehearted support for Israeli apartheid and genocide has disgraced Canada.  It was a pathetic string of empty platitudes and outright stupidity.  We continue to give aid through UNRWA.  Canada remains committed to a "Two-State Solution."  Canada defends Palestinian self-governance without Hamas.  

A Quick Note About Money

 

According to the Canadian government itself, they've provided $25 billion in aid to Ukraine since 2022.

 Since February 2022, Canada has committed more than $25.5 billion in overall multifaceted aid to Ukraine, including $8.5 billion in military assistance.

Trump Attacks Iran

 

Despite his bluster, Trump was sensing that his moment had passed.  The Supreme Court struck down his tariffs.  His raping of adolescent girls was going to come back to haunt him.  Whatever he thought would be the results of his economic policies, the reality is that the people are worse off than they were before.  And this includes those who believed he'd bring prices down soon after his inauguration.  He doesn't know what to do about the Russia-Ukraine war because he's delusional and stupid.  He genuinely believes the garbage about Russia's having suffered over a million dead from wasteful "human wave" assaults for which there is no photographic evidence.  Therefore he thought that Putin was desperate for peace at any price. At the same time, Trump very much wanted to exploit and humiliate Ukraine.  So he pursued a contradictory policy of insulting both parties in the war and has consequently achieved nothing.  He has successfully created a racist gestapo in ICE (while the pathetic Democrats have done nothing to restrain them other than to request they wear body-cams to record their criminal behaviour) but he has been disappointed that the bulk of the US-American people don't share his racist glee at the abuse of brown people.  In his ignorance and stupidity he didn't anticipate the cratering of support for him from Latinos as they all find themselves targets for racist abuse from ICE agents (some of whom are Latinos themselves, because racists are uniformly stupid people).

Ford Orders Province's Workers Back To Offices But Has No Spaces For Them

 

Corrupt, gluttonous Doug Ford just didn't like the idea of many of the province's workers continuing to do their jobs remotely, from home.  Just because it didn't negatively impact productivity and some reports said it was more efficient as well as better for the workers' mental health was no reason to carry on with the policy (first adopted in response to the COVID pandemic).  No.  "Work" is performed in a "workplace" under the direct supervision of a BOSS.  That's just the way that things are.  So back to the office they had to go.

Except, fat, lazy, stupid, corrupt Doug Ford didn't bother to rent the space for his workers to go to: