The progress of globalization, accelerated in recent decades by the development of communications and transport, has involved
every region of the planet in the hellish cycles of capitalist
production. Production, based on the exploitation of waged labour and
aimed exclusively at profit, is a volcano that constantly produces
goods, mostly useless, in ever-increasing quantities. But capitalism,
now in its phase of full economic, as well as intellectual and moral
decline, tries to survive by exploiting every resource of the planet,
natural and human.
Political and economic power have been
concentrated in the hands of a few members of the bourgeoisie at the
head of very large companies, which own or control wealth comparable to
that of an entire state and dominate the fate of the entire world.
But it is Capital, an anonymous
uncontrollable historical force, that determines the permanent clash
between the different capitalists and national groups of capitalists and
drags them inexorably towards the abyss of financial catastrophe.
If, on the one hand, the extreme
concentration of Capital increases, collects, strengthens and unifies
the working class, on the other, together with the crisis of
overproduction, it also ruthlessly ruins the small-bourgeois, mercantile
and productive classes, who are now socially powerless, deprived of any
historical role and program – even when they express their noisy
rebellion, as we have seen recently with the Yellow Vests in France.
Meanwhile, because of both the
unstoppable progress of the crisis and the emergence of the new
capitalist colossus, China, which has upset the previous imperialist
balance of forces, the old international tensions have been exacerbated
and new ones added. Already the major states have started the trade war,
by means of tariffs, embargoes and blackmail, and local armed conflicts
are being rekindled. It has now been proven that capitalism will never
be able to keep its promise of ensuring a peaceful and harmonious
development for the human species.
On the contrary, the bourgeoisie is
rearming its military forces in preparation for a new general
imperialist conflict, in which they would call tens of millions of
proletarians to massacre each other: while the misery of working
humanity is growing, hundreds of billions of dollars are poured into the
production of ever more lethal weapons.
But the world war, this desperate last
throw of the dice by the dying capitalist monster, will only impose
itself after having divided the forces of its historical adversary, the
international working class, pitting proletarians against proletarians.
A nauseating “sovereign”, racist and xenophobic campaign has already
started everywhere, with the sole aim of breaking the unity of the
proletariat above the borders and preparing it for a new war.
The pretext for this foul propaganda is
the displacement of millions of men, who have always left the poorest
countries, today in Africa, Asia, Latin America, a displacement which is
itself imposed by capitalism; on the one hand, capitalism forces a
growing mass of underprivileged people into misery through its rapacious
imperialist exploitation, and on the other hand it has an insatiable
demand for cheap labour.
Millions more desperate people are
forced to flee endless wars, fomented by the imperialist bourgeoisie to
grab natural resources or to occupy areas of strategic and military
importance, such as the Middle East or Central Africa.
Capitalism has turned the world into
hell for those who work. Proletarians everywhere see their conditions
and presumed securities demolished day by day by the attacks of the
ruling class, which is driven only by the lust for profit, and which
today takes advantage of the weakness of the working class, threatened
as it is by the economic crisis. Cutting wages, increasing hours and
workloads, reducing any guarantee of employment, assistance in
maternity, old age and illness are the measures taken by the bourgeoisie
to defend their profits. The economic crisis, caused by the falling rate
of profit and the overproduction of goods, pushes the bosses to
intensify the exploitation of workers involved in the production process
while others, more and more, are condemned to unemployment.
In many countries, some of the workers
are foreign immigrants, very often forced into illegality and
blackmailed by the threat of expulsion; this wickedness, which is close
to slavery, is maintained by the bourgeois state in order to increase
competition between workers, poison their feelings and divide their
forces.
Instead, a single historical force
stands objectively in front of Capital: the international proletariat,
organized as a class, united above nationalities and races. This
proletariat will once again become a class for itself, not a commodity
for Capital, it will defend its living and working conditions by
reconstituting its class unions, an indispensable instrument to unite
its forces against the bosses’ attack. In this way it will learn both to
expose the trade unions loyal to the bourgeois regime and the
opportunistic parties that are false friends, and to wage war against
the political, police and military apparatus that protects it.
It will be led in this real class war by
its vanguard, who will have joined the Communist Party, revolutionary
and international, and its historically invariant program that cries
out:
Proletarians have no country!
As class brothers and sisters, they will find themselves
united in the world struggle for the overthrow of the regime of capital,
for Communism!