Another great piece! This reminds me of a debate I got into with my brother three years ago as he started dropping all his Covid mitigations. He was trying to tell me that there was a reasonable argument for stopping them. When I pressed, however, he admitted that we were in the middle of a mass disabling event and he didn’t see the point of limiting his life because of it. He told me that he wanted to live as best he could for as long as he could in a collapsing world. I feel this is the mindset of so many Neoliberals. They think that the system they perpetuate is inevitable. Not realizing that this belief is what’s making it inevitable. We must keep resisting, even if it seems impossible, because it only becomes impossible when we give up.
Without getting pseudo-religious or conspiratorial, I’m afraid that a world of suffering, anguish, precarity and fear is a boon to the forces of darkness, if not being deliberately constructed by them."
Yes, but also a boost to revolutionary impulses. The times produce two potentials. At the risk of offending anyone, Anarchism is notoriously vague and frankly immature. When people grow up and desire a perspective that is truly revolutionary and consistently anti Capitalist and pro worker, they turn to Marx, Lenin and Trostky.
I think it's high time to get back to their essential texts and start developing revolutionary parties throughout the West again. At this stage of enforced confusion, a variety of these parties should be developed and fight it out for the allegiance of an increasingly angry working class. Through this progress, history produced the Bolsheviks. Say what you like about them, but it's indisputable that their revolution ended WW1 and created the first workers state in history, which was a serious obstacle to US Imperialism for generations.
Yes, it failed, as did many of the wright brothers first flights. That's how new technology is developed. Workers revolution 2.0 is long overdue and the circumstances for its development could not be riper.
But, the first critical step in this direction is identifying all official "left" parties in the West for what they are: Zio Imperialist. The Democratic Party in the United States has developed racial conflict, gender conflict, sexuality conflict, etc precisely to prevent the development of class consciousness and struggle. That false bourgeois consciousness must be smashed for the working class to come together against their class enemies one more time.
As soon as the U.S./Israel war of choice with Iran began, I understood that we have entered the main event. Yes, there are other ominous events unfolding, but a global oil stroke is a keystone.
A force multiplier/escalation trap extraordinaire.
COVID? Climate change? China will manufacture our stuff and sell it to us? (Like the weapons we will use to attack China?) Persistent surveillance? Freedom of assembly and speech?
The questions I pose show that denial is both a state of mental comprehension and the restriction of permission.
I still hold hope that thinking for myself will enhance the possibility for others to to avoid the severe storms that loom.
Or maybe they haven't yet experienced crushing suffering under this system. They are projecting from a position of relative comfort. They're stressed but haven't experienced first-hand the genocide yet.
There is a dictator in Iran, and he is kept there by the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2018 when I wrote and published my book entitled The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times ISBN 978-09725798-3-4, what my research found was that the Iranian people wanted Reza Pahlavi to return to lead Iran, and the protests at the beginning of this year, 2026, showed Iranians holding signs that said Reza Pahlavi return (many Iranians do speak and write English), but after Trump attacked Iran on 28 February 2026, one of my Iranian friends who lives in Iran told me in an Email he sent in reply to my Email to him, that now the Iranian people want the present government to rule. I replied that they are confused.
What the elite want is WWIII in which Albert Pike (1809-1899) predicted that both the state of Israel and Iran will be destroyed. See http://www.truedemocracy.net/td-17/07.html near the very end of that link.
Will we let that happen? I sure hope not. My book will teach people the truth. See comments of it by some of the people who have read it over the years at https://arlenejohnson.livejournal.com The better way to order it is by sending me an Email using Leanybean@protonmail.com for how to transfer £20.00 (20% discount off the original price of my hard bound book for anyone here in the UK) using xe.com. I distribute it myself. Thank you. Arlene Johnson Publisher/Author
It was a cruise ship, they could have handled it. I would love to be quarantined in such luxury.
If it helps, I read you, I'm an anarchist, and I hate AI (and all the bullshit that comes with it).
Another great piece! This reminds me of a debate I got into with my brother three years ago as he started dropping all his Covid mitigations. He was trying to tell me that there was a reasonable argument for stopping them. When I pressed, however, he admitted that we were in the middle of a mass disabling event and he didn’t see the point of limiting his life because of it. He told me that he wanted to live as best he could for as long as he could in a collapsing world. I feel this is the mindset of so many Neoliberals. They think that the system they perpetuate is inevitable. Not realizing that this belief is what’s making it inevitable. We must keep resisting, even if it seems impossible, because it only becomes impossible when we give up.
"And I’m afraid that this is the point.
Without getting pseudo-religious or conspiratorial, I’m afraid that a world of suffering, anguish, precarity and fear is a boon to the forces of darkness, if not being deliberately constructed by them."
Yes, but also a boost to revolutionary impulses. The times produce two potentials. At the risk of offending anyone, Anarchism is notoriously vague and frankly immature. When people grow up and desire a perspective that is truly revolutionary and consistently anti Capitalist and pro worker, they turn to Marx, Lenin and Trostky.
I think it's high time to get back to their essential texts and start developing revolutionary parties throughout the West again. At this stage of enforced confusion, a variety of these parties should be developed and fight it out for the allegiance of an increasingly angry working class. Through this progress, history produced the Bolsheviks. Say what you like about them, but it's indisputable that their revolution ended WW1 and created the first workers state in history, which was a serious obstacle to US Imperialism for generations.
Yes, it failed, as did many of the wright brothers first flights. That's how new technology is developed. Workers revolution 2.0 is long overdue and the circumstances for its development could not be riper.
But, the first critical step in this direction is identifying all official "left" parties in the West for what they are: Zio Imperialist. The Democratic Party in the United States has developed racial conflict, gender conflict, sexuality conflict, etc precisely to prevent the development of class consciousness and struggle. That false bourgeois consciousness must be smashed for the working class to come together against their class enemies one more time.
As soon as the U.S./Israel war of choice with Iran began, I understood that we have entered the main event. Yes, there are other ominous events unfolding, but a global oil stroke is a keystone.
A force multiplier/escalation trap extraordinaire.
Denial is the state of the moment.
COVID? Climate change? China will manufacture our stuff and sell it to us? (Like the weapons we will use to attack China?) Persistent surveillance? Freedom of assembly and speech?
The questions I pose show that denial is both a state of mental comprehension and the restriction of permission.
I still hold hope that thinking for myself will enhance the possibility for others to to avoid the severe storms that loom.
Or maybe they haven't yet experienced crushing suffering under this system. They are projecting from a position of relative comfort. They're stressed but haven't experienced first-hand the genocide yet.
There is a dictator in Iran, and he is kept there by the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2018 when I wrote and published my book entitled The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times ISBN 978-09725798-3-4, what my research found was that the Iranian people wanted Reza Pahlavi to return to lead Iran, and the protests at the beginning of this year, 2026, showed Iranians holding signs that said Reza Pahlavi return (many Iranians do speak and write English), but after Trump attacked Iran on 28 February 2026, one of my Iranian friends who lives in Iran told me in an Email he sent in reply to my Email to him, that now the Iranian people want the present government to rule. I replied that they are confused.
What the elite want is WWIII in which Albert Pike (1809-1899) predicted that both the state of Israel and Iran will be destroyed. See http://www.truedemocracy.net/td-17/07.html near the very end of that link.
Will we let that happen? I sure hope not. My book will teach people the truth. See comments of it by some of the people who have read it over the years at https://arlenejohnson.livejournal.com The better way to order it is by sending me an Email using Leanybean@protonmail.com for how to transfer £20.00 (20% discount off the original price of my hard bound book for anyone here in the UK) using xe.com. I distribute it myself. Thank you. Arlene Johnson Publisher/Author