{"id":6106,"date":"2025-06-22T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wap21.org\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:32:07","slug":"the-age-of-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wap21.org\/?p=6106","title":{"rendered":"The age of revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Struggle unity (T\u00fcrkiye)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comrades,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We gather not in abstract debate, but on a battlefield… The battlefield of our era, defined by the death throes of the decaying, parasitic imperialist-capitalist system!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We gather under the banner of revolutionary Marxism-Leninism, guided by the scientific analysis of revolutionary forces, who relentlessly expose the true face of the beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO, which has risen as the pinnacle of the imperialist plunder and war machine, is not a \u201cdefense alliance,\u201d but the \u201cwar apparatus\u201d of global financial capital that hurtles humanity toward disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imperialism, comrades, is not merely a policy; it is the highest stage of monopoly capitalism. Its lifeblood is the extreme exploitation of oppressed nations, the ruthless plunder of the wealth of the world\u2019s majority to feed the insatiable appetites of a handful of financial oligarchies and monopolies in the metropolises (Washington, London, Berlin, Paris, etc.); it is the re-division of the world, the separation of the world\u2019s peoples into oppressor and oppressed nations. This process entered a new phase at the end of the last century : the \u201ccomplete economic annexation\u201d of the dependent countries by the imperialist states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO is the indispensable military guarantor of this plunder, of this process of \u201ccomplete annexation.\u201d It is no coincidence that its establishment coincided with the crushing victory of socialism over fascism and the emergence of socialism as a world system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO was established to oppose communism. Its essence is anti-communism. It has been forged in blood to protect the interests of Western capital from \u201ccommunism\u201d and to subjugate dependent countries to the plunder of imperialist states for their resources and markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Balkans to Afghanistan, from Libya to the ongoing instability in Africa and the Middle East (West Asia), NATO interventions have had one consistent result: while doors are thrown wide open for Western imperialist corporations, the people are driven deeper into poverty, chaos, and dependency. This is not an alliance; it is an organization that protects the activities of global usurers and corporate plunderers through armed force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rotten imperialist system is on its deathbed. The internal contradictions of capitalism\u2014the contradiction between social production and private ownership of the means of production, the contradiction between the development of the productive forces and the capitalist mode of production, and the concentration of immense wealth in the hands of a tiny elite alongside the spread of poverty on a global scale\u2014are erupting with unprecedented violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyclical crises have become permanent features. Soaring inflation erodes wages, while monopolies reap record profits. Mountains of fictitious capital and debt are teetering on the brink. Unemployment and underemployment have become mass phenomena even in the heartlands of imperialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gap between the handful of billionaires and the billions struggling to survive gapes like an abyss. Super-exploitation intensifies in the oppressed nations, but also increasingly within the imperialist countries themselves. Precarious work, stolen wages, and decimated social services\u2014this is the reality for the international proletariat and oppressed masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitalism\u2019s relentless drive for profit devours nature. Climate catastrophe, driven by fossil fuel monopolies protected by imperialist states (many of them core NATO members!), threatens the very basis of life. Imperialism offers only false solutions and \u201cgreenwashing\u201d (the falsification of clean energy initiatives!) while plundering the Global South\u2019s remaining resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This systemic decay, this unbearable exploitation and despair, is creating the objective conditions for revolution. And the working masses around the world are rising up against this oppression and exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a temporary discontent, comrades. This is a global popular uprising\u2014at times embryonic and developing, at times openly erupting. This is the manifestation of a fundamental truth: history is made by revolutionary masses. Imperialism, in its crisis, creates its own gravediggers. The subjective factor\u2014the revolutionary party, the advanced consciousness of the proletariat, and its organizational structure\u2014is our task to shape and strengthen within this rising tide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the crisis deepens and resistance grows, the imperialist bourgeoisie sheds its flimsy democratic mask. Faced with the threat of uprising and social revolution against its rule and its profits, the imperialist bourgeoisie turns increasingly to open fascistic methods. And NATO is at the very heart of this reactionary offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imperialist governments are demanding ever-increasing military budgets by intensifying oppression and exploitation of the working class and laboring masses in order to feed the NATO war machine. Militarism, chauvinism, and xenophobia are spreading. Police forces in member countries are being armed and trained like occupation armies, targeting immigrants, minorities, the left opposition, and revolutionary forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the pretext of \u201cfighting terrorism\u201d and \u201cnational security,\u201d fundamental democratic rights are being dismantled. Mass surveillance, repressive laws, the criminalization of protests, and attacks on press freedom are becoming widespread in NATO countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO does not merely tolerate fascist elements; it actively nurtures, unites, and organizes them. Look at how it embraces the fascist Azov Battalion, which has been integrated into the National Guard in Ukraine. Look at its long-standing alliance with the extreme anti-communist, religious-fascist regime in Turkey\u2014a state that, as a key NATO member, is systematically working to construct an anti-communist, reactionary, counterrevolutionary society and to act as the imperialist-capitalist system\u2019s regional gendarme. Look at its relationship with the rising far-right forces in Europe. These forces are in perfect harmony with NATO\u2019s anti-Russia, anti-communist, and anti-worker agenda. NATO provides the international framework and legitimacy for these reactionary forces to consolidate their power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO\u2019s relentless expansion eastward, its provocative war games on Russia\u2019s borders, its constant saber-rattling against China, and its interventions around the world are not defensive in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO is the primary driving force behind fascism. It is the international structure that fosters and encourages the development of the most reactionary, chauvinist, and violent tendencies within the imperialist camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comrades, the imperialist-capitalist system is in a state of complete collapse. The objective conditions for social revolution are ripening everywhere. The capitalist mode of production itself has reached its historical and physical limits. The working class and the poor masses, the laboring classes, are rising up everywhere against unbearable capitalist exploitation\u2014against capitalism itself. The slogans \u201cAnother World Is Possible\u201d and \u201cCapitalism Must Die\u2014Let\u2019s Kill Capitalism\u201d are now being shouted by workers and laborers. The masses are rising up and fighting in countless ways. In response, imperialist aggression, embodied in structures like NATO, is revealing its inherently fascist character more clearly every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question before us now is not whether revolution is possible, but when it will come\u2014and how we will bring it to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To summarize…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The maturation of the contradiction between the productive forces and the mode of production under the capitalist system is a global fact, not limited to individual countries. We have entered the new and latest phase of the epoch of the dispossessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The age of revolutions derives its destructive energy from the fact that the productive forces have developed to such an extent that they can no longer fit into the framework of capitalist relations of production in which they are embedded, and that these frameworks are now cracking open. The old society has become sufficiently rotten, disintegrated, and unable to control the social elements. All over the world, those who rule can no longer rule in the old way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a global scale, the subjects of the revolution are coming together, becoming conscious of the harmony of their interests and the power of unity. Social man, with his intuition from the darkest times, his multifaceted talents, his rich relationships, and his urgent needs waiting to be satisfied, is standing up to capitalist private property. Seeing their future as a species in serious jeopardy, the working people are rising up against the capitalist system and the bourgeoisie. All around the world, the governed no longer want to be governed as they were before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global collapse of the capitalist system is accompanied by the disintegration of US imperialism\u2019s global hegemony and its own social fabric. This, in itself, instills hope in the working classes of the world that if they mobilize, they can achieve victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of the above has characterized a global revolutionary situation for the last 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now is the time! This is not a call to adventure, but an awareness of a concrete and historic moment. The deepening crisis of capitalism is shaking the dominance of the bourgeois class. The bourgeois class\u2019s intensification of oppression and exploitation to maintain its dominance is revealing the true face of the bourgeois state. The global interconnectedness of the struggle means that victories won anywhere strengthen the revolution everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must actively oppose NATO in all its forms. We must demand the immediate dissolution of this criminal alliance! Fight against military spending, against foreign bases, against imperialist interventions. Support the right of nations to self-determination and socialism. Build internationalist solidarity with all peoples resisting imperialism and fascism. However, first and foremost, the proletariat\u2019s seizure of power must be the central and immediate task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO is the sword of Damocles hanging over humanity\u2014the instrument of the imperialist \u201cfull annexation process,\u201d the incubator of fascism, and the global counter-revolutionary apparatus of the imperialist gangs. But it is not invincible. It is built on sand\u2014the shifting sands of exploitation and oppression, which are already crumbling beneath its feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cries of the Palestinian child under bombardment, the clenched fist of the worker on strike, the rebellion of women, the student chanting for revolution, the guerrilla fighter in the mountains\u2014these are the sounds of the future being born. The global revolutionary wave is building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us work, organize, and fight with the unwavering determination of those who have nothing to lose but everything to gain\u2014and a world to win! Let us raise high the banner of proletarian internationalism! The future is ours, comrades!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Down with imperialist NATO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now is the time for revolution!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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