The following is a recent text (published earlier this month) from the comrades of Vamos Hacia La Vida, from the chilean region, which evaluates the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. It succinctly explains the historical pretexts and material interests at play and, defense of the internationalist watchword of Revolutionary Defeatism, delivers a sharp critique of the hypocrisy of those on the broad left camp who would support either side of a dispute between bourgeois factions, regardless of the ideological window-dressing on display:
“Given everything that’s been expressed about the capitalist dynamic and the wars that it engenders, and also given the observations on the ground where this particular conflict unfolds, it’s doubtful that the possibility for some sort of social emancipation could arise in the midst of a carnage directed precisely to perpetuate the domination of one of the blocs in dispute, which doesn’t mean anything else than the worsening of capitalist domination, of the dictatorship of the economy over all that lives. And this is difficult to refute: two world wars, the genocide and the disappearance of entire villages, the psychic destruction of the individuals under its domain, and the destruction of the biosphere have already greatly demonstrated that the international bourgeoisie already made their choice long ago, and that they will not hesitate to continue expanding their destructive forces to unimaginable peaks in order to keep their productive machine running, knowing that the “pie” is getting smaller and smaller and is divided into fewer parts. This imperialist war will not bring anything but a global capitalist restructuration in the middle of a crisis that doesn’t cease to deepen. Therefore, it’s clear that those who defend a side in this war, despite their intentions, do no more than position themselves on the defending side of the existing order.”
As it can’t be said enough, in this conflict and those to come, let’s remember the timeless slogans of our class:
Proletarians have no country!
No war but the class war!
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