Comradeship // Freechat

Capitalism is full of contradictions that, among other things, lead to nascent class consciousness and powerful action by the proletariat. I say nascent because it really does take organising and explanations to get them organized - without socialists and so on teaching, it doesn't necessarily go in the direction of revolution. Marx was aware of reaction and more subtle social relations getting in the way of revolutionary activity, but could not fully foresee the forces of fascism under more developed capitalist, and particularly imperialist, conditions. So we, as socialists, sometimes hear ideas of the inevitability of revolution, but this needs to be tempered by an understanding of the strengths of the enemy.

Namely, fascism can steer nascent class conciousness and action, which liberals simplistically refer to as populism, away from socialist understanding and revolution. Rather than beginning a process of resolving contradictions through proletarian control, fascism resolves the contradictions through destruction: of humanity and capital. Capitalist crises, fundamentally driven by crisis in profit, has that final escape hatch of just killing a ton of people and infrastructure so that there must then be repopulation and rebuilding, like a reset button.

This is a horrible realization that can get in the way of revolutionary optimism, but we can move past it through the recognition that fascism has survived primarily through colonial and neocolonial mechanisms, exploiting psychologies, economic mechanisms, and military tendencies that will wane over time due even just to simple demographic shifts, but most importantly, through a multipolar world order. This is why China and alliances like BRICS are so important: when revolution does come, the oppositional forces, i.e. fascists, will be inherently undermined.

Fascists are fundamental opponents of humanity, the left, and revolution, and nothing done to them is wrong.