The Great Coronavirus Fraud Of 2020: Who Is to Blame For It: Socialist China? Or the Deeply Corrupt Pro-Capitalist Political Party Hacks You The Citizens Have Voted Into Office Again and Again?
It is becoming more and more fashionable for critics of the public health officials responsible for the capitalist world’s unscientific, panicked response to COVID19 to ask “where are our leaders?” when it comes to protecting the rights of the citizenry from increasingly onerous police-state measures being imposed allegedly to prevent the spread of the relatively benign COVID-19 virus.
The implication of this presentation of shock at what is being falsely portrayed as a betrayal of the citizenry by recently-elected officials who seem to be competing to see which political party can impose the most draconian police-state response to COVID is that no one could have seen this coming. In fact, in most cases, the very pundits expressing feigned shock at the “betrayal” of “their” political class in refusing to defend our civil and human rights helped elect these very same officials within the past few years. For revolutionary Trotskyists, this supposedly sudden “betrayal” of the working class & middle class super-majority by “our leaders” has been anything but sudden. The politicians of all major pro-capitalist political parties – and not a few fake-socialist parties as well – have NEVER represented the interests of the working class. They are the bribed, corrupt tools of the ruling capitalist class micro-minority; and their parties have been solely representing the most criminal elements of the capitalist class and their governments for over a century now – and we revolutionary socialists have been pointing this out year after year, decade after decade – to no avail.
The vast majority of today’s social-democratic parties in Europe began betraying the working class way back in 1914 when they voted for war credits at the start of World War I. Since that time they have been the loyal representatives of the interests of the capitalist class micro-minority of Europe, they and their capitalist masters both covering their asses politically by merely granting a handful of concessions to the workers once every few decades – to prevent socialist revolutions in which the working class super-majority led by communist parties would come to power and own everything collectively and they, the capitalist class micro-minority and their political flunkies, would lose everything.
The working class and the middle class have been systematically propagandized since 1914 to falsely believe that the interests of capital and labor are identical: one of the most monstrous – and nakedly obvious – lies in history. The revolutionary socialists have exposed this fraud for what it is for decade after decade and we have been ignored by the vast majority of workers and middle class entrepreneurs, who have vainly attempted to “win over” the capitalist class to their sides by sucking up to their capitalist masters instead of overthrowing them and taking power into their own hands. The results of this class-collaborationist “strategy” (if you can call rolling over on your back and playing dead for a century a “strategy”) should by now have been made manifest to even the most obtuse; but once you’ve been made into a shit-eating surrender monkey whose only “strategy” when under attack from your supposed capitalist “partners” is to pull down your pants and grab your ankles, you are completely politically disarmed when your capitalist “friends” gang-rape you in front of your family. All you can do is bleat “where are our leaders?” After the capitalists slaughtered tens of millions of you in WWI did you overthrow capitalism? No! You ignored the appeals of the revolutionary socialists – the Bolsheviks – and rolled over and allowed the very criminals responsible for the slaughter return to power in EVERY nation in Europe! And after the capitalists slaughtered tens of millions again just 21 years later, did you the workers finally overthrow the blood-drenched capitalist classes of Europe? No! Again you ignored the appeals – this time from the Trotskyists – and rolled over and allowed them to return to power! After the Korean War, the Vietnam War, after the capitalists lied to get you to support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, did you finally heed the appeals of the Trotskyists and say: “ENOUGH!” and overthrow the capitalists? No! Again you ignored the Trotskyists, rolled over and allowed the capitalist class war criminals to remain in power! And STILL you ask ask in 2021: “Where are our leaders?” Are you kidding me? You have NEVER supported the revolutionary leaders who have told you the truth time and time again; you have steadfastly REFUSED to support our political parties, dedicated to fight for your rights and your rights only! “Where are our leaders?” Right here where we’ve been, through every attempt by the capitalist enemy to crush us – often with your help! – since 1848!
In the United States – where, as the late Gore Vidal pointed out, anti-communism is the state religion – the working class has been tongue-bathing the crusty feet of the US capitalist class since the late 1950s “McCarthy” anti-communist witch-hunt era. Fully convinced by their capitalist masters that “socialism is bad and capitalism is good”, these pathetic creatures truly believe that “the interests of capital and labor are identical” – the mantra of the utterly corrupt, sold-out, pro-capitalist AFL criminal Samuel Gompers who founded that repulsively class-collaborationist business trade unionist cesspool in the 1890s.
Another of Gompers’s execrable “contributions” to the destruction of the naturally revolutionary spirit of the US working class was his insistence that the working class should never form its own political party – especially a revolutionary socialist one. This monstrously bad piece of advice has been taken to heart by every American worker and has been handed down from generation to generation like a decrepit piece of “heirloom” furniture to this very day: that’s why US workers, alone among their peers in the capitalist world, STILL do not have a single mass working class party that even pretends to be worthy of the name in 2021. Not only do US working-class supermajority not even have their own party after 240 years of so-called “American Democracy”; their currently largest fake-socialist political formation – the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) explicitly states in its political programme that it is NOT a political party, but only a pressure group that operates inside the capitalist-owned-and-operated Democratic Party! Apparently that’s “good enough” for even the relatively advanced elements of the business-unionized, struggling working-class wage-and-debt slaves of the USA!
The vast majority of struggling working-class wage-and-debt slaves of the USA are so completely in thrall of their capitalist masters that when on 6 January 2021 thousands of brave workers and small businesspeople swarmed into the houses of Congress to express their extreme dissatisfaction with the criminality of “their” representatives and drove those paid tools of the bourgeoisie to hide from “their” constituents under their desks, the majority of the cowardly US working class didn’t celebrate this rare incursion of working-and-middle-class rage into the “sacred” halls of the most despotic national government on Earth – they bleated that “their” government was under attack and called for extreme punishment for the brave workers who boldly put the fear of the working-and middle classes into the cold, dead, completely corrupted hearts of the US Congress! And you cowed struggling working-class sheep have the NERVE to bleat “Where are our leaders?” AT IWPCHI WE DEFEND “THE STORMING OF THE CAPITOL” PROTESTORS and call for the government prosecutors to drop ALL charges against ALL of them! They are HEROES OF THE WORKING CLASS to us – and potential leaders of the Third American Revolution – a workers socialist revolution! Any self-professed “socialist” who does not defend the protestors who stormed the Capitol on 6 January 2021 is not made of revolutionary socialist material and would have no place in our party!
*******************
Thus, the workers of both capitalist Europe and capitalist USA find themselves unable to find even one political party among the ones that they and their ancestors have voted for since time immemorial that is willing to come to the defense of their Constitutional and human rights in the face of a global capitalist attempt to completely overthrow every human right in existence using the fabricated “public health emergency” they created as an excuse. Not surprisingly, over 50% of the sheeple whose sole “strategy” for dealing with attacks from the capitalist class is to feign death eagerly embrace the prospect of never again having to even pretend to fight for their Constitutional and fundamental human rights. Life in a police-state is just fine for those who never had the courage to stand up for their own rights anyway; the terror imposed by the police state gives them a rock-solid excuse for continuing their “strategy” of rolling over and playing dead whenever the cops rampage through their neighborhoods.
[Objection: This is not quite right, because it ignores both the George Floyd and Gilets Jaunes protests.]
It may be objected that I’m not taking into account the massive protests that have rocked the US and the world recently – particularly the global “George Floyd” protests against the rampant police brutality that is endemic in the capitalist “democracies” as well as the French “Gilets Jaunes” protests. In fact, though those protests are significant, and in some cases became quite militant, they are part of the very same process by which the vast working-class super-majority has been so completely subordinated to the political party leaders owned and operated by by the capitalist classes that all they can do is “protest” when their rights are being wantonly violated by “their” governments – because they are completely unrepresented in those governments! Nearly every political party in Europe and both political parties in the USA have been either owned from their inception or co-opted by the enemy capitalist class for almost a century now! Instead of taking power into our own hands by forming new revolutionary socialist parties that are entirely independent of the capitalists and their bribed political tools, the working class continues to allow itself to be reduced to hitting the streets in mass protests that are nothing more than a militant form of begging for concessions from the capitalist micro-minority – just as their peasant ancestors did centuries ago, when they crawled on their knees bearing religious icons and carrying petitions to the Kings of Europe! “Where are our leaders?” indeed! Where does all this craven cowardice come from? How can the 1% continue to lord it over the 99% unless we, the 99% ALLOW them to do so? And that’s just what you’ve been doing for a century and are continuing to do to this day; and it’s WHY when you’re under this full-scale attack against workers and even small businesspeople by the lords of the capitalist micro-minority you look around and cry in a falsely plaintive, shocked voice: “WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS?”
The reason why you are being “betrayed” by “your leaders” is that you’ve been refusing to do your job of only supporting those political parties that are sworn to defend ONLY the rights of the working class and that have NOTHING to do with defending your capitalist enemies. “Your leaders” are actually THEIR paid shills – the bribed, corrupt tools of the capitalist micro-minority. They never represented YOU! YOU have fooled yourself into believing that your mortal enemies were your friends! For example: the celebrations of the election of Emmanuel Macron as President of France by a massive majority of worker’s votes were hardly over when he turned around and attacked the working class, trying to destroy the French workers pensions! How can this be called a “betrayal”? If any worker who voted for Macron was “betrayed” it was only due to their own inability to distinguish between friend and enemy! There was absolutely NO REASON why any worker should have thought for a moment that that shameless tool of the French capitalist micro-minority would ever do ANYTHING good for the working class! Yet you voted him into office only to cry out “betrayal!” when he – at the behest of the capitalist criminals who paid for his election campaign – turned around and attacked you! You have no one to blame but yourselves!
The same thing happened in the USA with Donald Trump – a lifelong capitalist criminal who was famous for being a racist landlord, a serial thief who hired small businesses to work for him on his real estate and casino projects and then refused to pay them for the work they did and who set up fraudulent “university” that swindled tens of thousands of students out of their and their families’ hard-earned money – who but a nation of self-deluding idiots could have believed that Donald Trump – of all people! – was a friend of the working class OR the middle class? It boggles the mind to even ask this question! Yet tens of millions of deluded workers convinced themselves that their best hope for a better life for themselves and their families would be to elect – not a loyal member of the working class who never sold out the workers – but a billionaire racist landlord with a long track record of robbing workers, small businesses and students! And the other half of the working & middle classes – thoroughly opposed to Trump and all he stands for then turned around and threw HIM out of office and replaced him with… another racist tool of the capitalist class who has been a friend to the worst segregationists in Congress his entire career, a loyal tool of the thieving bankster class and a serial war criminal to boot? How can you be surprised that you are in the position you’re in today when you can’t even tell your enemies from your friends? You refuse to learn from the lessons of history; you repeatedly elect people with a LONG track history of being mortal enemies of the working class – and then you have the nerve to turn around and declare “we were betrayed! Where are our leaders?” Who are you kidding? Only yourselves!
Who is responsible for the current police-state response to the George Floyd protests and the Gilets Jaunes and other mass protests? YOU are: YOU the working-class and middle-class idiots who elected Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel and all the other capitalist tools to power instead of selecting and electing honest, incorruptible, loyal working-class leaders from among yourselves to lead your nations! Stop pretending that you’re not responsible for the sorry state of the governmental leadership throughout the capitalist world! YOU, worker; YOU small businessperson – YOU elected these cretins and their political parties into political power! YOU have elected them over and over and over again, despite the fact that they have never done anything other than turn around the minute they are elected so they could spit in your faces! Until YOU finally admit that YOU are ultimately responsible for the leadership of YOUR nations and that YOU need to elect loyal WORKERS – not billionaires and their hired flunkies – to represent you in government YOU will continue to be the #1 obstacle to the progress of not just yourselves and your families and communities but of the entire human race!
Dump all capitalist political parties: the capitalist classes and their political lapdogs are the MORTAL ENEMIES of the working class!
Build revolutionary Trotskyist political parties dedicated to the goal of overthrowing the capitalist micro-minority and placing loyal, honest working class leaders as YOUR representatives in government!
Abolish capitalist exploitation; abolish the capitalist police-state and their “Deep State”; make all basic human needs: food, clothing, housing, health care, jobs and education – inalienable RIGHTS for all – not just privileges to be granted or withdrawn by the capitalist micro-minority when they feel like it!
Fight for workers governments and fight for a socialist future; because as “The Great Coronavirus Fraud of 2020” is proving, day after day: there is no future for the working class – or the middle class! – under the capitalist system!
Independent Workers Party of Los Angeles 