With whom is solidarity? Who is the fight against?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The first of May, once a fighting day of international workers' solidarity, has been renamed the harmlessly evasive Day of Spring and Labor. The current May Day is more a day of picnics than rallies. Rallies, if they do take place, are some kind of joke, like the fashionable nowadays historical reconstructions.

This is understandable: in today's world it is very difficult to understand who is the friend and who is the enemy of the working people. Who to fight against? Who is the exploiter? Your employer who, as Marxism teaches, pockets surplus value? Well, if you cut him off, he will close his little factory shop, which is interrupted with grief in half on the verge of profitability - so what? Both of you will find yourself on the beans: he is without added value, you are without a paycheck.

To force him, the capitalist-owner, to punctually fulfill all social obligations: salary - white, vacation - as you give it, maternity leave - three years. Everything seems to be correct, but the trouble is: on such conditions, in a crisis era, and small and medium-sized businesses - sometimes they simply cannot hire workers. Force? Put in a hopeless position? There is always a way out - to close. Or go into the shadows, if someone is more daring, more risky. As often happens.

And this is happening not because a greedy capitalist wants to pocket more, but because most of the small-medium-sized businesses that we are so advocated for are, in fact, survival businesses: today they are, they are closed tomorrow. Just observe on your street how often the signs of cafes, shops, workshops change. That is why they are changing because it is fragile, small and medium-sized business: click on it - it will close. Who benefits from this? If you delve a little deeper, small and medium business is the same exploited proletarian in the circle of businesses.

Who, then, is the real exploiter? I am convinced that the main exploitation of the working people of Russia is colonial exploitation. We could live freely and satisfyingly if the global metropolis did not squeeze out the people's wealth. The British in India literally formulated it just like that - to squeeze out, to take away her wealth (to drain). This is exactly what is happening in Russia today. Globalization is the politically correct name for total colonialism. Our bowels, factories, often built on the bones of our ancestors, may have already flowed into someone else's possession. We are indignant at the ugly, absurd orders and laws, but if we assume that we are governed by the colonial administration, these orders do not seem absurd at all, but, on the contrary, are quite logical and reasonable. From the point of view of global colonialism, of course.

Modern colonialists have mastered the aerobatics of exploitation: it is not immediately visible to everyone, in any case, it is not striking. A kind of hybrid war is being waged against the working and exploited people. Its main weapon is global manipulation of consciousness. Through the media, a false picture of the world is instilled, and successfully, other people's goals and values are imposed. Now the colonialists no longer solder gullible aborigines with "fire water", but induce a narcotic dream with the help of the media and the controlled education system.

But little by little, the working people of different countries are beginning to understand this. And in their own way, in different languages, they talk about it.

The owner of the store in Rome where I bought the bag, noticing that I speak Italian, asked about the situation in Ukraine. I told them what I could and asked, in turn, how things are in Italy.

“We are ruled by the mafia,” the merchant said with conviction. - You, foreigners, have a cinematic understanding of the mafia. In fact, the mafia is a merger of international banks, government and crime. They are parasites. That's what the mafia is, and it rules.

- And who is opposing her? I asked.

- Those who work, - answered the aunt. She seems to have thought of this political construct well while standing in her store. - Working people: both owners and workers - that's who should overthrow the mafia. It is necessary to adopt the right laws for the country to develop, so that workers are given work.

- What, for example, are the correct laws? - I got interested.

- For example, to prohibit the withdrawal of money abroad. To invest them inside the country. Close, close the border. Deny. - The old woman flared up, as if at a rally.

Here is such an interesting construction: not workers against employers, but both against international financial and political parasites. Your position is close to me, working bag trader from the eternal city of Rome!

And last week in Portugal, I learned that the current youth idol is no less the dictator Salazar, whose regime was overthrown in 1974 amid the enthusiastic hooting of progressives; to which there is a monument in Lisbon. And now sociological polls clearly testify to the love of young people for Salazar. Why? He is for the people, he developed industry and gave people jobs. He would not bend over to Brussels, which wants Portugal to be a provincial tourist-agricultural country, - this is how a guy from a water rescue school in the small town of Carcavelos explained to me.

Happy International Workers' Solidarity Day, dear comrades!