One hundred years ago, the great American socialist and revolutionary Eugene Debs was thrown into a federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for denouncing the imperialists’ bloody effort to re-divide the world in World War One. Debs was legendary for his opposition to imperialism, and uncompromising in his view of the class struggle, winning him the support and admiration of millions of workers across the world.
Debs declared in 1915: “ I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; and I am a citizen of the world . I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. ... I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class.”
A century later, as the US wages war all over the world and prepares ever greater wars, WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange has been thrown into a British jail cell for telling the truth about American war crimes. He potentially faces charges in the US for violating the Espionage Act, the very same law used against Debs.
The “war to end war,” World War I, in which millions of young workers were sent to their deaths, set the stage for an even bloodier imperialist conflict in World War II, in another bid to re-divide the world amongst competing capitalist cliques.
The founder of our movement, Leon Trotsky wrote in 1928 that, “In the period of crisis the hegemony of the United States will operate more completely, more openly, and more ruthlessly than in the period of boom … ” This has been borne out as the American ruling class has seen the dominant economic position it held in the aftermath of World War II slip away.
The US has waged a series of wars and military interventions in the nearly 75 years since the end of World War II. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union nearly three decades ago, it has instigated an unending and expanding bloodbath, beginning with the First Gulf War in Iraq in 1990–91 and the war in Yugoslavia.
For two decades, in what Bush called the “wars of the twenty-first century,” the US invaded and occupied Afghanistan in 2001, followed by Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia. Entire societies have been destroyed and at least one million people killed, with millions more transformed into refugees seeking save haven for themselves and their families.
War, war, war. It never ends and yet instead of calling that out, brainless bimbos suggest things like "#SexStrike!" because, yes, they really are that stupid. They really would turn our bodies over as the spoils of war because they are really that stupid.
Remember "Girls say yes to boys who say no"? That was another sexist plan. During Vietnam, if you were a man resisting, women were going to put out for you.
Why is it that so many women repeatedly define us by the pleasure we can give men?
Twitter's Bimbo Brigade of non-working actresses who once had a dollop of fame can go on and on and on about anything directly related to the vagina and pass themselves off as brave -- but they're silent on wars -- ongoing wars that never touch their vaginas apparently.
We live in a disappointing country with disappointing mouthpieces who say very little and matter even less.
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