Comrade Outlaw
6th September 2010, 13:55
I didn't know where to put this, so thought i'd place it here, move it if there is a place it can go). Feel free to debate/set me right on these topics, i'm on a journey of discovery and these are in no way set in stone finished things, some of my views have changed and advanced since i wrote them, i always like to keep moving forward.
Revolution! Revolution!
the winds of change begin to stir
can you feel it in the air?
the winds of change begin to stir
can you feel it in your bones?
Revolution, underground vibe
Revolution, coming in live
Revolution, live the day
Revolution, Revolution!
the news is full of doom and gloom
it's a recession, no longer a boom!
you've either lost your house
or about to lose your job
but at least you aint lost your mind
Wealth can't buy happiness
and it can't buy health!
Revolution, underground vibe
Revolution, coming in live
Revolution, live the day
Revolution, Revolution!
Attack! Attack!
You can try and fucking run, but you can't hide!
We attack at dusk, and we're gone before dawn
Leave your neck sliced open like a tin of beans
And your white sheets will be blood stained red
This is what you get, for not listening when we said!
It's time to make things fairs!
So share your fucking wealth
for the good of your own health!
Whats a matter, don't you dare?
Ash and embers is all that will be left!
No evidence, no arrest, just fucking death
and through the fires of your fucking hate
a new world will be born, a world of love and peace
or least thats what we hope for, you're in the way so...
It's time to make things fairs!
So share your fucking wealth
for the good of your own health!
Whats a matter, don't you dare?
Hahaa, they think they got away with this shit? This war is just beginning and there can be only one winner, thats us, so just surrender because........................
classes
Exploiters
Privilaged Exploited
Underprivilaged
exploited
dependants
Glocalism
With the one set of Globalisation, it seems the world has yet to catch up with what has actually taken place - nations, are now pointless machinations, they exist only in name - we but one race, the human race, their is but one nation that is the nation of planet earth. Yet this doesn't mean we should surrender our rights to some far off centralised government, what happens at a local level effects the global stage (pollution, etc). To this end, we need to adopt a global identity and be conscious of the consequences our actions have for not only us but people all around the world.
Glocalism, is just that adopting a global outlook on who we are but at the same time, being mindful of local issue's, not submitting to some far off power - completely decentralisation, but working in harmony with our fellow human beings to further ourselves as a species and as a society, so that together we can begin colonisation of space and move into a utopian age of peace and prosperity never before seen by man (or woman for you feminists out their).
Liberation Principle: The Real Robin Hood Tax
Everyone is familar with the tale of Robin Hood, the Outlaw that stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Well this legend could be completely bollocks, but that doesn't matter because it's time, we revolutionaires do something similar. It's time we start taking back what is ours by force! What is taken from us, through exploitation, through taxes! Steal from the bourgeoisie and divide amongst the Proleteriat!
What is the point of all this you may be asking? A Revolution sadly can not be made without any money, war is won now on the economic battlefield, and so we must change our strategies accodingly. To this end, local cells should begin operating not only as harrasers of Government, but as social justice warriors, taking back by force what is ours and then swapping it with other cells in or out of this country, so that it can go where it is must needed, whether that be for revolutionary activity or not.
The poor have to eat, they have to be clothed, and it us that should do this - the merits are ten fold the energy it takes to achieve such a thing. Yes there are risks, but revolution is a risky business comrades!
Then the Revolution movement, can formulate a black economy, one seperate from the bourgeoisie control and one that helps the people, be it in Britain, or be it across the globe. This act would further the goal of revolution, in that it would put pressure onto the Bourgeoisie, it would ease the suffering of the Proleteriat, and communism, far from being some totalitarian evil regime, which Russia and over revolutions have made appear ot be, it would become the saviour of the people, and the people will turn towards it - as it is helping them in their day to day struggles! However comrades, this is just one of many methods that must be used in unison to destroy capitalism, using this alone will not bring revolution, but using it with other methods i will be laying down will bring this planet peace, once and for all.
Production - the key to unlocking capitalism?
The bourgeoisie devise their power from the the control of the means of production as Karl Marx states, and the point of the Proleteriat revolution, is after all to take control of these means of production, so that from it, a free, fair and equal society can grow. It was summised that this revolution should be violent and bloody and that by force, we shall take these apartus that keep us all down. That method, is sloppy, unpredictable, inhumane, the world of wars is a last resort, as can be seen more now than either, that economic power, is alot more effective and alot less bloody than war, which is what the revolution seeks to enact - class war.
Yet, i think in looking at these things in such narrow simplistic terms we discard without thought the more crafty and sneaky methods we could be employing to overthrow the enemy of the people, the bourgeoisie. This society we live in, unlike Marx's is alot more meritocratic, this gives us a massive opening to sneak in the back door of this system and rip it apart from its very heart. Business, production of goods, distrubition of goods, all these things which the capitalist use to control us and have power over us, can be used to free us from this system, to show the way to communism and to lead us to a world worth living in.
Once the Umbrella method has been encorporated and you have these coming together of all these different factions and groups, each with their own area of expertise, their own area of social and political capital, then the eye should be turned to business. If used effectively as a tool it will bring down capitalism, as the bourgeoisie will have no other option but to embrace the new model, the socialist business model.
What is the socialist business model? Well, we all know it's workers councils. Instead of lobbying and protesting against capitalism, why not go out and do the alternative? Forming councils out of those within the umbrella, to begin creating, producing and selling goods. If the width of the umbrella encompassed the whole of the planet, you could produce goods cheaply and sell them cheaply, all the while edging closer to the communist alternative to this capitalist society. Even if the net was only cast as wide as Britain, there is still a framework to work around. People accept capitalism because its all there is, its all they know. That is why we need to show them and prove to them the better way, not just talk and moan about it! action speak louder than any words! Compete against capitalism and destroy it from within - the workers within businesses that haven't accepted the socialist model will be very pissed, they will either strike or seize control - it doesn't matter which, the only option that can come from it is communist revolution. Use our enemies strength, turn it into his greatest weakness and victory shall be ours!
The umbrella method: Road to true communist revolution
Using the dielectian method, i have comprised a middle ground between the tyrannical, dictatorship of the party and the sloppy random outcome of the popular revolution. This synthethis i call the umbrella method, for what of a better word, namely because it's similar to umbrella corporations an an umbrella corporation is thus: "something, as an organization or policy, that covers or encompasses a number of groups or elements." So the umbrella method, is just that, an organization that covers and encompasses a number of groups and elements. Well, what does that actually mean? Basically all the many different groups that exist within the left movement, will agree to fight for common ground, in defeating the bourgeoisie and overthrowing capitalism, putting aside their self interest. This umbrella method, doesn't just have to be assigned to the left either, it gain encompass many different groups, all varying in dynamics.
The structure of the discipline party, doesn't work as can be seen in the past, it only brings about one focus, one direction - it's own direction. How can such a thing, which is narrow minded and small, bring about a revolution on the scale of the popular revolution? And with a popular revolution, it has no direction and can easily get hijacked by the bourgeoisie, as can be seen in our past also.
So how do we combat this?
We quite simply have a broad set of aims and principles which the groups and elements within the umbrella agree to uphold and fight for, though they can opt out of ones they choose, keeping freedom to themselves, and to stop any sort of dictatorship party-esque situation arising out of it. If these groups do not answer the call to be apart of the umberella, you have to ask yourself one thing? What are they fighting for, the workers or themselves? Surely, the maxim "divide and conquer" can be said in no truer circumstance than the one we are facing at this very moment. Put aside your senseless bickering, and useless idle chit-chat and come together, to fight for this planet, to fight for our people and to fight for communism!
Now, if these groups agree to share and pool resources where they have common ground, we will be unified and the bourgeoisie will tremble, we will have the combined strength to shake this corrupt weed that is capitalism to its very core! and rip it from this earth once and for all, so that from it, flowers of peace and harmony shall grow once more!
Travelling Commune
How can we live in anarchist conditions within this fucking capitalist world you may ask? Well i've come to think that the only way is to live a sort of Gypsy, travelling lifestyle. Living a nomadic exitence travelling around the world, exporting your views as you go. This commune could live of the land, like the human societys of old which used to migrate around the world. It could have a minimal amount of contact with the capitalist society, while also recruiting people from it. The commune could grow and grow, until it was big enough to split into various communes.
When there are sufficent amount of these capitalist communes we could perhaps begin to attack capitalism (if we hadn't beforehand). We would be free from capitalist tax, law and influence, we would be free or at least a lot freeer than we are now. So why don't we start a roaming commune?
Social Camouflage
Social Camouflage is one of our main weapons against our enemy, the bourgeoisie. Why? Because as an army, as a force, we must be unseen, we must be unheard. We do not have the capabilties and likely never will have them to match the power that they can weild against us.
So to this end, we must turn to hiding (hit and run tactics).
Social camouflage is basically where we will mask as something else through wearing a disguise. This can range from as simple as a hi-vis jacket to something more complex like a traffic wardens uniform. What is the purpose of it?
Well we are living in the day and age of the camera - big brother britain as it is widely known. So it is very important that we can move from place to place, past countless camera's. To do this we have to employ the uniforms and other forms of social camouflage (mask) to make it seem to anyone passing by and watching that we're just doing our job. Success and defeat can be determined by such factors
10 Demands of Revolution Comunista
1. All businesses are to be set up like direct democratic republics - one worker, one vote with equality of pay.
2. State is to become a direct democratic republic with normal workers instead of career politicans.
3. Work hours are to be cut and decided by the working council of the job.
4. The state can only declare war and mobilise the army with the consent of the people.
5. All houses are to become self-sufficent, utilizing renewable energy instead of harming the enviroment
6. Workers parliaments (aswell as councils) should be set up for one worker one vote.
7. All powers that the state has should become devolved and decentralised.
8. Every citizen will have a moral duty to be fireman,policeman,doctor - with pay and classes to this end.
9. All current laws are to be reviewed.
10. Everyone has the right to work - with jobs being given regardless of previous skills and experience
Revolutionz
Revolution
Intro – Long Live the Revolution!
Hello friends and comrades, I’m writing this for us all, so that we can hopefully come together to fight for each other in the struggle’s facing the world! Not only this but I hope to learn something from it and I hope you do to. In this book I plan to discuss Communism, Bolshevism + State Capitalism and also some stuff that might be helpful in the struggle.
This is not, and I stress this, a finished product, I don’t want you to read this and be like “that’s it” I want you to take it away read it and get your own meaning from it, attack it piece by piece and rip it apart, or further it. As long as things continue to move forward it is good. I became inspired to write this by jotting down random notes whenever I had a thought and eventually I got that many, I thought I could put them together and make something out of it. Well I hope you enjoy the read and don’t find it too boring!
Chapter 1 – The Russian Revolution and the False Bolshevik Dream
Popular history tells us, and I’m sure most of you will think of Russia, when people say “Communism” (some will also think china and maybe Cuba) but why? Well the middle-upper-class of Russia and the world (media) have told us this pretty much none stop since (and before) the Revolution took place and this is a half truth (the best kind of lies are half truths). It is true that a communist revolution was sweeping across the land of Russia and that the people there did hope for a better world but it very cleverly got hijacked by a political party known as the Bolshevik Party, with their snappy slogans and military support they took control of the country. It was their high level of organisation which made it so easy for them to hijack a pretty leaderless revolution of peasants and industrial workers, who only got pushed to the extreme through starvation.
The people were desperate and searching for an answer, so in stepped the Bolshevik’s and their front man Lenin. To trick the people they promised them exactly what they were fighting for in the first place, (but didn’t exactly know how to get) with slogans such as “Peace, Bread, Land” and “All power to the soviets!” It was with these that they caught the hearts of the people, a clever smoke and mirror tactic to get them into power. Whether it was intentional or not, once the Bolshevik’s got into power, they quickly changed; worked actively against the soviets interest, went back on promises they had made and strengthened their own positions as the new “lords” of the land. Any socialist or communist for that matter worth their weight in salt, with just a brief analysis of the Bolsheviks would see that they were more like a totalitarian regime than a communist, or even a socialist one.
Firstly, the Bolshevik party was very exclusive and by doing this got further removed from the working class which it claimed to represent, I don’t think a group outside the working class can represent the interests of the working class, that’s no different than say David Cameron telling poor working class families that he understands their trouble and represents them is it? Also the Bolshevik party in itself was organised with centralism, centralism to who? The leading members of the party! If this is the case then the very structure of the party has at its core inequality (if they can’t organise themselves equally what hope of a country?).
October 1917 the revolution was realised, the Bolshevik’s ousted the provisional government. Lenin a middle class person, believed that the workers couldn’t lead themselves and he fooled the workers into thinking something similar and this from a proposed communist! The promises that got the Bolsheviks in, besides their snappy slogans were; to pull out the war, land to the peasants (what they were revolting against the Tsar for in the first place) and workers soviets would control the factories. So, the three promises that got them to power firstly pulling out the war, they did pull out the war but only to bring a civil war to the country which probably caused more suffering than the WW1. Secondly land to the peasants, this never happened all they did was take from the peasants and oppress them and lastly control never went to any workers councils.
Then in December 1917, (after the October revolution) an election was held, an election which the Bolsheviks lost, do you know what their answer was to this? They disbanded the assembly through force and never held another election, without relinquishing power. Does that sound like a group hat listens to the will of the people? That also represents the will of the people and works for the interests of the people it claims to represent? If anything, this was a military coup against the legitimatized government!
Then came the economic policy of the Bolshevik’s known as “War Communism”, this didn’t take steps to removing managers and giving the workers power over their means of production, but quite the opposite with mass nationalisation (or maybe as it should be known Bolshevisation). Not only did this mass nationalisation work against the interest of the workforce, the Bolsheviks (much like their party organisation) continued the process of centralisation, further removing themselves from the working class and strengthening their position, these actions were direct attacks on the working class!
Many claim that it was the civil war which began heating up on the outset of 1918, which turned the Bolshevik’s, or they use it as an excuse as to “why they did this, or why they did that”. This is completely stupid, all that matters is what they did and what happened!
The Civil war in itself, was comprised of many groups, loosely working together for their common goal, this included Socialists and Communists who saw the warning signs of what the Bolsheviks were, as well as the Allied powers of world war 1 (to continue the war on the western front) and former monarchist who longed for a return to the old days.
It was however during this civil war that the Bolshevik’s true motives began to shine through, with their secret police force, which was nothing short of an inquisition, hunting down “enemies of the state” and executing them, no trial, no judge, no jury! As well as the secret police executing people, many met their end by firing squad including the Tsar’s family (women and children) and other so called enemies who had aided the Bolsheviks were callously murdered! Regardless the civil war was won by the Reds (Bolshevik’s) and the whites (allied forces) were defeated.
It was during this time that mass famine took place, firstly because of the Revolution, then because of War Communism and the civil war. In this famine, the Bolshevik’s once again shown their true colours by allowing people to starve. Though this famine served the purposes of the Bolshevik’s, as soldiers were given priority of food, so if you were hungry and wanted to eat and were an able bodied man you joined the army! During this famine, do you think Lenin and the Bolshevik high command went without food? At any time do you think they went hungry like the masses of people? Lenin was famously quoted in saying regarding the peasants starvation “Let them starve!” Not only did mass famine take place but productivity plummeted to depths since before World War 1. All of this could have been avoided if workers were in charge (not Bolshevik’s).
During the war the Bolshevik’s had an excuse for war communism but after it ended, and the many “emergency powers” they had grabbed didn’t relinquish and the suffering of the people carried on. Groups that had formerly been loyal to the Bolshevik dream began to become disillusioned, the former vanguard of the vanguard party the Kronstadt sailors declared independence and revolted, ending in all their deaths as well as this workers and peasants were organising against the Bolshevik’s but anyone doing so was declared a counter-revolutionary and shot! With the face of collapse Lenin had no choice but to relinquish War Communism in favour of his “New Economic Policy”.
It was after the civil war that again the Bolshevik’s proved their true motives (that of formulating a modern capitalist-state run by the state). There New Economic Policy placed a tax on things that they’d been taking by force (people feel more inclined to give something away freely than for it to be took from them) i.e. food and if the N.E.P hadn’t been put in place, without a doubt the Bolshevik’s would of faced a mass wide scale rebellion. The N.E.P went from taxing food, to taxing money in something not very communist or the communism Marx’s speaks of anyway. Russia was starting to look like any other country of the time, with a few exceptions. Capitalism now had green shoots in Russia, the farmers could sell their surplus and a free market began to operate, with industry workers becoming wage slaves (those that could find work). The exceptions which made Russia different was the strengthened and centralised state of the Bolshevik’s, unlike other countries where corporations had power, in Russia their power was severely limited.
Then with the death of Lenin, Stalin rose to power and continued down the path that was laid before him by Lenin and the Bolshevik party but it is key to remember that by this time Russia was not communist, or socialist, by now it already was a state-capitalist totalitarian regime. My summary of the supposed socialist regime, is that at the beginning it could of became communist but, Lenin and other members of the Bolshevik’s worked to rid those with communist ideals from their party, instigating instead the rule of the Bolshevik’s and it worked and gave birth to the tyrant we know as Stalin. I believe that the actions took before, during and after the civil war all add weight to the fact that the Bolshevik’s were never working class, never worked for the working class and all the working class got out of it was suffering, suffering and some more suffering!
So why has it been since that the majority of socialist and communist organisations seek to be like the Bolshevik’s, or to emulate Russia? I think this may be because of the success that they experienced but their success wasn’t in being socialist or communist, but completely opposite. They have perverted the ideals which they claimed to represent and in this end served the purpose of the bourgeoisie, not the workers (on a world revolution scale).
This false Bolshevik dream hasn’t helped our movement and since its time we have been stuck in limbo, with Trot’s arguing with Stalinist, Stalinist arguing with Leninist, all just going around in circles! For what purpose I ask? Marx and Engels both have said about the “withering away of the state” if this is the case, how comes the state in Russia was so strong? Yet they claim to be Marxist? It is evident that this was Bolshevik.
This state-run-capitalism has become the dominate view within the left, as has the “vanguard party” of the working class, to lead the revolution. Again this probably can be accounted to the success that was experienced by the Bolshevik’s but what about the other methods?
The vanguard party can and will only ever dominate the working class it claims to represent, that is all that will ever come if it because it separate’s itself from the working class. The only way a vanguard party wont seize control, is if everyone within the working class is a member and everyone within the party has an equal say when it comes to management. Otherwise, all that will happen is a repeat of the Bolshevik-module with the working class becoming oppressed by the middle-class.
So the vanguard party, while it “leads” the working class to victory, actually only lead themselves to victory, while using the mass power of the proletariat for their own aim (seizing control, disposing of the bourgeoisie). I do not accredit the Russian Revolution to a vanguard party and the conditions for revolution were already taking place before the Bolshevik’s hijacked it. All the Bolshevik’s done was take the final major step of ousting the government (this could be achieved through their military power).
Let me tell you now quite simply the working class doesn’t need a vanguard party and it doesn’t need to be led, it doesn’t need to be told what working class is, or how to be working class and it definitely doesn’t need middle class “full time revolutionaries” dictating to them what to do. Once the working class (proletariat) has become self aware Marxism will take place and Communism will be instigated, this will happen regardless of what any of us do because we workers will get pushed into doing it through rising inequality.
So to this end, this false communist Bolshevik dream, is nothing more than just that a dream, a dream cooked up by Lenin, a very clever scheme to take power into the Bolshevik hands. The only people capable of revolution are the working class, he knew this and utilized their power but the fact remains if the working class realise their power and fight towards the interests of workers, then everyone will become a worker, their shall be no bosses and class will dissolve, not because they’ve took steps to do it but because it is the natural state of the world and of man!
Then Vanguard of the Revolution Movement
Lenin, professed that the vanguard of the movement should be a party, his party. To me this was just a cheap trick for him to commendeer a revolution already in place, the vanguard of the revolution should be the working class, the ones who the revolution is for. If this is not the case, the Russian module may happen all over again, with corruption and a new bourgeoisie being formed out of this party as they become elf interested, looking only inward at themselves and the powers they've gained.
The working class are the ones that suffer most under this system, the working class are the ones that will suffer and sacriface the most during a revolution, in blood, sweat and tears. The working class, first and foremost must come together as one and i can see the "Party" as one of the main ways to do this, but that is the only function it could ever serve, not to lead, but to found. Though the working class can be organised in other ways and the party is just one of the methods that can be used. Solidarity committees and workers councils in my eyes are a much more favourable method than that of a party, which has its own interests seperate from that of the working class (it claims to represent). Thus, the working class must first organise but to do this they must become self-aware, which at present seems to be the hardest task facing our movement.
I would claim (perhaps boldly) that if the working class themselves, organise, build and fight for the revolution then there is alot less risk (if any at all) of things failing. They are the biggest clas in society and they are in every sector of it, which means their influence is everywhere, if they so choose. Thus i see our role, as that of architects, as aids in helping the working class come together as one, so they themselves can fight for the revolution, which is theres.
Revolution! Revolution!
the winds of change begin to stir
can you feel it in the air?
the winds of change begin to stir
can you feel it in your bones?
Revolution, underground vibe
Revolution, coming in live
Revolution, live the day
Revolution, Revolution!
the news is full of doom and gloom
it's a recession, no longer a boom!
you've either lost your house
or about to lose your job
but at least you aint lost your mind
Wealth can't buy happiness
and it can't buy health!
Revolution, underground vibe
Revolution, coming in live
Revolution, live the day
Revolution, Revolution!
Attack! Attack!
You can try and fucking run, but you can't hide!
We attack at dusk, and we're gone before dawn
Leave your neck sliced open like a tin of beans
And your white sheets will be blood stained red
This is what you get, for not listening when we said!
It's time to make things fairs!
So share your fucking wealth
for the good of your own health!
Whats a matter, don't you dare?
Ash and embers is all that will be left!
No evidence, no arrest, just fucking death
and through the fires of your fucking hate
a new world will be born, a world of love and peace
or least thats what we hope for, you're in the way so...
It's time to make things fairs!
So share your fucking wealth
for the good of your own health!
Whats a matter, don't you dare?
Hahaa, they think they got away with this shit? This war is just beginning and there can be only one winner, thats us, so just surrender because........................
classes
Exploiters
Privilaged Exploited
Underprivilaged
exploited
dependants
Glocalism
With the one set of Globalisation, it seems the world has yet to catch up with what has actually taken place - nations, are now pointless machinations, they exist only in name - we but one race, the human race, their is but one nation that is the nation of planet earth. Yet this doesn't mean we should surrender our rights to some far off centralised government, what happens at a local level effects the global stage (pollution, etc). To this end, we need to adopt a global identity and be conscious of the consequences our actions have for not only us but people all around the world.
Glocalism, is just that adopting a global outlook on who we are but at the same time, being mindful of local issue's, not submitting to some far off power - completely decentralisation, but working in harmony with our fellow human beings to further ourselves as a species and as a society, so that together we can begin colonisation of space and move into a utopian age of peace and prosperity never before seen by man (or woman for you feminists out their).
Liberation Principle: The Real Robin Hood Tax
Everyone is familar with the tale of Robin Hood, the Outlaw that stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Well this legend could be completely bollocks, but that doesn't matter because it's time, we revolutionaires do something similar. It's time we start taking back what is ours by force! What is taken from us, through exploitation, through taxes! Steal from the bourgeoisie and divide amongst the Proleteriat!
What is the point of all this you may be asking? A Revolution sadly can not be made without any money, war is won now on the economic battlefield, and so we must change our strategies accodingly. To this end, local cells should begin operating not only as harrasers of Government, but as social justice warriors, taking back by force what is ours and then swapping it with other cells in or out of this country, so that it can go where it is must needed, whether that be for revolutionary activity or not.
The poor have to eat, they have to be clothed, and it us that should do this - the merits are ten fold the energy it takes to achieve such a thing. Yes there are risks, but revolution is a risky business comrades!
Then the Revolution movement, can formulate a black economy, one seperate from the bourgeoisie control and one that helps the people, be it in Britain, or be it across the globe. This act would further the goal of revolution, in that it would put pressure onto the Bourgeoisie, it would ease the suffering of the Proleteriat, and communism, far from being some totalitarian evil regime, which Russia and over revolutions have made appear ot be, it would become the saviour of the people, and the people will turn towards it - as it is helping them in their day to day struggles! However comrades, this is just one of many methods that must be used in unison to destroy capitalism, using this alone will not bring revolution, but using it with other methods i will be laying down will bring this planet peace, once and for all.
Production - the key to unlocking capitalism?
The bourgeoisie devise their power from the the control of the means of production as Karl Marx states, and the point of the Proleteriat revolution, is after all to take control of these means of production, so that from it, a free, fair and equal society can grow. It was summised that this revolution should be violent and bloody and that by force, we shall take these apartus that keep us all down. That method, is sloppy, unpredictable, inhumane, the world of wars is a last resort, as can be seen more now than either, that economic power, is alot more effective and alot less bloody than war, which is what the revolution seeks to enact - class war.
Yet, i think in looking at these things in such narrow simplistic terms we discard without thought the more crafty and sneaky methods we could be employing to overthrow the enemy of the people, the bourgeoisie. This society we live in, unlike Marx's is alot more meritocratic, this gives us a massive opening to sneak in the back door of this system and rip it apart from its very heart. Business, production of goods, distrubition of goods, all these things which the capitalist use to control us and have power over us, can be used to free us from this system, to show the way to communism and to lead us to a world worth living in.
Once the Umbrella method has been encorporated and you have these coming together of all these different factions and groups, each with their own area of expertise, their own area of social and political capital, then the eye should be turned to business. If used effectively as a tool it will bring down capitalism, as the bourgeoisie will have no other option but to embrace the new model, the socialist business model.
What is the socialist business model? Well, we all know it's workers councils. Instead of lobbying and protesting against capitalism, why not go out and do the alternative? Forming councils out of those within the umbrella, to begin creating, producing and selling goods. If the width of the umbrella encompassed the whole of the planet, you could produce goods cheaply and sell them cheaply, all the while edging closer to the communist alternative to this capitalist society. Even if the net was only cast as wide as Britain, there is still a framework to work around. People accept capitalism because its all there is, its all they know. That is why we need to show them and prove to them the better way, not just talk and moan about it! action speak louder than any words! Compete against capitalism and destroy it from within - the workers within businesses that haven't accepted the socialist model will be very pissed, they will either strike or seize control - it doesn't matter which, the only option that can come from it is communist revolution. Use our enemies strength, turn it into his greatest weakness and victory shall be ours!
The umbrella method: Road to true communist revolution
Using the dielectian method, i have comprised a middle ground between the tyrannical, dictatorship of the party and the sloppy random outcome of the popular revolution. This synthethis i call the umbrella method, for what of a better word, namely because it's similar to umbrella corporations an an umbrella corporation is thus: "something, as an organization or policy, that covers or encompasses a number of groups or elements." So the umbrella method, is just that, an organization that covers and encompasses a number of groups and elements. Well, what does that actually mean? Basically all the many different groups that exist within the left movement, will agree to fight for common ground, in defeating the bourgeoisie and overthrowing capitalism, putting aside their self interest. This umbrella method, doesn't just have to be assigned to the left either, it gain encompass many different groups, all varying in dynamics.
The structure of the discipline party, doesn't work as can be seen in the past, it only brings about one focus, one direction - it's own direction. How can such a thing, which is narrow minded and small, bring about a revolution on the scale of the popular revolution? And with a popular revolution, it has no direction and can easily get hijacked by the bourgeoisie, as can be seen in our past also.
So how do we combat this?
We quite simply have a broad set of aims and principles which the groups and elements within the umbrella agree to uphold and fight for, though they can opt out of ones they choose, keeping freedom to themselves, and to stop any sort of dictatorship party-esque situation arising out of it. If these groups do not answer the call to be apart of the umberella, you have to ask yourself one thing? What are they fighting for, the workers or themselves? Surely, the maxim "divide and conquer" can be said in no truer circumstance than the one we are facing at this very moment. Put aside your senseless bickering, and useless idle chit-chat and come together, to fight for this planet, to fight for our people and to fight for communism!
Now, if these groups agree to share and pool resources where they have common ground, we will be unified and the bourgeoisie will tremble, we will have the combined strength to shake this corrupt weed that is capitalism to its very core! and rip it from this earth once and for all, so that from it, flowers of peace and harmony shall grow once more!
Travelling Commune
How can we live in anarchist conditions within this fucking capitalist world you may ask? Well i've come to think that the only way is to live a sort of Gypsy, travelling lifestyle. Living a nomadic exitence travelling around the world, exporting your views as you go. This commune could live of the land, like the human societys of old which used to migrate around the world. It could have a minimal amount of contact with the capitalist society, while also recruiting people from it. The commune could grow and grow, until it was big enough to split into various communes.
When there are sufficent amount of these capitalist communes we could perhaps begin to attack capitalism (if we hadn't beforehand). We would be free from capitalist tax, law and influence, we would be free or at least a lot freeer than we are now. So why don't we start a roaming commune?
Social Camouflage
Social Camouflage is one of our main weapons against our enemy, the bourgeoisie. Why? Because as an army, as a force, we must be unseen, we must be unheard. We do not have the capabilties and likely never will have them to match the power that they can weild against us.
So to this end, we must turn to hiding (hit and run tactics).
Social camouflage is basically where we will mask as something else through wearing a disguise. This can range from as simple as a hi-vis jacket to something more complex like a traffic wardens uniform. What is the purpose of it?
Well we are living in the day and age of the camera - big brother britain as it is widely known. So it is very important that we can move from place to place, past countless camera's. To do this we have to employ the uniforms and other forms of social camouflage (mask) to make it seem to anyone passing by and watching that we're just doing our job. Success and defeat can be determined by such factors
10 Demands of Revolution Comunista
1. All businesses are to be set up like direct democratic republics - one worker, one vote with equality of pay.
2. State is to become a direct democratic republic with normal workers instead of career politicans.
3. Work hours are to be cut and decided by the working council of the job.
4. The state can only declare war and mobilise the army with the consent of the people.
5. All houses are to become self-sufficent, utilizing renewable energy instead of harming the enviroment
6. Workers parliaments (aswell as councils) should be set up for one worker one vote.
7. All powers that the state has should become devolved and decentralised.
8. Every citizen will have a moral duty to be fireman,policeman,doctor - with pay and classes to this end.
9. All current laws are to be reviewed.
10. Everyone has the right to work - with jobs being given regardless of previous skills and experience
Revolutionz
Revolution
Intro – Long Live the Revolution!
Hello friends and comrades, I’m writing this for us all, so that we can hopefully come together to fight for each other in the struggle’s facing the world! Not only this but I hope to learn something from it and I hope you do to. In this book I plan to discuss Communism, Bolshevism + State Capitalism and also some stuff that might be helpful in the struggle.
This is not, and I stress this, a finished product, I don’t want you to read this and be like “that’s it” I want you to take it away read it and get your own meaning from it, attack it piece by piece and rip it apart, or further it. As long as things continue to move forward it is good. I became inspired to write this by jotting down random notes whenever I had a thought and eventually I got that many, I thought I could put them together and make something out of it. Well I hope you enjoy the read and don’t find it too boring!
Chapter 1 – The Russian Revolution and the False Bolshevik Dream
Popular history tells us, and I’m sure most of you will think of Russia, when people say “Communism” (some will also think china and maybe Cuba) but why? Well the middle-upper-class of Russia and the world (media) have told us this pretty much none stop since (and before) the Revolution took place and this is a half truth (the best kind of lies are half truths). It is true that a communist revolution was sweeping across the land of Russia and that the people there did hope for a better world but it very cleverly got hijacked by a political party known as the Bolshevik Party, with their snappy slogans and military support they took control of the country. It was their high level of organisation which made it so easy for them to hijack a pretty leaderless revolution of peasants and industrial workers, who only got pushed to the extreme through starvation.
The people were desperate and searching for an answer, so in stepped the Bolshevik’s and their front man Lenin. To trick the people they promised them exactly what they were fighting for in the first place, (but didn’t exactly know how to get) with slogans such as “Peace, Bread, Land” and “All power to the soviets!” It was with these that they caught the hearts of the people, a clever smoke and mirror tactic to get them into power. Whether it was intentional or not, once the Bolshevik’s got into power, they quickly changed; worked actively against the soviets interest, went back on promises they had made and strengthened their own positions as the new “lords” of the land. Any socialist or communist for that matter worth their weight in salt, with just a brief analysis of the Bolsheviks would see that they were more like a totalitarian regime than a communist, or even a socialist one.
Firstly, the Bolshevik party was very exclusive and by doing this got further removed from the working class which it claimed to represent, I don’t think a group outside the working class can represent the interests of the working class, that’s no different than say David Cameron telling poor working class families that he understands their trouble and represents them is it? Also the Bolshevik party in itself was organised with centralism, centralism to who? The leading members of the party! If this is the case then the very structure of the party has at its core inequality (if they can’t organise themselves equally what hope of a country?).
October 1917 the revolution was realised, the Bolshevik’s ousted the provisional government. Lenin a middle class person, believed that the workers couldn’t lead themselves and he fooled the workers into thinking something similar and this from a proposed communist! The promises that got the Bolsheviks in, besides their snappy slogans were; to pull out the war, land to the peasants (what they were revolting against the Tsar for in the first place) and workers soviets would control the factories. So, the three promises that got them to power firstly pulling out the war, they did pull out the war but only to bring a civil war to the country which probably caused more suffering than the WW1. Secondly land to the peasants, this never happened all they did was take from the peasants and oppress them and lastly control never went to any workers councils.
Then in December 1917, (after the October revolution) an election was held, an election which the Bolsheviks lost, do you know what their answer was to this? They disbanded the assembly through force and never held another election, without relinquishing power. Does that sound like a group hat listens to the will of the people? That also represents the will of the people and works for the interests of the people it claims to represent? If anything, this was a military coup against the legitimatized government!
Then came the economic policy of the Bolshevik’s known as “War Communism”, this didn’t take steps to removing managers and giving the workers power over their means of production, but quite the opposite with mass nationalisation (or maybe as it should be known Bolshevisation). Not only did this mass nationalisation work against the interest of the workforce, the Bolsheviks (much like their party organisation) continued the process of centralisation, further removing themselves from the working class and strengthening their position, these actions were direct attacks on the working class!
Many claim that it was the civil war which began heating up on the outset of 1918, which turned the Bolshevik’s, or they use it as an excuse as to “why they did this, or why they did that”. This is completely stupid, all that matters is what they did and what happened!
The Civil war in itself, was comprised of many groups, loosely working together for their common goal, this included Socialists and Communists who saw the warning signs of what the Bolsheviks were, as well as the Allied powers of world war 1 (to continue the war on the western front) and former monarchist who longed for a return to the old days.
It was however during this civil war that the Bolshevik’s true motives began to shine through, with their secret police force, which was nothing short of an inquisition, hunting down “enemies of the state” and executing them, no trial, no judge, no jury! As well as the secret police executing people, many met their end by firing squad including the Tsar’s family (women and children) and other so called enemies who had aided the Bolsheviks were callously murdered! Regardless the civil war was won by the Reds (Bolshevik’s) and the whites (allied forces) were defeated.
It was during this time that mass famine took place, firstly because of the Revolution, then because of War Communism and the civil war. In this famine, the Bolshevik’s once again shown their true colours by allowing people to starve. Though this famine served the purposes of the Bolshevik’s, as soldiers were given priority of food, so if you were hungry and wanted to eat and were an able bodied man you joined the army! During this famine, do you think Lenin and the Bolshevik high command went without food? At any time do you think they went hungry like the masses of people? Lenin was famously quoted in saying regarding the peasants starvation “Let them starve!” Not only did mass famine take place but productivity plummeted to depths since before World War 1. All of this could have been avoided if workers were in charge (not Bolshevik’s).
During the war the Bolshevik’s had an excuse for war communism but after it ended, and the many “emergency powers” they had grabbed didn’t relinquish and the suffering of the people carried on. Groups that had formerly been loyal to the Bolshevik dream began to become disillusioned, the former vanguard of the vanguard party the Kronstadt sailors declared independence and revolted, ending in all their deaths as well as this workers and peasants were organising against the Bolshevik’s but anyone doing so was declared a counter-revolutionary and shot! With the face of collapse Lenin had no choice but to relinquish War Communism in favour of his “New Economic Policy”.
It was after the civil war that again the Bolshevik’s proved their true motives (that of formulating a modern capitalist-state run by the state). There New Economic Policy placed a tax on things that they’d been taking by force (people feel more inclined to give something away freely than for it to be took from them) i.e. food and if the N.E.P hadn’t been put in place, without a doubt the Bolshevik’s would of faced a mass wide scale rebellion. The N.E.P went from taxing food, to taxing money in something not very communist or the communism Marx’s speaks of anyway. Russia was starting to look like any other country of the time, with a few exceptions. Capitalism now had green shoots in Russia, the farmers could sell their surplus and a free market began to operate, with industry workers becoming wage slaves (those that could find work). The exceptions which made Russia different was the strengthened and centralised state of the Bolshevik’s, unlike other countries where corporations had power, in Russia their power was severely limited.
Then with the death of Lenin, Stalin rose to power and continued down the path that was laid before him by Lenin and the Bolshevik party but it is key to remember that by this time Russia was not communist, or socialist, by now it already was a state-capitalist totalitarian regime. My summary of the supposed socialist regime, is that at the beginning it could of became communist but, Lenin and other members of the Bolshevik’s worked to rid those with communist ideals from their party, instigating instead the rule of the Bolshevik’s and it worked and gave birth to the tyrant we know as Stalin. I believe that the actions took before, during and after the civil war all add weight to the fact that the Bolshevik’s were never working class, never worked for the working class and all the working class got out of it was suffering, suffering and some more suffering!
So why has it been since that the majority of socialist and communist organisations seek to be like the Bolshevik’s, or to emulate Russia? I think this may be because of the success that they experienced but their success wasn’t in being socialist or communist, but completely opposite. They have perverted the ideals which they claimed to represent and in this end served the purpose of the bourgeoisie, not the workers (on a world revolution scale).
This false Bolshevik dream hasn’t helped our movement and since its time we have been stuck in limbo, with Trot’s arguing with Stalinist, Stalinist arguing with Leninist, all just going around in circles! For what purpose I ask? Marx and Engels both have said about the “withering away of the state” if this is the case, how comes the state in Russia was so strong? Yet they claim to be Marxist? It is evident that this was Bolshevik.
This state-run-capitalism has become the dominate view within the left, as has the “vanguard party” of the working class, to lead the revolution. Again this probably can be accounted to the success that was experienced by the Bolshevik’s but what about the other methods?
The vanguard party can and will only ever dominate the working class it claims to represent, that is all that will ever come if it because it separate’s itself from the working class. The only way a vanguard party wont seize control, is if everyone within the working class is a member and everyone within the party has an equal say when it comes to management. Otherwise, all that will happen is a repeat of the Bolshevik-module with the working class becoming oppressed by the middle-class.
So the vanguard party, while it “leads” the working class to victory, actually only lead themselves to victory, while using the mass power of the proletariat for their own aim (seizing control, disposing of the bourgeoisie). I do not accredit the Russian Revolution to a vanguard party and the conditions for revolution were already taking place before the Bolshevik’s hijacked it. All the Bolshevik’s done was take the final major step of ousting the government (this could be achieved through their military power).
Let me tell you now quite simply the working class doesn’t need a vanguard party and it doesn’t need to be led, it doesn’t need to be told what working class is, or how to be working class and it definitely doesn’t need middle class “full time revolutionaries” dictating to them what to do. Once the working class (proletariat) has become self aware Marxism will take place and Communism will be instigated, this will happen regardless of what any of us do because we workers will get pushed into doing it through rising inequality.
So to this end, this false communist Bolshevik dream, is nothing more than just that a dream, a dream cooked up by Lenin, a very clever scheme to take power into the Bolshevik hands. The only people capable of revolution are the working class, he knew this and utilized their power but the fact remains if the working class realise their power and fight towards the interests of workers, then everyone will become a worker, their shall be no bosses and class will dissolve, not because they’ve took steps to do it but because it is the natural state of the world and of man!
Then Vanguard of the Revolution Movement
Lenin, professed that the vanguard of the movement should be a party, his party. To me this was just a cheap trick for him to commendeer a revolution already in place, the vanguard of the revolution should be the working class, the ones who the revolution is for. If this is not the case, the Russian module may happen all over again, with corruption and a new bourgeoisie being formed out of this party as they become elf interested, looking only inward at themselves and the powers they've gained.
The working class are the ones that suffer most under this system, the working class are the ones that will suffer and sacriface the most during a revolution, in blood, sweat and tears. The working class, first and foremost must come together as one and i can see the "Party" as one of the main ways to do this, but that is the only function it could ever serve, not to lead, but to found. Though the working class can be organised in other ways and the party is just one of the methods that can be used. Solidarity committees and workers councils in my eyes are a much more favourable method than that of a party, which has its own interests seperate from that of the working class (it claims to represent). Thus, the working class must first organise but to do this they must become self-aware, which at present seems to be the hardest task facing our movement.
I would claim (perhaps boldly) that if the working class themselves, organise, build and fight for the revolution then there is alot less risk (if any at all) of things failing. They are the biggest clas in society and they are in every sector of it, which means their influence is everywhere, if they so choose. Thus i see our role, as that of architects, as aids in helping the working class come together as one, so they themselves can fight for the revolution, which is theres.