American Revolution. French Revolution.

I was watching a program the other night on pre revolutionary France. It showed the staggering wealth of the ruling classes and the comparison of this to the poverty of the masses. It showed the incredible palaces and churches while people lay in the streets starving. It showed the arrogance of the ruling class. Inevitably this could not last. Inevitably the dam burst. And the revolution was on.

What struck me when I watched this program is the similarity to the US and the world today. The incredible wealth of the top elite, the gap between the rich and the poor unprecedented in centuries, the arrogance of the top elite who think they can get away with anything. After getting bailed out when they brought the world to the verge of collapse in 2008 they are filling their pockets even more than they did before.

This cannot last any more than pre-revolutionary France lasted. This country, the USA, is going to explode. This is as sure as night follows day. People will not go on taking this. It may be months, it may be years, but this country will explode. And when it does then what kind of society we should live in will be put on the table once again in a mass way. It will no longer be the subject for a few left and radical people. It will become the subject for the masses. Oh I look forward to that day.

It is with this perspective that we in the left and radical movement have to work. We have to build our forces in a way that provides an instrument, a tool, with which this new mass movement can connect, and can use when it takes to its feet. I have put forward a suggestion as to this in an earlier post. I would like Comrades to consider it again.

Check out the explanation and the program. In particular consider does the program and the idea of the mass united front using direct action challenge the capitalist offensive and give a way for the working class to halt and throw back this offensive and open up an offensive of its own. And does this approach allow us to connect with the existing consciousness of the working class and the future existing consciousness of the working class?

The movement that will erupt will best clarify its ideas if it challenges capitalism in action and at the same time if there is an alternative explanation to capitalism which makes a connection with the working class consciousness. We who organize this blog are for a mass anti capitalist direct action united front to take on the capitalist offensive. Within this revolutionary and socialist groups can exist. But the priority is to build a fighting mass united front using direct action methods to throw back the capitalist offensive.

We who organize this blog are committed to these tasks.

Sean.