Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
HEO/GED
1-10-25
I posted this on social media a while ago but want to share it once more. Regretfully, we are beyond the stage where protests are able to reverse the rapid and violent decline of the capitalist system as it races headlong to the abyss taking humanity with it.
While I do not think we are doomed at this point, and still strongly believe that the working class will be forced to enter the global stage and engage in a momentous struggle to transform society and save humanity; the setbacks we have suffered over the past decades, the betrayal of our own leaders internationally and the lack of a revolutionary leadership with a clear understanding of what has to be done, all but guarantee there will be a lot of unnecessary suffering and violence along the way as we find our feet. The US ruling class alone, is a major obstacle to our emancipation and is a most violent opponent indeed. We just have to look at how it treats its own citizens.
War is built in to the capitalist system, integral to it. Protests will not change that; the system has to be changed. Forty million or so demonstrated against the US destruction of Iraq to no avail. The Vietnamese people defeated US imperialism's invasion and drove it out but at the cost of some 4 million lives (plus 67,000 US workers) when we consider those that have died as a response to unexploded armaments and disease due to chemical weapons.
U.S. imperialism, the main force behind Israel's genocide is the guy with the big stick and any pretences that people may have had that the UN could avert global catastrophe have been shattered. US President Biden has done more to undermine so-called international law than any president in my lifetime. Western nations, former colonial powers are the allies in defending the Zionist Apartheid regime, the European colonial settler state in Palestine.
I read only yesterday a comment from Allen Dulles, who along with his brother Foster, orchestrated the overthrow of the democratically elected governments of Guatemala and Iran in the 1950's and participated in many, many more coups, assassinations, and other interferences in the politics of other nations. It was over the support for Hitler and Nazi Germany. Allen firmly believed that they and the corporate law firm they were connected to that had many business connections to Germany had to break ties. His brother Foster strongly disagreed and attacked Roosevelt, Churchill, the New Deal and supported Germany.
“How can you call yourself a Christian and ignore what is happening in Germany?” Allen said to his brother, “It’s terrible.” *
Allen Dulles’ concern for Christian teachings didn’t stop him from overthrowing regimes around the world and heading the CIA, the prime purveyor of global terrorism.
Allen Dulles’ comment to his brother questioning his Christian ethics would fit perfectly in today world and the support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and should be addressed to Biden, an ardent supporter of the Israeli genocide along with most of the US Congress, who call themselves Christians. Trump, no doubt a serial sexual predator at best is seen by many Christians as devout, even as a prophet.
I don’t think we can look to organized religion as a source of basic human decency and solidarity; just the opposite, it is inherently divisive and an obstacle to our emancipation.
* Quoted in, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer p54
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