A Revolution in Consciousness

 Humanity has never been more at a crossroads than it is today.  We are threatened with giga catastrophes including possible extinction largely at our own hands because of ecological disasters of our own making, including global heating, civilizational if not biological extinction from global nuclear war, and a dismal future of mass slavery resulting from rising fascism.

It is often tempting to believe that the only solution is through violent seizure of the powers that be in society.

In the USA and Europe, I believe this is at best premature.  The first revolution that has to occur is a revolution in consciousness, what Marxists often call Class Consciousness.

Class consciousness has been virtually engineered out of existence by the capitalist mass media and other sources of propaganda.

But it was also at least party suppressed by New Deal programs and agencies in the USA and social democracy in Europe.  Now that those have been replaced by harsh Neoliberalism, which has also kept wages low compared to productivity, there is increasing justified anger at the ruling class and economic system.

(The excess productivity has gone to the excessive wealth of the oligarchs along with their outsized spending and influence, and destructive "investments" in endless war and Artificial Idiocy, rather than into useful work with a payback like a virtually complete conversion to a renewable energy system.  And not to worker needs like sensible private housing, free healthcare, and free education.)

Thus the conditions are also ripe for the re-emergence, hopefully bigger this time, of Class Consciousness.

People need to understand these things:

1) Humanity and the planet cannot sustain the drive for endless growth in profits of financial capitalism, which is the essence of modern Imperialism also.  The drive for endless growth in profits is the basic cause of all the largest problems of humanity at this time.  We must wrest control of capitalist finance and its friends in government to begin to solve those problems.

2) The People's Republic of China (RPC) is the one government which stands out in having adopted the best working form of socialism at this time, and this largely consists of controlling finance and other leading Commanding Heights (Lenin's term) of the economy.  It does not abolish ownership or unequal wealth.  More Chinese are homeowners than in the USA.  It could be better, and perhaps if more equal too, but it has been delivering the greatest growth in satisfying human needs in any country recently thanks to the "Communist" or "Socialist" system it has.  All other governments would be best served by moving to a similar system.

It is primary duty not to organize political showdowns like General Strikes now but to first raise the level of Class Consciousness that would sustain them, which just isn't there yet.

Now, to some degree, to a great degree, success has to come from truly mass class consciousness.  When it is predictably blocked by the capitalist ruling class and blocked using violence, we must be able to respond to that.  So I am not saying that violence is not ever called for, but we are no where near that point in Western countries in 2026.

And meanwhile the purpose of organizing activities, like the very limited protests we have today, is to help raise class consciousness, not violently overthrow the state.