Today, the capitalist system is in a deep crisis. What we call the existential crisis of capitalism, where the system is no longer able to reproduce and reinvent itself. This crisis can only be overcome by a new War, the third imperialist repartition war, or in other terms, the third world war.
Crises are inherent to capitalism. For every crisis, the system has only one answer: war, misery, and more exploitation. At the end of the crisis, the capital is always more and more concentrated. This means that while the poor get even poorer, the rich get even richer on our back. Recent memories of the COVID crisis and the 2008 crisis are still vivid in our minds. For the working class and the youth, their consequences have been that we are no longer able to afford our lives, while the rich have only gotten richer. Today, it is no surprise that while over 25000 people, of which 10000 are children, starve to death every day, we speak about the possibilities of the world’s first Trillionaire (1000000000000$).
Despite the claims of the propaganda machine that capitalism offers democracy and prosperity, the system has nothing to offer to humanity other than war, hunger, poverty, fascism, social and mental decay, and ecological catastrophes.
Our liberation can only come through socialism because the system we live in cannot overcome the fundamental problems that lie within itself. So, it is never a problem of the good-willed people or that of trying to continuously transform the system, simply because the system reproduces itself unless it is replaced. Therefore, to achieve freedom, we must dismantle the system and build a system where exploitation can no longer exist.
These fundemental problems are what we call contradictions.The Capitalist system has 3 principal contradictions, these cannot be solved within the system;
First, the apparent contradiction between labor and capital. The labor and production of all commodities are social, meaning that we collectively produce everything. However, on the other hand, capital and consumption are individual. So we produce everything collectively while consuming individually.This capital exploits the worker to reproduce the cycle of surplus value and profit. Meaning that in order to grow the capital must continue exploiting the worker.
Second is the gender contradiction. Patriarchy existed long before the emergence of capitalism. It came to life with the apparition of private property and, consequently, the domination of man over woman. The woman was then tasked with taking care of the house, being locked in there, and seen only as a sexual object whose task is to reproduce. With capitalism, the contradiction between the role that patriarchy gave to women and the role the capitalist system gave to women clashed with each other. The patriarchy limited women inside the private sphere; meanwhile, capitalism saw women as workers, cheaper than men as a consequence of patriarchy. Also, within the household, the woman was tasked with doing unpaid and invisibilised household chores. This created the system of double oppression for women within the household and at the workplace. Capitalism also has a strong necessity for society to be constantly divided into a rigid binary system. The system is called heterosexism. The heterosexist system refuses anything other than the “traditional family” and “normality”. In this context, the LGBTI+ individuals see themselves ignored their very existence. As a result, they are the target of all kinds of hatred and violence, other than their economic and social oppression. This is a mean used by the reactionary bourgeoisie as a tool of dividing the working class and creating fake “enemies,” showing the LGBTI+ as the source of all problems of society. However, the real oppressor is the bourgeoisie. These are the tools it must use in order to keep the order.
Third is the ecological contradiction. The capitalist system only pursues profit. Its objective goal is to maximize profit while keeping the production costs as low as possible. This means giving no regard to the environment in which we live, that is, our earth. Because simply regulating the production, not cutting down the trees, and preserving the ecosystems are not profitable. Therefore, the capital would rather destroy the world. The effects are clear: our world is heating to a point of no return, whole species go extinct, and ecosystems, like the coral reefs, are destroyed. The system simply has no answer. Bourgeois institutions, such as the COP, Paris, and Tokyo accords, do not have any solutions to a crisis that threatens not only human existence on earth but that of all life on it. The capitalist system grows like cancer on earth, willing to exploit infinitely in what is a finite system. The system must be destroyed, or else it will destroy the Earth.
The three contradictions are not surmountable within Capitalism. The system is designed to exploit, and it does exactly what it is supposed to do. However, it does not offer a future for us, the grand majority of people.
The youth want a future, but the system refuses it by design. The future the system has designed for us is rather like being in the trenches of war in which we have no interest. In their war, the youth must be the cannon fodder in the front lines; we must die to protect the motherland, they claim! A $200 drone, buzz… and you are no longer. This is the future, the perspective they have to offer.
As the existential crisis of the system deepens, more and more fascists ascend to power. The bourgeoisie is no longer able to provide any answers to the demands of the masses, so it resorts to more violence and exploitation to protect its interests. As Dimitrov put it, fascism is “the open, terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, and most imperialist elements of finance capital.” The goal of fascism is to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie by all means necessary.
As a socialist youth organisation, we believe that a better world, a world where these contradictions can be solved, is only possible through a socialist revolution, in which the working class comes to power. We want to ask the question: Why do we believe in socialism?
One Solution: Socialism!
The system we live in cannot overcome the fundamental problems that lie within itself. That is because these problems are a direct result of how the system works. If we think that we could solve these problems by reforms, we ignore the fact that the system will always produce exploitation and misery. The system will reproduce itself unless it is replaced.
This solution is socialism! Socialism is a system where the working class takes over the power. By building a council democracy all of society takes part in politics. Because the production no longer has to apply to the longing for profit from the capitalists, it can finally work in regards of the needs from the people.
One way there: Revolution!
The capitalists will not go away from their own. They will not suddenly stop existing. We also can not transform this system by reforms to a socialist system. If we want to achieve socialism, we need a revolution. We have to push the ruling class from their throne and take over control. They will never give up their power voluntarily.
Examples like the Paris Commune, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba are important sources for us. From the achievements they made, and from the mistakes that happened, we learn important lessons for our fight today.
Right now the most important task for us as socialist youth, is to spread the socialist identity and gain new forces for the coming fights.
We see that rulers all around the world are preparing for a new world war. In these times of crisis, where the people are hopeless and afraid of the future, we have to tell them, that there is hope! That it lays in socialism, because it is the solution to the existing problems all around the world.
Comrades,
The capitalists are no longer able to provide solutions. Despite all the attacks and the repression, we live through, a New World, a New Order is possible! A free world, the free human, the new human is possible.
Our dreams are not only possible but are a must. The words of Rosa Luxemburg, today, after a hundred years, resonate in the face of capitalist savagery;
“Socialism or Barbarism!”
Today, the question is whether you are on the side that defends exploitation, genocides, femicides, the one that only offers misery, poverty, war, and fascism, or on the side that defends liberation, self-determination, the one that offers prosperity, peace, and equality.
The answer is clear: Socialism!
Long Live Socialism!
Long Live the revolution!