FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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Between 2011 and 2013 China poured more concrete than the US did in the entire 20th century!
In communism that would be a great contribution to world health. Replacing mud floors with concrete in the world’s poorest homes would cut out 80% of parasitic diseases. For workers in Haiti and worldwide, it would be a life saver.
If you think that’s what we should do, then you think like a communist. You should join us to help mobilize the masses for communism to build a world where production is for human needs – unlike capitalism that uses this cement to build nuclear missile launchers and silos.
Everything in China, the US or anywhere is produced to make profits. Nothing is just for human need. Capitalist China’s drive to world leadership is as big a threat to world peace as is the US’s drive to contain it. Day by day, the choice gets clearer: support their dirty cluster- and suicide-bombing wars, or organize the communist revolution we need.
Of course, it’s not just concrete that makes China such a deadly rival to the US. Their steel-making capacity is bigger than that of the US, Japan and Germany combined. The story is similar in dozens of other industries.
The US, however, is still dominant in two key areas: finance and military power. By controlling the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and having its Dollar as the world’s main reserve currency, it still controls and supplies capital around the world. Its control is underwritten by military dominance, on which it spends almost as much capital as the entire world combined. Just to save its banking and industrialist elite’s wealth and power, the US has already wasted between $4-6 trillion in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Four challenges, however, upset this standoff.
*The huge inequalities in wealth and income, gaps not seen on this scale for 150 years. Layers and layers of working-class anger are buried in these statistics.
*The growth of the working class itself, now close to 2 billion strong. Never in history has it been such a dominant factor.
*The crisis of overproduction and falling rates of profit. When capitalist production fails to turn a profit, the need for wars to eliminate rivals becomes more intense.
*As inter-imperialist rivalry sharpens so does class war. As capitalist production and distribution fail even to sustain the masses, production solely for the masses - communism - becomes more urgent.
How the US Answers China’s Growth
*The financial assault on Greece, undercutting the Chinese purchase of the port of Pireas.
*The civil war in Ukraine aimed at scuttling the “Ukrainian Land Bridge.”
*The war in Syria (where Aleppo is the crossroad of two competing pipelines, one US-backed, the other China-backed).
*The unrest in Kashmir, threatening the Pakistani corridor to OROB.
*The war in Yemen and unrest in Ethiopia - all key players in the sea route to Europe.
We are entering a period of revolutionary upheaval. The contradiction between the forces of production and the relations of production is coming to a head. Capitalist relations are holding us back where communist relations, production for need, will take us forward. In spite of the advances in science, machinery and skills, the forces of production, are being strangled by the relations of production, which only employ the 2 billion wage earners if the 1% (the capitalists) can make a profit.
And profit-making is getting harder and harder. The capitalist crisis of 2008 was its worst since World War II. It was a blow to the influence of US imperialism, weakening but not dislodging them in relation to their main rival, Chinese imperialism. Now the global economy managed by the “mighty US dollar” is once more facing crisis.
This new crisis’ trends are undeniable: declining world trade, lower economic growth, mounting debt and slumps in investment in manufacturing caused by falling profits and widespread overcapacity.
In 2012, trying to recover its lost ground, the US launched its “Pivot to Asia,” a military initiative against China. It was meant to dovetail with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (now dead-in-the-water), a trade agreement that excluded China. In 2013, the Chinese replied with their “One Road, One Belt” (OROB) initiative, a massive infrastructure project over land and sea. It aims to link Eurasia and Africa together by building ports, railways, highways, airports, IT and more with over 60 countries.
The battle for world domination is plain to see. It is either “OROB” or the “Pivot to Asia.” Already, the Chinese have negotiated some 9,000 deals (and US firms will neither mix nor pour any of the concrete in them). Already, the US has answered. Civil wars have erupted (or are simmering) in key areas along the “OROB.” These wars are preludes to World War. (See box)
Capitalism can only offer us war, pestilence and famine. Millions of our youth already fight in inter-imperialist wars raging in Europe, Asia and Africa. As the current crisis deepens, millions more will be recruited. Those are our sons and daughters, sisters and brothers: the youth of the international working class. The imperialists will give them guns but we can give them the vision of what to use them for.
Don’t fight imperialist wars! Fight for communism, now!