FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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Since Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006) a growing bloc of US capitalists has organized around Gore’s environmental politics. In September it mobilized hundreds of thousands for the “People’s Climate March” and the UN Climate Summit (see RF, v. 4, #16).
 There’s a contradiction between “Mother Earth” and “No Planet B” slogans on one hand, and the patriotic “We (Americans)” language and Statue-of-Liberty imagery used by the same activists. But what they have in common is denying class struggle.  The drumbeat of all-class unity, combined with open China-bashing, will help US rulers win some workers and youth to fight and support their wars—eventually, world war.
 The main US rulers are using this mass mobilization to strengthen their hand against domestic coal, gas and oil producers who put their narrow interests ahead of the US imperialist system.
The New York Times (10/5/14) described the disappearing Louisiana wetlands as, “like any environmental disaster carried beyond a certain point, a national-security threat.” The threatened region contains 10% of US oil reserves and 25% of refinery capacity.
The Times attacked politicians controlled by oil and gas companies who are helping these companies avoid sharing the cost of repairing the damage they’ve caused.
National Republican leaders oppose Obama on everything, including a proposed $37/ton carbon fee. For now, energy policy is left to the states, but US imperialism can’t compete internationally that way. Democrats are using these issues – and the Supreme Court, the minimum wage, drug sentencing, and more – to “get out the vote.”
 Environmental leaders downplay all other capitalist attacks –mass incarceration, racist police murder, deportations, Ebola, the Gaza blockade – as minor compared with CO2 emissions. Some admit that capitalism causes climate change but declare that climate change “can’t wait” for revolution.
As another article (RF v. 4 #15) explained, this reformism is a deadly diversion. The growing climate crisis is yet another reason to mobilize the masses for communism now!
 This movement prepares the masses ideologically to accept a sharp decline in our standard of living in the name of “reducing our carbon footprint” and “saving life on earth as we know it” or even “saving civilization.”
“Life as we know it” is CAPITALISM (which calls itself “civilization”!) and we need to kill it, not save it.

Communism: How We Need to Live
Many climate-change activists are disgusted with capitalism and how it forces us to live. They are eager to swap their cars for bicycles or lawns for organic vegetable gardens. They talk about “living simply so others can simply live.”
Our Party organizes mainly among those who are fighting to simply live. But let’s also win more environmental activists to collectively organizing for communism.
Capitalist culture tirelessly promotes individualism and selfishness. Capitalist commodity production under girds this “look out for #1” ideology. Still, the masses –especially industrial workers – know from experience that we rise or fall together. Many act unselfishly and even heroically in a worthy cause – witness the Ebola crisis.
The rulers want to manipulate this unselfishness to get us to accept a big economic hit from their “carbon pricing” while they maximize profits and use new tax money to rebuild their military.
We, in contrast, see in the unselfishness of the masses the possibility of communism. And in communism we’ll create the material basis for defeating selfishness and individualism.
In our communist future we will share the hardships of the struggle as well as the fruits of our collective labor. Nobody will benefit from another’s misery. All will be asked to take responsibility for ensuring that everyone’s needs are met.
Industrial workers and soldiers will lead in organizing both production and decision-making. The mobilized masses will develop new knowledge, technologies, and social forms to confront problems facing us. We’ll find ways to move forward together.
The interrelated crises of capitalism – economic, political, military, environmental, cultural—are our opportunity. Let’s seize it! Communist workers’ power will reverse the immiseration of the masses, undo capitalism’s environmental destruction, erase all borders, end imperialist war, and transform our way of life.

Forward to Communism!

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