Capitalism lies to us that “race” and “nationality” are biological realities, rather than deadly capitalist social categories. Even though the capitalist class makes up less than 1% of the entire human population, they have been able to rule over and brutally exploit the global working class for hundreds of years, because they control the masses using their divisive anti-communist ideologies, schools, police, military, and media.
One of these deadly ideas is nationalism. It is a mortal enemy of the international working class. Capitalists began promoting nationalism as they fought against each other for maximum profits and hegemony. So, more and more nations and borders were drawn in violent struggles between rival capitalist imperialists in which millions of workers were wiped out. The capitalist rulers have since organized the working class into hostile “national groups.” Then the rulers blame capitalism’s miseries on workers of other “national groups”. Nations and nationalism are instruments of fascist state-sponsored terrorism: racist violence, imperialist wars, and genocides.
History has shown that nationalism makes concessions to capitalist bosses and derails the international communist movement. For instance, when the Chinese Communist Party was just founded, their Soviet advisors convinced Mao Zedong and other communists to ally with the murderous Kuomintang capitalist government. The Kuomintang capitalists double-crossed them and slaughtered many thousands of communists and leftists. They attacked the Red Army, nearly wiping out the Communist Party.
In addition, the Chinese Communist Party — and the old communist movement — uncritically supported national liberation movements, such as the one in Vietnam. Although the workers and soldiers in Vietnam heroically defeated U.S. imperialism’s genocidal offensive, their leaders fought for socialism. They failed to abolish the wage system and money. By the time the U.S. imperialist military retreated, and Vietnam unified into one socialist state, capitalism had been fully restored. The working class in China and Vietnam continues to be super-exploited wage slaves today.
Today, inter-imperialist rivalry is sharpening between China and Russia versus the U.S. and NATO. In preparation for World War III, all capitalists-imperialists are intensifying racism and nationalism. They call on the masses of workers to line up behind the bosses’ national flags to kill or be killed to determine which group of capitalists become the world’s main exploiters. The capitalist-imperialist rulers are turning to fascism and trying to silence communists and anti-fascists who threaten capitalist interests.
Even though we speak different languages and have different skin colors, religions, and customs, the workers of the world have everything in common with each other, and nothing in common with any capitalist exploiter. The worker is a wage slave with no nations, while the capitalist is a parasitic exploiter, warmaker, and murderer who uses nations and borders to tear working class families apart. Furthermore, genetic studies show that humans are 99.9% identical to each other at the DNA level. There is no genetic basis for “races” or “nationalities”.
As communist internationalist comrades of the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP), we are committed to uprooting sexism, racism, nationalism, xenophobia, and all capitalist divisions with a communist revolution. We need to overthrow the capitalist-imperialist system and abolish money and private property. We will wipe out the material basis of exploitation, fascism, genocides, and imperialist wars everywhere: the capitalist wage system.
Communism will eliminate all nations, borders, and classes. All workers will treat each other as comrades, brothers and sisters, and neighbors. “Race” and “nationality” will be remembered as deadly unscientific ways to categorize workers. No longer will workers be wage slaves or cannon fodder.
In communism, we will be able to live, work, and make decisions together, and produce and distribute the planet’s resources solely to meet the needs of everyone. No one will live better or worse than anyone else. Workers all over the world will participate equally and fully in all aspects of life. This will conclude the prehistory of humanity. We will be free to consciously choose communist collectivity and realize our full human potential!
Communism is our future, comrades! The workers of the world have nothing to lose but our chains of oppression. Let’s unite together under the red flag of working-class communist internationalism to overthrow capitalism and build communism!