Above: Homeland Security agent in February 2025, photo by RJ Sangosti
We’ve reached a point where it’s no longer enough to expose power, because power has shown it will act essentially the same no matter how much attention there is on it. This was in many ways always the case, but the Gaza genocide represents a new stage in the Nazistic depravity of our government.
The Trump administration’s plan for Gaza is extermination, and the events of the last few weeks have proven this. The Zionist entity has been committing its biggest massacres yet, using bombs that are even larger than the ones it used previously; this is because the U.S. gave it these weapons. The occupier has also been dismantling United Nations relief networks for Gaza, and deliberately bombing the volunteers who’ve brought aid through other means; this is because Washington has done everything possible to shield the occupiers from consequences.
The White House’s bombing campaign against Yemen, motivated by a desire to protect the occupiers from Yemen’s blockade, is the biggest example of this effort to create impunity for a holocaust. It’s also a crucial part of the effort to escalate our third world war, and bring a conflict with China. The strategy of the Trump neocons is to keep bombing across West Asia until Iran and Russia capitulate towards Washington, leaving China unable to rely on its biggest partners. Then the plan is to start a proxy war with the PRC, whether through Taiwan, Korea, or both. The Trump White House’s aggressive nature simply can’t be denied, not after the Yemen war Signal leaks; it’s no longer a viable argument to say that Trump is a peace president.
It’s also undeniable that our government is trying to criminalize opposition towards its foreign policy. The detentions and deportations of student Gaza activists are there for everyone to see, with the administration not even really trying to justify this through accusations of crimes. White House officials are stating that their problem is with the speech itself, thereby openly admitting that they’ve disregarded the constitution.
Everyone who’s paying attention sees that these things are happening, and this has potential to bring repercussions upon the perpetrators. But only if we go beyond the truth-telling aspect, and build a popular movement. There is momentum for such a movement; a new wave of pro-Palestine demonstrations has appeared, which means the forces that got hurt by last year’s campus crackdowns are regrouping. Until we expand the pro-Palestine struggle into organized labor, though, the struggle will stay trapped within a cycle of defeat. And to do this, we must adopt a skepticism of the organizing model that’s so far defined modern social movements.
I’m not just talking about the practice of putting identity over class, which is how the organized left has long functioned. The problem also exists within much of today’s “alt” media, which isn’t necessarily tied to the left. At this stage, it’s conservative alt media and the “dissident right” that have much greater sway; and this faction represents the same kinds of problems the organized left does. Its purpose is also to discourage involvement in the class struggle; and the substitute it sells for class struggle is the mere concept of “speaking truth to power.” The danger alt media poses is that it can create complacency, convincing audiences that we’re doing enough as long as we speak about our government’s actions.
As long as these efforts are detached from popular mobilization, and from a project to build independent working-class institutions, they’ll remain inadequate. The crimes of our ruling class may get exposed, but without such a revolutionary effort, the crimes will continue. Social media has created widespread awareness of the infanticide, massacres, torture, sexual assault, and engineered starvation that the Zionist entity is carrying out with our government’s assistance. And this shift in mass perception will be an essential part of how Zionism gets defeated. Another part will be the construction of a collective organizational force, one that gives the U.S. masses the ability to overthrow their imperialist dictatorship.
Such a force exists in the communist elements that are carrying forth the Marxist-Leninist tradition; in the aid networks that Palestine’s friends are building; in the independent worker organizations our movement is constructing alongside the unions. And whether the Zionist state’s demise comes before or after the USA undergoes revolution, these players are going to keep working to disable the war machine. We don’t need to wait until after revolution comes for stopping the genocide to be a possibility; we absolutely have the power to effect the operations of the U.S. empire. To do this, we must lead the masses into not just understanding the ruling system, but working towards its demise.
The only path forward is to commit towards the final defeat of the capitalist state, however many costs such a path will entail. This is a conclusion that many more are going to come to as they see the state try to crush dissent, and leave us with no options for getting change through reforms. Reform was never a viable way to defeat our ruling class, but now this reality has become much easier to see; the imperial state is committing crimes with such lack of restraint, and using its repressive powers in such aggressive ways, that any arguments about changing the system from within are no longer tenable.
The ones who seek to sell these kinds of arguments have to disguise what they’re doing as revolutionary, which is what controlled opposition “socialists” like Sanders and AOC have been doing for a while. At this stage, when these Democrat agents have lost much of their narrative power, the main pseudo-revolutionary voices are the conservative alt media types. Their role is to divert from the class struggle by presenting a solution that’s devoid of anything to do with the proletarian movement. They speak against monopoly capitalist institutions like Blackrock, and they expose aspects of U.S. imperialism; but they’ll always lead their audiences away from the workers’ struggle.
This narrative tactic is capable of succeeding in part, but we can push back against it, and guide the people to victory against their capitalist dictatorship. We have to show them that only class struggle can rescue us; which we can do by helping lead the workers in their fights, and publicizing how such fights benefit the people. Nobody can refute an argument as powerful as demonstrable reality. That’s why the psyops which come from “alt” media, as effective as they can be, will in the end be defeated by the forces of popular revolution.
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