Rai 01-04

Is It Now the Best and Also the Worst Time?

https://youtu.be/EZTyNhmdXhU

Mark Wain on March 27, 2022

It’s the most forward-looking time, it’s the most backward-looking time. So many words, pictures, videos, sound, sighs, angers, curse, blessings and advices have been revealed as fair and tears shed as humanitarian, but the inter-capital killings cannot seem stoppable at least for now, until people have the practice-based clairvoyance toward a new social system.

Why not? Because we are in the eve of revolution and all meaningful revolutions (the American one is not) mean disorder.

The basic reasons why this happened are the twenty-first century capitalists of the world, especially those caught in the quagmire of conflict between the Western and the Eastern Camps, call for a life-and-death struggle, as though there’d remained little time left before facing a defeat, no matter how miserable the outcome would be.

It’s an obvious and common knowledge that the Wall-Street, the Big-Oils, Big-Caps and the NATO Oligarchs want to control and own as much as possible the Russian natural as well as the SCP (the Special Color Party)’s Chinese labor-power resources. Capturing both means controlling the world; without both resources the Western Capitalist Camp will be doomed to decline in rigor or even to failure. This knowledge is, of course, shared and engraved on the minds by their counterparts in the East, who wants to resist this greedy venture that the West is wanting, unless the West changes its containment of high-technology-miliary-intellectual-property and/or opens up such otherwise protected markets in the Eastern’ s favor.

The Russian oligarchs and the five hundred or so most powerful plutocrats (or chaebols) of SCP have different strategy vs. the Western plutocrats numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The difference between the oligarchies of the two camps lies in the fact that the former has a single political party in control of the people and states, called the bourgeoisie dictatorship, while the latter has two or more political parties in control, but its bourgeoisie dictatorship is just as solid as the former.

During the cold-war era, the modern-day revisionist oligarchy in the former Soviet Union proposed a policy of so-called peaceful co-existence and its corrupt big-shot-comrades in the SCP-controlled China led by the capitalist roader Deng Xiaoping did their best to please their West colleagues by selling out the working people’s long-standing interests. Ever since the true and faithful fighters for socialism and people’s sovereignty and justice had been defeated by these traitors, usually through coup d’états, the Western capital suddenly found that they have a field day. These two oligarchies are the two and only life saviors rescuing the Western capital reign over the world from defeat and ruin. And the capital vs. the labor drama could not be so simply ended without repercussions, one of which is the question who has the final say about the capital’s reign, or the international order as euphemistically called, the Western or the Eastern Camp?

As the capitalist war from within is a way of survival of the fittest capitalists, peace will have to take a backseat in the struggle for being the winner of the last and only spokesman-international-regulation-planer of capital.

Those who conceal their war intentions most effectively will be likewise considered to be the fittest to rule because ordinary folks do not want to die for their capital bosses or the top-drawer unless and until being tricked into dire straits.

All Western capitalist countries camouflage their bourgeoisie dictatorship with glorious propaganda about pseudo-patriotism with a hidden caveat – the electoral circus democracy like marionettes directed by unseen puppeteer is the only game in town, while the Eastern countries keep their mouths busy howling success in possessing themselves of patina of legitimacy supported by nouveau riche.

As capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class, its urgent need is to maintain a bait-and-switch crowd to bad-mouth anyone who dares to complain capital’s wrong-doings as well as its contrived hypocrisy and to dupe the patsy and ignoramus into fighting for capital’s survival even as the cannon fodder. Its political claque and bien-pensant waste no time to take on any progressive ideas, faithfulness and forces as though the Four Great Catastrophes – the Great Plague, Great Depression, Great Hegemonic Wars, and the Great Climate Change - were created by or otherwise attributed to socialists and progressives and never by the world-wide capitalist class itself. Meh！

Fortunately, as the Four Great Catastrophes have become more apparent and increasingly unstoppable under the capitalist class’s reign, working people’s class awakening and their strident dissatisfactions with the capitalist’s absolute governance like a cauldron of repressed anger are simmering via their fear of the danger of running themselves into common ruins.

The Catastrophes, if isolated, the capitals would be able to deal with in unison. When the Catastrophes mutually reenforce from within and a highly divided capital world would give rise to a highly uncontrollably dangerous situation, as it seems to be the case today.

Ever since the Gorbachev-Teng-Xiaoping’s days, Modern Revisionists made deals with the West to bootlick their masters for crumbs under the table, in exchange for their larcenous properties being launderable under the thumb of the West. As the capital in the West has become so colossal and weighty that those Eastern-capitalist powers-that-be simply have to be levelled as ignoble flunkies and kicked out.

Thus, Biden’s threat in a speech delivered in Warsaw, Poland on March 26, 2022 that “for God’s sake, this man [aka Putin] cannot remain in power,” is almost a word-to-word replica of Bush, Jr.’s announcement of invasion against Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein, in 2003, albeit Biden’s assertion was later bruited about by his aids that he did not mean regime change. No matter how the West wants to lull the Eastern capitalists into a sense of security, the fact is that that kind of security can only be false.

Biden and the West wish the Eastern powers-that-be would bow out of existence to the Westernized bourgeois democracy. The fact that the entire capitalist world has engaged in for almost a half of a century inextricable internal conflicts without any end in sight, regardless how dangerous the Four Catastrophes are, has taught a hard and bitter lesson to the hoi polloi, especially those who bear up well under all their troubles. In order to avoid destruction in mutual ruin, people simply have no choice but to fight back against the socialism-phobia hard and go against capitalism all the way to find a new social system toward which they can march on in order to save the world. If the revolutionary line seeps into every nook and cranny, Putin will be replaced not by another capitalist but by a tried-and-true Lenin-Stalinist. This will also hold true of SCP-controlled China, i.e., Xi Jinping will be replaced by a tried-and-true Maoist and not by another misbegotten capitalist-roader-establishment such as Deng Xiaoping – the world’s most dangerous con man.

Postscripts:

I surmise that Ukrainian vs. Russian should be considered as close as the Cantonese vs. Mandarin, to the extent that their pronunciations are not the same, but similar, and the characters are not much different, if any at all. Some people are hesitated to call Putin’s special conflagration-operation against Ukraine “invasion” because they have their reservations on Ukraine’s status of independence when seeing in a cultural-historic perspective. Then the problem is how to reconcile it with the popular opinion that the Ukrainian people want to join the NATO countries, under heavy Western influence and propaganda. 

On second thought, now we seem to be in a political situation for a revolution in the making, somewhat similar to the pre- French- Revolution era. But the current unnerving crises in the background underscore the seriousness of the revolution in the future...These two revolutions differ not only in times but also in scope as the French Revolution affected in its wake Haiti and North America, whereas the 21th Century Revolution will be all over the world; needless to say, that it’ll be the second revolutionary storm posterior to the first revolutionary storm that broke out in the second half of the 20th Century led by Chairman Mao.

Insofar as SCP’s Taiwan question, the 100-mile-long Taiwan Strait is equivalent to a 1,000-mile-long landmass heavily mined almost everywhere, which implies that the “Special Military Operation” against Taiwan, if ever occurred, would be at least ten times as difficult as Putin’s Operation in Ukraine, even if and when the U.S. forces stayed out of the combat. If worst came to the worst, when the U.S. decided to protect Taiwan after all, chances would be very good that SCP would call the operation off. After all is said and done, if followers of SCP persist in their illusions about liberating Taiwan, suffice it to say that the capitalist SCP would like to muddle through “liberating” none other than their Taiwanese capitalist cohorts. The working people on the island can only be liberated together with their mainland brothers and sisters by the Maoist revolutionary forces after upending the SCP.