Karl Liebknecht is dead
Karl Liebknecht is dead
“This war, which none of the peoples involved actually wanted, did not erupt for the welfare of the German or any other people. It is an imperialist war, a war for capitalist domination of the world market, for political domination of important settlement areas for industrial and banking capital.” (Karl Liebknecht, 1914)
This evening, Tuesday January 24, it is known that the Bundeswehr is delivering the Leopards.
This means for us; the war is now our war, German capital is on an expansion safari.
In more than one way, the situation we find ourselves in today is reminiscent of the decision on war credits in 1914; the delivery of heavy weapons are our
entry tickets for this war, and just like 109 years ago, the German again makes slogans against the Russian.
The tank delivery is the next step in the more or less linear sequence of war matériel for Ukraine – helmets to tanks, tanks to rockets,
rockets to nuclear bombs.
But the risk seems long forgotten when it comes to defending the martyr for the West, Ukraine – but I wonder what the
actual idea of the warmongers is here; that Russia gives up?
That the negotiations repeatedly rejected by the West from the Russian side will still stand, when German tanks roll?
Instead of the evil Bolshevik, the bad man in the East is now the evil oligarch, but in German tradition, we want total war.
A war is only just when the possible result of that war is a just one.
We know that Russia is a late-capitalist imperialist state, the NATO countries even more so – but what, then, would be the just result?
From a Marxist, anti-imperialist perspective, there is none; Ukraine, or
what is left of it, is and remains an imperialist state, whether under blue-yellow or white-blue-red flag.
The only goal that counts is therefore an end to this war, an end to the bloodshed of Ukrainian and Russian workers.
The fate of the people’s republics is another topic, which I do not want to elaborate on now.
Solidarity with the workers of both states is no longer enough, every NATO tank on Ukrainian
soil brings us closer to Armageddon – and I really wonder whether it might be needed for people to understand;
Capitalism means war!