Macron, Emerging Police States, and Global Class Struggle:

[Holy_Seduction]

“The working class struggle against Macron is of world significance. In every country, workers face the same essential conditions. The capitalist states use military-police violence to violate democracy and impoverish the working class. And as they scheme against the people, these governments rely on corrupt union bureaucracies to disorient and strangle workers’ struggles.”

“Against this, the PES advocates the building of a mass movement of workers and youth, independent of the bureaucracies, for a general strike to bring down Macron.”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/03/pers-m03.pdf

 

[Holy_Seduction]

“At this point this government is ruling entirely on the basis of organized violence against the population.”

At what point does the pretense to be a legitimate political authority collapse? How is that to be determined? What makes that so?

 

[Holy_Seduction]

“But despite repeated violence, Macron has been unable to bring the mass movement under control. It has developed a powerful forward momentum.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/03/pers-m03.pdf

And the same dynamics will build in the US, UK, Germany, Australia, Japan, etc.

It is world war, ending inevitability in thermonuclear holocaust and the eradication of human civilization, or it is global revolution.

 

[Lazaran]

America says: “Hold my beer”.(Bud Light).

*Disappointed nod*

 

[Holy_Seduction]

America says: “Hold my beer”.(Bud Light).

*Disappointed nod*

Statements depicting one response as the position of the whole are inherently deceptive and false.

The only acceptable and accurate reply is to indicate what social class makes this or that response.

For example: your indicated response seems entirely suited to the petty-bourgeoisie union bosses who receive 6-digit salaries for isolating workers, shutting down strikes, and imposing pro-company sellout deals. So far, so good, right?

But the response of the working class which has been assailed with the aforesaid tactics for decades is anything but what you describe.

The working class — globally and in the US — increasingly feels downright rebellious. And AS that momentum grows, the US regime under any administration will have no choice but to follow Macron’s strategy and turn guns in its own population.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

“The massive police violence against the French working class leads inescapably to one conclusion: There is no room for compromise and nothing to negotiate with Macron. The way forward for the working class is to bring him down through a general strike.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/03/pers-m03.pdf

No compromise…nothing to negotiate—you’d be surprised how quickly the regime’s tolerance of ‘dissent’ dissolves once proletarian class consciousness begins to rise. Democrats and Republicans will immediately discard ‘differences’ and cooperate to crush all political tendencies which they do not endorse.

 

[Lazaran]

You misinterpreted my commen.

I’m in general agreement with most of your concerns.

I do still believe that people need to vote to achieve change.

And non-violent protest is MORE effective than destructive physical confrontation.

That ^ is not to say that there may not come a time to take “The Guillotines” out of mothballs.

*nods*

 

[Holy_Seduction]

And neither I, nor the wsws advocate violent resistance. The state demands an exclusive monopoly on violence.

But while I won’t raise a hand against the state, neither will I lift a finger to save it. Of the two, I suspect that the second is far more damning. The state squandered the allegiance of the population. Now it enters its death agony.

So be it.

 

[Grendelpuppy]

https://literotica.com/s/esther-and-the-emperor

 

[ll74]

https://literotica.com/s/esther-and-the-emperor

Stop with your incessant spamming. There are other forums for promoting your stories.

 

[Grendelpuppy]

It is a perfectly pertinent comment on this thread.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

It is a perfectly pertinent comment on this thread.

Actually, it isn’t. But it is illuminating.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

Stop with your incessant spamming. There are other forums for promoting your stories.

Grendlpuppy’s intent was to say that proletarian struggles and lives have no significance, and that the ruling class but feigns support for the institutions and ‘democratic’ processes of state as a means of subjugating to toiling class to its diktats.

I think that it came through clearly that GP sides with Macron against the population at large.

Don’t you?