War as the Imperialist Pill for Mass Domestication

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World peace has perished in the debris of imperialist wars waged by the American and European ruling classes—wars that have devastated the lives, homes, happiness, and livelihoods of working people, along with their libraries, places of learning, museums, archives, and history. From Afghanistan, Beirut, Bosnia, Cambodia, Grenada, Iran, Iraq, Korea, Kosovo, Laos, Panama, Palestine, Somalia, and Vietnam to Yemen, people have recently endured the brutality of wars launched by American and European imperialist powers under the guise of fighting terrorism, and promoting democracy, human rights, and peace. However, the Israeli attacks on Iran and Palestine, along with the American imperialist assault on Iran, have disrupted this illusion of comfort within Europe and America. Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Donald Trump have not only bombed Iran—they have symbolically bombed the very foundations of so-called liberal and constitutional democracy in the West. Their actions have also struck at the United Nations and its already fragile legitimacy in upholding global peace.

The Zionist ruling elite of Israel, backed by American imperialism, is now even bombing graves in Gaza. Palestinians are paying the ultimate price with their lives as they defend their homes from colonial settlers. Israel is targeting children in schools, patients in hospitals, and women in their homes. Israel, with the support of American imperialism, is also bombing Iran—without justification and in violation of all international laws. Both Ukrainians and Russians are losing their lives in this war driven by imperialist interests. The Zionists, alongside European and American imperialists, are not only destroying ancient civilisations and killing people to plunder their natural resources, but also systematically undermining the cultures and identities of working people across the globe. These war-mongering ruling classes continue to bomb nations, exploit resources, and erode the foundations of entire civilisations under the guise of imperialist power and neocolonial control.

The hegemonic profits from these wars—through arms sales and the extraction of plundered natural gas, oil, and other mineral resources—offer temporary relief to the suffering of European and American working people. This temporary relief serves as the foundation of modern slavery and operates as a strategy to silence working people in the name of national interest. These wars will ultimately engulf us all and strip us of our humanity—it is only a matter of time. Dehumanisation is not a distant consequence of war—it is an intimate, everyday process. Through the normalisation of violence and the othering of people in daily life, it poses a danger to us all in the form of militarisation of mind and dehumanisation of our everyday lives. In this process, working people are stripped of their mental peace and happiness, as their lives are overshadowed by violence, exploitation, and uncertainty.

Collective punishment of people through imperialist wars is a deliberate strategy by ruling elites to impose mass shock therapy, conditioning the masses to accept violence as a governing principle. Instability, uncertainty, and insecurity are not accidental outcomes but are deliberately embedded strategies of imperialism designed to domesticate and control the masses. These imperialist tactics work like a powerful pill, making the plundering of labour and natural resources seem natural and inevitable—no questions asked. Such conditions grant unlimited power to the imperialist ruling classes, enabling them to survive and expand their dominance. Imperialist hegemony marks the deathbed of liberal, constitutional, and secular democracy. It destroys the very foundations necessary for the advancement of human rights, citizenship, and individual freedom—undermining the ability to live, work, and love according to personal choice.

In this way, imperialist wars have placed the lives and livelihoods of the global working class in grave danger. There are no nationalistic, religious, or cultural wars—these conflicts are deliberately designed to divide working people and send them to the slaughterhouse of imperialist wars. Therefore, the struggle against war must be central to working-class politics and its internationalist emancipatory vision for global peace. As global democracy faces increasing threats from these imperialist wars, working people worldwide must unite to reclaim their democratic and citizenship rights—before it is too late. The struggle for peace is, at its core, a struggle against the imperialist war machine. These wars can be stopped, and lasting global peace can be achieved only through mass mobilisation and unified movements of working people. Internationalism is the cornerstone of the emancipatory struggles of working people worldwide.

Therefore, standing in solidarity with the Iranian and Palestinian people strengthens and empowers working people and their path to peace and prosperity across the globe. Imperialist wars are our common enemy. They destroy and dehumanise us all, stealing the very essence of life—both as human beings and as part of the natural world of animals. If working people fail to unite and resist imperialist wars, barbarism will be the fate that awaits us all.

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