THE 'BIG BANG' THEORY

ON BRINK OF A WORLD-WIDE SOCIAL REVOLUTION?
It's an interesting question so let's look at the situation in several countries throughout the world...


There are, at times, situations in human history that present unique opportunities for human beings to bring about radical social change - if the human 'forces for change' are capable of meeting that challenge, that is.


The Boss Class owned and controlled news media remorselessly spouts encouraging messages of 'recovery' (from the economic crisis) but there is no recovery.  Billions upon billions have been spent on saving the banks yet the banks are still not lending to inject funds into businesses that would aid economic recovery.  Why not?


The simple fact is that the banks used methods usually applied for getting out of a recession during the boom period.  How bloody irresponsible was that, do you think?
Such stupidity must even have left the bourgeoisie itself totally gobsmacked! So why did they do it?


Well, they used low interest rates to avoid a recession (but merely to delay the inevitable). But now the recession is far more serious than it could have been - a bit like somebody delaying an operation on their foot that subsequently results in the amputation of their leg.


Marx explained the role of credit in capitalism: it serves to artificially expand the market beyond its normal limits. However, borrowed money must be repaid with interest.  The basic contradictions of capitalism remain - all that happens is that the crisis is delayed but, when it comes, it is much worse than it would have been, as in the example above.


In countries throughout the world there are signs that people are becoming aware of their exploitation.  And not just their exploitation but the exploitation of the whole planet in the cause of generating profit at any price no matter what the cost.


In all countries the comfortable barons of the Trade Unions are desperately trying to do a deal with the capitalists. They want a peaceful life (see the next posting 'Furness Trade Unionists Meet For Fightback') They want to do a deal they can sell to their members but the Boss Class has nothing to offer except cuts and more cuts.  Thus it will be that even the most right-wing, pro-Capitalist, union leaders will be obliged to enter the battles of the Class War or be thrown out of office.


Workers must learn to view things in a 'political' fashion.  A one-day strike, for example, is just a 'big demonstration'.  An indefinite general strike, however, challenges POWER.
Yes, Communists support one-day strikes because these provide the workers with a sense of their own strength but acknowledge this type of action will never defeat the schemes of the Boss Class. 


Even the most determined and protracted strikes will achieve no fundamental change in the social-economic order.  What is required is the complete overthrow of the capitalist system.  And only the working class and its allies (having attained a mature level of class consciousness) fully prepared to follow the course mapped out by the political vanguard are capable of achieving this.


Without political class consciousness, working people are condemned to live out their lives in uncertainty and insecurity.  Either socialism or barbarity - it's their choice.