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S TRUST THAT SOME Large companies profit with the Palestinian genocide, as reported by the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. It also arose days ago that the Pentagon allocated 54 percent of its expenses to private companies between 2020 and 2024, which adds the fabulous figure of 2.1 billion dollars to swell the coffers of a handful of large multinational war, according to the Quincy Institute for the responsible state (https://goo.su/z3r6al).
But the reality of capital goes far beyond the profits of a few companies, to the point that today we can ensure that capital accumulation is not supported without violence, without destroying peoples, without massacrating women and children. Wars are the joints of capital accumulation, regardless of the nation-states involved in conflicts.
The complexity of the current situation lies in the overlap of various types of wars that have similar objectives. We are facing wars between states, as is the case of Russia and Ukraine or, if preferred, from NATO and Russia. There are also open wars, although not declared, of states against peoples, as is the case of Israel against the Palestinian people. But also abound other types of wars, such as Drug Wars
Mexico case, or against gangs, poverty and even climate change.
Although each one presents its peculiarities, they all point to the same objective: attack and displace villages to facilitate dispossession. I accept that this way of trimming reality can leave out some characteristics of these wars, but I think it is necessary to place itself firmly on the side of the peoples that, again and again, are the victims of capitalist accumulation and, therefore, of wars.
A part of the left and also of social movements are opting for some capitalist powers (Russia, China), compared to others (United States, European Union), with the argument of fighting main enemy
. This leads them to establish alliances with those who position themselves against the US Empire.
I believe that this policy is disastrous for movements and peoples, since it divides and hierarchizes, choosing defense victims, while others are forgotten. It is striking that the Palestinian people be defended, an entirely fair issue, but there is no talk of the Ukrainian people or the Russian people, whose children are giving their lives to defend foreign interests, in a war for which they have not been consulted. In one case, the western capital covered by Trump and the European Union. In the other, an authoritarian and capitalist regime, such as the one headed by Putin.
The movements that openly defend China or Iran seem even more serious, as in several cases in the Latin American region. Can’t we accept that wars between great states are intercapitalist wars? What sense does those who fight for a new world be allies of state capitalism? Because this is one of the main arguments of those who argue that China, or similar states, are different from Europeans or the United States because it is the State that directs the economy.
Not a few argue that in China workers have access to public health, to housing and other social benefits, so they establish a difference with the central countries of current capitalism, where a good part of these services are private. I am sorry to say that it seems to me a very poor argument and that state capitalism is as capitalist as private property.
It seems clear that the State continues to divide waters between the popular sectors and between the movements. It is not understood that the nation-state has mutated. Of him appropriated one percent to turn it into a shield of his interests. There are no longer those welfare states that expanded after the Second European War. The policy of the old continent against migrants is just a sample of that brutal turn.
When we see that the police in California use cars without identification plates and that the uniformed men hood to stop migrants, we should meditate where the states go, which some still defend as levers of collective emancipation. I understand that political culture, like every culture, evolves very slowly, so changing the ways of doing will not be easy. Many groups and people continue to think and act as if capitalism had not mutated and repeat again and again that things are still the same as always.
Hope is to see how some peoples and organizations mark other directions. In particular, the effort of the Zapatismo in ending the pyramids, shows us that 31 years after the uprising continue to walk with other ways, learning from errors, which is the only way of growing.
