The Unraveling of This Society Means Intense Danger for Us

The zombie apocalypse movie, show, and gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar industry today.  Many people are probably unaware that the zombie concept has been around for decades, but its current manifestation was popularized by the 1968 low budget movie "Night of the Living Dead" created by a college dropout film student.  The foreboding line in that movie's beginning happens when the brother and sister are in the graveyard.  There is a person wandering around the graveyard some 100 yards away.  In the course of ribbing the sister, the brother sees the man and tells his sister; "their coming to get you Barbara!"  Neither of them are aware at that moment that the wandering man is the first of 60 years of zombies intent upon eating our flesh, converting us, and wiping out all of humanity.

In a surreal and literal sense, like the zombies, acts of dehumanization within a dying society have been present in this decadent capitalist empire for quite some time, but like the movie, the danger is right upon us right now, and most of us are completely oblivious to it.  There is still a prevalent effort on behalf of the liberal elite establishment to convince the masses that the violent intolerant elements are still of a fringe variety and do not reflect the dominant consciousness of the majority of people in this society.

Far too many members of targeted populations e.g. colonized people, LGBTQ people, still believe that the instruments of state control are there to protect them and when the time requires it, those entities will provide the protection needed.  Like the beginning of "Night of the Living Dead" this is a belief rooted in false security.  The reality is that we are in incredible danger right now and unless we move to make drastic changes to better prepare ourselves for this danger, there are going to large numbers of us who pay the price.

What I'm talking about is the fact this capitalist economy is in a steady and consistent state of decline.  By decline we mean the intensity of worldwide class struggle is reaching unprecedented heights and the fact you may not know how to detect that does nothing to alleviate the legitimacy of its presence.  Uprisings in Africa, reflective of our people's fatigue at being the exploitation shop for capitalist countries, are happening everywhere throughout the continent.  Millions of people are rising up and demanding an end to exploitative practices that steal their natural and human resources while leaving them with death and disease.  This reality has forced capitalism to focus so much more of its resources into containment and control, but the reality is they are challenged with maintaining their systems of oppression while facing internal dissent against those practices of oppression as well as against manifestations of it within the capitalist empires e.g. houselessness, poverty, white supremacy, etc.  The inability of the capitalist empire to maintain control in all those areas is becoming more and more evident which fuels the confidence and motivation of the masses of people worldwide to increase their resistance.  

A resulting fallout from this reality is the inability of capitalism to provide the vision of security to its most loyal constituents, the European masses within its borders.  The consequence of this are the masses of Europeans within industrialized countries are facing challenges they have never had to face before. 

Beyond its enormous military capabilities, the other area the capitalist system relies on to implement its control over the masses is its dominance of propaganda e.g. controlling the way people think, Conditioning and coloring every thought that swims around in our heads.  A clear sign that this second, and most important control characteristic of capitalism is failing is that increasing numbers of these European masses are demonstrating that unlike so many of us, they do not trust the institutions of capitalism to protect their interests.  They are turning in large numbers to their own independent organizations e.g. militias, etc., imbued with ideologies of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy, to strengthen their abilities to fight for what they believe naturally belongs to them.  The election of hard right candidates into national offices within the capitalist empires is merely proof of this phenomenon.  This explains why racist views that would be deemed inappropriate in mainstream circles a few years ago are now common place on capitalist media outlets.  It also explains why more and more violent attacks by people within this social paradigm e.g. Europeans previously dedicated wholeheartedly to capitalism (patriotism) are taking place.  

The danger to us is these people are acting out their vile and inhumane fantasies as the capitalist system would have them do.  What I mean is consistent with Lyndon Johnson's statement in 1964, "the way to get the support of the poor white man is to just keep reminding him that at least he's not a black man!"  This means that whatever insecurities the European masses experience, they are not going to blame the capitalist system for their woes.  They are going to blame colonized people.  The African masses.  The Indigenous people.  Arabs.  Asians.  LGBTQ people.  These are the people who lack voices and thus these are the people the capitalist system routinely scapegoats.  Why do you think they constantly portray us as criminals?  Because they just haven't been enlightened to our humanity?  No!  They do it because they seek to dehumanize us because once that happens, we will always be their scapegoat and based on how these Europeans are acting, that strategy continues to produce outstanding results for them.

Since these Europeans are organizing against us and its clear to anyone who has any ability to see what's going on that the state instruments are not here to protect us, our only solution is that we have to get organized.  Everyone has to join some organization with a political education program and a community defense component and we must continue to forge bonds across community lines so that we can work together against these onslaughts against us.  And, while we are doing that, those Europeans truly concerned about justice must work diligently within white communities changing the narrative on why those people are upset and who they actually need to be upset against.

This is without question needed and to argue and debate around it is futile.  The only people wanting that argument are people who have no intention of engaging the solution.  At this point, we must let historical circumstances deal with them.  For the rest of us, we have to get organized in the hopes that our preparation will encourage those folks to join us, but we have to get moving.  We don't have much time.