1.
Up until the restoration of capitalism in the USSR, NATO was
organized as a counter-revolutionary bloc as part of the encirclement of the
USSR and China with NATO, SEATO and CENTO. This bloc was to contain the
degenerated workers’ states and maintain the authority of US imperialism in
Europe been augmented by the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue and the AUKUS
tying Japan, Taiwan, Australia and the UK to the US encirclement project.
2.
After the restoration of capitalism in Russia, NATO moved
eastward embracing the color revolutions as Russia wiggled out from under
control of the western vulture capitalists to assert the rule of the oligarchs’
consolidation of economic and political power. Russia sought to consolidate its
sphere of influence despite the loss of the Baltic states. Russia fought back against
the color revolutions and western influence in the former Soviet States,
eventually losing control of Ukraine in 2014.
3.
The trajectory of Russia’s emergence as an imperialist power
became evident in 2008 based on the inability of the west to subordinate it as
a semi-colony, its military strength and its ability to subordinate former
Soviet states. The state control of former institutions of the Soviet state
gave the new oligarchs the power to resist subordination to western imperialism
and chart an independent course and act both financially and militarily as a
counter-revolutionary force to put down the permanent revolution in Syria and
most recently Kazakhstan.
4.
The German bourgeoisie had split allegiances, which were
reflected both in the NATO 2030 Making A Strong Alliance Even Stronger and
them Russian Strategic Goals 2021 documents
as their dependence on Russian gas exports have played an important role in its
stability. Some in Germany and the west hoped to break Russia from China to
join NATO and push the western imperialist bloc eastward while the Russian’s
looked at Germany as a vulnerable weak link in the western bloc which could be
leveraged to split up NATO.
5.
Trump and the isolationists fed the Putin dream of breaking up
the western bloc but the US ruling class put its foot down, displacing Trump
with Biden and the hawkish Democrats committed to containing Russia and
maintaining Germany in their sphere.
6.
The Putin/Xi meeting on February 4th consolidated the
Russia/China imperialist bloc, something that has been obvious for a long time
since BRICS, SCO and CSTO built the alliance of the two emergent imperialists
power into a rising imperialist block facing off against the declining US/UK/EU
imperialist bloc in the ‘Great Game’ for Eurasia. Now they are contending for
Africa, Latin America and into Eastern Europe, first with the looking outward
strategy and the Win-Win tactics of competitive loans and development projects
which bring Chinese capital, corporations, managers and labor to the
semi-colonies. More recently China and Russia are further integrating with the
Belt and Road initiative.
7.
Ukraine won its formal independence from Russia in 1994, but the
true independence has never existed and can only be won under the slogan and
implementation of an Independent Soviet Ukraine which recognises the national
rights of Donbass and Crimea. Ukraine is one of the poorest countries in
Europe, but it has an untapped wealth of fertile soils ripe for the picking by
the imperialist power that succeeds in drawing it into its sphere of influence.
This civil war in the East, which is in reality a proxy war between Russia and
the US to claim control of this prize, reflects the intensity of the
struggle. See “Chartbook #81 Permanent crisis or Black Earth
agro-giant? Alternative futures for Ukraine (Adam Tooze)”
8.
Both the Kiev and the Moscow governments have made use of
fascist reaction. Today the fascists are a minority in Ukraine and the
break-away People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk which raised a socialist
program in their struggle have bowed to Russian power at their back. Russia in
turn employs Russian fascists in a paramilitary role.
9.
The Ukraine government, caught between the two imperialist
blocs, nevertheless is economically and militarily subordinated to the western
bloc and NATO. Russia correctly identifies the western bloc and NATO as an
economic and strategic threat. Thus, as a pawn in the great game the workers
and peasants of Ukraine have no way out from under the thumb of imperialism but
the path of permanent revolution.
10. This
means that the call ‘neither Washington nor Moscow’ of the Third Camp socialist
tendencies is in fact a social patriotic slogan in favor of US imperialism
since there can be no Ukrainian independence as a vassal of Western or Eastern
capital.
11. To
secure Ukrainian independence socialist revolution is required. And this
requires open hostility. Class against class, with fraternization and mutinies
and a proletarian military policy turning the war drive of the imperialist
powers into class war. The ILTT takes the side of neither imperialist bloc and
rejects the theories of sub-imperialism of the opportunists who seek to support Putin and Xi against the
socialist revolution.
12. The
Stalinist parties take an unapologetic pro-Moscow ‘peace’ position reflective
of their origins of the Moscow parties in the USSR days and without reference
to which class holds power in Moscow today. According to the Stalinists,
capitalist Russia is a leading force in the anti-imperialist bloc of nations.
In reality, Russia as an imperialist power, like the United States and the EU,
is a leading counter revolutionary force against proletarian permanent
revolution internationally.
13. We
call on workers in the US and Russia and all nations to turn inter-imperialist
war into a civil war at home to bring down the capitalist class, bring the
workers to power in Workers States, to expropriate the capitalists, bring the
troops home and build national and international centrally-planned economies,
world peace and rational socialist economic development.
14.
As the martyred German socialist Karl
Liebknecht said:
“The main enemy of the German
people is in Germany: German imperialism, the German war party, German secret
diplomacy. This enemy at home must be fought by the German people in a political
struggle, cooperating with the proletariat of other countries whose struggle is
against their own imperialists.”
February
14, 2022
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment