The barbaric invasion of Hamas in the fall of 2023 initiated a new round of war between Palestine and Israel, which has been going on for more than half a year. Here, in this article, I will try to argue and clearly state my personal position on this extremely sensitive and sensitive topic for the whole world and especially painful for the global left.
The present situation of the jewish and palestinian labor class is extremely deplorable, both individually and as a whole. I will make an important remark at once. Each of the two peoples has developed its own society independently of the other, and therefore, quite naturally, we have two completely different sides of the barricades, with their own, completely different problems. Therefore, we are obliged to take this fact very seriously into account, as that the working class of each side is in extremely different situations from each other.
Israel
We swear to preserve the bloody hatred
“against the murderers and robbers of the working class,
“against the czar, the rulers, the capitalists.
We swear to destroy and ruin them all.” (c)
„Di szwue”, hymn BUND.
he right-wing, i.e. nationalist, national-democratic and national-conservative sentiments are very strong in Israel today; these political views are in the position of absolute infallibility and the only truth, to my great regret. In turn, the Israeli left today is not at all like the Israeli left in the hours of Israel’s creation, and certainly not like the jewish left of a hundred years ago; those days are gone irrevocably forever…. I repeat, in the conservative, often puritanical-judahite society of Israel, the Israeli left today is actually in the position of outcasts, who do not have any support at all in jewish society, at least in the overwhelming part of it – 100%, no support at all. The consequence of this state of affairs, as well as the endless, internecine squabbling of the Israeli Left, was the arrival and fundamental dominance of such ardent supporters of bourgeois democracy as Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli life and politics. Actually, I inform all those who do not know, and remind all those who have forgotten that B.Netanyahu is in fact not just a friend, but a close friend of the “House of Trump”, i.e. the leaders of the american neo-confederates of our days, who are today the most ardent and irreconcilable enemies of the current yankees – democrats, together with the current U.S. President Joe Biden; which undoubtedly characterizes Benjamin Netanyahu as a national-conservative and big-bourgeois Israeli politician, and not a more “herbivorous” center-right politician, as his supporters like to say.
The government Netanyahu and Co. slept through the autumn Hamas invasion, and therefore quite seriously undermined the trust of Israeli society as a whole. Quickly realizing this fact, Netanyahu and Co. decided to “atone” for their mistakes by wiping out the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth, instead of a targeted war directly against the militants of the Hamas regime.
Where does the current IDF war against Hamas and the Gaza Strip ultimately lead? It’s a tricky question. Only Nitanyahu and Co. know the precise answer to it. We can only say one thing for sure: as long as Netanyahu and Co. profit from this war, they will continue it, continue it, and continue(!), for it is impossible to find a better reason to genocide the Gaza Strip than the one that Israel has been given right now, to put it bluntly. Period. Among other things, it is important to note that the IDF has failed to destroy Hamas, which basically calls into question the entire current conceptual paradigm of the Israeli army’s actions. There is a strong feeling that the Israeli military has set itself the task of completely eliminating the Gaza Strip as such, wiping it off the face of the Earth.
Let us also add the important fact that part of the Israeli left in the topic of the Gaza Strip cleanup unfortunately, unconditionally joined the positions of Netanyahu and Co., which naturally puts under fundamental doubts their entire “leftism” as such, given their unconditional(!) support of such a big-bourgeois politician, butcher, as B. Netanyahu. All other Israeli leftists are now in the position of “soft criticism” of Netanyahu and Co., which obviously puts them in opposition to the current Israeli government.
That’s it, that’s the current political situation in Israel today. The next question. Does this political climate in Israel help to resolve the more than half-century-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict? The answer is no, no and once again no! Then, logically, Chernyshevsky’s question “What is to be done?” arises. The answer is to create a left-democratic coalition that will set itself the task of “decisively advancing Israeli society in the direction of social revolution. Accordingly, as long as there is no such thing, and obviously not in the near future, the Israeli left, like the entire Israeli labor class, will be forced to follow the big-bourgeois agenda of the Israeli right. Once again, the same question of “What is to be done?” arises. The answer is for the Israeli left to form a revolutionary-democratic coalition that will set itself the task of fundamentally restructuring Israeli society a “revolutionary factor” must begin to emerge among the Israeli Left, which means that we need revolutionary enlighteners who will try to create the moods we need in Israeli society. It should also be noted that another alliance is also possible, namely, an alliance of social-bourgeois left-wing democrats, represented by eurocommunists and social democrats. In this case, the social revolution will simply mean the thorough socialization of capitalism and nothing more. Combining these two types of left-wing democrats is absolutely impossible, due to their absolute difference both in methods of organization and in the ultimate goals of both sides.
In order to make more clarity in this matter, I must add for the sake of remarks and at the same time warn the reader that, among other things, there is also a left-wing dictatorial option – it is Bolshevism, but I categorically do not advise and do not recommend it to you or anyone else. Just take the word of a man who grew up in the endlessly depressive, destroyed and extremely dull post-soviet spaces. bolshevism always, i.e. ABSOLUTELY ALWAYS(!) inevitably leads to dictatorship and totalitarianism. Therefore, we immediately chop off this option and throw it into the trash bin, as false, harmful and generally not socialist, either in form or in essence, strictly speaking. Forgive me, but I had to write this here in order to cool the violent heads, if suddenly there are any in democratic Israel.
In sum, we have two supposed options – a coalition of social-bourgeois left-wing democrats and a coalition of revolutionary-democratic socialists in Israel; which way to go is entirely up to the Israelis themselves, period. If nothing changes, everything will remain as it is. Whether such a development suits the Israeli left is, again, up to the Israeli left to decide.
Finally, we are faced with a more important question – How will all this help to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? The answer is that without a powerful left-democratic coalition, the Israeli left will never be able to create a real alternative to the dominance of the big-bourgeois democracy of the Israeli right, and therefore will never be able to assume the leading role of the left in the region as a whole.
Then again the question: Why does the Israeli left need a dominant role in the region? The answer is that Israeli and Palestinian societies are at diametrically different stages in the development of their societies. What does it mean? This means that Israeli society has already built and developed capitalism and bourgeois democracy within itself, so the question is which of the left-democratic forces will begin to move Israel towards social-revolutionary reorganisation; whereas palestinian society, in fact, is still in a state of feudalism, which is also heavily burdened by the terrorist dictatorship of the radical Islamist group Hamas. On the basis of these two factors, we can safely assert that Israeli society has incommensurably more chances and prerequisites for the creation of a left-democratic coalition, and therefore, as a prospect, for the creation of a situation of social-revolutionary reorganisation of society as a whole. Let me remind you that Marx wrote that the social revolution will take place primarily in highly developed capitalist societies, because they have all the necessary basis for it, which cannot be said about Palestinian society, even with a very big stretch, i.e. a priori. In other words, we can safely say that whatever the Palestinian organization is in its essence, ready today to take on the leading role of the locomotive of the social revolution in Palestine, in fact, its successes will always be extremely small, because the Palestinian society itself is so They are simply not ready to radically change their way of life. Does this mean that it is useless to establish social-revolutionary organisations in Palestine at all? The answer is no, it does not, but we must take into account the important fact that it will take many times longer to build a socialist society in Palestine than in Israel. This is where the extreme importance of the leading role of the Israeli left in the region as a whole comes from. Strictly speaking, this should be a coalition of two coalitions of socially revolutionary-minded leftists in Israel and Palestine, each of which must be independent of each other, but at the same time, always try to move along approximately the same political course. This task is extremely complex and scrupulous, but if everything is set up correctly from the very beginning, then in the future, most likely, there should be many fewer problems, which means the chances of success will be very high. Among other things, here we must make a reservation that if the coalition of revolutionary democratic socialists in Israel manages to enter parliament, then it will immediately have enormous opportunities for building a social market, and this, in essence, is the beginning of a social revolution.
Palestine
No one will give us deliverance:
No god, no king, no hero.
We’ll get our liberation
By our own hand!” (c)
The Internationale
Palestinians have it much worse. The main thing to start with first of all is that the palestinians live in an absolutely backward and underdeveloped society socially, intellectually, as well as scientifically; in an environment of backward, muslim-arabic traditions and a staple faith in allah and that is why they are led by religious scumbags like the Islamic-fascist Hamas. Wait, you tell me, but Israel is also extremely religious. Believing, I will answer you, but not extremely and without fanaticism, in the overwhelming majority, and this is an extremely important factor for us here, we always keep it in mind. At the same time, in all the years of the existence of the state of Palestine, there has never been democracy there, either authoritarianism or, as is the case now, the hellish dictatorship of the religious-fascist fanatics from Hamas. The “authorities” palestinian authorities are not concerned with the development of their country or palestinian society; on the contrary, they don’t give a shit about improving the welfare, education, medicine and standard of living of the palestinian people as a whole. Hamas has been digging underground catacombs to attack Israeli civilians, that is all it has been doing for the last few years before the war, i.e. preparing for a new war. P – Priorities. What did the Palestinians do in response? Did they create any serious organizations of a social-revolutionary or at least revolutionary-bourgeois nature? No. Did anyone declare war on the Hamas dictatorship? No. In the best case scenario, a couple of palestinians took to the streets and mumbled something in a low voice about the very, very, very bad rule of Hamas in Palestine. All. All the rest, at best, limited themselves to telling bearded palestinian jokes of an anti-dictatorship nature. All. This is all. Dot.
“We live like this out here, and like this we’ll die,
We’ll fertilize the mountain by ourselves, having become its coal
In this unkind city as a slave or a rebel,
It’s a nature cycle, eagle will feed himself with worms
A then, the worms with eagle. Everything is intertwined…” (c) Oxxxymiron
Wait, maybe we forgot, or maybe we missed it, and somewhere in jungle-like palestinian neighborhoods an anti-hamas uprising of angry palestinians did erupt, brutally suppressed? Again, no. Nothing of the sort ever happened. Therefore, to claim that Hamas and palestinians are two completely different things is to mislead oneself, for in practice we see nothing of the sort even close to it. But to say the opposite, i.e. that all palestinians fanatically support Hamas, would also be extremely wrong, because we do not observe such fanatical devotion there; no one has conducted any polls in this regard, not even close. So the only true thesis in this case is that the majority of palestinians are quite loyal to the Hamas dictatorship; against them there is also a pitiful minority, which is divided into those who are either fanatically devoted to the religious-Islamist Hamas dictatorship, or who condemn it with varying degrees of categorization. Considering all of the above, it is obvious that only an absolutely idiotic and impenetrable fool would think that in such “muddy waters” as palestinian society it is possible in principle to build something quickly, to build something more or less bearable, except for their petrified and backward feudalism. It is possible to do it, but it will take many decades and first the Hamas dictatorship must be overthrown there, and only then everything else. In any case, no matter who now sets himself the task of eliminating Hamas, he will be forced to follow the revolutionary path. Next question. Do the Palestinians already have any more or less serious organizations that have set themselves the task of overthrowing Hamas? No, and even if there are any, they are extremely small in number, a priori have no influence on anything, and no one has heard anything about them. Three stoned palestinians on a wave of ecstasy who decided to overthrow Hamas are not the kind of “revolutionary organization” that the palestinians need today. What is needed is a real organization of revolutionary-democratic socialists with real goals and a clear understanding of what it is doing, why and for what purpose. She doesn’t exist. However, even if there were: a) first, no one knows how long it would take her to wage a power war with Hamas, and b) Building a socialist society in Palestine would take many decades of historical time. Period. Actually, on the example of the soft, one-party dictatorship of the bolsheviks-bukharin type in Vietnam, we can draw a very clear conclusion that in order to lead the palestinian laborer class, represented mainly by impoverished lumpen and illiterate peasants, immediately into socialism, bypassing capitalism, the palestinian revolutionaries and society as a whole would have to spend a lot of time, plus, no one guarantees positive results at all. You can imagine how much effort will be spent on just atheistic re-education using enlightenment methods. In a word, without the leading and supporting role of progressive Israel, it would be impossible for palestine to cope with all this on its own. If only she does not turn to countries with bolshevik regimes for help. In this case, proceed further in your analysis without me, for a good bolshevik is a dead bolshevik. Dot. That’s it. There’s nothing more to talk about here.
The New Left. The Old Left. Palestine.
Now let’s have a few words about the global, leftist movement. Answer me this, if you would be so kind, YOU FUCK THE ALL OF EURO-ATLANTIC GO OUT TO THE STREETS HYSTERICALLY SCREAMING WITH FOAM AT THE MOUTH “FREE PALESTINE!”, eh? Do you like supporting the Islamic-fascist Hamas dictatorship or the Palestinian working masses, the vast majority of whom are impenetrably stupid because they are totally loyal to Hamas? Yes, Palestine is a dictatorship, but who told you that the oppressed is necessarily always better than the oppressor? The labor class of Palestine:
a) Never once realized, overwhelmingly, that he is at the mercy of a religious-terrorist dictatorship.
b) Exaggeratedly oppressed. The degree of oppression is not as high as the world is screaming about, otherwise the Palestinians would have stormed Hamas administrative buildings in their hellish rage long ago, out of desperation. Throwing themselves “bare-ass” into machine-gun embrasures against their Islamist punishers. That’s not happening.
c) There is not a single Palestinian liberation organization, which tells us about the obvious irrelevance of this topic in the eyes of the Palestinian labor class, as well as about the high level of their loyalty to the Hamas government.
I’m sorry, but when will the new left start behaving at least once in a while like mature, balanced people and not like spoiled infantiles? But what am I talking about, you have already reached the point of your unbridled desire to defend all minorities just because they are oppressed minorities and don’t give a shit about their class preferences! Well done, you infantile, unlearned idiots! Don’t you get the simple idea that the oppressed can be no less scum than their oppressor? What you don’t understand is that the Palestinian working class must first realize itself as such, then understand the society in which it lives and what role it occupies in it, realize the full extent of its oppression, then it must become the driving force of the revolutionary masses, after that, to create his own revolutionary organization, which must inevitably become the leading locomotive of the social revolution, and only after all this should he be supported as our comrades, fighters for a better world, oppressed by the bourgeoisie, and in the case of the Palestinians – oppressed by feudal terrorists; you don’t get it, do you? Why the fuck do you support Islamofascist Palestine, huh? I just don’t understand(!) do you like murdered and raped Israelis and Israeli women? Why aren’t you declaring an implacable war on Hamas if you suffer so much for the Palestinian labor people, huh? Where’s your fucking integrity, huh? “New Leftists,” for fuck’s sake…
Next, fucking bolshevik-neo-maoist China quite appropriately demanded that Netanyahu and Co. stop wiping out the Gaza Strip, BUT(!) said NOTHING condemnatory about Hamas, nor did it demand SANCTIONS for the religious-terrorist dictatorship of Palestine! We never saw representatives of the PRC tapping their shoes from the world podium at a speech in the UN hall! And this is China! That really Islamophobic China! Not like me, with my visas for Muslims from Muslim countries trying to settle in EU countries; the exception here is only for immigrants from Central Asian countries, because for a long time now, religion and the state have been segregated in their society! The Islamophobic PRC that exterminates Uighurs every day is asking not to bomb Gaza and is asking for absolutely NO sanctions for Hamas! NONE! Sick, bolshevik bastards! Where are bolshevik Vietnam and Cuba, by the way? Why haven’t they said anything about Palestine? “Brotherly Islamist dictatorship Hamas, let’s not demand sanctions for it, let’s close our eyes to our brothers” – as usual, the Bolsheviks thought and pretended that everything was OK. Actually, no one expected anything different. You know, it’s a clinic, I used to think that the fuckwits were only old left Bolshevik dictatorships like China, Vietnam and Cuba, and the new left is only “a little bit fucked up”, but now I can say for sure that the new left has also become absolutely insane in their desire to follow the dogma of protecting minorities… It’s a collapse. A crisis. A fundamental crisis of the Left, the consequence of which is the strengthening of the position of the bourgeois democracies, as well as the revival from the ashes of such atavistic forms of social governance as neo-feudalism.
Fight, seek, finds and not give up…..
Kamrad MJSW
