Joti Brar | Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Article announced in Madrid Colloquium on June 8-9<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n English \/ Spanish<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n English<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the war in Ukraine really about, and what have we learned during the last two years of fighting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The imperialist aggression that forced the people of the Donbass provinces to take up arms, and which led Russia to launch its SMO nearly a decade later, can be seen as the real starting point of the third world war. This was when the west decisively ramped up its regime-change efforts against Russia by attempting to turn the territory of what had once been the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine into a Nato base capable of launching missiles that could hit Russia\u2019s major cities within a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It must be repeated that the war did not begin in 2022. It began with the imperialist-directed fascist coup that ousted Ukraine\u2019s elected government in 2014, and the antifascist resistance launched by the people of the Donbass against the coup regime. But Moscow\u2019s launch of the special military operation in February 2022, which brought Russian military forces to the support of the Donbass resistance, made a qualitative change to a war that had by then been ongoing for eight years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The launch of the SMO was the moment when Russia moved decisively against the imperialists\u2019 aggressive project, having exhausted all other avenues of diplomacy and dialogue. For this reason, the SMO\u2019s launch in February 2022 marked the opening of a new phase in the worldwide anti-imperialist struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is no accident. The entry of Russian forces into the Ukraine war, which was made unavoidable by imperialist escalations in the Donbass, took place at a moment when the already severe economic crisis of global capitalism was becoming acute. As the inflation crisis that had been exported across the globe since 2008 span out of control; as corporate, national and personal indebtedness soared to unprecedented levels; as major banks teetered on the edge of ruin, the global system of capitalist-imperialism was staring into an abyss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That is why the leading imperialist powers, principally the USA, have been driving ever more desperately to war. They hope by this means to save the global capitalist economic system and their place within it. With so many financial problems, only a really big bonanza can now save the parasitic economies of the west. Only the destruction, dismemberment and free looting of the resources of Russia or China, and preferably both, might be sufficient to inject profitability back into the system \u2013 for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only the removal of the fraternal aid that Russia and China offer to developing countries might enable the west to keep the other nations of the world enslaved for a few decades more \u2013 perpetually underdeveloped and mired in debt, and thus forced to continue providing cheap labour-power and cheap raw materials for the benefit of the monopoly financiers in Washington, London, Berlin and Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, to many in the world who had not been paying attention to the signs of this gathering storm, Russia\u2019s SMO came entirely out of the blue. Imperialist propaganda which labelled it as an \u2018aggressive\u2019 and even \u2018imperialist\u2019 move made at the behest of the \u2018madman\u2019 and \u2018dictator\u2019 Vladimir Putin seemed plausible to those who had not been presented with any of the historical facts or wider context that would allow them to make sense of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is where the Marxists come in \u2013 or ought to. Any really Marxist, really Leninist party should have been able to explain to the workers in its home country how and why they were being lied to by the overwhelming deluge of Hollywood-style propaganda that was launched by the west alongside their military and economic aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, true anti-imperialists had had eight years to prepare workers under their influence by analysing the content of the antifascist liberation war being waged by the people\u2019s militias of Donetsk and Lugansk (the two provinces that make up the Donbass region). They had had several decades during which they could have brought attention to the way history was being rewritten and weaponised across eastern Europe under the direction of the CIA. They had ample opportunity to point out how Nato bases were spreading eastwards and russophobic proxy forces were being created by the CIA and co.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were clear signs that the west was planning a war for well over a decade, and Marxists everywhere should have been bringing this information to their people. The fact that so few calling themselves communist actually fulfilled this duty tells us much about the decay and disintegration of the communist movement \u2013 a process that we have written about elsewhere and which has been ongoing since 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the SMO was launched in 2022, the world at large, and the working class in particular, has been exposed to some very enlightening information. Let us examine some of the essential truths that the Ukraine war has brought to light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Economic weakness exposed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n First, the war has exposed the economic weakness<\/em> of the imperialist camp. In February and March 2022, the west launched what can only be described as a sanctions<\/em> blitzkrieg<\/em> against Russia. It waged a no-hold-barred economic war that the imperialists expected would cause so much pain to the Russian people that they would be out on the streets demanding the removal of Vladimir Putin\u2019s government, thus allowing the USA to install a puppet president and pursue its agenda without the need for further armed combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This economic war didn\u2019t just fail to succeed in its aims; it backfired spectacularly. What had been anticipated as a bit of very short-term pain (a few months\u2019 difficulty while the west temporarily lost its access to Russian oil and other raw materials) that would lead to longer-term results (in the form of a carnival of looting of the Russian people\u2019s resources for western monopoly corporations and banks, much like the bonanza they enjoyed in the period following the fall of the USSR) turned into long-term pain for the west, and for Europe in particular. Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s economy has not only withstood but was eventually strengthened by being cut off from western \u2018investment\u2019 (bloodsucking).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the process, the economic crisis that the imperialist countries were trying to escape has been exacerbated, with energy prices and inflation rocketing, European industry becoming unviable, and the cost of living for ordinary workers climbing ever more steeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another economic reality that has been highlighted by the war in Ukraine is the absolute superiority of planning over market mechanisms<\/em>. For decades, the world was awed by the staggering dimensions of the USA\u2019s military budget, assuming that US armed forces must be overwhelmingly bigger, better equipped, better trained and more technically advanced than those of any other country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what the battlefield realities in Ukraine have laid bare is that a huge proportion of the US military budget is spent on generating profits for the arms manufacturers and bribes for their various acolytes, facilitators and hangers-on<\/em>. In just the same way that the USA\u2019s enormous health spending doesn\u2019t deliver basic care to millions of US citizens and entails huge waste driven by corporate greed and corruption, US military spending turns out to be just as wasteful and just as unable to produce the basic items needed (cheap and steady supplies of ammunition and small drones) for effective action in a peer-to-peer war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can see clearly now that in the post-cold war situation, the USA very quickly came to consider itself as being dominant and unassailable. Its military chiefs and arms companies therefore stopped planning for war against a really peer competitor, focusing instead on \u2018wars\u2019 in which maintenance stations and air bases were safe from attack and aerial power was entirely unchallenged. Wars in which only they had access to satellite communications and GPS systems and where this access could never be threatened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These assumptions, when combined with the desire of the arms companies to maximise their profits, has led to a situation in which the USA has ended up with a lot of very overpriced, very complex machines that are simply not up to the realities of a battle in which the other side has access to technology that is just as good and often better, and a vastly superior ability to replace what is lost and damaged. In a recent hearing in Washington, one embittered congressman described the USA\u2019s F-35 fighter planes as \u201chundred million dollar paper-weights<\/a>\u201d after being informed just how little time each aircraft is able to spend in the air vs in the repair hangar, all while the cost of maintaining them continues to increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russia, on the other hand, has continued the Soviet tradition of planning its military development by preparing to fight a defensive war against Nato weapons (since it has no other enemies and no interest in launching aggressive wars). It has studied the strengths and weaknesses of Nato armaments for decades and tasked its arms technicians with working out the simplest means to defeat them. Hence its focus on effective air defences and its development of hypersonic missiles \u2013 a technology that Russia, China and the DPRK all now have but the imperialists have still not mastered, since the lack of complexity meant it was never a big focus for western arms companies (more complex + more time to produce = more astronomical price-tags).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russian shells are cheap and quick to produce; US shells are expensive and slow. Russian tank production is ramping up fast and its tanks are tough, manoeuvrable and relatively simple to repair. Western tanks (and artillery, and planes) are extremely expensive, and are often too heavy and difficult to manoeuvre easily on a complex modern battlefield. They break down easily and often, and are extremely complex to repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That all worked very well for a military-industrial complex that was producing for armies that were not at war, when technological wizardry could wow the buyers and persuade them that American products would make them invincible. It was also advantageous in setting up a \u2018subscription model\u2019 that has tied every buyer of western arms into a permanent relationship with the seller, compelled to keep paying Lockheed, Raytheon et al for annual software updates and regular servicing. This is the model all the world\u2019s biggest corporations are turning to, whether they are producing cars, phones, tractors or planes, as their markets become saturated and demand for their products dries up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the junior imperialist powers had assumed they were safely sheltered under the USA\u2019s vast military umbrella, they now find that, even when taken all together, the military industries of the whole of the collective west are not able to match what Russia is producing, whether measured by battlefield resilience or by volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Britain is not alone in fretting that footage of destroyed Challenger tanks in Ukraine will have a bad impact on the British arms industry. Nor is its ruling class alone in fretting that its professional armed forces today are simply not up to the task of maintaining Britain\u2019s status as a world-dominating power. As the USA seeks to exit the Ukrainian quagmire and hand over responsibility for trying to keep the conflict against Russia going to its European \u2018partners\u2019, the demand for more military spending and the creation of conscription armies will continue to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Russia has been able to utilise the legacy of its Soviet past to the full. By renationalising all aspects of arms production and military activity, the country has been able to focus its resources in an efficient and targeted way, looking at the needs of the battlefield without having to worry about what will create profits for shareholders. Ramping up production in Russian arms factories has not been a problem because they were designed with just such ebbs and flows of demand in mind by the socialist planners of the USSR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Something that the economic gurus of the west have been steadily wiping out has revealed once again its vital importance if supplies of necessary goods are to be guaranteed: contingency planning<\/em>. Soviet factories of all kinds were designed to be able to ramp production up or down, with necessary space kept empty and workers kept trained during times of low production, to be brought online during times of high demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the west has talked<\/em> about the need to expand production, nothing meaningful has been done in that direction for the last two years simply because to do so without nationalisation simply presents too many obstacles. How to acquire enough space? How to make a profit while setting up costly new facilities? How to train enough new skilled labour? How to pay for the necessary warehousing? And so on and on and on. Just as we saw during the Covid-19 epidemic, the \u2018efficiency measures\u2019 of the last four decades might have boosted profits, but they have been revealed to be extremely short-sighted and very difficult to reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Military weakness exposed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Second, the war in Ukraine has exposed the military weakness<\/em> of the imperialist camp. For decades, the people of the world have been intimidated by the threat of military action by the all-powerful USA; cowed by the fate of resistant countries like Iraq and Libya, where all infrastructure was destroyed by the overwhelming firepower of western hi-tech bombers and where local militaries had little or no ability to inflict meaningful damage on the airborne terrorists. \u2018War\u2019 in these post-Soviet decades had become an extremely one-sided affair, more closely resembling the days of the colonial conquest of Africa and the Americas than a modern battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the simple fact is that the west has lost its technological dominance, and with it the ability to enforce its will over the people of the planet. This process began with the building of the USSR and the growth of the socialist camp, and it is coming to clear fruition now, when advanced technology has been spread by the socialist pioneers to every corner of the oppressed world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As a result, in Ukraine today, despite the fact that Nato had spent a decade creating huge and multiple lines of fortification in preparation for a confrontation with Russia, and despite having built up the Ukrainian army into what was essentially Nato\u2019s largest fighting force, the western alliance is being decisively beaten. And this is in spite of having thrown a huge proportion of its combined arsenal into the maelstrom; in spite of the active assistance of western specialists, western intelligence and Nato advisors; and in spite of having recreated the defeated and decimated Ukrainian army not once but twice since 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And as the Ukrainians have served as cannon fodder in this imperialist attempt to weaken, destroy and dismember Russia, the true nature of the vanguard of the west\u2019s proxy force has been horrifyingly revealed. No one who is paying any attention can now fail to see that Nato\u2019s most dependable, most dedicated shock troops in Ukraine are Nazis. Not \u2018neo-nazi\u2019 wannabes, but actual<\/em> Nazis, claiming direct ideological and familial descendance from the Banderite savages who rampaged across Ukraine killing jews, Russians and communists during the 1930s, 40s and 50s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is now clear that the same fascists whom the west claimed to have been fighting during WW2 were rescued by MI6 and the CIA at the end of the war and transported to safe havens in the west, there to be nurtured and protected until the opportunity arose to bring them back to the territory of what had once been the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is now clear that the west\u2019s plan to try to use Ukraine as a battering ram against the Soviet Union and then against Russia actually goes back more than a century. The only difference has been in which imperialist power has taken the lead in directing these efforts: Britain, Germany or the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is also clear is that the west\u2019s concerted campaign to destroy the antifascist traditions of the industrial workers of the Donbass region have totally failed. The Donbass was one of the centres of socialist revolutionary activity in the lead-up to 1917. It bore the brunt of the war against fascism and made tremendous sacrifices during the struggle to expel and defeat the Nazi occupation. Despite decades of lies and intimidation, this history and culture remains in the hearts and minds of local workers, who for generations have been thoroughly imbued with a deep revolutionary patriotism not just for \u2018Russia\u2019 but for the socialist Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Propaganda strategy exposed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Third, the war in Ukraine has exposed the propaganda focus<\/em> of the imperialist camp. Unable to win outright military victories, the CIA et al try to compensate by directing their proxies to create PR opportunities. Using their global dominance of corporate media and social media platforms, Ukraine\u2019s Nato advisors have time and again insisted on the war being fought in such a way as to generate headlines and spin with which they can craft a narrative<\/em> about the war that is pure Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The substantive details of each episode in this gripping drama vary, but the overarching theme is that the heroic and democratic Ukrainian David is standing valiantly against the evil and dictatorial Russian Goliath, inflicting blow after blow against overwhelming odds and acting as a bulwark for all of enlightened liberal Europe against the Asiatic despots who want (for some inscrutable reason best known to themselves) to destroy \u2018our\u2019 \u2018civilisation\u2019 and our \u2018way of life\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By fighting the war as a PR exercise, spun so as to fool the gullible and the uninformed, Ukraine\u2019s Nato handlers have been extremely reckless with the lives of the Ukrainian soldiery. In their thousands, their tens of thousands and their hundreds of thousands, Ukraine\u2019s menfolk have been sacrificed on the altar of such narratives, thrown into the firing line to be sacrificed in ways that serve no military purpose whatsoever. Time and again, the west has insisted on prolonging the war for propaganda purposes, despite the obvious reality that it will never be able to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During this process, the absolute inhumanity<\/em> of imperialism has been clearly highlighted. Nato\u2019s approach to waging war in Ukraine puts one forcibly in mind of the aristocratic European generals of WW1, who openly described the working-class soldiers under their command as \u201ccannon fodder\u201d. These unrepentant butchers routinely threw wave after wave of working-class men into the line of automatic gunfire, only to watch them being mown down as the two sides fought \u2013 ostensibly over the gain of this or that patch of Flanders soil, but in reality over which group of imperialists would be free to take the lion\u2019s share of colonial loot when the fighting was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diplomatic weakness exposed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fourth, the war in Ukraine has exposed the diplomatic weakness<\/em> of the imperialist camp. The hypocrisy and double-dealing of the imperialist powers has never been more evident than in the revelations about the Minsk process, which was supposed to be a path towards a just and peaceful settlement of the Donbass people\u2019s struggle, but which was instead used by all the western powers as a cover for continuing to build up Ukraine\u2019s military in preparation not for ending the war but for expanding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It has become crystal clear to independent-minded states the world over that the USA cannot be negotiated with<\/em>. It lies as easily as breathing. Its word cannot be trusted. Its treaties are not worth the paper they are written on. US imperialism continues to be guided by the mindset of monopoly capitalism (and of all forms of empire from humanity\u2019s past) that \u2018might is right\u2019. As Lenin said: The imperialists understand no other language than the language of force. In which case, the only way to answer them is by organising an oppositional force and using it with a determination they cannot ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Russian foreign secretary Sergey Lavrov said in a recent interview<\/a>: \u201cFrom our experience with the Americans, it is perfectly clear that US statements are not to be trusted … The Americans continue to make declarations about their commitment to a just solution to the Palestine problem, while at the same time generously adding fuel to the armed confrontation.\u201d This is exactly what the Americans, French and Germans did during the Minsk process of 2015-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a result of this recognition, and the accompanying realisation that there is simply no way to remain safe from imperialist hostility while also remaining sovereign<\/em>, the anti-imperialist countries have been strengthening their bilateral and multilateral relationships at an ever-accelerating rate. Despite all their differences in ideology and outlook, the anti-imperialist camp today is stronger than it has been since the death of Josef Stalin in 1953. In economic and technological terms, it is stronger than it has ever been, while imperialism is weaker than it has ever been. Truly the balance of forces are reaching a decisive tipping point in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hypocrisy and double-dealing exposed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fifth, the war in Ukraine has exposed the ideological weakness<\/em> of the imperialist camp. As their lies, their double-dealing and their hypocrisy are exposed, the rulers of the west and the system they preside over are faced with a deep and deepening crisis of legitimacy, both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With so many lies about their aggressive wars exposed before their own populations, the imperialist countries are unable to recruit enough professional soldiers to keep their armed forces going at the levels they would like, and unable to withstand the political fallout of dead soldiers coming home from wars that the wider population simply does not support. This is what lies behind the current strategy of using proxy forces in every theatre of war, whether in the middle east, east Asia, Africa, Latin America or eastern Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Decades of work went into nurturing Ukraine\u2019s Banderite Nazi collaborators, rewriting Ukrainian history and brainwashing a new generation of Ukrainian people to transform them into willing cannon fodder for imperialism against Russia. At the same time, fascist street thugs were armed and empowered to forcibly suppress Russians, communists, trade unionists and anyone upholding the rights of workers or the simple truth in politics, the media and social life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two years into its failed war, a huge number of those forces have been expended and exposed. Ukrainian men no longer believe that America is their friend and are no longer willing to be sent to the front lines. This is what lies behind the widespread talk about the need for conscription armies in the imperialist nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two years ago, the governments and many of the people in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were all lining up to join Ukraine in the fight against Russia, their heads full of russophobic propaganda, and their media and politicians united in assuring them of Nato\u2019s eternal backing and of a speedy victory. Today this jingoistic fervour has subsided, and there is a marked lack of enthusiasm now that so many have seen just what Nato \u2018backing\u2019 ultimately amounts to: lots of words in support, an insufficient supply of weapons, and an exhortation to carry on \u201cto the last Ukrainian\u201d since we\u2019re right behind you \u201cfor as long as it takes\u201d (oh, sorry, make that \u201cfor as long as we can\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The growing debate around conscription in the west is a sign of desperation. If the imperialists cannot find willing fodder for their professional forces at a time of deep economic crisis and growing poverty, what chance is there that conscripted men will fight willingly and well? Nevertheless, the moves towards conscription show us that the imperialists are not going to give up on their dreams of destroying Russia and China, and thus saving their global hegemonic position, without trying absolutely everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Official\u2019 communist movement\u2019s rotten essence exposed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sixth, the war in Ukraine has exposed the bankrupt and rotten state<\/em> of much of what calls itself the \u2018communist\u2019 movement. The war has provided us with a perfect litmus with which to find out who is a genuine revolutionary and who has become merely a tame \u2018oppositionist\u2019; who retains fidelity to Marxist science in practise<\/em>, as opposed to using Marxist terminology in a deceitful, sophistic manner aimed at providing a credible outer shell for a rotten, opportunist body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genuine anti-imperialists have a duty to do everything possible to bring home to workers all the lessons outlined above, and to use this understanding to mobilise them to take an active part in this, the most decisive struggle of our era \u2013 the struggle to destroy once and for all the imperialist global system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, the urgent task that faces us it to make sure that Russia\u2019s victory is completed in Ukraine and that the west is unable to marshal further proxy armies to throw into the battlefield that could allow it to extend the war at the cost of more hundreds of thousands and even millions more lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We must oppose the conscription drive in the west, which is aimed at providing further cannon fodder to hurl into the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We must work to bring an understanding to the peace movement that concerted action by the working masses is needed to stop this war drive. That peace activists should be demanding the disbanding of the fascistic warmongering Nato alliance and doing everything in their power to disrupt every aspect of the war machine in all countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We must work to build a campaign of mass non-cooperation in every country, demanding that our trade unions and antiwar organisations take up this programme so that workers collectively refuse<\/em> to make or move weapons and supplies, collectively refuse<\/em> to fight in Nato armies and proxy forces, collectively refuse<\/em> to assist in any way with the war machine\u2019s activities, and collectively refuse<\/em> to write, broadcast or sell any of the media that contain Nato\u2019s propaganda lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We must help the masses understand that every working person on the planet, no matter where they live, should be actively working for a Russian victory and a Nato defeat<\/em>, for through the defeat and disintegration of Nato lies the quickest path to the defeat and destruction of the entire imperialist edifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many of us are familiar with Chairman Mao\u2019s description of imperialism as a paper tiger<\/a>, and the war in Ukraine has certainly revealed that the imperialists are not nearly as strong as they seem. But a wounded beast is a dangerous beast, and in its death throes it can lash out to devastating effect. We must neither overestimate nor underestimate our enemy, but simply understand that a historic opportunity has arisen for humanity finally to remove the imperialist heel from its neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the same speech, Mao reminded us that the imperialists have very weak connections with the masses. What was true in the 1950s is even more true today. If communists and anti-imperialists conduct themselves sincerely and with principle; if we wage the struggle with determination and promote the true interests of the masses at all times, unbowed either by propaganda lies or repressive measures, the mass of humanity will be increasingly attracted towards us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the people begin to identify themselves with our organisations and to throw their weight behind our shared cause, we will see again the truth of Mao\u2019s observation that \u201csmall forces linked with the people become strong, while big forces opposed to the people become weak\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let the heroic example of the resistant workers of the Donbass remind us that the struggle that faces us today must be carried out neither recklessly nor timidly, but in the most tenacious, concerted way, with the maximum unity of all anti-imperialist forces, until total and final victory. This is the task of our times, and we must rise to the challenge, undaunted by considerations of size and unbowed by the threats of our enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No cooperation with the imperialist war machine!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Death to the warmongering Nato alliance!<\/em><\/strong>Victory to the resistance!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Spanish<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bfEn qu\u00e9 consiste de verdad la guerra en Ucrania, y qu\u00e9 hemos aprendido durante los dos \u00faltimos a\u00f1os de enfrentamientos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n La agresi\u00f3n imperialista que oblig\u00f3 a la poblaci\u00f3n de las provincias del Donbass a tomar las armas, y que llev\u00f3 a Rusia a lanzar su Operaci\u00f3n Militar Especial casi una d\u00e9cada despu\u00e9s, puede considerarse el verdadero punto de partida de la tercera guerra mundial. Fue entonces cuando Occidente intensific\u00f3 decisivamente sus esfuerzos de cambio de r\u00e9gimen contra Rusia al intentar convertir el territorio de lo que hab\u00eda sido la Rep\u00fablica Socialista Sovi\u00e9tica de Ucrania en una base de la OTAN capaz de lanzar misiles que podr\u00edan alcanzar las principales ciudades de Rusia en pocos minutos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hay que repetir que la guerra no empez\u00f3 en 2022. Comenz\u00f3 con el golpe fascista dirigido por el imperialismo que derroc\u00f3 al gobierno electo de Ucrania en 2014, y la resistencia antifascista lanzada por el pueblo del Donbass contra el r\u00e9gimen golpista. Pero el lanzamiento por Mosc\u00fa de la OME en febrero de 2022, que llev\u00f3 a las fuerzas militares rusas a apoyar a la resistencia del Donbass, supuso un cambio cualitativo en una guerra que para entonces llevaba ocho a\u00f1os en curso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n El lanzamiento de la OME fue el momento en que Rusia se movi\u00f3 con decisi\u00f3n contra el proyecto agresivo de los imperialistas, habiendo agotado todas las dem\u00e1s v\u00edas de la diplomacia y el di\u00e1logo. Por esta raz\u00f3n, el lanzamiento del OME en febrero de 2022 marc\u00f3 la apertura de una nueva fase en la lucha antiimperialista mundial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Esto no es casualidad. La entrada de las fuerzas rusas en la guerra de Ucrania, que se hizo inevitable por las escaladas imperialistas en el Donbass, tuvo lugar en un momento en que la ya grave crisis econ\u00f3mica del capitalismo mundial se estaba agudizando. A medida que la crisis de la inflaci\u00f3n que se hab\u00eda exportado a todo el mundo desde 2008 se extend\u00eda fuera de control; a medida que el endeudamiento empresarial, nacional y personal se disparaba a niveles sin precedentes; a medida que los principales bancos se tambaleaban al borde de la ruina, el sistema mundial del capitalismo imperialista se asomaba a un abismo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Por eso, las principales potencias imperialistas, principalmente Estados Unidos, se han lanzado cada vez m\u00e1s desesperadamente a la guerra. Esperan salvar as\u00ed el sistema econ\u00f3mico capitalista mundial y su lugar en \u00e9l. Con tantos problemas financieros, s\u00f3lo una bonanza realmente grande puede salvar ahora las econom\u00edas parasitarias de Occidente. S\u00f3lo la destrucci\u00f3n, el desmembramiento y el saqueo gratuito de los recursos de Rusia o China, y preferiblemente de ambas, podr\u00edan ser suficientes para inyectar de nuevo rentabilidad al sistema… durante un tiempo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\u00f3lo la supresi\u00f3n de la ayuda fraternal que Rusia y China ofrecen a los pa\u00edses en desarrollo podr\u00eda permitir a Occidente mantener esclavizadas a las dem\u00e1s naciones del mundo durante algunas d\u00e9cadas m\u00e1s, perpetuamente subdesarrolladas y sumidas en la deuda, y obligadas as\u00ed a seguir proporcionando mano de obra barata y materias primas baratas en beneficio de los financieros monopolistas de Washington, Londres, Berl\u00edn y Par\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Por supuesto, para muchos en el mundo que no hab\u00edan estado prestando atenci\u00f3n a las se\u00f1ales de esta tormenta que se avecinaba, la OME de Rusia surgi\u00f3 totalmente de la nada. La propaganda imperialista que la calific\u00f3 de “agresiva” e incluso “imperialista”, a instancias del “loco” y “dictador” Vladimir Putin, parec\u00eda plausible para quienes no hab\u00edan tenido conocimiento de los hechos hist\u00f3ricos ni del contexto m\u00e1s amplio que les permitiera entender la situaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aqu\u00ed es donde entran los marxistas, o deber\u00edan entrar. Cualquier partido realmente marxista, realmente leninista, deber\u00eda haber sido capaz de explicar a los trabajadores de su pa\u00eds de origen c\u00f3mo y por qu\u00e9 les estaba mintiendo el abrumador diluvio de propaganda al estilo de Hollywood que lanz\u00f3 Occidente junto con su agresi\u00f3n militar y econ\u00f3mica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n De hecho, los verdaderos antiimperialistas hab\u00edan tenido ocho a\u00f1os para preparar a los trabajadores bajo su influencia analizando el contenido de la guerra de liberaci\u00f3n antifascista que estaban librando las milicias populares de Donetsk y Lugansk (las dos provincias que componen la regi\u00f3n de Donbass). Hab\u00edan tenido varias d\u00e9cadas durante las cuales podr\u00edan haber llamado la atenci\u00f3n sobre la forma en que la historia estaba siendo reescrita y armificada en toda Europa del Este bajo la direcci\u00f3n de la CIA. Tuvieron muchas oportunidades de se\u00f1alar c\u00f3mo las bases de la OTAN se estaban extendiendo hacia el este y c\u00f3mo la CIA y compa\u00f1\u00eda estaban creando fuerzas proxy rus\u00f3fobas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hab\u00eda se\u00f1ales claras de que Occidente estaba planeando una guerra desde hac\u00eda m\u00e1s de una d\u00e9cada, y los marxistas de todas partes deber\u00edan haber llevado esta informaci\u00f3n a su pueblo. El hecho de que tan pocos de los que se autodenominaban comunistas cumplieran realmente este deber nos dice mucho sobre la decadencia y desintegraci\u00f3n del movimiento comunista, un proceso sobre el que hemos escrito en otras ocasiones y que ha estado en curso desde 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Desde que se lanz\u00f3 la OME en 2022, el mundo en general, y la clase obrera en particular, se han visto expuestos a una informaci\u00f3n muy esclarecedora. Examinemos algunas de las verdades esenciales que la guerra de Ucrania ha sacado a la luz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Debilidad econ\u00f3mica, al descubierto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n En primer lugar, la guerra ha puesto de manifiesto la debilidad econ\u00f3mica <\/em>del campo imperialista. En febrero y marzo de 2022, Occidente lanz\u00f3 lo que s\u00f3lo puede describirse como una guerra rel\u00e1mpago de sanciones <\/em>contra Rusia. Llev\u00f3 a cabo una guerra econ\u00f3mica sin cuartel que los imperialistas esperaban que causara tanto dolor al pueblo ruso que \u00e9ste saldr\u00eda a las calles exigiendo la destituci\u00f3n del gobierno de Vladimir Putin, permitiendo as\u00ed a los EE.UU. instalar un presidente t\u00edtere y llevar a cabo su agenda sin necesidad de m\u00e1s combates armados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Esta guerra econ\u00f3mica no s\u00f3lo no logr\u00f3 sus objetivos, sino que el tiro le sali\u00f3 espectacularmente por la culata. Lo que se hab\u00eda previsto como un poco de dolor a muy corto plazo (unos pocos meses de dificultades mientras Occidente perd\u00eda temporalmente su acceso al petr\u00f3leo ruso y a otras materias primas) que conducir\u00eda a resultados a m\u00e1s largo plazo (en forma de un carnaval de saqueo de los recursos del pueblo ruso para las corporaciones monopolistas y los bancos occidentales, muy parecido a la bonanza de la que disfrutaron en el periodo posterior a la ca\u00edda de la URSS) se convirti\u00f3 en un dolor a largo plazo para Occidente, y para Europa en particular. Mientras tanto, la econom\u00eda rusa no s\u00f3lo ha resistido, sino que finalmente se ha fortalecido al quedar aislada de la “inversi\u00f3n” occidental (chupasangre).<\/p>\n\n\n\n En el proceso, la crisis econ\u00f3mica de la que los pa\u00edses imperialistas trataban de escapar se ha exacerbado, con los precios de la energ\u00eda y la inflaci\u00f3n dispar\u00e1ndose, la industria europea volvi\u00e9ndose inviable y el coste de la vida para los trabajadores de a pie subiendo cada vez m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Otra realidad econ\u00f3mica que ha puesto de relieve la guerra de Ucrania es la superioridad absoluta de la planificaci\u00f3n sobre los mecanismos de mercado<\/em>. Durante d\u00e9cadas, el mundo se asombr\u00f3 de las asombrosas dimensiones del presupuesto militar de Estados Unidos, dando por sentado que las fuerzas armadas estadounidenses deb\u00edan ser abrumadoramente mayores, mejor equipadas, mejor entrenadas y m\u00e1s avanzadas t\u00e9cnicamente que las de cualquier otro pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pero lo que la realidad del campo de batalla en Ucrania ha puesto al descubierto es que una enorme proporci\u00f3n del presupuesto militar estadounidense se gasta en generar beneficios para los fabricantes de armas y sobornos para sus diversos ac\u00f3litos, facilitadores y par\u00e1sitos<\/em>. Del mismo modo que el enorme gasto sanitario de Estados Unidos no proporciona atenci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica a millones de ciudadanos estadounidenses y conlleva un enorme despilfarro impulsado por la codicia y la corrupci\u00f3n de las empresas, el gasto militar estadounidense resulta ser igual de despilfarrador e igual de incapaz de producir los elementos b\u00e1sicos necesarios (suministros baratos y constantes de munici\u00f3n y peque\u00f1os drones) para una acci\u00f3n eficaz en una guerra entre iguales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ahora podemos ver claramente que en la situaci\u00f3n posterior a la guerra fr\u00eda, los EE.UU. llegaron muy r\u00e1pidamente a considerarse dominantes e inexpugnables. Por ello, sus jefes militares y empresas armament\u00edsticas dejaron de planificar una guerra contra un competidor realmente igual, centr\u00e1ndose en su lugar en “guerras” en las que las estaciones de mantenimiento y las bases a\u00e9reas estuvieran a salvo de ataques y el poder a\u00e9reo fuera totalmente indiscutible. Guerras en las que s\u00f3lo ellos ten\u00edan acceso a las comunicaciones por sat\u00e9lite y a los sistemas GPS y en las que este acceso nunca podr\u00eda verse amenazado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Estas suposiciones, combinadas con el deseo de las empresas armament\u00edsticas de maximizar sus beneficios, han conducido a una situaci\u00f3n en la que EE.UU. ha acabado con un mont\u00f3n de m\u00e1quinas muy complejas y sobrevaloradas que simplemente no est\u00e1n a la altura de las realidades de una batalla en la que el otro bando tiene acceso a una tecnolog\u00eda igual de buena y a menudo mejor, y una capacidad muy superior para reemplazar lo que se pierde y da\u00f1a. En una reciente audiencia en Washington, un congresista amargado describi\u00f3 los aviones de combate F-35 de EE.UU. como “pisapapeles de cien millones de d\u00f3lares<\/a>” tras ser informado del poco tiempo que cada avi\u00f3n puede pasar en el aire frente al hangar de reparaciones, todo ello mientras el coste de su mantenimiento sigue aumentando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rusia, por su parte, ha continuado la tradici\u00f3n sovi\u00e9tica de planificar su desarrollo militar prepar\u00e1ndose para librar una guerra defensiva contra las armas de la OTAN (ya que no tiene otros enemigos ni inter\u00e9s en lanzar guerras agresivas). Durante d\u00e9cadas ha estudiado los puntos fuertes y d\u00e9biles del armamento de la OTAN y ha encomendado a sus t\u00e9cnicos de armamento la tarea de encontrar los medios m\u00e1s sencillos para derrotarlo. De ah\u00ed que se haya centrado en defensas a\u00e9reas eficaces y en el desarrollo de misiles hipers\u00f3nicos, una tecnolog\u00eda que Rusia, China y la RPDC ya poseen, pero que los imperialistas a\u00fan no dominan, ya que la falta de complejidad significa que nunca fue un gran objetivo para las empresas armament\u00edsticas occidentales (m\u00e1s complejidad + m\u00e1s tiempo de producci\u00f3n = precios m\u00e1s astron\u00f3micos).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Los proyectiles rusos son baratos y r\u00e1pidos de producir; los estadounidenses son caros y lentos. La producci\u00f3n de tanques rusos est\u00e1 aumentando r\u00e1pidamente y sus tanques son resistentes, maniobrables y relativamente f\u00e1ciles de reparar. Los tanques occidentales (y la artiller\u00eda, y los aviones) son extremadamente caros, y suelen ser demasiado pesados y dif\u00edciles de maniobrar con facilidad en un campo de batalla moderno y complejo. Se aver\u00edan con facilidad y frecuencia, y su reparaci\u00f3n es extremadamente compleja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Todo eso funcion\u00f3 muy bien para un complejo militar-industrial que produc\u00eda para ej\u00e9rcitos que no estaban en guerra, cuando la magia tecnol\u00f3gica pod\u00eda asombrar a los compradores y persuadirles de que los productos estadounidenses les har\u00edan invencibles. Tambi\u00e9n fue ventajoso establecer un “modelo de suscripci\u00f3n” que ha vinculado a todos los compradores de armas occidentales en una relaci\u00f3n permanente con el vendedor, obligados a seguir pagando a Lockheed, Raytheon y otros por las actualizaciones anuales de software y el mantenimiento peri\u00f3dico. Este es el modelo al que est\u00e1n recurriendo todas las grandes empresas del mundo, ya produzcan autom\u00f3viles, tel\u00e9fonos, tractores o aviones, a medida que sus mercados se saturan y la demanda de sus productos se agota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mientras que las potencias imperialistas subalternas hab\u00edan asumido que estaban a salvo bajo el vasto paraguas militar de Estados Unidos, ahora se encuentran con que, incluso tomadas en conjunto, las industrias militares de todo el Occidente colectivo no son capaces de igualar lo que Rusia est\u00e1 produciendo, ya sea medido por la resistencia en el campo de batalla o por el volumen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gran Breta\u00f1a no es la \u00fanica que teme que las im\u00e1genes de los tanques Challenger destruidos en Ucrania tengan un impacto negativo en la industria armament\u00edstica brit\u00e1nica. Tampoco es la \u00fanica clase dirigente brit\u00e1nica que teme que sus fuerzas armadas profesionales no est\u00e9n hoy a la altura de la tarea de mantener el estatus de Gran Breta\u00f1a como potencia dominante mundial. A medida que Estados Unidos intente salir del atolladero ucraniano y traspasar la responsabilidad de intentar mantener el conflicto contra Rusia a sus “socios” europeos, la demanda de m\u00e1s gasto militar y la creaci\u00f3n de ej\u00e9rcitos de conscripci\u00f3n seguir\u00e1 creciendo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mientras tanto, Rusia ha sabido aprovechar al m\u00e1ximo el legado de su pasado sovi\u00e9tico. Al renacionalizar todos los aspectos de la producci\u00f3n de armas y la actividad militar, el pa\u00eds ha podido concentrar sus recursos de forma eficiente y selectiva, atendiendo a las necesidades del campo de batalla sin tener que preocuparse por lo que generar\u00e1 beneficios para los accionistas. Aumentar la producci\u00f3n en las f\u00e1bricas de armas rusas no ha sido un problema porque los planificadores socialistas de la URSS las dise\u00f1aron teniendo en cuenta los flujos y reflujos de la demanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Algo que los gur\u00fas econ\u00f3micos de Occidente no han dejado de eliminar ha revelado una vez m\u00e1s su vital importancia si se quiere garantizar el suministro de los bienes necesarios: la planificaci\u00f3n de contingencias<\/em>. Las f\u00e1bricas sovi\u00e9ticas de todo tipo estaban dise\u00f1adas para poder aumentar o disminuir la producci\u00f3n, manteniendo vac\u00edo el espacio necesario y formando a los trabajadores en \u00e9pocas de baja producci\u00f3n, para ponerlas en marcha en \u00e9pocas de alta demanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aunque Occidente ha hablado de la <\/em>necesidad de ampliar la producci\u00f3n, en los dos \u00faltimos a\u00f1os no se ha hecho nada significativo en esa direcci\u00f3n, sencillamente porque hacerlo sin nacionalizaci\u00f3n presenta demasiados obst\u00e1culos. \u00bfC\u00f3mo adquirir espacio suficiente? \u00bfC\u00f3mo obtener beneficios creando nuevas y costosas instalaciones? \u00bfC\u00f3mo formar suficiente mano de obra cualificada? \u00bfC\u00f3mo pagar el almacenamiento necesario? Y as\u00ed una y otra vez. Como vimos durante la epidemia de Covid-19, las “medidas de eficiencia” de las \u00faltimas cuatro d\u00e9cadas pueden haber aumentado los beneficios, pero se han revelado como extremadamente cortas de miras y muy dif\u00edciles de revertir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Debilidad militar, al descubierto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n En segundo lugar, la guerra de Ucrania ha puesto de manifiesto la debilidad militar <\/em>del campo imperialista. Durante d\u00e9cadas, los pueblos del mundo se han sentido intimidados por la amenaza de una acci\u00f3n militar por parte de los todopoderosos EE.UU.; acobardados por el destino de pa\u00edses resistentes como Irak y Libia, donde toda la infraestructura fue destruida por la abrumadora potencia de fuego de los bombarderos occidentales de alta tecnolog\u00eda y donde los ej\u00e9rcitos locales ten\u00edan poca o ninguna capacidad de infligir da\u00f1os significativos a los terroristas a\u00e9reos. La “guerra” en estas d\u00e9cadas postsovi\u00e9ticas se hab\u00eda convertido en un asunto extremadamente unilateral, m\u00e1s parecido a los d\u00edas de la conquista colonial de \u00c1frica y Am\u00e9rica que a un campo de batalla moderno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pero el simple hecho es que Occidente ha perdido su dominio tecnol\u00f3gico, y con \u00e9l la capacidad de imponer su voluntad sobre los pueblos del planeta. Este proceso comenz\u00f3 con la construcci\u00f3n de la URSS y el crecimiento del campo socialista, y est\u00e1 llegando a una clara fructificaci\u00f3n ahora, cuando la tecnolog\u00eda avanzada ha sido difundida por los pioneros socialistas a todos los rincones del mundo oprimido.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Como resultado, hoy en Ucrania, a pesar de que la OTAN hab\u00eda pasado una d\u00e9cada creando enormes y m\u00faltiples l\u00edneas de fortificaci\u00f3n en preparaci\u00f3n de una confrontaci\u00f3n con Rusia, y a pesar de haber construido el ej\u00e9rcito ucraniano hasta convertirlo en lo que es esencialmente la mayor fuerza de combate de la OTAN, la alianza occidental est\u00e1 siendo derrotada de forma decisiva. Y esto a pesar de haber lanzado una enorme proporci\u00f3n de su arsenal combinado a la vor\u00e1gine; a pesar de la ayuda activa de especialistas occidentales, inteligencia occidental y asesores de la OTAN; y a pesar de haber recreado el derrotado y diezmado ej\u00e9rcito ucraniano no una sino dos veces desde 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Y a medida que los ucranianos han servido como carne de ca\u00f1\u00f3n en este intento imperialista de debilitar, destruir y desmembrar a Rusia, la verdadera naturaleza de la vanguardia de la fuerza proxy de Occidente ha sido horriblemente revelada. Nadie que preste un poco de atenci\u00f3n puede dejar de ver ahora que las tropas de choque m\u00e1s fiables y dedicadas de la OTAN en Ucrania son nazis. No aspirantes a “neonazis”, sino nazis de verdad<\/em>, que afirman descender ideol\u00f3gica y familiarmente de los salvajes banderitas que arrasaron Ucrania matando a jud\u00edos, rusos y comunistas en los a\u00f1os treinta, cuarenta y cincuenta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ahora est\u00e1 claro que los mismos fascistas contra los que Occidente afirm\u00f3 haber estado luchando durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial fueron rescatados por el MI6 y la CIA al final de la guerra y transportados a refugios seguros en Occidente, all\u00ed para ser alimentados y protegidos hasta que surgiera la oportunidad de traerlos de vuelta al territorio de lo que una vez hab\u00eda sido la Rep\u00fablica Socialista Sovi\u00e9tica de Ucrania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ahora est\u00e1 claro que el plan de Occidente para intentar utilizar Ucrania como ariete contra la Uni\u00f3n Sovi\u00e9tica y luego contra Rusia se remonta en realidad a hace m\u00e1s de un siglo. La \u00fanica diferencia ha estado en qu\u00e9 potencia imperialista ha tomado la iniciativa de dirigir estos esfuerzos: Gran Breta\u00f1a, Alemania o Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lo que tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 claro es que la campa\u00f1a concertada de Occidente para destruir las tradiciones antifascistas de los trabajadores industriales de la regi\u00f3n del Donbass ha fracasado totalmente. El Donbass fue uno de los centros de la actividad revolucionaria socialista en el per\u00edodo previo a 1917. Soport\u00f3 el peso de la guerra contra el fascismo e hizo enormes sacrificios durante la lucha para expulsar y derrotar a la ocupaci\u00f3n nazi. A pesar de d\u00e9cadas de mentiras e intimidaci\u00f3n, esta historia y esta cultura permanecen en los corazones y las mentes de los trabajadores locales, que durante generaciones han estado imbuidos de un profundo patriotismo revolucionario no s\u00f3lo por “Rusia”, sino por la Uni\u00f3n Sovi\u00e9tica socialista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Estrategia propagand\u00edstica, al descubierto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n En tercer lugar, la guerra en Ucrania ha puesto de manifiesto el enfoque propagand\u00edstico <\/em>del campo imperialista. Incapaces de obtener victorias militares directas, la CIA y otros intentan compensarlas dirigiendo a sus representantes para crear oportunidades de relaciones p\u00fablicas. Utilizando su dominio global de los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n corporativos y las plataformas de medios sociales, los asesores de la OTAN de Ucrania han insistido una y otra vez en que la guerra se lleve a cabo de tal manera que genere titulares y giros con los que puedan elaborar una narrativa <\/em>sobre la guerra al m\u00e1s puro estilo Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Los detalles sustanciales de cada episodio de este apasionante drama var\u00edan, pero el tema general es que el heroico y democr\u00e1tico David ucraniano se enfrenta valientemente al malvado y dictatorial Goliat ruso, infligiendo golpe tras golpe contra todo pron\u00f3stico y actuando como baluarte de toda la Europa liberal ilustrada contra los d\u00e9spotas asi\u00e1ticos que quieren (por alguna raz\u00f3n inescrutable que s\u00f3lo ellos conocen) destruir “nuestra” “civilizaci\u00f3n” y nuestro “modo de vida”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Al librar la guerra como un ejercicio de relaciones p\u00fablicas, hilado para enga\u00f1ar a los cr\u00e9dulos y a los desinformados, los responsables ucranianos de la OTAN han sido extremadamente imprudentes con las vidas de los soldados ucranianos. Miles, decenas de miles y cientos de miles de ucranianos han sido sacrificados en el altar de esas narrativas, arrojados a la l\u00ednea de fuego para ser sacrificados de formas que no tienen ning\u00fan prop\u00f3sito militar. Una y otra vez, Occidente ha insistido en prolongar la guerra con fines propagand\u00edsticos, a pesar de la evidente realidad de que Ucrania nunca podr\u00e1 ganar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Durante este proceso, se ha puesto claramente de manifiesto la absoluta inhumanidad <\/em>del imperialismo. El enfoque de la OTAN para librar la guerra en Ucrania nos recuerda a los generales aristocr\u00e1ticos europeos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, que describ\u00edan abiertamente a los soldados de la clase obrera bajo su mando como “carne de ca\u00f1\u00f3n”. Estos carniceros impenitentes arrojaban rutinariamente oleada tras oleada de hombres de la clase obrera a la l\u00ednea de fuego autom\u00e1tico, s\u00f3lo para ver c\u00f3mo eran acribillados mientras los dos bandos luchaban, aparentemente por la conquista de este o aquel pedazo de suelo de Flandes, pero en realidad por qu\u00e9 grupo de imperialistas quedar\u00eda libre para llevarse la mayor parte del bot\u00edn colonial cuando terminara la lucha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Debilidad diplom\u00e1tica, al descubierto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n En cuarto lugar, la guerra en Ucrania ha puesto de manifiesto la debilidad diplom\u00e1tica <\/em>del campo imperialista. La hipocres\u00eda y el doble juego de las potencias imperialistas nunca ha sido m\u00e1s evidente que en las revelaciones sobre el proceso de Minsk, que se supon\u00eda que era un camino hacia una soluci\u00f3n justa y pac\u00edfica de la lucha del pueblo de Donbass, pero que en cambio fue utilizado por todas las potencias occidentales como una tapadera para seguir construyendo el ej\u00e9rcito de Ucrania en preparaci\u00f3n no para poner fin a la guerra, sino para ampliarla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Los Estados independientes de todo el mundo tienen muy claro que no se puede negociar con Estados Unidos<\/em>. Miente tan f\u00e1cilmente como respira. No se puede confiar en su palabra. Sus tratados no valen ni el papel en el que est\u00e1n escritos. El imperialismo estadounidense sigue gui\u00e1ndose por la mentalidad del capitalismo monopolista (y de todas las formas de imperio del pasado de la humanidad) de que “el poder es lo correcto”. Como dijo Lenin Los imperialistas no entienden otro lenguaje que el de la fuerza. En ese caso, la \u00fanica manera de responderles es organizando una fuerza de oposici\u00f3n y utiliz\u00e1ndola con una determinaci\u00f3n que no puedan ignorar.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the essence of the Ukraine war<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Sobre la esencia de la guerra de Ucrania<\/h2>\n\n\n\n