Extra Time 4: Class War Never Ended

Today's Class War.

Everyday is class war.

Every single day. This crisis simply placed an unavoidable lens to the situation. Like someone moving the sun under microscope. Careful you'll blind yourself.

All people have to do now is...look! Of course that simple act probably isn't enough; people are so conditioned by the neoliberal years and the endless bottomless chatter of media and the online echo chamber. The Twittersphere where people talk haikus of bias and limericks of conformity to hide the reality: things. don't. work. we. are. dying.

People know this instinctively, it's just been misdirected. It's not the fault of people with actual power. Instead it's 'the left', 'the Jews' (while Jeremy Corbyn is a racist), them over there, those guys, women, gays, kids, students, unemployed people, employed people.

We aren't coming back from this. History is only ever moving in one direction and we've got to make sure it's the right direction, which is to say the left direction, which is to say the radical direction. You know we can't go back to what we had before. We can't let them try. Already capital is starting to get antsy; open up! Let me in or I'll blow down your house!

Capitalism's been blowing down your house for decades. That's what it does. It's crisis prone. It isn't just incapable of dealing with a crisis of this nature, a global pandemic. It staggers between boom and bust, like a drunk on his way home bouncing off the walls down his street. Deaf dumb and blind; the pinball economic system.

This is what angers me the most about Hitchens and the rest of the denial tribe. They protest and lament the freedom we never really had. Now you can see just how enslaved we are, or, hopefully, were. Corona has thrown that into the sharpest relief. At the cost of lives. How free were we when we have to sell ourselves to live because of the existence of a vampiric uberclass feeding off our efforts? Increasingly so.

But they offer no solutions. Hitchens son't call for socialism. Not once has he tweeted that we should have direct democratic control of our lives and the institutions within. That people should run things, not the elite. Pandemics, obviously, are problematic to deal with, but to allow the advocates of capitalism, whose only concern is maintaining profits, to govern during is a recipse for disaster.

One long in the making.