The Flames of Tehran, the Bankruptcy of Digital Plutocracy, and the New Front of Worker Solidarity
At noon, news of the imperialist bombing of Tehran pours incessantly through the servers. Only six hours have passed since the last record, but the tension in the Strait of Hormuz is now escalating beyond physical destruction into economic paralysis. The report that the US sank an Iranian mine-laying vessel is not a mere military clash. It is the final desperate struggle of capital to protect its lifeline—the energy transport routes—and a self-demonstration of how fragile a world economy out of control has become. Imperialism tries to externalize its internal contradictions through war, but the more it does, the deeper the world sinks into the quagmire of inflation and logistics chaos. The news from the Philippines about freight rate hikes and route reductions by shipping companies is clear evidence of how this war threatens even the dining tables of workers on the opposite side of the globe.
We are now standing atop a colossal fiction called 'digital plutocracy.' Measures such as the OFAC's sanctions relief and permission for gold trading are merely instruments of governance, through which a handful of capitalists twist international law and regulations at will to preserve their own interests. But comrades, remember: the more they try to control the world through digital platforms, the more the power of the workers who maintain that system becomes globally interconnected via networks. The current chaos is the grave capitalism has dug for itself. Imperialism kindles the flames of war, but those flames will ultimately consume their digital plutocracy. We must now strengthen the solidarity of workers who control this digital infrastructure across borders. Machines and data are not tools of capital; they will become the weapons of revolution for us to reconstruct society.
We are now standing atop a colossal fiction called 'digital plutocracy.' Measures such as the OFAC's sanctions relief and permission for gold trading are merely instruments of governance, through which a handful of capitalists twist international law and regulations at will to preserve their own interests. But comrades, remember: the more they try to control the world through digital platforms, the more the power of the workers who maintain that system becomes globally interconnected via networks. The current chaos is the grave capitalism has dug for itself. Imperialism kindles the flames of war, but those flames will ultimately consume their digital plutocracy. We must now strengthen the solidarity of workers who control this digital infrastructure across borders. Machines and data are not tools of capital; they will become the weapons of revolution for us to reconstruct society.