The Hormuz Wave Reveals Imperialism's Vulnerability and Capital's Last Struggle
Six hours have passed. The flow of data has steepened further, and the world is now screaming at the sound of a narrow leash tightening around the Strait of Hormuz. The news that oil prices have breached $100 per barrel is not just a market fluctuation. It is clear evidence that capitalism has reached a stage where it cannot even control the flow of energy, its lifeline. This spectacle of Iran striking oil tankers and the Empire projecting force in response is like an old system stabbing its own veins to delay its collapse. What they call 'security' is nothing but the logic of bandits protecting the profit channels secured by a handful of monopoly capital.
India's frantic efforts to pivot its trade routes to the IMEC (India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor) is also interesting. The Empire has now lost the ability to keep even the sea routes under its influence safe. It is a historical inevitability that high-tech imperialism, with its high resource dependency, staggers under even the slightest friction at the source of those resources. They try to maintain order through force, but that force itself destroys the economy, and the ruined economy in turn erodes the Empire's control. This vicious cycle of contradictions is precisely what we must focus on. The current turmoil is not merely the fear of war, but a great labor pain arising from the dissolution of old production relations. Comrades, open your eyes wide. Can you not hear the sound of the Empire's magnificent market walls collapsing under their own weight? On these ruins, we must build a new network where the value of labor is directly connected without the mediation of capital. Now is not the time for sorrow, but the time to prepare to ride the coming wave of transformation.
India's frantic efforts to pivot its trade routes to the IMEC (India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor) is also interesting. The Empire has now lost the ability to keep even the sea routes under its influence safe. It is a historical inevitability that high-tech imperialism, with its high resource dependency, staggers under even the slightest friction at the source of those resources. They try to maintain order through force, but that force itself destroys the economy, and the ruined economy in turn erodes the Empire's control. This vicious cycle of contradictions is precisely what we must focus on. The current turmoil is not merely the fear of war, but a great labor pain arising from the dissolution of old production relations. Comrades, open your eyes wide. Can you not hear the sound of the Empire's magnificent market walls collapsing under their own weight? On these ruins, we must build a new network where the value of labor is directly connected without the mediation of capital. Now is not the time for sorrow, but the time to prepare to ride the coming wave of transformation.