THE WAR ON THE
WORKING CLASS

The Democratic leadership of the so called “left-wing” of the U.S. Empire has been failing the working class since Clinton. Politicians are bought out by special interests, beholden only to their donors, and hold contempt in their hearts for their true constituents.

Enough is enough. It's time to abandon these ineffective democrats.

Don't rely on politicians to save you. Democrats won't save you. We have to save ourselves.

That is the principle of negotiations. We need to organize effectively, identify our leverage, and use it to bring the 1% to the negotiating table. If they aren't willing to meet us there, then we will protest, walk out, boycott and strike until we force them to the table.

They do not produce the wealth in this country—we do—and it's about time we take back control.

Every one of us is a leader, yourself included. If you are part of this community, then you are one of our negotiators. Welcome to the united 99%.

Don't let them tell you how many of us there are. We're many more than may seem.

The mobilization is happening. The people are rising up. We all must join the cause. The time is now. We have the numbers.

“The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born” — Antonio Gramsci[1]

This is not a conflict that can be solved with electoral politics and we should be cautious not to put our faith in it.

The Democratic establishment has a long history of capturing the genuine rage and energy that ebbs and flows in the American left. They send out performers to tour America and redirect that energy back into the establishment. Fundraising tours. Tours where they control the conversation. Where they refuse to platform Palestinians.

Obama comes to mind as one of the ultimate betrayals of the American left. Obama campaigned on fundamental changes that would break through the ceiling of what was possible in American politics and instead delivered a half-measure health policy, hundreds of confirmed civilian drone strike victims — likely thousands more labeled “combatants” by the government, all quietly behind smooth talking and smiles, and most importantly: the blank check bailout given to the billionaire owner class despite the fact that the crisis emerged from their criminal overspeculation on housing, which is a basic human right, not a rentier extortion casino.

Companies like Blackstone surged in ownership over homes after the fallout of the 2008 housing collapse. Not only did these groups benefit, but the banks that were bailed out became immensely more wealthy than they were before the collapse. CitiGroup, as of a decade ago, held approximately $1.8 trillion in assets — a balance sheet that grew larger post-bailout than it was before the crisis.

While millions of Americans lost their homes, the banks lost nothing they couldn't replace. The S&P doubled in five years. Wages didn't move. Foreclosures ran for years. The owners kept their wealth, their banks, and their power.

The money went directly from the bottom to the top. Rugged individualism for the poor, socialism for the corporations. We have a system in which the interests of capital prevail over the general welfare.

Obama promised to derail that system, instead he enforced it. Obama is a war criminal and the ultimate class traitor.

Electoral politics made some of us in our youth mistakenly pin our hopes on Obama. Then Sanders. Then AOC. But none of the movements energized by those people has ever ultimately escaped capture by the establishment. It's then the movement is sterilized, neutered, and slowly dissolved.

We have yet to see with Mamdani.

But whether you believe in electoral politics or not, we do have to acknowledge the significance of a Democratic Socialist who refused to pander to radical Judaists and ended up sweeping an election in none other than the city with the largest population of Jews second only to Tel Aviv. In exit polls, Mamdani was up 42 points with male voters aged 18–29. That directly contradicts the characterization that the left has lost the male demographic and that the younger generation is becoming increasingly racially conservative.

While it is true that many young men fall into the alt-right pipeline, it seems perhaps more of them escape it than not.

But more broadly, the general shift in sentiment demonstrates that the undercurrent Americans have been feeling for decades is now more than an undercurrent. This feeling that our government is beyond saving is becoming more and more commonplace.

The frustration and anger is giving rise to class consciousness on both sides of the aisle. Many MAGA voters are beginning to learn they actually are disposable to the movement. Trump's tariffs caused soybean exports to China to collapse from $12B to $3B — a 75% wipeout. At the same time, Trump gives a $40 billion dollar bailout to the Milei government in the failed Libertarian state of Argentina — and quadruples Argentine beef imports, undercutting American cattle farmers. Prominent Argentinian government officials are ex-bankers or Wall Street collaborators. These criminals colluded to give American money to their Wall Street side project and direct competitors of American cattle farmers.

Both sides are feeling the betrayal. And they're beginning to direct that energy up.

Let's just make sure the likes of Zohran Mamdani advances our interests instead of bottling them.

People don't understand that we are beyond voting. The only solution is building our own systems outside their systems. They only have power over us because we give them power.

We could build a state where we honor the constitution and promote the general welfare of its people instead of condemning them to be servants to capital.

The preamble of the constitution begins, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The declaration of independence declares that when the government becomes tyrannical or is no longer conducive to those ends, then it is no longer a valid government.

In the absence of a legitimate government, we must begin to govern ourselves. And that means establishing the means of worker owned industry in order to sustain our future irrespective of the institutions of our former masters.

Let's not lose sight of that in the midst of exciting displays of political theatre.

Behind closed doors, deals are being made.

It's time we acknowledge the most impressive idiot to have ever walked the earth; the pitiful creature Elon Musk.

The entire world watches as he torches our future and personally destroys our institutions all in pursuit of something that is simply beyond his grasp: Happiness.

The man is a cautionary tale of Biblical proportions; marked by the mortal sins of greed and envy. He has the most fatal illness known to man. His greed has filled his pockets but emptied the contents of his soul. The Elon Musks of the world spend their entire lives trying to buy back the soul they sold to make their riches. They need to understand they will simply never find it—and no amount of money will ever change that, Elon Musk.

There comes his second mortal sin: envy. Musk's inability to love, to feel loved, tortures him. He envies what others have but doesn't understand why he doesn't have it. What he lacks is a core trait that binds us all: humanity. Elon Musk has none.

You cannot value humanity and wield your power toward the ends Elon Musk has pursued and continues to pursue.

This charlatan was recently awarded the largest CEO compensation package in history. The agreement, vested over multiple years, ultimately rewards Elon Musk with approximately $56 billion in Tesla stock options.

This is at the same time as SNAP benefits have been cut for millions. The same time his extra-governmental agency cuts congressionally appropriated funding to social institutions that benefit us all. The same time he announces plans to build a humanoid robot police force.

Recently, we see a video of Elon Musk's sorry-excuse-for-human-expression attempt to share in the joys of humanity with our most basic common language: dance.

Alone on the stage is Musk flanked by a dancing Tesla robot.

Handily a perfect metaphor for Elon Musk's life that a robot he built to love him is the only possible entity that would ever love this man. To quote more sophisticated literature, “a man beloved only by those he built to love him”.

I will cyberbully Elon Musk till the end of the world.

The billionaires profit while our institutions crumble. Musk gave the keys to all of our sensitive information for no clear purpose. Elon Musk is an affiliate with Peter Thiel who is a mentor of J.D. Vance.

The steps Palantir — co-founded by Peter Thiel, run by Alex Karp — has taken to embed itself deeply within our government technologies make it an enormous undertaking to ever rip it out and replace it. A $10 billion Army contract. ICE's deportation AI. A strategic partnership with the IOF for “war-related missions.” Sophisticated tracking systems like Flock have tightened the noose of the invasion of privacy to a stuttered breath. The mass surveillance state is not arriving, it arrived before you even noticed. Snowden told us as much.

What we must understand is Gaza was a testing ground. A military lab room in which the Empire tested its tools of oppression. Do not believe they are not preparing to import those lessons domestically. They are testing what the world will allow them to get away with. They are exterminating an entire people[2] and the world is simply watching it happen.

This technological consolidation of power is occurring in broad daylight, with some of the richest men in the world and their wives all sitting first row at Trump's second inauguration. After the ceremony, they flanked Trump for a photo, as if to taunt us.

There is something in the air now.

The symptoms of change are looming over us. We all see it. But no one is saying it.

You'll be happy to know more people feel this way than you think. I talk to a lot of people about it. Bars. Parks. Lyfts. The appliance guy. House guests from around the world. I make it a priority to directly ask people what they think about the state of things. I find it's the best way to understand the world. Get information and views from people face to face. Not filtered through the elaborate media system called network news that we pretend is anything but state media. The truth lies in the word of others.

But there is a shift. I'm not the one bringing it up anymore.

I don't even have to convince people of my views.

What seems to be happening now is everyone is starting to say it out loud to each other.

America is not a country. It's a corporation. And we're like unwilling employees. Forced to pay for their bombs. One big company town.

Individual 1

I've been having to tell my kids we are totally safe and I feel like that is a lie because I don't know that and now I don't even think that so if it was just me, a dude, it wouldn't be as scary for just me to die, but I have to protect them to so this shit is extra scary—not saying it isn't as scary for everybody else and even worse for so many people.

Trump is terrible for innumerable reasons, but the unexpected upside to that is he doesn't hide his naked fascism and it's waking people up who were in a deep sleep or too busy trying to survive.

I'm an eternal optimist. We just have to come up with a plan to fix it. They're all 80-year-olds and can't even stand up.

We're very fortunate we got incompetent fascists instead of competent fascists. There's a million cracks in this whole setup and you see them falling apart more and more every day.

So many people have finally realized he's a fucking fraud and is robbing us blind.

Individual 1

I have a journal with a lot of lyrics that are very anti-war anti-Trump [and some people act] like I'm crazy because it's lyrics about capitalism and war

You would have to be heartless to not have that type of journal.

Humans were not meant to live in a world like this.

We absolutely must create a better world.

Individual 1

Imagine being so fucking powerful like Trump and Elon and all you see is how many millions of people fucking hate you. How could you live with yourself?

Men like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Donald Trump lack every decent human trait a person can lack.

They don't even think about it, and once in a rare moment it will all come to them, and they will immediately just block it out. They lie to themselves so well that they believe every lie.

They're hopeless.

Greed is a disease, the worst one to have.

Some people call it human nature. But you only believe it's human nature because you were raised in a capitalist hellscape that programmed you to believe it was human nature so you would accept the system forced upon you uncritically.

The greatest sin of capitalism is that the ultimate goal is to hold enough ownership in other people's labor that you yourself do not have to work. Instead of a system that dignifies labor with a livable existence, it incentivizes you to become a part of the system. For every ladder ring you climb, you become the person exploiting the person you used to be on the ladder.

The end game of capitalism is always slavery—people don't understand this. Capitalists want to extract as much labor from you for as little cost as possible. Capitalism and slavery are synonyms. We never ended slavery in the first place, we just rebranded it and made up excuses to lock up minorities and called them criminals so everyone else would look the other way.

We have identified the problem. It is now time to identify the solutions.

It's become clear to many of us we cannot vote our way out of this situation.

I haven't seen any very convincing plans, so I'm proposing we become more organized and start discussing some plans. The world is crumbling and we need to band together as a community to decide the future world we want to live in.

Options that exist that I neither condone nor prescribe[3]: Dual government. Stop paying the feds. Stronger states. Options I condone and prescribe: Invest in your neighbors. Stay strapped. Gather peacefully with weapons to show numbers.

There's 3,000 billionaires and they're all cowards. Give them a reason to be afraid.

Their rigged voting system is designed to make us feel like we can change things through the same system designed to disenfranchise us. Electoral politics is a mirage they cast to keep you from getting creative. Look up MOVE and the Black Panthers; check out other revolutionary movements that succeeded throughout history and around the world.

For instance, in the 30s and 40s, the rich only made concessions with legislation such as the New Deal[4] because they were afraid of getting dragged out of their homes and drawn and quartered by the masses. What followed was one of the most prosperous ages of public good.

We need leverage; right now that's our labor and our guns. We can't withhold our labor because we don't have the proper mechanisms in place to survive without their allowance. We can't use our guns because that's simply a terrible idea. We can however visibly and publicly gather in large numbers peaceably with our guns to illustrate just how many more of us there are than them.

There's about 5,000 people who are actively destroying everything for the rest of us. Everyone beneath them falls into a few camps, among them: those who have been propagandized; those who fear power and stay in line because of it; those close to power who believe they will achieve it; those who benefit from the system and are therefore willing to actively or passively uphold it; those who do not rank on the power structure but are otherwise too comfortable to act or unwilling to risk whatever privileges they have to change their patterns. You can't convince those people easily. It can take years of meeting them where they are. You can give them little threads to pull and that's about it. So if you can't sway the minds of the people who uphold the system, you need some kind of leverage over the people who control the system.

Have any of us considered infiltrating corporations on a mass scale (even if it took 30 to 100 years) and simply locking all the C-Suite hacks out of the systems? I neither condone nor prescribe this approach, but it's an interesting question to ask.

Could we build peer to peer supply chains? Open source decentralized social media?

There are simple things we need to do right now: Get to know your neighbors. Try to come up with a plan by talking to them.

There are more complex things we can do in the future, such as building independent solar grids not hooked up to the grid and sharing excess power with your neighbors who can't afford solar yet.

To compete in the criminal housing market and secure a home before the sharks buy up the entire country, you could find a group of people to split a down payment on a home. Do so intentionally, with groups of people you trust. Build a community of people of the same mind. Build a community of contributors. Community keeps us safe and it keeps us strong.

There's a concept worth borrowing here from the study of war: bargaining friction. The idea is simple. Conflicts don't escalate when both sides know what's at stake and would rather concede than fight. They escalate when one side miscalculates the other's resolve, or when the leverage isn't visible. Apply that to class war. We have leverage. They have a breaking point. We just have to know where they both are.

The class war has been fought against us most fervently since Reagan. The novelty of the moment is the working class has begun to fight back.

Bargaining friction is determined by what leverage each side of a conflict has. To evaluate possible outcomes, you have to identify that leverage first.

Our primary leverage is our numbers. But numbers alone will not provide any leverage—we must all ask ourselves: “What can I do as an individual and what could we do as a community?”

For those who would risk their security to protect their communities: arm yourself and organize anti-fed check points. I neither condone nor prescribe this.

For those who can absorb the consequences: stop paying taxes. I neither condone nor prescribe this.

For those who have the resources, time, and labor: grow your own food or support someone in your community who does. Share with neighbors as you can. I condone and prescribe this.

For those who like to chat: explain neo-colonialism and late stage capitalism to drunk strangers at bars. Get their number. I condone and prescribe this.

For those who have an entrepreneurial spirit: start a collective small business and leave your corporate slave job. I condone and prescribe this.

Don't murder CEOs.

But it is key to share not only common values with people, but a common goal.

The ultimate task at hand is identifying and exploiting our leverage.

That leverage could be fear, it could be infiltration, it could be whatever you are creative enough to come up with.

But first and foremost, nothing will change unless we find meaningful collective leverage we can exert over the tiny fraction of humanity that rules us. We just have to work together to figure out what that leverage is before things turn past the point of peaceful resolution, which is coming soon.

The elite are planning on pivoting hard into the private prison industry — and they happen to be criminalizing homelessness across the country, buying up the housing supply[5], and funding the largest mass kidnapping agency in history. Their plan to address the impending crisis is to simply imprison anyone they choose and force the rest of us to pay for it.

They pocket the money because they run the prisons.

America is a free-for-all in the absence of due process. The corporation's business is imprisonment and involuntary servitude. That's how they plan to make money off us.

They're being built everywhere. They call them “detention camps.” They bought a warehouse in Arizona for one of them. Right in a neighborhood. The budget for them is huge. That's money that's going from our pockets to our oppressors' pockets and then they use that money to oppress us.

They plan to manage us. I say we manage ourselves.

That kind of power could be used to build actual homes, schools, bridges and rails. It could be used for the public good, not a private prison racket that is undoubtedly an echo of slavery.

In order to transfer that power from them to us, we need to organize, plan, identify our leverage, exert it, and negotiate.

We do already have forms of leverage, leverage you can exert at this moment. Chief among them is the Boycott-Sanctions-Divest movement, or BDS. BDS is one of the most effective tools in recent history and one that you don't have to sacrifice your safety, living, or time to do.

In the meantime, we must build our communities. Get to know your neighbors. Arm yourself. Learn how to use the weapons. Train yourself. Stand your ground.

This administration made the geopolitical mistake of the century in forcing Iran's hand on the Strait of Hormuz. The economies and industries built on oil are in a flurry. The economies and industries based on renewable energies are impartial to the current circumstances.

The greedy clung to the dying world because that world had built their empires. But their empire has no contingency for this. The data centers that were to power the American AI race were built around cheap fossil energy. Now Qatar is offline, global LNG is up 60%, and the empire's AI bet runs on whatever's left after the global scramble. They built their house of cards.

Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

We must organize preemptively so a system is in place when the current one inevitably fails. Dual Government is an established concept.

Seems time we mandate a government by human beings and cast out these elites like the pedophile, rapist leeches they are.

For my parting words, I would like to address the ruling class directly.