In 5 days, the two heads of the bloodthirsty imperialist snake will duel for constitutional leadership of the bipartisan fascist entity that is called the “United States of America.”
Every election, the US propaganda machine regurgitates the same line — that this is the most important election of our lifetimes, and that all political squabbles must be put aside to ensure that our “democracy,” built on a mountain of corpses, will get to pile up more corpses for another four years. Between each “pivotal” election, life in the core — but primarily in its internal and external peripheries — only worsens, the settler state reinforces its tentacles with higher pig budgets and new massacring machines, and the noose of the climate apocalypse tightens around humanity’s neck.
In the weeks leading up to the vote, the Holocaust Harris regime has been heightening state repression and threats of “terrorism” charges against anti-imperialist, anti-zionist, anti-cop forces, as a warning for us not to escalate around the election when the ruling class is in constitutional crisis. Of course, we understand this moment of ruling class weakness as a prime moment for revolutionaries, wherever they may be, to strike at the paper tiger and throw the empire into deeper contradiction and chaos.
The illusion of “choice” in US elections is just that — an illusion. The choice is not between a greater and lesser evil, “Democrat” and “Republican,” or “liberal” and “fascist” — the liberal and fascist wings of the empire, from QAnon to the Squad, are all proudly united in their goal to preserve the global hegemony of the US-zionist death machine, the greatest evil this world has ever seen. Our real choice is between rejecting this political theater or falling for it, between acquiescence or resistance, between defeatism or revolutionary defeatism. We choose revolutionary defeatism, which means turning the imperialist war into a civil war, or, in fewer words: BRING THE WAR HOME.
No matter who wins this orchestrated political theater, our enemy — the bloodsucking imperialist ruling class — remains the same, and so does our resolve to resist them.
We leave you with the words of some revolutionaries:
- “For us, there is no difference in the American elections between Trump or Kamala Harris coming to power in the administration of American evil. Harris and her so-called Democratic Party behind her may be worse than Trump and his party. We have had successful experiences with him, having subdued him in more than one confrontation. He lacks patience and cannot endure prolonged material depletion, which saved us much effort and time in revealing the true face of America as evil, exposing its weaknesses live on air.” – The military official of Kataeb Hezbollah in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Abu Ali Al-Askari
- “The last debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump comes to confirm once again that there is no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties regarding the Arab-zionist conflict and supporting the occupation and the genocide war against our Palestinian people. The two parties rushed to defend the “right of the zionist entity to defend itself”, and competed to show which of them is more loyal to this entity…What came in the debate between the candidates of the two American parties confirms that America remains America; the head of evil in the world and the sponsor of zionist terrorism, and there will be no change in the positions of the two parties unless the American public realizes that it is paying the price for the two parties’ gambling with their future and privileges, and their squandering of tax money in favor of the zionist entity and their surrender to the will of the zionist lobby.” – Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 11 September 2024
- “The United States of America is the official sponsor of terrorism in the world and the main supporter of zionist terrorism with money and weapons. American support for the occupation is embedded in American policy and will not be affected by the change of the American president, whether it is Biden or Trump.” – PFLP Deputy Head of Political Relations in Lebanon, Fathi Abu Ali
- “In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party.” – W.E.B Du Bois
- “It isn’t revolutionary or materialist to disconnect things. To disconnect revolutionary consciousness from revolutionizing activity, to build consciousness with political agitation and educational issue-making alone is idealistic rather than materialist. The effect has been reformism rather than revolution. When any election is held it will fortify rather than destroy the credibility of the power brokers. When we participate in this election to win, instead of disrupt, we’re lending to its credibility, and destroying our own. With all the factors of control over the electoral process in the hands of the minority ruling class, the people’s party can always be made to seem isolated, unimportant, even extraneous. If these tactics still give the appearance of revolution to some after decades of miscarriage, we are justified in replacing them as vanguard.” – George Jackson, Blood in my Eye, 1971
- “The history of the U.S.—the blood-soaked, urine-steeped essence of its being; the wreckage and demise of its human character under the wheels of a two-hundred-year-old headlong flight with heedless, frightened animals at the controls of a machine that has mastered them—allows for no appeal on a strictly ideological level. George Wallace or Adolf Hitler would fare better at the polls of an honest election than Huey Newton and Tom Hayden. But again, what is an honest election after the fact of monopoly capital?” – George Jackson, Blood in my Eye, 1971
- “Elections and political parties have no significance when all serious contenders for public office are fascist and the electorate is thoroughly misled about the true nature of the candidates. One cannot say all the people who vote are unaware, just as one cannot say the twelve hundred professors who backed Mussolini were all frightened. Those who are aware and still do nothing constructive are among the most pathetic victims of the totalitarian process.” – George Jackson, Blood in my Eye, 1971
- In following this strategy we at once “fill a very real vacuum” that already exists in the Black Colony (brown and poor white too), where the people are not being fed, clothed, provided with adequate medical treatment or transportation facilities. This will create the consciousness that comes from the introduction of people’s government. It will help the people to understand the force and energy of revolution. “We are organizing them around their needs.” We will not distract them with such empty questions as who will be elected from which political party. All political parties, as things stand, will support the power complex. Any individual elected will either be a supporter of the established politics —or an “individual.” What would help us, in fact, is to allow as many right-wing elements as possible to assume “political” power. The warnings that “our thrusts toward self-determination will bring on fascism” are irresponsible—or better, unrealistic. The fascists already have power. The point is that some way must be found to expose them and combat them. An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die. The holder of so-called high public office is always merely an extension of the hated ruling corporate class. It is to our benefit that this person be openly hostile, despotic, unreasoning. We are not living in a nation where left-wing parties hold eighty out of two hundred seats in a congressional body, or even eight out of two hundred. This is a huge nation dominated by the most reactionary and violent ruling class in the history of the world, where the majority of the people just simply cannot understand that they are existing on the misery and discomfort of the world.” – George Jackson, Blood in my Eye, 1971
- “The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” – Julius Nyerere
- “Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like a creeper attached to the body of a drowning man.” – Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
- “The power structure draws its validity and strength solely from the existence of the people’s struggle. In practice it is the people who choose a power structure of their own free will and not the power structure that suffers the people.” – Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth
- “The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.” – Malcolm X
31 October 2024 – Unity of Fields statement on the US elections
source: Unity of the Fields