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Humanity will rise again, capitalism never will !

lundi 12 janvier 2026, par Karob, Robert Paris

Humanity will rise again, capitalism never will !

Revolutionary workers, women, young people, small farmers, fishermen, artisans, traders and self-employed individuals, humanity, communism, all will rise up together, but capitalism will never rise again ! It has reached insurmountable limits, not only from the point of view of the exploited and oppressed but also from the point of view of its own system.

Yemen, Gaza, Sudan, Mali, Ukraine, Zaire, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sahel, Burkina Faso, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank—nothing but massacres instigated, approved, organized, and armed by the major imperialist powers ! And it’s not just wars and civil wars ! There are dictatorships and fascisms spreading everywhere ! Just as revolts and revolutions are spreading everywhere, in Asia, Africa, South America, Europe…

Most countries in the world have experienced revolts and revolutions since 2010, following the capitalist economic collapse of 2007-2008. The COVID-19 pandemic, yet another global horror caused by capitalism, partially stifled the revolt starting in 2019. And the supposedly anti-COVID dictatorial policies did the rest.

While the horrors perpetrated by capitalist states continue to worsen, revolts and revolutions demonstrate the courage, dedication, solidarity, spontaneity, and self-organization of young people, women, and workers in towns and the countryside, and show where the future of humanity will come from : from the revolutionary working people.

This global nature of revolutions and counter-revolutions demonstrates that it is indeed the foundations of the world that are being shaken, and not any particular regime (Mubarak or Ben Ali), region (the Arab world or Africa), government, specific situation (women, youth, the most vulnerable, etc.), erosion of power, or particular political or economic circumstances. This affects rich and poor countries alike, Western and Eastern nations, North and South, East and West, dictatorships and so-called democracies.

This global situation has a fundamentally economic cause (capital saturation relative to the limited capacity for productive investment), and it is the inevitable result of the historic, and also global, collapse of the capitalist system of domination (its mode of production), which has reached its limits and can no longer recover. Indeed, what caused the global collapse of capitalist markets in 2007, and what continues to undermine the capitalist economy, is neither a recession, nor inflation, nor Trump’s deglobalization, nor currency collapses, nor stock market bubbles, nor energy problems, nor the bankruptcy of states and central banks—all of these are merely consequences.

We cannot predict what the future will hold (when, at what pace, for what occasional reason, this fall will occur, with what starting point, with what consequence), but we can be certain of one thing : the dying system threatens us all with death, barbarity, mass violence, regardless of our country, our region, our situations, our origins, etc.

What is also certain is that the main cause is not what we are told it is : climate crisis, migration crisis, ecological crisis, demographic crisis, pandemic crisis, crisis of state spending, energy crisis, generational crisis, interethnic crisis, interreligious crisis, intercivilizational crisis, East-West crisis, jihadist and terrorist crisis, Bitcoin crisis, AI crisis, war crisis, crisis of globalization or financialization, robotization crisis, etc. The cause is not even the misery of the poorest and the vast gap between rich and poor, nor is it popular revolt. The cause is economic, and yet it is not even a classic crisis of capitalism.

Capitalism could perfectly well recover from any of the crises we have just mentioned, and even from all of them, but not from the crucial and fundamental problem that has plagued it since the early 2000s : the complete saturation of capital accumulation. The global quantity of capital has increased dramatically over the last few decades, and one might think this is a great success for big capital. However, it is a success that exceeds its capacity… Where to invest all this capital ? A constantly decreasing share of the total available capital is invested in productive investments. Consequently, it becomes vital that states and central banks, as well as private capital holders, invent new and substantial amounts of unproductive investments. By leveraging speculation, public and private debt, Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, it is possible to continually create fictitious investments that actually generate profits. But all these artificial methods for generating profits for capital have a major flaw : they wildly increase the amount of capital that is not directed toward productive investment, and the share of this capital in total capital grows relentlessly, contributing to tightening the noose that is suffocating the capitalist system. For speculation allows a capitalist to become rich, but not the entire system. The wealth of capitalism has always fundamentally stemmed from the exploitation of human labor (surplus value increasing capital through its productive reinvestment), even though capitalists have always maintained the illusion that it is they, Capital and not Labor, who create wealth. Yet this system has never been able to survive without constantly increasing capital. Only brief drops in profits (capitalist crises) were tolerable, and the destruction of capital they caused was offset by the fact that these crises purged capitalism of its weakest elements, allowing it to rebound stronger than ever. In the current situation, such a crisis is no longer tolerable for capitalism because it deems it "systemic," meaning that a simple regulatory crisis would threaten the entire system with death !

We cannot prevent capitalism from collapsing, much to the chagrin of all the fans of reformist "solutions." We can only seize the situation and try to transform every weakness of the system into a weapon of the revolutionary proletariat.

In short, we have no reason to laugh or cry at the end of capitalism. Capitalism itself is the cause of this self-destruction and is announcing its death by tolling the bell with a multitude of increasingly atrocious symptoms. There is no reason to regret the old system of exploitation and oppression, but no reason to rejoice either, because nothing is settled and only the direct intervention of the revolutionary proletariat can allow us to turn the page on the history of humanity.

And the more the propertied classes convince themselves that their future is bleak, the more they manipulate racism, machismo, fascism, all hatreds, all fears, all divisions, all fantasies, all absurdities, all filthy, horrible appetites, all bloodthirsty, decorated brutes, all murderers, all terrorists from around the world. Barbarity does not die with capitalism ; it grows until the triumph of social revolution !

The revolts and revolutions acted in the diametrically opposed direction to this rise of barbarity in both actions and minds. Where people are most bitterly divided by ethnicity, clan, skin color, diverse origins, religion, region, between nationals and migrants, between men and women, between rich and poor, these mass movements have precisely brought to the fore all the oppressed and exploited, all united, often denying the oppressive weight of an entire old past (women at the forefront in Iran as in Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt or Sudan, ethnicities and clans swept away in Lebanon, for example).

But states, these powers of big capital, are more present than ever, say the skeptics regarding the death of capitalism. Yes, but the system cannot rely solely on state aid to survive. Its economic functioning is far more important. The more it relies on the support of states and central banks, the more its decline worsens, because the share of capital not originating from the productive sector grows accordingly, and surplus value is no longer the basis of profit. An individual capitalist doesn’t care where the money comes from as long as it constantly fills the coffers, but the entire system cannot ! And capitalism accumulates capital without increasing real wealth. The chasm widens between fictitious wealth and real wealth. To such an extent that this abyss frightens the ruling classes themselves and pushes them down the insane path of marching towards world war, global fascism, dictatorship and massacres endangering all of humanity… All this is preferable in the eyes of the owning classes to the mortal risks of a social revolution that would definitively overthrow the economic and political power of the capitalist class !
For the working people, the socialist revolution will require great efforts, but it will cost us less than the suffering that the ruling classes are preparing for us !

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