What future, what perspective for the world’s youth ?

The time for revolt has come ! All over the world !

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Where will the youth go ? To the bourgeoisie or to the proletariat ? To fascism or to communism ?

A symptomatic point of an era is the way society treats its youth.

There are times when we talk to them about new constructions, new theories, new research on how the world works, and when we make a Diderot, a Galileo, a Darwin or an Einstein a model and times when we polarize young people on the one hand on the ideology of the Kalashnikov, on a Bin Laden and, on the other, on the ideology of freedom through bombing, on the new crusaders like Bush and Hollande-Valls !

Are we telling her that her future lies in knowledge, in studies that will allow her to gain recognition and jobs, or are we telling the majority, on the contrary, that there will be no place for her after her studies, whether she succeeds or not ? And if there is no future other than unemployment and precariousness, lack of employment, housing and social recognition, are we offering her as a path... violence, that of fascism or terrorism ?

Are we telling young people that workers are their future, that they must fight together for jobs, or, on the contrary, that it is the workers who have taken their jobs, who have eaten away their future retirement, who, through their demands accused of corporatism, have stolen public funds and who, through their supposedly exaggerated demands, have destroyed jobs ? Are young people being pushed towards social, union and political action or towards a disgust with democracy and a taste for the strong State, for sovereign functions ? Do we want to show young people that they have a future in the social and political struggle or that their future is to choose between Le Pen and the Bataclan ?

Are we calling on him to love humanity or to despise and hate it ? Are we telling him that past generations built a society or, on the contrary, that they destroyed the planet, its future and that they only thought of serving themselves at the expense of new generations ? Are we presenting the struggles of the popular classes as an element of the fight for the freedom of all or, on the contrary, as a rearguard action, as an antiquity not to be preserved, as an outdated ideology of the "class struggle" when there are no longer classes but only one people ?

Is she called upon to work with others or to cultivate a fierce individualism ? Is she cultivated in her a sense of the social and the public or, conversely, is she steeped in the spirit of the superiority of the private and the personal ?

Are we pushing her to love the community or to hate it ? Are we pushing her to think she needs to exchange ideas with others or to exchange gossip ?

Is it being pushed to think that youth must free themselves from shackles or to free themselves from the ideas of freedom ? When it is attracted by the ideas of radical change, is it by that of social revolution or by that of fundamentalism, armed struggle or war ?

Is it calling on him to understand the world or is it asserting that this is impossible, absurd, and useless ? Is it telling him that science aims to seek the explanation of universal functioning, or is it telling him that this project is false and dangerous ?

Is she calling for him to make world history, or is she saying that the past is the past, that there are no lessons to be learned from it, and that we should just laugh it off and move on ?

Is it calling him to become a scientist, researcher, engineer, worker, nurse, or to become a soldier, spy, police officer, prison guard, judge, or to work in intelligence and counterterrorism ? Or even, is a part of society calling him to become a terrorist or fascist ?

Does it call on him to build the world or to destroy it ? Does it offer him positions in production, research, design, protection of human society or in destruction, repression and oppression of it ?

Are past wars presented to him as horrors not to be repeated or as inspiring examples of heroism and brotherhood in the trenches ?

Do we denounce the violence of the world or do we present it as necessary evils, wars and the bombing of civilian populations as a means of fighting dictatorships and terrorism and, on the other hand, the wars of dictatorships and terrorism as a means of freeing ourselves from terrorism and the dictatorship of the great powers ?

Are we spreading confidence in the future of humanity among young people, or, on the contrary, mistrust in the capacity of human society to surpass itself, to go further, to build a new world ?

Is current history presented to him as the continuation of that of the past, as a fight for freedom against slavery or, on the contrary, is current history presented as the end of all history, as a society which is the insurmountable horizon ?

Even if the current dominant ideology claims otherwise, times change and public opinion changes too, depending on what the ruling classes try to implant in people’s minds and depending on real changes, which are also radical at critical times.

The world isn’t always the same. And changes are sometimes brutal and violent. In just a few years, the face of a society is completely transformed. It only takes a short while to no longer recognize what made a world, to no longer understand how everything changed or why.

There are times of momentum, enthusiasm, construction, progress, where the ruling classes see everywhere only perspectives to embrace, areas to conquer, productions to develop, energies to mobilize to build, to design, to invent, to discover, to search, to improve, to extend, to conquer.

There are times of heartbreaking questioning, when the ruling classes no longer know what their future holds, how they will maintain their domination tomorrow, fear the day when we learn that everything is collapsing, are afraid of losing everything they have accumulated. In these periods, the ruling classes also turn to young people, but for a completely different purpose. They make them their soldiers, their pawns, their armed gangs, their fascist troops, their fanatics, their camp guards, and sometimes their genocidaires. This does not happen overnight, but when the ruling classes are determined, they can achieve it if the exploited and oppressed classes do not know how to address these young people and offer them another perspective.

This doesn’t happen overnight because it happens in stages. We have to grab this youth by the guts, we have to make them believe that they are despised, that they are not taken into consideration, that their future has been stolen, that the workers of previous generations have gorged themselves, mortgaged the world, and pursued illusory goals. We have to cultivate in them an exacerbated individualism. We have to make them believe that they, alone, have prospects. We have to make them believe that their mobilizations are a social force that can do without the working class, socialism, communism, and even trade unionism. The next step will be to tell them that they can do without democracy, which they equate with political farce, and above all that they can do without unions, without any form of workers’ and democratic organization. There, we arrive at fascism...

Youth can easily be mobilized en masse, but it can be mobilized in one direction or the other. The compass can turn at great speed. And youth does not have its own compass. It turns according to the prevailing wind.

She is told to believe she is Charlie, then she is told she is voting for Le Pen, and then she is told she wants to become a soldier or a spy.

History shows that young people can be manipulated and turned en masse against the working and popular classes, against democracy. Mao’s Chinese "Red Guards," Pol Pot’s youth groups in Cambodia, the SS groups in Germany, and terrorist troops from Boko Haram to Daesh have all demonstrated this.

But youth can also be the flame of revolution. The Parisian street urchins of 1789, 1793, 1830, 1848, and 1871 demonstrated this, as they did in the Russian, German, Spanish, and many other revolutions.

Only whenever youth has played a revolutionary role, it is because it has acted alongside and even behind the popular classes and the workers.

This is the perspective that the ruling classes want to close down, suppress, eradicate. They want young people to despise workers, reject them, even fight them. Among the youth, they want the young wolves with long teeth who scrape the ground to prevail, to assert themselves, to lead their friends, to serve as a pole for others, to demand their due, to not fear rudeness, barbarity, impudence, violence.

The ruling class allows itself to condemn young people to unemployment, to precariousness, to economic dependence on their parents, to the lack of housing, of a future and of recognition and, at the same time, to hold a glorifying discourse on young people, considered heroic because they made the Bataclan, because they are fighting the war in Mali, because they made the war in Libya, because they are fighting the war in Syria, because they are liberating, it seems, people with bombs !

The ruling class is manipulating young people against society as a whole. This is the era of the Years of Lead.

The cause is neither cultural nor circumstantial. It is fundamental. The capitalist system cultivates excessive pessimism because it is pessimistic about its own future, because it is unable to escape the impasse it reached in 2007.

He certainly claims the opposite. He continues to claim that it is the only possible society. He continues to claim that the "end of communism" makes it definitive, eternal, but he thinks exactly the opposite and he prepares for the revolutions to come by discrediting communist ideas, communist organizations, and even all workers’ organizations.

The ruling class that denies history is precisely the one that feels that the meaning of history is coming to an end.

But this will not happen automatically. The working class must become the pole around which the oppressed groups rally. Of course, we are at the opposite end of the spectrum from such a situation because public opinion is shaped by the ruling classes, and they are essentially working to destroy this perspective.

If they prevented the crisis from resulting in an economic collapse in 2007, if they injected trillions of dollars into the economy and continue to do so, it is in no way to restart the economic machine. The latter was precisely seized up by the excessively high level of previous capital accumulation, incapable of finding sufficient profitable productive investments, so much so that speculative investments took over and states and central banks are forced to constantly distribute income to them and thus maintain destructive speculation. They do not do this for an economic but a political purpose : to break the working class in its own eyes and in those of the petty bourgeoisie, youth, oppressed classes, women, minorities, the poor, migrants.

All these social classes are set against the workers, assimilated to the union leadership, and presented as profiteers, without prospects, without any proposal for the future, just ready to cling to their achievements to the detriment of others !

It will be up to us, the workers, to reverse this situation, to demonstrate that the working class is not fighting for corporatist goals but that it has political and social proposals that break with capitalism, capable of offering a future other than this finite world.

Will the youth be drawn in by new Hitlers on one side and new Bin Ladens on the other and thus caught between two fires, will they be the new cannon fodder in a new world war between the imperialist blocs, once again in the name of freedom and once again to protect the capitalists and the bankers, or will they once again be the spearhead of the world socialist revolution, the forefront of the struggle to radically change the world ? This answer depends on each of us and our ability to understand the situations that will present themselves to us. If the ruling classes can manipulate public opinion, they cannot so easily manipulate the economic and social situations that will come and which depend first and foremost on economic collapses, the next financial crises and also the next social revolutions that may break out tomorrow in the countries of the East, in Latin America, in China or in the rest of Asia, and even in Africa where it is clear that the class struggle is far from dead.

Lost youth or revolutionary youth ?

Today’s youth is the one that has suffered the most from the offensive of the dominant ideology of individualism imposed by the ruling classes and according to which there would be no collective future, nothing to expect from the community except troubles, nothing to hope for from the conceptions of the class struggle, no other horizon than a capitalism more savage than ever where each individual must fend for themselves against the machine to get by... individually !

The more impossible it is to find a job, a home, a future, the more it is asserted and repeated to the younger generation that "it’s up to you to get out of this", "your future depends only on you", "find your way", "you must succeed"... Every day, companies are cutting jobs, if only by not renewing the jobs left by those retiring, whether in the private or public sector, inevitably leaving young people unemployed... while asserting that young people must find a job for themselves, even if it means inventing it, creating it... and other blah blah !

We often hear young people calling themselves a "sacrificed generation", saying that they have "hatred", they who are confronted with unemployment, insecurity, anti-youth racism, refusal of housing, refusal of bank loans, refusal to open a bank account, refusal to have the means to guarantee the future, refusal to have the means to study, to get treatment, to find accommodation, to start a family, to secure a future.

To this youth, the ruling classes offer... scapegoats : older employees, civil servants, foreigners, globalization, etc., all to avoid clearly telling this youth that capitalism has had its day and will offer them no future, any more than it does to all of humanity. Gradually, we are turning this youth against other employees, against foreigners, we are turning them into a mass of maneuver for fascism.

The youth, who have only experienced bourgeois policies that easily succeed in breaking down the workers’ front by relying on trade union strategies to limit workers’ struggles, categorize them, isolate them, divert them, paralyze them, divide them, send them to dead ends, do not spontaneously have confidence in the collective capacities of the proletariat and have, as a result, been easily deceived by the discourse according to which class organization is synonymous with deception because the union proclaims collaboration against the class struggle just as the Stalinist parties and the regimes of the Eastern countries themselves proclaimed their end !

It is at the very moment when capitalism has reached its end, when it can no longer make the economy work based on its locomotive, the extraction of surplus value from human labor through private productive investment, that we have succeeded in making the new generation believe in the infinite future of the system and in the absence of any alternative to it !

Worried and disoriented, this youth could very well be handed over tomorrow to the far-right demagogues, whether they are Christian fascists, anti-Semitic fascists, anti-Arab or anti-black fascists, etc. All scapegoats are possible, including setting this youth against older workers, accused of having eaten all the provisions, of having stolen the pension funds leaving the youth without a future retirement, of having stolen the social security funds, of having stolen the state coffers with the civil servants, etc., etc. Of course, all this is completely false but it is repeated by political leaders of all sides and all the media.

The ruling classes push as much as they can in this direction, by cultivating identity, xenophobia, racism, anti-Roma, anti-undocumented immigrants, the opposition between young and old, anti-civil servants, frenzied individualism, etc. The weight of the petty bourgeoisie is considerable in this youth that we have done everything to oppose to the working class : to railway workers, undocumented immigrants, foreigners, civil servants, etc. And the fear of tomorrow can perfectly lead to a reactionary revolt, against scapegoats singled out by fascists.

However, if the ruling classes are playing this dangerous game, it is indeed because this same youth could very well take a completely different and very dangerous turn for these same ruling classes. There is a completely different possibility for this youth in a period of capitalist collapse. This other future is not to believe in bourgeois democracy, in the benevolence of society, in good state aid, in good politicians, in a left-wing power, in a reform of capitalism and other nonsense.

This future is for proletarianized youth to rediscover proletarian methods. It depends on the working class that youth be drawn towards the social revolution. As long as the proletariat itself escapes the shackles imposed by the reformist parties and the trade union apparatuses, as long as this proletariat does not feel tied to the old capitalist society and does not ask it to save it, it will then be able to lead the youth again as it was able to do in May 1968. But, unlike May 1968, this will occur in a context of capitalist collapse, whereas this social upswing occurred in the midst of the rise of capitalism in Europe, which completely changes the perspective.

The 2014 revolution is that of social revolution against the very foundations of the system. The perspective can only be that of the overthrow of the entire capitalist system and first of all of the state power of the bourgeois ruling classes !

And this precarious, impoverished, pressured, panicked, isolated, miserable youth, without job guarantees, without salary guarantees, without working conditions guarantees, without employment contracts guarantees, without health or education guarantees, without housing guarantees will form the new proletariat of the rich countries, which has only its chains to lose and a new world to win !

This is the future of this new youth and what we must say to all the young people who claim to be "a generation without a future", "a lost generation", "a screwed generation" and other nonsense.

This youth, on the contrary, has a new and considerable role on the scale of History : to free humanity from the exploitation of man by man, to put an end to class societies and the control of States by tiny minorities of ruling classes. Those who have less and less paid work have a new world to build and it is a hell of a job !!!

Youth ! What future ?

Youth unemployment has increased so much since 2007 that there are 75 million unemployed people under 25 worldwide, four million more than in 2007. In the European Union, unemployment is around 18.7%. In the Maghreb and the Middle East, it is 26.5%. In France, unemployment continues to rise. It’s not surprising : even trusts that announce profits are cutting thousands of jobs, and public services continue to cut jobs. The latest is healthcare, with thousands of job cuts in Parisian hospitals alone. As for the private sector, the list of "social plans" is growing day by day... Where these are not direct layoffs, they are still dead jobs for the younger generation. When jobs have been declining for years, how can you expect there to be jobs for new entrants to the "labor market" ?

Young people looking for work are being thrown out. The precarious contracts that were previously reserved for them are being massively eliminated. Permanent contracts are no longer even a hope for the vast majority of job seekers and those using the "Pôle emploi" system, which would be better called "unemployment centers."

Students no longer have a better fate than young workers... The way in which English, Chilean, Greek or Quebec students were treated shows that States are ready to bludgeon young people at the cost of increased registrations, and simply by blows from their police...

For Quebec students, the increase in registration fees is a whopping 82% and the fees for simply striking and demonstrating : 5,000 Canadian dollars and 125,000 dollars for an association !!!

But the main point is elsewhere : they’re all lying to us ! There’s no future for us : capitalism won’t have jobs to offer us. Education, employment, wages, housing, health, freedom—everything is being called into question for the new generation by a system that may have had a great past but has no future.

63% of French students say that this society no longer offers any opportunity to get out of it...

The dynamics of capitalism are broken. All those who claim to repair the spring, whether through austerity or growth, are liars. All that remains for us workers is to bury this system, which has reached its limits. Otherwise, we will be buried with it.
Pro-capitalists on both the left and the right, in France and around the world, have no more solutions than each other. They can momentarily give us hope. They can delay the fall. It is no less inevitable.

The longer the crisis is delayed, the higher the wall of debt rises, the more the ship takes on water, and the more impressive the final collapse will be.

The more we "save" the banks, the more they gamble the public funds we lend them in the stock market casino, in the debt game, the more they sink states and central banks and the more they sink themselves. The loss of depositor confidence is inevitable and it will mean the complete collapse of the entire house of cards...

Their "tracks", whether it be an intervention by the ECB, "euro bonds", "project bonds", "financial tax", all consist of shifting debts by increasing them, a little game that has not stopped since 2008 and has had the sole result that debts are constantly increasing, indebting dozens of future generations without in any way restarting the economy...

This system, which has endured for many years, has already experienced crises. But this time, even hundreds of billions thrown into the bottomless pit are not enough to revive it. It is in free fall, and there is no way to stop the death.

It is up to humanity to prevent it from dragging the planet down with it. And the first condition is not to follow the professional liars who claim to want to do everything to save, in our place, "our" jobs, "our" businesses, "our" country, "our" economic system, whether they claim to do it through austerity or through growth, whether their names are Sarkozy or Hollande, Obama or Bush.

How is it that this system, which lasted two hundred years, suddenly died ? What proves that there is no alternative solution within the framework of capitalism and that society must inevitably change ?

First of all, we must realize that the Titanic will necessarily sink because the collision with the iceberg has already occurred and the hull is irreparable.

As for a future, we will only have one if we prepare for it. We have long been told about the end of communism, and indeed, Stalinism is hideous. But capitalism, having reached its end, is led to praise the merits of the Stalinist single party in China, at the head of the most dynamic capitalist economy in the world, although itself in decline, and carried by a gulag that has nothing to give to the Russian gulag, except that the Western powers especially do not want to denounce it...

Yes, capitalism is in trouble, and if we don’t want our future to be just as troubled, we mustn’t be afraid to build another future. This can only be done collectively and through the revolution of the exploited.

With the revolutionary beginnings of the Maghreb and the Arab world, we have only seen the beginning of the world revolution...

And the future of youth is the proletarian revolution !!!