The security charter of the Trump administration is the same one that the predatory Islamic bourgeoisie of Iran has been working on since the beginning, even before it ascended to the throne. A fearsome layer of the capitalist class that, in the depths of the devastating economic crisis of the 1970s, saw the conditions for a rebellious fascist rise, successfully crawled to the throne of power. From the very beginning, especially from June 1981 onwards, it started a bloodbath by calling people “rebels”, “infidels”, “atheists”, hypocrites, and “warriors”, and criminalizing being communists. It turned educational texts into a repository of medieval superstitions, an arsenal for brainwashing children and youth. It imposed the most brutal form of gender apartheid everywhere, took physical and intellectual repression to the extreme, and did all of this to consolidate its power base. In the more distant past, its class predecessors, the German, Italian, Spanish ultra-nationalists, and others, while themselves born of the turmoil of the raging crises of capitalism, had also pursued and applied the way to challenge the crisis, establish, and consolidate the bases of power by hanging on to these same scenarios. Trump’s executive order is of the same type as far as its economic origins, its being born of a crisis, its solutions, clauses, and its implementation strategies are concerned. Here too, the general outlines of the charter are left-wing, communist, foreign, anti-apartheid, critical of Christianity, Judaism, patriarchy, and belief in the overthrow of the government in America. Everything is a fascist sameness story. But the differences are also important and worth pondering. An important difference between the Trump camp and its predecessors is that “what they all had, they alone have”: nationalism, religion, democracy, the world’s first capitalist economy, the power to set the pattern for the international order of wage slavery, the world’s first currency, the trillion-dollar annual budget of war-making, the highest share of international surplus value, a powerful army present in every corner of the globe, 700 military bases in the world, and many other things that others did not have to this extent, but they have. These distinctions are important in the context of the current situation. What is the core of importance? It needs discussion. The Islamic regime was a symbol of the fascist rebellion of a layer of bourgeois reaction that, at times, did not even dare to seek a share in the ownership, power, and sovereignty of global capital, but emerged from the depths of the dark valley of share-seeking, having nothing and wanting to own everything. To rise from the bottom to the top and from complete disinterest to become the owner of the largest shares. The German national fascists of the first half of the twentieth century were different, but they still felt ashamed of the inferiority of the ownership sector, their position in the economic and territorial division of the world compared to England, America, France, and other places. They also had a firm will to “crack the ceiling”, to plan another division for the world, to make their share not only equal but heavier than that of their competitors. Today’s neo-fascists around the world, especially the Trump army or the American fascist bourgeoisie, are not pure successors of their predecessors in terms of position, they are different from them. They are not just without a share or a small slice of the galactic pie, ownership, and sovereignty of global capitalism, which has been omnipotent, commanding, and the world’s leading power from 80 years ago to the present. Their fascism is not simply the infection of the explosion of a crisis in the capitalist production cycle of a country or the increasing share-seeking of a state and a layer of the bourgeoisie. The rebellious fascism of the world’s dominant bourgeoisie is on the verge of falling from the peak of domination, in the phase of degeneration and volcanic crisis-making of the entire capitalism. It is with this indicator that it can be identified as a component that is not specific to Trump’s fascism, the “MAGA”, the American bourgeoisie. Britain’s Farage, France’s National Front, the Netherlands’ for Freedom, the Alternative for Germany, Italy’s Fratelli d’Italia, Spain’s Vox, Austria’s Freedom, the Sweden Democrats, and the chain of fraternal parties are also of the same nature at the present time. It is not about the crisis-ridden bourgeoisie of this point and that point. It is the entire capitalist system that, at the highest peak of economy, industry, technology, knowledge, artificial intelligence, the stock market, the banking system, the advancement of weapons, the explosive organic combination, the speed of the intelligence of the productivity of labour, has collided with the last frontier of development at the last speed. It is counting down to the explosion, the siren of its explosion is pounding with the images of fascism in bloodied hands, on the doors and walls of the humble shacks inhabited by billions of workers. Let us look at the world. For more than 10 years, the average annual growth of production in the so-called “seven” group of the world’s largest industrial giants has not exceeded 1%. This one percent is not growth either, it is a much smaller part of the slaughter of the paid labour of the working class of these countries and the world. It should be noted that the capitalism of these societies has the largest share in the international surplus value, more than 85% of the labour of the working class of these countries has already been converted into unpaid labour in the annual production process, into profit and capital. Not content with this, by slaughtering the livelihood, welfare, medical, and educational facilities of the working mass, the cancerous increase in prices, and a long chain of other aggressions, it has also massacred a significant share of the paid 15% and added to the previous 85%.
Despite all this, their annual production growth rate has not been able to cross the 1% mark. The average global rate of profit has fallen to its lowest level in history, despite the explosion in volume and value added. 20 to 30% of all medium and large companies in the world are unable to reproduce themselves. In the United States, this year’s budget deficit has surpassed the $2 trillion Dollar. The US government’s debt is over $30 trillion, with an annual interest of $1.5 trillion. Forecasts speak of these figures rising to over $50 trillion and an annual interest of $1.7 trillion Dollar in the next few years. Worse than all of this, it has lagged behind its Chinese competitor in most areas. In contrast to China’s $3.6 trillion in exports, its total annual exports are below $2 trillion. While China has increased its gold and currency reserves to $3.5 trillion, its total foreign exchange and gold reserves are no more than $910 billion.
In technique, industry and technology, increasing labour productivity, artificial intelligence has more or less failed China. It has done everything it can to perhaps sustain its possible domination of the monopoly of new technologies that drive the great leap in labour productivity, but China’s monopoly grip on rare earths has become, at least for an indefinite period, the “flood of destruction of its “role of hopes.” It tried to preserve its position as the dominant economy in this way, but it has lost the levers to continue playing this role. These are what have driven the American bourgeoisie into a fascist madness. Contrary to the false ideas of political economy scholars, Trump’s hysterical tariffs are not a decree of anti-free market ideology, but a version of the challenge to these debts, deficits, and backwardness. A version that is ineffective. Because the stormy crisis of capitalism historically has no desire to be contained. Trump embodies the entirety of the crisis of capitalism today. Its unpredictability, its war, its peace, its tariffs, the hollowness of its claims, the twisted version of its crisis challenge, its solutions and strategies, all of them are the naked embodiment of the spiraling and twisting of the capitalist crisis without return at the highest peak of the system’s development. It is capital that has revolted fascistically. Fascism is a model of capitalist rule. Contrary to the imaginations created by its own workshops for the production of consciousness, education, and thought, the wage slavery system does not recognize a boundary between democracy and fascism; it sees both as its own governmental personification, a mechanism to ensure its survival. It makes each of them a tool for the survival of the rule under certain conditions. Sometimes the sense of danger on one side, the outburst of surplus value on the other, here and there wears the cloak of democracy, buys the class struggle of the workers with democratic bargaining, buries the order of capital in the cemetery, and if the danger of crisis becomes more severe and the rate of profit simultaneously falls, the sword of fascism is drawn from its scabbard, turning human life into a sea of blood.
In the first step, it pits the workers against each other to bring today to tomorrow and tomorrow to the day after. Nationalism, misogyny, racism, communistic hatred, superstition, anti-immigration are all infectious herpes of the crisis in the depths of the capitalist mode of production and the cycle of valorization. It is the inherent crisis of unbridled capital that drives the bourgeoisie, more terrifying, more genocidal, to its extensive arsenal of weapons to put into operation all its ideological apparatuses, terrifying thought engineering devices, physical and intellectual weapons of mass destruction, each more poisonous than the other, against the working masses, to use in settling accounts with competitors. Thanks to them, it saves the ship of capitalist existence from collapse and makes its share of capital, property, and profits satisfactory. It sets about launching the most inhumane wars, the war of workers against workers. When the leaders of “MAGA” shout that “we will make America great again,” it is not love for America that they are shouting in the air!! It is the psychotic fascist echo of crisis-ridden capital that the bourgeoisie has produced and is screaming from the throats of the hungry, ignorant, and desperate.
The fascism of today’s capital is of this kind. The way to challenge and repel it is not “Antifa”. A movement that is dependent on capital does not have the means to wage an effective campaign against fascism. “The material violence of capital must be crushed by the material violence of the workers,” but the latter violence is not a “weapon of criticism,” just as it is not physical force and not a “shovel of the arm.” “Criticism is a weapon,” and criticism is the real weapon of an organized, anti-capitalist, soviet movement with a clear vision of eliminating wage slavery. “Antifa” is not like such a movement, like its predecessors, it does not have such an approach, “What significant effect will the anti-fascism of punishing the police, the officer, the oppressive fascist while committing a crime, occupying the street, stamping on the pavements, chanting anti-fascism slogans, which is the basis of “Antifa”‘s work, have?!! Which expectation will achieve the goal?! Which retreat will it impose on the bourgeoisie in revolt?! Based on what experience, where in the world, in what period of capitalist history have we witnessed the success of these actions?! On the contrary, everywhere, in all periods, we have seen the opposite. It has been the bourgeoisie that has undertaken the most brutal repressions, crushing the uprising of the working masses. An atmosphere of despair, disillusionment, and a sense of inferiority has taken over the labour movement. In recent decades, we have witnessed a list of these campaigns: Seattle, Genoa, Gothenburg, Wall Street, the Night Stands, the Yellow Vests, “Let’s All Rise Up,” the Arab Spring, the “Green Movement,” “Women, Life, Freedom,” the purple, blue, yellow, and orange revolutions in various places are clear examples of these events. All of them gave birth to increasingly blind mice from the mountain of claims and illusions. They were suppressed by the ruling bourgeoisie, played the role of a settler of scores between the layers and the approaches within the bourgeoisie, and helped the state machine of capital. The fate of “Antifa” cannot be anything other than this. Why?? The answer is obvious. Hunger, homelessness, a long chain of deprivations of livelihood, welfare, the killing of basic human rights and freedoms, environmental pollution, genocide, fascism are without exception the offspring of capital, they have been born and are being born from the lap of capital. The challenge and destruction of each of them depends on the fieldwork of an organized, conscious, anti-capitalist council movement of the working class. It is this movement that must be proud, become strong, and play a role. How? In which process? With what strategy, solutions?? It is a question that the “approach to the abolition of wage labour” has given a clear, down-to-earth answer and explained decades ago, an answer that has not been able to cross the formidable barriers in its way to this day. The barriers are not the octopus-like power of the army, the IRGC, the arsenals of military and police violence of capital. Their existence is assumed and inevitable. The barriers are of a different kind and type. They can be very briefly categorized as follows:
1. The buried state of the labour movement in the cemetery of strategies, politics, and the law of capital. This is the most formidable obstacle to the growth of the anti-capitalist fieldwork of the working masses. Capitalism, with the help of its powerful natural levers, has instilled in the workers that wage slavery is their destined fate, they will always be workers and wage earners, they must submit to wages, expressing dissatisfaction is unacceptable, and if it occurs, it must be accompanied by an iron faith in the immortality of wage earning. Capital has cultivated, watered, and fertilized these beliefs in the consciousness of the workers from all the pores of society, from within its cycle of work, its structure of order, government, laws, thoughts, education, and culture. Just as the war over the fate of work, production, and life, the war to extract an ever-increasing portion of the product of labour from the throats of the capitalists, the war with a more organized, more conscious power, to achieve expectations, ideals, and dreams, has been labelled impossible!! The worker does not recognize what he has created, the values, capital, wealth, the means of labour, the wear and tear of his flesh, skin, blood, and bones, as the result of his labour. With his self-imposed class anti-capitalism, he feels that they belong to him, and even expresses them here and there, but he does not use this feeling and expression as a weapon of campaign. Capital, with its inherent fetishist force, has thrown him into this situation, has driven him into such a quagmire. This is the iron-fisted obstacle to the growth of the approach to the abolition of wage labour in the labour movement.
2. The communist-clad, democracy-seeking bourgeoisie’s opposition is another steel dam, complementary to the first. The initiator of the burial of the working class in the thoughts, strategies, and intellectual creations of capital. Although the power of capital is essentially the fetish and enchantment of capitalist thought engineering devices, the communist-clad, democracy-seeking bourgeoisie has a share in this burial even more than its ruling rivals. The approaches within this sector, especially from the end of the 19th century onwards, saw the way to conquer the political power of capitalism, apply their models to the production cycle, the political and social order of capital in seizing the labour movement and transforming the billion-strong working class into the infantry of their campaign army. They took out the fallacies of social democracy, union reformism, camp communism, people’s anti-imperialism, the right to national self-determination, democratic revolution, anti-fascism of capitalists, nationalist anti-occupation, capitalist green ecology, anti-dissolved gender discrimination in the capitalist order, the trans-class women’s movement, all kinds of democracy, pluralism, anti-regime anti-capitalism, the party of the proletariat, changing the state and governance models of capital, changing the form of capitalist ownership from the shelves hidden in the sorcery of capital, and fed the workers’ intelligence so that workers would do everything, become the settlement agents of various sections of the bourgeoisie everywhere, not just do one thing, not step foot in one field, not even think about it. They should not make the struggle against capitalism, against wage slavery. They should make the trimming and reforming of capitalism the starting and ending point of their struggles, rallies, and revolutions. Each of the above arenas, which should be continuous bastions of the class struggle against wage slavery, become a burning desert of the dissolution of the labour movement in settling accounts with various sections of the capitalist class. The leftist, democratizing bourgeoisie, taking advantage of the inferiority of the labour movement, forced the working people of the land to turn the ongoing struggle for livelihood, welfare, health, medicine, treatment, education, housing, anti-gender discrimination, a healthy environment, and a better life into an eternal swamp of wage-seeking instead of a bastion of the war to determine the fate of work, production, and life, and to prepare for the destruction of capitalism!!. Worse still, they do this under the banner of the struggle against capital!!, communism!!, and workers’ revolution!! This bourgeoisie instilled in the workers that changing governments in the noisy pulp of parliamentarism is a sign of informed and free choice !!, freedom to sell labour, trimming the laws of wage slavery, hanging on to the law and rights of wage earners, manipulating the structure of the political order, the legal capital is freedom!! Building a union, a party, obeying the upper echelons of the former to improve their livelihoods, obeying the emirs of the latter to change regimes, is the highway of socialist revolution and the class struggle of the workers!! Every narrative is the result of the dynamic production of capitalist thought, inverting the consciousness of the workers. Right, freedom, freedom was preached and taught by carrying out these scenarios, playing these roles.
Thought, politics, rights, culture, social values of each period are dictated by the mode of production and the dominant class of that era, they are made by the thought, profession, consciousness, of the whole society, including the exploited and subordinate class. In the case of capitalism with its inherent power of fetishism, the magic of capital, this takes on galactic dimensions. The oppositions of the capitalist class, using this same weapon, closed all the ways to the self-willed, roaring anti-capitalism of the working masses, on the one hand denying the inner antagonism of the workers to wage slavery, on the other hand taking them hostage, holding them captive, dissolving them in their internal conflicts with their rivals, on the height of their reactionary intra-class conflicts around ownership, the rule of capital, they raised the banner of the working class struggle!! Under this false banner, all strategies, solutions, how to plan and pursue present and future demands, the class war against wage slavery of the working masses was removed from the order of life, out of reach and recognition. They did this for decades under the false name of “communism”, the liberation of the proletariat, after the collapse of the camp, along with the rebels of the bankruptcy of democracy, like the two groups of the defeated camp, “turned their hearts” to a single track. The trumpet of democracy, human rights, pluralism in the hands of democracy, democracy. Together with and along with the role of the more terrible exclusion of billions of workers of the world from the field of class war against wage slavery, they again tried with all their might to hang the arenas of the anti-capitalist struggle of the international working class from livelihood, welfare, anti-discrimination on the basis of gender, race and ethnicity, the environment, against genocide and occupation to the realization of human rights, political and social freedoms, and the pursuit of overthrow by capital in the most disastrous way. The movement for the development of democracy, human rights, the civil movement, and the endless democratization of capitalism should replace the anti-capitalist class struggle. The “Antifa” movement, like its predecessors, was born from a long history of these misdirections and deviations, and like them, it is a capital that is hanging and without a solution. Not only is it not a vessel for the growth and flourishing of the workers’ struggle against capitalism, it is also worsening the existing stagnant, relegated situation of the workers’ movement. The victorious struggle against fascism requires a strong and conscious alignment of the working class. Confronting the mercenary police, united rebellion against the crimes of the states, street anti-fascism, anti-genocide demonstrations, university sit-ins in defense of basic human rights, mass confrontation with the forces of capital’s coercion are all undoubtedly commendable. But neither one nor all of them are capable of pushing back fascism, reducing genocide, repelling the brutal encroachments of capitalism on the low level of living, welfare, medicine, treatment, the basic necessities of survival of working people. Capitalism around the world is immersed in an explosive crisis with no prospect of return. The system of daily wage slavery exudes fascism, genocide, and barbarism from every pore; it is everywhere engaged in the “mass slaughter” of humanity for its own possible survival. Any level of confrontation with this octopus requires the organization of a broad council of the working masses in various spheres of social life. Material violence can only be destroyed by material violence, the material violence of capital can only be broken by the material violence of the working class against wage slavery. Capitalism is the mode of production, social relations and the machine of creation of capital, all economic, political, civil, cultural, ideological, legal and social manifestations of capital. Only the organized anti-wage labour movement of the working masses embodies the living, conscious and capable material violence of the workers. Only this movement has the ability to repel the current, increasing violent attacks of capital and to crush the remnants of the capitalist machine of exploitation, brutality, crime, genocide, occupation and genocide. Material violence against capitalism is the monopoly of the working class, it is the working masses who can make all areas of livelihood, welfare, environment, anti-apartheid, the acquisition of freedom, the assertion of human rights the scene of the exercise of class material violence against the foundation of capitalist existence. They can stop the wheel of production and work, the wheel of profit production, self-expansion, self-expansion and reproduction of capital from turning in all these areas. All factories, workshops, transportation systems, all centers of power, valorization, ownership, and the rule of capital will be massively disrupted and crushed. The role of all computers, artificial intelligence, the latest achievements of industry and technology in the dynamics of reproduction, organization, organization of values, and surplus values will be nullified and rendered useless. Only this movement can defeat and destroy fascism. One cannot speak of an anti-fascist struggle without bringing the very foundations of capitalist existence under the whip of the direct class struggle of the workers. The endless discussion of democratization of society, the endless massification of democracy and civil rights, is not only an aid to reducing the intensity of exploitation, genocide, and the brutality of capitalism, but it will also make the existing barriers to the role-playing, flourishing of the anti-slavery struggle of the global working class even more iron. It will give capitalism the opportunity for a more fascist, more genocidal unity. The fact that the workers of the world take to the streets and shout protests, no matter how large, will not untie the knots of life, work and struggle of the working masses, it will not reduce the genocides, occupations, and attacks of capital on the empty tables of the hungry. The point is that the conscious, organized, anti-wage labour, with an alert, anti-capitalist head, will throw the cycle of production, the organization of work, the system of wage slavery out of circulation. They can only do this with the organized, all-out, anti-capitalist power of the Soviets, and it is only this power that embodies the totality of the conscious, anti-capitalist material force. The discussion about massification is not about theory or consciousness, it is about the powerful movement against wage labour of the ever-larger masses of workers.
Naser Paydar October 2025