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Historical Conditions
Societies are socially reproduced, have specific life spans, contain internal modes of production, size dimensions, forms
of cultural expression, and rates of metabolism. No form of society is permanent, but is only a provisional stage in
the overall development of human civilization.
Decay and ultimate replacement of
a society takes place in one of two ways, internal or external. Dialectical (internal) destruction is a process in which the
new grows out of the old in a struggle which evolves to the stage of antagonistic contradiction between that which must die
and that which demands to be born, moribund versus nascent, rotten against resurgent, decaying against fresh and new.
Mechanical destruction is an alien penetration from outside the social organism; a seizure
of the internal properties, the external destruction, crushing, dismantling, dismembering, disrobing, mutilation of a society
and its classes; a carting away of the useful thought matter, stored up knowledge in print and memory which summarizes years
of material practice. Mechanical destruction is the basis of modern global imperialism and the new world order.
A social revolution is a historical process by which a subordinate class overthrows its ruling class,
establishes itself as a new ruling class, puts in place a new political system, and reorganizes the antiquated economic system
around the newer technological capabilities, creates a new constitution with new rights, and reorganizes relationships between
government and general population. It is a process, complete with individuals, leaders, populations, masses, classes,
organizations, institutions, spheres, regions, and sometimes entire nations all vying for hegemony as the old society passes
away and the new struggles to come into existence and prominence---it's a living phenomenon, a living thing, an organism
in flux. It has a beginning, a stage of maturing, and stages of decline, and death before a new higher revolutionary process
is incubated.
Changes in the technological means of production precipitate changes
in the economy, which forces changes in society in which millions of people are organized around technology, economy, a political
system, a cultural system and a social system. After the economic crisis, and fundamental financial dislocation the
change in society/the social revolution forces a political revolution as classes battle for power first with words, then with
material weapons. If different cultures and races (populations) are involved, a fascist movement scapegoats the ruled minority
race and prepares it for extermination/genocide before the class civil war. These stages are intertwined and exchange
places as the most important factor at any given time. One thing is central: this is a life and death battle to
see which group can reorganize the society to meet the needs of its remaining population. Each stage of the revolution
has its own phases, events, crises and contradictions. Revolutions are usually recognized as such only when they reach the
stage of open class struggle or political revolution---this is late for those who want to lead the revolution. A revolution
does not and cannot come simply from the will of people: it unceremoniously grows in embryo quantitatively or incrementally
over an extended period of time, like a volcano before its eruption.
Technological Revolution
The first stage is a technological revolution. Innovations in the tools humans use to meet their needs provide the
basis on which broader societal change becomes possible and is ushered in. Each society's life span has been shorter
than the one before it, as the speed of technological change accelerates. Similarly a change in the social scaffold surrounding
them accelerates. With each qualitative advance in the method, magnitude, volume and output of social production the
time frame of which each type of society goes from crib to grave and from grave to crib is abbreviated.
When
these technological means, i.e., technologies, instruments of production, tools, and expert skills are transformed fundamentally,
the whole society is transformed. Even the well known dissolution of the village community, its transition into small towns,
and ultimately the evolution of towns into metropolitan cities was the inevitable process of social urban development resulting
from developments in production quality and quantity and the resulting evolution of population sizes, division of labor composition
and relationships to the means of production. This process of development is the life cycle of a society as it goes through
its necessary stages- birth, growth, development, decline, death and replacement by a higher society. If allowed to
go through all the internal stages- social production without external forces acceleration decelerating or destroying the
formation-all societies have an internal mode of development which moves from birth, growth, and ultimately to decline and
replacement by a higher mode of production and thus a higher society.
In short, one mode
of production supersedes another, and no indigenous society has ever advanced into a higher society without first internally
using up all of its productive possibilities, moving into a period of decline, or an epoch of decline, fighting for existence,
regressing, decomposing and finally having its most useful qualities sublated and used by the new society superseding or replacing
it.
Economic Revolution
For an economic revolution to take place there has to be a fundamental
crisis in the economic system of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption-something structural, something at the
heart of the society. Generally, people support revolutionary activity when they know that the system doesn't work any
more. It doesn't work anymore because it cannot distribute what it produces. This stage goes, in time, from decay to disintegration
to social disorganization to open civil war to the overthrow of the existing political order. And then to the next, more difficult
stage: social reconstruction.
Society is a system. A system is a combination
of elements and organisms forming a complex whole. The foundation of society is made up of two basic interdependent
organisms of what we call the economy. One side is the way we produce and the other side is the way that production is distributed.
In capitalism, the core of the system demands production and distribution at a profit;
everything is a system of buying and selling. The workers sell their ability to work, their labor power, and buy the commodities
that are necessary to live with the wage or salary they get from working. The capitalist buys this ability to work, the labor
power, the nerve and muscle and energy that, once put in motion, becomes work, and sells the commodities that work produces.
As long as everyone participates in this buying and selling, the system works. It works unfairly and unevenly, but it
works. People accept it, go to work, get on with their lives, make concessions---because they can. When they do not
have jobs, the arrangement breaks down.
Revolution comes about as a result of the development
of the means of production. An antagonism develops between the new, emerging economic relations and the old, static political
relations within the superstructure of the old society. The result is an economic collapse. This does not occur over night.
As the economy collapses it drags down the society: education, health care, government,
family, religion, transportation, recreation, justice, mass media, communication, housing, nutrition, clothing---everything
breaks down. The process of the destruction of the economy doesn't mean that there isn't any production going
on. The destruction of the economy means the incremental destruction of the existing economy, which is what society is built
upon. It is composed of interconnected stages of development, each having its objective or material and subjective or intellectual
sides. These stages are (1) a revolution in the material means of production. The changes in the means of production force
bring about economic upheaval and dislocation, then (2) a revolution in society or social revolution. There then is a period
of social regression, decay, degeneration, fascism, Nazism, societal rotting. In time, the social revolution is crowned
by (3) a political revolution wherein representatives of one of the contending classes seize power and social reconstruction
begins.
Social Revolution and Reconstruction
In the evolution of social production from hominid, to human with tool, to human in forced manual labor,
to human with machine, to mechanical labor, to semi-automated machine labor, to automated machine labor and, presently, to
computer automated machine production, when there was a revolution in how humans produced the necessities of life there was
also a revolution in who got what and why, i.e, the political and social systems that were scaffold around the economy, and
technological means.
Numerous remnants and pieces of social and economic classes,
races/ethnic groups, sexes, and cultures participate in the process of social reconstruction. After the collapse of the state,
representatives of all the various groups jockey for power.
The hierarchical organization
of sex, race, and ethnicity is determined by the composition of the strata of the population that originally seized control
of the means of production (technological basis) and thus organized the immense superstructure of the society in their own
interests and image. In this process, populations develop social relations that correspond to these forces. Out
of the interaction between technological means and productive relations emerge institutions, or superstructural organs, which
serve as organs for the carrying out the day to day life processes of the society as a whole.
These superstructural organs, which take the form of religious, scientific, legal, cultural, medical, sport-recreation,
educational, and family institutions, are mere outgrowths of differentiated social production, based on a particular level
of technology, production knowledge, and social practice. The economic structures determine the political, judicial,
and spiritual superstructure of the society. Also, the ideological offspring of those superstructures are manifested
through various institutions in such a way as to reflect the economic relationships of the society at distinct stages in its
development.
Social revolutions, then, are initially characterized by internal regression,
decay and crisis in all primary economic, political and social structures with varying degrees of intensity, unless of course,
the change is transplanted from without. This process is driven internally by a revolution in the technological means,
the resulting breakdown in production relations, a moribund distribution system, the deflation of exchange mediums, a resulting
depression, and the ultimate economic and political polarization between the now moribund classes who hold power and the nascent
class which seek to take.
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Counter Revolution
When the the technological, economic, social, and political systems are in crisis, and
teetering on the brink of collapse, a president can only serve the master that set up the capitalist government in the first
place. In time, the economy will still move toward collapse. The nation will then institute martial law;
the constitution allowed for slavery, so it will will allow for anything rightwing. When faced with a crisis of
political power, the ruling white capitalist class will still hand political/military power to their Neo-Fascist Nazi organizations.
Like clockwork the Nazis will begin to force out undesirables and exterminate those foolish/confused enough to
crawl around hoping for some fantasy rainbow coalition/we-are-the world (with whites on top) pipe-dream. Genocide,
ethnic cleansing, holocaust---whatever the term that politically correct will describe what will happen next. Blacks
are still the central scapegoats. Almost all rich Jew, whites, and hispanics are conservative and will side with the
white nazis initially hoping to save their own pathetic whitish skins. Many rich Blacks will side with the conservatives
and nazis initially. When the job is done, the nazis will turn on these lackeys, gassing and burning them with utter
disdain.
In time desperate working class Black people will
form independent unemployment councils all over the country; they will embryonically form self governing committees, they
will form survival cooperatives, food banks, clothing thrift shops, health care collectives, mass communication committees,
recreation centers, housing collectives, fight-eviction committees, self defense committees, and self-help unions---boycott,
strike, mutiny, take back your homes, refuse to let auctions take place, etc.
Defy those who drive you into
economic destitution. Don't just lay down. They will ultimately seek answers outside of America and relationships
with historical enslavers. In time there willl be a rupture, a break, a severing of all unequal relationships between
classes, races, cultures, genders/sexes, and generations.
Mechanical
Destruction: An Example
A vulnerable society can be
externally penetrated and thus accelerated, decelerated, retarded, or wiped out altogether by invading populations which carry
the elements of technologically advanced weapons of destruction in embryo.
As
ancient African Kmt (Egypt), Roman, and Aztec societies were born, developed and were in their respective periods of decline
and decay, significant population invasions occurred at a period of vulnerability for each of the three. African Kmt,
at the time a moribund mode of production organized around hydraulic technological means, was invaded externally (indigenous
Africans being occupied by whites and semites) during its period of decline (circa. 950bc-656ad) by conquerors who were semites
(Persians, Assyrians, Arabs) and Europeans (Macedonians, Greeks, Romans). European-Roman slave society in its period
of decline and fall (circa. 400ad-600ad) was invaded internally (whites being occupied by other whites) by other European-Germanic
tribes. Both Rome and Egypt (KMT) were overthrown by culturally and technologically inferior white "barbarians"
(as they called them) during their respective internal transformations.
Asian-Aztec
societies imperialistically organized around hydraulic technological means was invaded externally (reds and browns being occupied
by whites) during its period of decline (circa. 1300ad-1600ad) by European-Spanish conquerors (1500's) with more advanced
means of destruction, transport, and production. All three were invaded, pillaged, and subsequently colonized.
All three were set back, forced into regression. Only one recovered (came out of its "dark-age"), the European-Roman,
and thus today expresses itself in all that is European, either in its Western or its Eastern (Russia and East Europe) wing.
Only one of the three-the European-Roman plus European-Germanic unity-allowed
for the sublation of essential, adaptable, cultural qualities of the decaying Roman society to be infused into the rebirth
of Rome in the flowering of other emerging European societies.
On
the other hand, African-Kmt (Egypt) was decimated, wiped out, destroyed, and replaced by external Arab and European populations,
as was the case much later with the Asian-Aztec formation in its relationship with invading 16th century European populations.
The results of the latter two cases are obvious today: (1) Arabs, after seizing northern Africa and specifically what they
now call "Egypt" and the "Sudan" from European-Romans and indigenous Black populations circa. 630ad have
in time built Arabic feudalist and capitalist societies on the bleached bones, architectural corpses (building and temple
ruins), crumbled wreckage of once vibrant and dynamic African-Kmt societies. (2) In Central America, Aztec societies
have been wiped out then replaced with "Latin" or white economic, political and social adaptations, dominant European
populations and a Spanish variant of the European Greco-Roman cultural heritage.
Because external populations parasitically extracted from the economy, culture, and social system all that
was essential for the internal development of ancient African Kmt, the Aztec/Inca civilizations, etc., their growths were
retarded, forced into a period of regression, stagnation, devolution, and in many ways were completely wiped out. The
invading external populations, of course, transferred whatever was useful to them back to their own societies and populations.
Lessons
Today, millions of indigenous Africans and Chechimecans ("native Americans") were retribalized,
forced into societal regression, and now exist at a lower stage of social production than their ancestors because their natural
internal life cycles were broken by external invasions, destruction and in the process having their "social brains"-their
education systems and written knowledge (both scientific and moral)-carted away along with all other stolen goods.
- 1. Human populations, whether they are white, black, brown, yellow, or red, must organize themselves
around the most advanced means of production and as a direct material result become a personification of their place in production
history.
- 2. Production, distribution, exchange, and consumption are essentially
human administered stages in the provision of life's necessities to populations within the society whose size, complexity
and composition require a system of allocating different amounts to different social groups. The same women and men, who develop
production relations in accordance with their material productivity, also produce ideas, conceptions, and perceptions in conformity
with their production relation.
- 3. Out of the interaction between technological
means and productive relations emerge institutions that serve as organs for the administration of the day to day life processes
of the society as a whole. The societies brain (i.e., its state apparatus) and its central nervous system (its other superstructural
organs which take the form of religious, scientific, legal, cultural, medical, educational, and family institutions) are the
fundamental systems which control, manage and effectively administer the offspring of ever evolving social production in quality
and quantity.
- 4. As an indirect result, each mode of production since communalism
is dominated by a strata-a race, class, gender, culture, generation-who in the natural development of society seized control
of the means of production, garnered an economic monopoly on surplus and, thus, organized the society in their own image in
accordance with their particular unique place in production history.
- 5. Classes
are a personification of their place in production history and accordingly either own the means of production in all subsequent
class societies, administer it, or are owned in some form or to some degree.
- 6.
It is in such periods that the numerous contradictions which slowly accumulate during periods of so-called peaceful development
become resolved. Revolution is much more than simply the overthrow of one class by another class. It's the reorganization
of society. Political parties contend for supremacy, the state apparatus disintegrates slowly then rapidly and the power vacuum
fills with networks of counter revolutionaries or a network of professional revolutionaries link to the mass movement for
the society's reorganization.
- 7. In the revolutionary process the various
ideological groups compete for mass political support. The group that wins mass support is able to take the ideological movement
and make it the context within which the historic economic and social struggles and striving of the people fit and move forward.
- 8. As the process of disintegration becomes critical, alliances form between the more "progressive"
sections of one group and the other; and between the most reactionary and another less reactionary. The reaction (rulers of
the decaying order) seizes power, but will not be able to hold it because it cannot answer the demands of distributing robot-produced
necessities of life while workers are still unemployed in en-masse. Conditions worsen; solutions that are final will be cooked
up and implemented-prisons for profit, AIDS, mass round ups. There will be more strikes, street fighting and insurrection.
- 9. Circumstances develop that allow the counter-revolution to launch the coup that seizes power.
Revolutions or counter-revolutions are crowned by an insurrection or a coup. The revolution or counter-revolution is not the
same as a coup; rather the coup - the seizure of political power - is like a crown to the revolution. The seizure of political
power is done by an organized and basically paramilitary force that understands how and has the ability to seize power.
- 10. The revolution is made by the masses, but the seizure of power is done by a professional political
organization. A group seizes power in the name of the masses. Then, they very rapidly absorb some of the more radical groups
of counter-revolutionaries or revolutionaries. They all have one purpose, whether they understand it or not-to computer automate
society for the benefit of its citizens. The big stakes will be that society's institutions of education, health care,
housing, recreation, criminal justice, government, law, family, mass media, etc., are collapsing, disintegrating, decomposing
and either the capitalist or the STR working class is going to take over and reconstruct the country-the question is who will
do it?
- 11. Both classes will be struggling to find out which one of them is
going to take power and rebuild the country in their particular image and interest. No matter what kind of political government
will be constructed, it is going to be a nazi/police roboticised country ora working class roboticised country.
The state apparatus will disintegrate with dozens of political parties contending for supremacy and power. The power vacuum
will be filled initially by those closest to power, the neo-nazi, There will be an attempt at final solutions---mass extermination
of contending scapegoat population (primarily Africans).
- 12. In sum, the old
society is being destroyed by an objective process and nothing can stop it. The people will have to decide what kind of new
society will replace the old. Only at this point do you have class struggle. The struggle is a clash over reconstruction.
It's a clash between the political representatives of the various classes over how and in whose interests a new society
will be built.
Summary Inferences
In sum, revolution comes about as a result of the development of the
means of production. Whereas a human grows old after about 70 years, a society may take 700 years to age to a point of replacement.
Its next form grows within the womb of its economy, driven by a struggle between labor and technology, expressed in the economic
system of production, distribution, exchange, consumption, reproduction diffused through the social system, controlled by
a ruling class, race, gender, culture and generation's political system, state, mass media, and military.
An antagonism develops between the new, emerging economic relations and the old, static political relations within the superstructure
of the old society. The result is an economic collapse, social degeneration of societal institutions, political struggle
and chaos, movements toward mass extermination, martial law and Nazi regression/genocide, and finally civil class war over
the society's reorganization. This unfolds like clock work in history, but is not on auto-pilot. People
make history by what they do in history. Nothing is ordained, nothing is destiny; everything must be struggled out,
everything will run its course based on what people do. The sum total of what people do results in societal regression
or progression, integration or disintegration, advance or retrogression, leaps forward or leaps backwards, revolution or reaction/degeneration.
Although social reform is going on all of the time, social revolution
is impossible without a nation-wide crisis (affecting both the exploited and exploiters). The passing of state power from
one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution. Earlier revolutions transferred power
from one exploiter class to another, which perfected the machinery of state exploitation; replace one form of private property
with another, substituted one form of exploitation for another; ended in the seizure of political power, bringing it into
correspondence with the new form of private property.
All
revolutions up to the present day have resulted in the displacement of one definite class rule by another; but all ruling
classes up to now have been only small minorities in relation to the ruled mass of the people. One ruling minority was
overthrown; another minority seized the helm of the state in its stead and re-fashioned the state institutions to suit its
own interests---on every occasion the minority group was qualified and called to rule by the given degree of economic development---they
merely reflected it.
The ruled majority either participated in the revolution for the benefit of the former
or else acquiesced in it. The common form of all these revolutions was that they were minority revolutions. Even when the
majority took part, it did so-whether wittingly or not-only in service of a minority. Time will tell what occurs this
time. But one thing is certain this time: the entire world will be changed, fundamentally.
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