AGAINST THE RULING CLASS- Jersey Flight

"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." Communist Manifesto

Regardless of where one comes out in relation to Marxism the potent truth of the Marxist vision is hard to refute. The reality is that the people already possess all they need to exact the conditions they require. Perhaps the paradox is that it is the people who create the material conditions, but under capitalism, these conditions are [hi-jacked] controlled by the ruling class; regulated by those with wealth.

The problem of revolution is that of awareness; a lack of consciousness, a lack of social comprehension as to the nature and origin of material conditions. Just so long as the people have enough to live they will not question the structure in which they live, but eventually, poor conditions lead the common citizen to skepticism.

"Let the ruling classes tremble..." because the people will eventually rebel from the sorrow of their chains. In order for the ruling class to exist it must regulate those it rules, and in order to do this there are only two options: one is to make the people happy; the second is to rule the people by force. But when manipulation fails to render systematic obedience (which is obtained through the cultivation of ignorance); when it fails to lobotomize the masses into mindless subservience, then the ruling class will turn to violence. But we have an answer to this. Our aim is nonviolent. We are not seeking to inspire a bloody revolution. We believe we can make progress simply by following the examples of Gandhi and King. We are nonviolent activists; we are peacful warriors of revolution; the force of our power is the force of our unity; the force of our power is the sanity of our speech, is the creativity of our action.

From the very beginning we must make it known that we are nonviolent revolutionaries (as nonviolence is the only way to fight a system built on military power). Our tactics in this endeavor must be creative as opposed to barbaric (we must not attempt to fight violence with violence). 

There is a moral ideology in the world; an ideology that dehumanizes the man and woman in poverty; an ideology that says wealth equals virtue, but a man can have all the riches in the world and still fail to exemplify character. The battle before us is not a battle of numbers, in the sense of economics, but a battle of ideology in the sense of morality (a morality left-over from the confusion of feudalism, aristocracy and plutocracy). In this morality there is a presumed order of caste, a false hierarchy of value. But if we will examine reality, the material conditions of existence, it is the worker who supplies the world with wealth. The rich man can only obtain wealth because he exploits the worker's labor. What then is the worker's true value?

It is important to understand that it is morality, and not economics, that determines the society of men. Where we find oppression we also find oppressive values, and the key to refuting these values is to replace them with New Values. But people are afraid of the New; they always retort with the same objection: "if we do not retain the Truth of our traditions we will destroy our civilization." But this is nonsense. Societies have only progressed by transcending values; by shattering and disposing of old myths; by rejecting authoritarian power.

All philosophy leads to the conclusion of community; it leads to the question of civilization; it leads to the science of stability.    

The ruling class has not even begun to exploit the proletariat; poverty (which leads to wage-slavery) will soon be on the rise, but this maneuver will only awaken a sleeping giant. What will the ruling class do: will they kill us in the streets? What will they do when millions of people rise up in protest against the measures of their austerity?

The future of the system hinges on the unity of the people. The ruling class only rules because the people are not united in the cause of their freedom.   

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