#think relationally

But here's the realness: when we say, on the "far left", that, for example, you can't be anti-racist without being anti-colonial/communist/etc., it is because we have trained ourselves to view political struggle scientifically. That is, we understand that racism will always exist as long as capitalism exists because capitalism *necessitates* the dispossession of certain groups to the benefit of certain others. Black people and migrants in Amerikkka are kept poor and disenfranchised by a system that was designed with the intention of using them for mass slave labour, the function of which has been taken over by the prison system officially and by clandestine trafficking operations unofficially (California, Georgia, Texas, Florida, New York, Nevada, Ohio as if Ohio couldn't get any worse). Both of these situations, while obviously immoral (the liberal concern), are quite profitable for the companies that make use of this subjugated labour force. These same companies make use of their ample profits to lobby the government to ignore these operations or even expand them. (See any conservative crime bills, especially as they relate to private prisons.)

This obviously isn't enough to make the point, so let's develop it further. Migrants make their way to the imperial core in search of a "better life" (liberal perception), but they do not flee "bad lives" in a vacuum. *All* refugee crises, all migrant crises are the direct result of foreign policy decisions enacted by bourgeois governments in the imperial core. These imperial governments have a vested interest in maintaining global hegemony, that is, total economic domination over all potential competitors. Taking South and Central America as our first example, every single time a Latin American country attempted to achieve some measure of independence from the imperial core, the United States would go to work to destabilize and overthrow democratically elected governments in favour of brutal military dictatorships. In Guatemala, the CIA launched Operation PBSUCCESS in 1954, bombing Guatemala City and installed several military rulers *in response* to Guatemalans successfully overthrowing a puppet dictatorship representing the interests of the United Fruit Company (also US-backed) and electing a progressive government that sought agrarian reforms in favour of Guatemalan independence. When Haiti tried to throw off the shackles of the CIA-sponsored Tonton Macoute militia regime, the CIA stepped in again to inflate the size of the former to double the size of the Hatian military. This period was marked by prison and torture camps with the aim of suppressing all dissent. For more examples, see here and here for fuller lists of Latin American invasions and operations. The same methodology is being waged in the Middle-East as well. You can read about it here and here. The reasons for these invasions, US-backed coups, destabilization efforts, and war aggression is always, always, always about the strategic interests of imperial hegemony. They are always concerned with preserving a state of affairs where the imperial core can reap massive profits from cheap labour and streamlined resource extraction (blood for oil, etc.). This general strategy of total domination and deliberate dispossession is and will remain the primary reason for all migrant crises.

We identify anti-colonialism and communism as the proper and *only* solutions to these problems because these ideologies and strategies were devised as *systemic responses* to the systemic problems created by capitalism and colonialism. These are not lefty ideas made up out of thin air. Colonialism and capitalism are historical processes which were and are heavily documented by the colonists and capitalists. They willfully admit that they are the engineers of these systems. And every time a liberal assumes that this state of affairs is simply natural, that is the inevitable result of a centuries-long strategy of world domination and propaganda designed specifically to make this state of affairs seem all-encompassing and natural. But if these things were natural, the imperial core wouldn't have to spend trillions of dollars bombing, murdering, and pillaging every single attempt to change it. Nature needs no assistance. Indeed, the Red Scare, which is still ongoing, exists to convince liberals that there is no alternative specifically because communism *is* a major threat to the brutality of capitalism and thus needs to be combated by the bourgeoisie and their running dogs the same way that every coup and genocide instigated by the CIA was for the purpose of "bringing democracy" to the so-called barbarous Middle-East and Latin America. Thus, they characterize us and our ideology as murderous and apocalyptic, but we should never forget the confession of one Elon Musk who, as many of us still remember, proudly declared "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it." To take this as a joke, given all the evidence here provided, would be naive, to say the least. We choose socialism as our weapon against the imperial core because socialism is a scientific strategy developed by the working class for the purpose of taking control away from these forces and, for the first time, learning to govern our own affairs, the most horrifying outcome of all to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, whose brutality and apocalyptic tendencies require no propaganda because the evidence is all around us, filling our phones daily with atrocity after atrocity, cutting our kin down in the streets, levelling our cities, eroding all semblance of safety in and outside the workplace.