Since Nelson Mandela died, we are saturated with an obscene ideological propaganda campaign from bourgeois media: all of them cry and call us, proletarians, to cry “the loss of a so great man” who worked all his life for “human dignity”. But the reality is much more prosaic and merely sordid: all these bourgeois, from politicians to artists, from businessmen to journalists, from leaders of economy to militaries, from upholders of ultra-liberalism to partisans of protectionism, from the right to the left, all these servants and worshippers of the State, the capitalists’ State, all of them cry the death of one of theirs.
And even “the man of the street” is invited to participate in this show and to wear thus the uniform of the “useful idiot” dear to Capital. The key to domination, to oppression, to alienation, it’s to make the dominated participating in their own domination, the oppressed in their own oppression, and the alienated in their own alienation. All this allows at a higher level of abstraction to ensure an expanded reproduction of the capitalist social relations, the extraction of surplus value as a result of the obligation to go to work for modern slaves, wage slaves, all this allows consequently to ensure an expanded reproduction of exploitation…
The “end of apartheid” and the advent of “the black majority” to power in South Africa was not a result of any capitalists’ charity but it constituted an important moment of the unavoidable and historic process of reforms of the system of man’s exploitation of man (whether they are black or white), of class’ exploitation of another one. Capitalism was always obliged to reform its mode of production in order to preserve the totality of its dictatorship of value against the needs of humanity. Continue reading
