No Time to Waste

THE famous twentieth-century Communist, Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), believed that the collapse of the capitalist system takes place once its exponents are no longer able to exploit 'non-capitalist' markets. Conversely, according to Frankfurt School ideologue and author of The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Henryk Grossman (1881-1950), who criticised Luxemburg's analysis,

"her proof of the absolute economic limits of capitalism comes close to the idea that the end of capitalism is a distant project because the capitalisation of non-capitalist countries is a work of centuries."

Apart from the fact that, in times of scarcity, capitalists ultimately turn on one another and, thus, go on to exploit those markets which are already capitalist to a greater or lesser extent, Grossman's analysis of Luxemburg's mammoth timescale is essentially correct. Indeed, as the Financial Times and Guardian journalist, Stuart Jeffries, has pointed out: “Centuries? Only the most laid-back Marxists could wait that long.”

National-Anarchists adopt a very similar position, but the difference between what Jeffries has also described as “having the patience of the bus queue” and our own approach is that, unlike the Marxists, we are not waiting for some Glorious Day when the spikes of revival stop appearing on capitalist business charts and a permanent succession of slumps and troughs means that the Revolution has finally started. For National-Anarchists, therefore, the Revolution begins immediately.

Why sit around waiting for Red Rosa's elusive collapse when you can grow your own food, teach your own children, build your own houses, form your own co-operatives and start your own currency? Unless we put into place an effective counter-structure the chances of actually surviving the collapse are minimal. What are you waiting for? Act now.