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Title: Teachings of the State
Author: Zabalaza
Date: March 2002
Language: en
Topics: Afghanistan, war, US foreign interventions
Source: Retrieved on 6th August 2021 from https://zabalaza.net/2002/03/02/zabalaza-2-march-2002/
Notes: Published in Zabalaza #2.

Zabalaza

Teachings of the State

War. The annihilation of man by his brother. The most unnatural of acts,

has been inflicted upon its innocent and unconsenting victims once

again.

This time the men, women and children of Afghanistan. Why? Because the

most powerful state in the world, America, is settling its scores with

the Afghan elite. The ruling classes of primarily the United States and

Afghanistan have a conflict of interests, money and power. Power to

inflict their will on the ignorant masses, coercion. And money to

maintain that power, manifested in the state. The state being

government, military and police forces, judicial system etc.

And so, thousands of American and Afghan citizens march off to war to

defend their state. Possibly to expose themselves and their enemies to

chemical and even nuclear warfare.

Again why? From our tender childhood years the government has been

telling us, on behalf of the capitalists, how to run our lives. We are

taught (if you like, brainwashed whether you like it or not) nationalism

so that when the time inevitably comes we will kill our brothers and

sisters for the colour of their flag, a flag inflicted upon them by

their government. We are taught this by the state. We are taught

religion so that we follow our ‘leaders’ with blind obedience, for fear

of eternal suffering. This is the fear to question or resist.

We are taught this by the state’s right hand man, the church. We are

taught to be prejudiced to our neighbours of different race, gender or

sexual preference. We are taught this by yet another of the states

oppressive tools, the education system.

By governing our lives, the state seeks only to serve the ruling class

by dividing the common people of the world. So that we exhaust our

energies fighting amongst ourselves instead of uniting world-wide in

solidarity and resistance and reclaiming what rightfully belongs to all

who inhabit the earth.

Alas, the tiny minority who control the world’s economy, the state and

the earth’s resources control our lives. And when a crisis occurs in

order to keep their profits up, and if possibly expand them, the

powerful elite call upon the workers of the world, the nationalists, and

those who join the army out of poverty to fulfil their duty and kill

their neighbour under the illusion of defending their freedom.

The only freedom worth fighting for is to be found through the class

struggle. The state will never deliver freedom as it is there only to

serve capital, which seeks only to further divide the rich and the poor.

Only by fighting our ‘leaders’, with whom we have nothing in common,

instead of fellow workers, with whom we have everything in common, will

we be able to smash the capitalist-state machine and realise a truly

dignified, human existence for all.

FOR THE ABOLITION OF STATE AND CAPITAL

FOR PEACE AND ANARCHY

ORGANISE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION