Neocons Grow Alarmed At The Potential For Revolution In Colombia, Call For More Armed Crackdowns

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The neo-colonies, the countries that are hyper-exploited by imperialism, are
where the next wave of revolutions is going to start. This is apparent both in
how much further along the class conflict is in these countries compared to in
the imperialist countries, and in the alarmed reactions from the imperialists
to the class conflict’s current intensifications within Colombia.
As Colombia’s people have risen up in irrepressible protests throughout the
last month, responding to their government’s attempts to privatize healthcare
and raise taxes on the poor, the country has seen a fulfillment of the dynamic
which Indian Marxist Saikat Bhattacharya described in his
piece Third Wave of Revolution is Coming:

For India and Indonesia, economic crisis, ethnic tensions and geopolitical
contradictions with rising China together can create an ideal situation for
revolution. Right to self-determination of nations will be the most important
condition for revolutions in India and Indonesia. The First Wave succeeded
only in West Europe and partly in the Americas. The Second Wave succeeded in
non-Western World. But Third Wave has chances to succeed both in Western
countries like the USA as well as in Third World countries like India. Yes,
the Third Wave will be even more successful than Second Wave just as the
latter was more successful than First Wave. Progress is inevitable.

According to Bhattacharya, the First Wave of revolutions lasted from the 18th
century anti-colonial independence uprisings to the Paris Commune, the Second
Wave lasted from the Russian revolution to the Sandinista revolution, and the
Third Wave will begin within the countries that are most exploited by
neoliberal globalization. We don’t know if Colombia’s revolution will come
before the revolutions in Asia or Oceania, and those places may well still be
the first ones given how armed communists in those places have more power than
the ones in Latin America. But Colombia, as well as its neighbors Haiti and
Honduras, have been undergoing a democratic collapse that’s happened in
reaction to economic crisis and that furthers the people’s will towards
revolt.

Haiti and Honduras have already become full-on dictatorships due to U.S. neo-colonial maneuvers, and Colombia has been shooting protesters and political
dissenters even more than those other countries have. So throughout these and
other Latin American neo-colonies, the masses have been taking to the streets.

Colombia’s people have also been carrying out a strike, which is alarming to
the U.S. neocons who seek to prevent further revolutions within the region. It
was a series of strikes and protests that precipitated the revolution in Cuba,
wherein guerrilla warfare from the Marxist-Leninist vanguard was only one
factor in the revolt that took down the dictator Batista. This showed that the
tipping point in a socialist revolution, especially in Latin America, doesn’t
come from the actions of the revolutionary vanguard party but from a
spontaneous revolt by the people. And even though Colombia’s revolutionary
guerrillas have been losing ground to the government’s forces and are isolated
to diminished holdouts, the mere fact that unstoppable protests have broken
out is proof that Colombia is veering towards revolution.

The goal of the counterrevolutionaries, both in Colombia and in Washington, is
to prevent those holdouts in the Marxist-Leninist National Liberation Army
(ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from turning the
situation in their favor. The prospects of these guerrilla forces gaining many
new members as a result of the expanded class consciousness the protests are
bringing, and of armed forces members heeding the FARC’s recent
call for them to refuse the
government’s orders, are all too plausible for the agents of international
capital. So the forces of reaction have gone into a frenzy of spreading
paranoid conspiracy theories about the protests and fanning the flames of
Colombian paramilitarism.

These conspiracy theories stem from the neo-Nazi
faction within the Colombian government, led by the fascist police and
military advisor Alexis Lopez Tapia, whose goal is to justify the violent
suppression of the entirety of the country’s class struggle. Under Tapia’s
“Dissipated Molecular Revolution” theory — which calls for the military to
snuff out the class struggle on a “molecular” level — every entity that’s
opposed to the hard right, from indigenous organizations to the guerrillas to
human rights groups to NGOs to civil society groups, is part of the same
insidious conspiracy that the military needs to devise a plan to destroy. This
conspiracy is supposed to stem from a mismash of foreign governments the
fascists don’t like (such as the Chavistas and the Cuban socialists), and
criminal organizations which these anti-imperialist governments supposedly
seek to wield for violent subversive purposes.

There’s something Orwellian about these narratives, because they subvert the
truth by accusing the liberation movements of what the Colombian government is
guilty of. Colombia is a narco-state, where a powerful drug trafficker has
used stolen money to buy votes for the country’s
current president and where this crime has gone unpunished due to the total
control the cartels hold over the state, the police, and the military. Plus,
the government is the one that’s been carrying out a campaign to terrorize the
population, as evidenced by the paramilitary, military, and police massacres
which have been perpetrated as part of the neo-Nazi faction’s fanatical goal
of snuffing out those who challenge capital.

The “Dissipated Molecular Revolution” theory, and the scorched-earth campaign
of violence it justifies, is based upon an utterly absurd series of lies and
projections. But its deceptive claims are nonetheless being amplified by the
narrative managers of U.S. imperialism. Last month, the neocon publication The
National Interest put out a
piece titled Why is Joe Biden ignoring Colombia?, which has been
republished by the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage
Foundation has also
published a headline which claims
that Colombia is being “threatened” by “leftist violence,” whose blame-shifting logic comes from the same conspiratorial worldview that the former
article presents.

The National Interest paints the protests as being “infiltrated by anti-democratic groups” and being lead by “those seeking to undermine Colombia’s
democratically elected government.” The internationally
condemned police violence we’ve
been seeing footage of, claims The National Interest, should only be seen as
“allegations” of “excessive force” that merely come from “The Left.” The piece
decries Biden for having “taken the allegations as fact,” and for considering
cutting off military assistance to Colombia in response to the human rights
abuses.

According to these neocons, Biden should abandon all concern over looking like
a hypocrite on human rights in regards to the atrocities in Colombia, because
preventing revolution is the most important thing for the U.S. empire to do
within the country. Using that alarmingly Orwellian language again, the piece
invokes “advancing human rights” as an argument for supporting everything the
Colombian government does:

If the administration is truly interested in advancing human rights in
Colombia, this can best be accomplished by cooperating with regional security
services, not by disengaging and shunning them. U.S. disengagement only plays
into the hands of those seeking to undermine Colombia’s democratically elected
government. Abandoning the legitimate government of Colombia would
immeasurably undermine human rights and public safety in the country. It would
also open more doors for Chinese influence to spread in Colombia and
throughout the hemisphere. Before a complete economic and political collapse
of Colombia emerges, the Biden team needs to reverse course. It should oppose
those who are actually eroding Colombia’s gains and stand with those who are
trying to save their country.

These people they refer to who are “trying to save their country” aren’t the
indigenous peoples, workers, and impoverished individuals who are fighting for
freedom from neoliberal tyranny and violent repression. They’re the Nazi
government advisors, capitalists, war criminal armed forces members, and
paramilitary members who’ve been coordinating massacres of unarmed civilians
to preserve neo-colonial rule. What they seek to “save” their country from is
not narco rule or violence, since the existing government is the source of
these things. What they’re fighting against is the liberation of the masses.

In its anxious statements about the prospects of the revolutionaries
succeeding, The National Interest says it was a mistake for the Colombian
government to have let the FARC and the ELN “off the hook” throughout this
last decade. According to the scorched-earth neo-colonial enforcement model
these neocons advocate for, the government should never have even negotiated
with these guerrillas, and Washington shouldn’t be hesitating at all in its
support for the state’s counterinsurgency efforts.

As is the case for Haiti, Honduras, and the other Latin American countries
which have been reverting to their 20th century state of dictatorship, the
most strategically thinking imperialists see human rights and political
freedoms as things that should be disregarded in the war against the rising
anti-colonial and proletarian movements. Their conclusion is that Washington
can only retain control over its remaining imperial territories through full-on, unapologetic terror.

It seems like the imperialists fear a repeat of the error they made in Cuba,
which they had believed they would be able to maintain control over even if
they cut off military aid to the failing Batista regime. Now, as a new wave of
revolutions approaches, the most fanatical imperialist think tank figures see
unlimited military support for Latin America’s terrorist states as their
safest option for retaining their neo-colonies. They’re so fanatical about it
not just because of the fear of losing another source of neo-colonial
extraction, but because of the geopolitical losses a revolution in Colombia
would bring for Washington; The National Interest’s warning about “Chinese
influence” spreading within Colombia if the revolt doesn’t get suppressed
speaks to this fear.

The imperialists are preemptively fighting off the Chinese rise to power
within the Global South that Bhattacharya mentioned, because they know that if
another neo-colony becomes adjacent to China then Washington could lose its
economic grip over the Global South and more revolutions could therefore be
able to occur. This is the “domino theory” brought back for our current
situation of rising anti-imperialist movements and great-power competition.
The solution, say the neocons, is to support counterrevolutionary terror
without restraint.

It’s a “solution” that’s based in fear and reaction rather than political
pragmatism, and that Biden likely won’t fully embrace due to the bad optics on
human rights which it would bring upon him. So the imperialists continue to be
wrought with increasing paralysis and indecision, faced with the choice
between giving up a consistent show of force against the revolutionaries and
further isolating the U.S. empire by having Washington blatantly go against
its stated human rights goals.

For now, Israel is the Colombian government’s most
reliable ally, providing training and
military technologies to the country’s security forces and paramilitaries. But
Israel also backed Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa during their attempts
to fight off rebellions, and we know how well those counterrevolutionary
campaigns went. So when it comes to Colombia, we can apply Bhattacharya’s
affirmation: “progress is inevitable.”
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