BRUNO BERTEZ

War is Our Future

The crisis of Capital in the 1930s gave birth to the Second World War.

The crisis of the 2000s, still unresolved, is now delivering the Third.

We are already living in it.

War is not an accident. It is overdetermined—a systemic necessity.

It is the future awaiting your children.

As long as peoples fail to understand that modern wars are merely the externalized form of class struggle—an outlet imposed by capital in profound crisis to preserve its rate of profit and its social order—conflicts will continue to multiply.

Overaccumulation, debt, stagnation: rather than accept its own negation, the system exports violence. It destroys in order to accumulate more effectively elsewhere.

Today’s wars (Ukraine, the Middle East, Taiwan in the sights) are classic imperialist wars: they prolong by bloodshed a domination that can no longer be sustained economically.

This clarity comes slowly.

Why?Because the historic Left—its parties and its intellectuals—has betrayed.The true Left has been displaced by a counterfeit version. It has abandoned pacifism, aligned itself with capital, and redirected popular anger into societal and identitarian dead ends.

It moralizes war instead of denouncing it.

In moralizing it, it justifies it.

Thanks to this betrayal, war can endure and decimate entire generations.

Peace will not return through speeches. It will demand a radical break with the order that makes war rational for the rulers and acceptable to the ruled.