TERROR AS
THE BASIC FUNCTION OF REACTIONARY & FASCIST STATES
Atty. Hakan
Karakus, Turkey
Presented before the Public Forum of the IAPL 3rd
Congress
Davao
City, Philippines; 14 October 2006
In
a speech he made in San Diego on February 1, 2005, Lt. General James
Mattis, one of the top level Marine commanders leading the Iraqi
invasion forces, described shooting people as “a lot of fun.”
Speaking about this “fun job” at the Annapolis Naval Academy on
November 30, 2005, Bush himself said that they were fighting the
war “on many fronts -- from the streets of Western cities, to
the mountains of Afghanistan, the
islands of Southeast Asia and the Horn of Africa. This war is going
to take many turns, and the enemy must be defeated.”
Let me
begin my words here as I will complete them: the
imperialist-capitalist system is itself the very source of
the reactionary and fascist state terror existing in the world.
Because this system relies on exploitation and domination in
order to achieve increasing profits, it feels the need to
continually keep the masses of the people under control. And without
this control mechanism called the state there would be no way to
continue the exploitation and plundering.
With the
control of the masses securely in their hands, the primary function
of the state becomes the establishment of a system in which the
means of production are geared towards capital. Because this kind
of organization relies on exploitation, it paves a way to injustice,
poverty, hunger, death and misery. Only a mechanism based on force
can secure the continuation of a system bent on supporting a handful
of millionaires. The name of this mechanism is state terror.
The most
basic operations of state terror rest on legal prescriptions. When
the laws at hand prove inadequate to the task, the state begins to
turn to illegal activities. Actually, because they are based
on the control of the masses, the reactionary states themselves are
not legitimate, meaning that their laws also lack legitimacy.
Despite this fact, the laws must gradually become even stricter, so
that eventually illegal practices come to the forefront.
The
basic philosophies underlying the laws governing the majority
classes-especially the criminal laws-are
founded on preserving systems of oppression, exploitation, and
tyranny, and those of taking precautions to protecting the
state against any threats. Constant variations in both legal
and illegal operations are developed by the state to bolster these
protective measures. Just as methods head the list of these
developed measures, we also see developments to preclude changes
in the actors used—the civilian fascists.
The laws
enacted to circumvent all reactions undertaken by the oppressed
peoples against state oppression; exploitation and tyranny have
to become even stronger as they prove inadequate to the task. The
current laws themselves reflect the reactions against all the kinds
of bourgeoisie state regimes—with all their shades up to fascism.
The end results are the “anti-terror” laws which represent a
further development. This development represents an even louder
warning bell for the ruling classes.
The
primary function of much of the content included within the
“Anti-Terror Law” is to label national and social freedom
struggles in terms of “state terror.” After September 11,
this process led to a worldwide campaign propelled by US
imperialistic forces and this, in turn, evolved into a process that
has ignited a battle between imperialism and the world's people and
oppressed nations.
Within the
framework of “war of the jungle,” “battle against terror,”
and “concepts of security” that US imperialism has imposed
upon the rest of the world is the notion that anyone who doesn't
agree with them, who doesn't obey them, or who doesn't think exactly
the same as them is to be regarded as the “enemy” and
therefore has no right to participate in the issues, and that being
the case, within this same philosophy, all kinds of actions against
these detractors—including torture leading to death—are entirely
legitimate. Using the principles and laws jointly stamped by first
the UN and then the EU Ministers of States, the USA and the EU
imperialists within their sphere have declared war against anyone
who opposes the imperialistic system. What we have seen in recent
years, and are still seeing currently, is the great appetite with
which the reactionary and fascist nations have joined in with this
world-wide war.
The
principle/tactic of “pre-emptive
war” was actually an implementation
developed to counter the “conceptualizations” and kinds of
uprisings and revolutions that would put their mark on the 21st
century, and was conceived of the
