COVID: “Health Pass and Surveillance Technologies Will Stay for Many Years”

 

On an interesting interview with Armin Grunwald, a German physicist and government adviser

 

By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 31 December 2021, www.thecommunists.net

 

 

 

A few days ago, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung published a highly interesting interview with Armin Grunwald, a German physicist and university professor. In this interview Prof. Grunwald spoke about the long-term consequences of the government policy implemented in the context of the current pandemic. [1]

 

The interview is of great interest for socialists and democrats for several reasons. First, Prof. Grunwald is a well-known physicist and serves since many years as an official adviser to the German government as well as the parliament on issues of technology. [2] Hence, he is a respected expert who is fully involved in the policy discussions of Germany’s government circles. Secondly, the paper which published the interview – the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung – is one of the most respected publications of the European monopoly bourgeoisie, a kind of Financial Times in the German-speaking world. And, thirdly, the content of this interview allows a good insight in the long-term perspectives of the ruling class policy shifting from (limited) bourgeois democracy towards Capitalist Techno-Totalitarianism.

 

Lastly, the interview is also interesting as Prof. Grunwald is by no way an opponent of the official pandemic policy – quiet the opposite, he is strongly involved in the ruling circles as one of their advisers. Hence, his statement about the long-term consequences of the current policy of expanding the police and surveillance state – or chauvinist state bonapartism as we call it – can not be explained by any political prejudices against such. The same is true for the paper which published this interview.

 

But it is exactly these reasons which make this interview interesting for us. Both Prof. Grunwald as well as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung are completely above suspicion of advocating any fundamental criticism of the official policy concerning the pandemic. They could hardly be more afar from the Marxist analysis of the official pandemic control which the RCIT calls COVID Counterrevolution.

 

At this place we will not repeat the RCIT’s analysis of this historic attack on social and democratic rights in detail, we limit ourselves to summarize its essence in two sentences. We characterize the governments’ policy since spring 2020 as one driven not by health concerns but rather by political and economic interests. Their goals are basically the expansion of the repressive power of the ruling class state apparatus as well as the increase of the profits of capitalist monopolies. [3]

 

 

 

“A threat to democracy in many ways”?

 

 

 

Let us now move to the interesting statements of Prof. Grunwald in his interview. In the early state of the interview, the journalist asks: “Various technologies were used to curb the spread of the coronavirus: tracking contacts, tracking the population and, at times, drone monitoring. What are the dangers of digital surveillance?

 

Prof. Grunwald replies: As soon as people know that their data and movement profiles are being recorded across the board, they behave differently than when they feel free. This is also known as the panopticon effect. The social credit system in China makes use of this effect: People shall be trained to behave in a certain way through surveillance. Most of the population there accepts that. On the other hand, one of the basics of a democracy is that people are able to think freely, to move freely without having the feeling of being observed. Who else goes to a demonstration when they know that they are being monitored and possibly later confronted by their employer? This adjusted behavior, gently enforced by surveillance, is a threat to democracy in many ways.

 

We shall leave aside the highly doubtful remark of Prof. Grunwald that most Chinese are happy with the totalitarian surveillance regime by the Stalinist-capitalist dictatorship. The interesting point here is that the government advisor is fully aware of the consequences of increasing surveillance of the population by the state under the pretext of the pandemic.

 

Of course, Prof. Grunwald – as a liberal supporter of the capitalist pandemic policy – claims that there is no need to worry about the extensive surveillance because we are living in a “democratic state”. “As long as the collection of the data is earmarked – such as with the Corona warning apps – and any other form of use is excluded, I consider this to be harmless. In addition, the surveillance must be democratically secured and limited in time. If that is the case, it seems legitimate to me that we lower the protection of data for the duration of the pandemic.

 

 

 

“We are becoming more and more dependent on digital technology”

 

 

 

However, despite his ideological commitment to liberal principles and his trust in the government policy, Prof. Grunwald can not hide some discomfort about the current speed of expansion of the police and surveillance state. On one hand, he denies that the current developments must inevitably result in a totalitarian society.

 

One the other hand, he warns: “As a society, we are becoming more and more dependent on digital technology. If we slide further down on this issue, it will be technically and organizationally more and more difficult to turn around, because everything depends on digital control. Take the example of the developments after 11 September: everything that has since been allowed to be monitored in the name of the fight against terrorism would have been unimaginable before. The work of the security authorities and the military is now based on being able to access data. For example, surveillance cameras have become the norm in public spaces. The legal options for monitoring have also been expanded. If that were to be restricted again, the security authorities would probably be helpless for the time being.

 

The journalist, herself a bit worried, asks: “Is it even possible to reverse technical developments?” The government advisor replies prosaic: “There are many examples of technology that is extinct, such as fax machines. However, deliberately making something disappear that is once in the world is almost impossible.

 

When asked “So will we live with the Corona apps for years to come?”, Prof. Grunwald removes any doubts: “The vaccination certificates are likely to remain for many years to come.

 

These are very important remarks as they come from a government advisor deeply involved in the current official pandemic policy and who has an intimate knowledge about the technological developments in the capitalist state apparatus. He leaves no doubt that the technological tools for surveillance of the population, the “Health Pass”, etc. – i.e. all those instruments which are decisive for the transformation from (limited) bourgeois democracy towards Capitalist Techno-Totalitarianism are here to stay. It is – in the words of the Professor – “almost impossible” to reverse this development. Of course, we allow ourselves to add, this is only “almost impossible” as long as the ruling class remains in power and is not overthrown by a socialist revolution of the workers and oppressed!

 

Prof. Grunwald’s comparison with the developments after 9-11 is also up the point. This was indeed a counterrevolutionary offensive of the ruling class which undermined numerous democratic rights and created a state monster above any control of the society. One could even say that – objectively, i.e. without knowledge of the participants – the counterrevolutionary “war on terror” by the imperialist states was a kind of historical dress rehearsal of the current pandemic policy.

 

 

 

Using data surveillance for finding out about political view of nonconformist sectors of the popular masses

 

 

 

There is also another interesting exchange. At one point, the journalist asks: “The willingness to get vaccinated is also linked to political views. Is it possible to draw conclusions about attitudes in this way? (by data surveillance, Ed.)

 

Prof. Grunwald replies: “The percentage of unvaccinated people in Germany and Switzerland is still relatively large. However, only a small amount of additional data was needed to identify the smaller groups and to make assessments about their views.

 

This statement reveals the enormous degree of data surveillance – helped with the increasing deployment of Artificial Intelligence – which allows the capitalist state to draw conclusions about various groups among the popular masses which behave nonconformist or rebellious! Since Prof. Grunwald is a renown expert on modern technologies, he certainly knows what he is talking about!

 

 

 

A strategic and fundamental attack of the ruling class

 

 

 

Prof. Grunwald statements are highly interesting. These fully confirm the Marxist assessment of the COVID Counterrevolution which the RCIT has elaborated in much detail in the past two years. It was clear to us from the very beginning that the state of emergency policy – accompanied with much hysteria – is basically not a health policy (or let us better say, not primarily a health policy) but a comprehensive political and economic project to transform the society. The policy of the monopoly bourgeoisie is driven by the fact that the capitalist system is in decay. Since the Great Recession in 2008-09 and more actually since the beginning of the depression of the world economy in autumn 2019, it faces an irreversible series of crisis, catastrophes, and global instability. [4] Add to this the global wave of popular uprisings since summer/autumn 2019. [5]

 

Hence, under the pretext of the pandemic, the ruling class went ahead in dramatically expanding the power of the capitalist state apparatus and in creating gigantic business opportunities for the monopolies in the pharma, IT, security and other sectors.

 

For these reasons, it was clear to us that these attacks are of strategic nature, that these are not temporary measures but rather reflect a fundamental transformation of the capitalist society. As we stated in the first RCIT Manifesto on the COVID Counterrevolution, published in March 2020, “with one stroke, “Big Brother” is here, openly and without any attempt by the capitalist state to conceal it. The massive surveillance techniques will soon be the new normal worldwide.[6] In other works, we did elaborate on these developments in more detail. [7]

 

 

 

And the “Left”? Oh, please, don't ask me!

 

 

 

Large sectors of the working class and the popular masses instinctively know that the capitalist governments all over the world are exploiting the pandemic as a cover for a dramatic expansion of the repressive state apparatus. They might not possess a Marxist analysis, but they know who is the enemy and that it’s policy have dangerous consequences for the people. This is why the policy of the COVID Counterrevolution – despite all the fearmongering of the ruling class (and currently again with the hysteria about “Omicron”) and despite the increasing repression – faces mass resistance in Europe and all over the world.

 

To different degrees and with different conclusions, the Marxists, the popular masses and more honest advisors of the governments (like Prof. Grunwald) – they all agree that fundamental changes are going on under the cover of the pandemic. They recognize – again, from different viewpoints – that there is a massive expansion of the surveillance of the population.

 

One of the most bizarre phenomena of the current period is the startling silence of large sectors of the opportunist left on this issue. They deny the counterrevolutionary character of the ruling class pandemic policy and are totally unaware of the ongoing massive shift from (limited) bourgeois democracy towards Capitalist Techno-Totalitarianism.

 

Of course, we are aware that such political naivety is not accidental but has its material and ideological roots. These factors can be summarized in the integration of the leaderships of these parties in various institutions of the capitalist state apparatus – from directly in the government like various Stalinist parties to ideological institutions like universities. Another important factor are the close links of such "left-wing” parties to the labor bureaucracy (which again is integrated into the capitalist state apparatus).

 

Such a process of integration results in an increasing ideological bourgeoisification of the views of the leaderships and cadres of these “left-wing” parties, including the adoption of numerous middle-class prejudices about the “neutral” nature of the capitalist state and its health policy. As a result, these reformist and centrist forces have become a fully domesticated left. [8]

 

Authentic socialists must break with the Lockdown Left and join forces in order to fight against the COVID Counterrevolution. Our task is to create a new revolutionary vanguard which can provide a program for the upcoming mass struggles against the reactionary offensive of the ruling class. The RCIT and all authentic revolutionaries dedicate their forces to this task!

 



[1] «Eine Technik, die einmal in der Welt ist, kann man kaum absichtlich wieder verschwinden lassen». Während der Corona-Pandemie hat sich die digitale Überwachung verstärkt. Der Physiker und Philosoph Armin Grunwald erklärt, welche Gefahren damit einhergehen. Pauline Voss 26.12.2021, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, https://www.nzz.ch/international/technikfolgenforscher-ueber-digitale-ueberwachung-waehrend-corona-ld.1660607?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-de-DE (All translations are ours.)

[2] Wikipedia: Armin Grunwald, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Grunwald (accessed on 31.12.2021)

[3] The RCIT has analysed the COVID-19 counterrevolution extensively since its beginning. Starting from 2 February 2020 we have published about 100 pamphlets, essays, articles and statements plus a book which are all compiled at a special sub-page on our website: https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-the-2019-corona-virus/. In particular we refer readers to two RCIT Manifestos: COVID-19: A Cover for a Major Global Counterrevolutionary Offensive. We are at a turning point in the world situation as the ruling classes provoke a war-like atmosphere in order to legitimize the build-up of chauvinist state-bonapartist regimes, 21 March 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/covid-19-a-cover-for-a-major-global-counterrevolutionary-offensive/; “Green Pass” & Compulsory Vaccinations: A New Stage in the COVID Counterrevolution. Down with the chauvinist-bonapartist police & surveillance state – defend democratic rights! No to health policy in the service of the capitalist monopolies – expand the public health sector under workers and popular control! 29 July 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/green-pass-compulsory-vaccinations-a-new-stage-in-the-covid-counterrevolution/; In addition, we draw attention to our book by Michael Pröbsting: The COVID-19 Global Counterrevolution: What It Is and How to Fight It. A Marxist analysis and strategy for the revolutionary struggle, RCIT Books, April 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/the-covid-19-global-counterrevolution/. Almedina Gunić and Michael Pröbsting: On Some Ideological Features of the COVID Counterrevolution. Comments on an interesting interview with a German liberal historian, 14 November 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/on-some-ideological-features-of-the-covid-counterrevolution/; See also our very first article on this issue by Almedina Gunić: Coronavirus: "I am not a Virus"... but WE will be the Cure! The chauvinist campaign behind the “Wuhan Coronavirus” hysteria and the revolutionary answer, 2 February 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/wuhan-virus/. See also a number of Spanish-language articles of our Argentinean comrades: Juan Giglio: La izquierda de la "Big Pharma", dejó de defender las libertades, 1.10.2021, https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/2021/10/la-izquierda-de-la-big-pharma-dejo-de.html; Juan Giglio: ¿Por qué la izquierda no cuestiona las políticas de la OMS? 8.9.2021, https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/2021/09/por-que-la-izquierda-no-cuestiona-las.html

[4] See on this e.g. the compilation of RCIT documents on the Great Depression of the capitalist world economy at a sub-page on our website: https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-great-depression/.

[5] See on this e.g. RCIT: World Perspectives 2021-22: Entering a Pre-Revolutionary Global Situation, 22 August 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2021-22/; RCIT: World Perspectives 2020: A Pre-Revolutionary Global Situation. Theses on the World Situation, the Perspectives for Class Struggle and the Tasks of Revolutionaries, 8 February 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2020/. These documents contain many links to other statements and articles on the class struggle in various countries.

[6] See the above-mentioned Manifesto: COVID-19: A Cover for a Major Global Counterrevolutionary Offensive.

[7] See e.g. chapter II in the above-mentioned book by Michael Pröbsting: The COVID-19 Global Counterrevolution: What It Is and How to Fight It. See also, by the same author, our pamphlet: The Police and Surveillance State in the Post-Lockdown Phase. A global review of the ruling class’s plans of expanding the bonapartist state machinery amidst the COVID-19 crisis, 21 May 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/police-and-surveillance-state-in-post-lockdown-phase/.

[8] We have published many documents elaborating our critique of the Lockdown Left. They are compiled on a special sub-page on our website: https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-the-2019-corona-virus/. See e.g. Michael Pröbsting: Why Do Some Socialists Refuse to Support the Mass Struggle against the “Green Pass”? PTS/FT, PSTU/LIT, IMT and PCL in the face of the latest stage of the COVID Counterrevolution, 15 October 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/why-do-some-socialists-refuse-to-support-the-mass-struggle-against-the-green-pass/; by the same author: COVID-19: The Current and Historical Roots of Bourgeois Lockdown “Socialism”. Police State and Universal Basic Income are key elements of the new version of reformist “War Socialism” of 1914, 19 December 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/covid-19-the-current-and-historical-roots-of-bourgeois-lockdown-socialism/

 

COVID: "Gesundheitspass und Überwachungstechnologien werden noch viele Jahre bleiben"

 

Zu einem interessanten Interview mit Armin Grunwald, einem deutschen Physiker und Regierungsberater

 

Von Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionär-Kommunistische Internationale Tendenz (RCIT), 31. Dezember 2021, www.thecommunists.net

 

 

 

Vor einigen Tagen veröffentlichte die Neue Zürcher Zeitung ein hochinteressantes Interview mit Armin Grunwald, einem deutschen Physiker und Universitätsprofessor. In diesem Interview sprach Prof. Grunwald über die langfristigen Folgen der Regierungspolitik, die im Zusammenhang mit der aktuellen Pandemie umgesetzt wird. [1]

 

Das Interview ist für Sozialisten und Demokraten aus mehreren Gründen von großem Interesse. Erstens ist Prof. Grunwald ein bekannter Physiker und dient seit vielen Jahren als offizieller Berater der deutschen Regierung sowie des Parlaments in Technologiefragen. [2] Er ist also ein angesehener Experte, der in die politischen Diskussionen der deutschen Regierungskreise voll eingebunden ist. Zweitens ist die Zeitung, die das Interview veröffentlichte - die Neue Zürcher Zeitung - eine der angesehensten Publikationen der europäischen Monopolbourgeoisie, eine Art Financial Times im deutschsprachigen Raum. Und drittens erlaubt der Inhalt dieses Interviews einen guten Einblick in die langfristigen Perspektiven der Politik der herrschenden Klasse, die sich von der (begrenzten) bürgerlichen Demokratie hin zum kapitalistischen Techno-Totalitarismus entwickelt.

 

Schließlich ist das Interview auch deshalb interessant, weil Prof. Grunwald keineswegs ein Gegner der offiziellen Pandemiepolitik ist - ganz im Gegenteil, er ist als einer ihrer Berater stark in die herrschenden Kreise eingebunden. Seine Aussage über die langfristigen Folgen der aktuellen Politik des Ausbaus des Polizei- und Überwachungsstaates - oder chauvinistischer Staatsbonapartismus, wie wir es nennen - lässt sich daher nicht mit irgendwelchen politischen Vorurteilen gegen diesen erklären. Das Gleiche gilt für die Zeitung, die dieses Interview veröffentlicht hat.

 

Aber genau diese Gründe machen dieses Interview für uns interessant. Sowohl Prof. Grunwald als auch die Neue Zürcher Zeitung sind völlig über jeden Verdacht erhaben, eine grundsätzliche Kritik an der offiziellen Pandemiepolitik zu üben. Sie könnten von der marxistischen Analyse der offiziellen Pandemiebekämpfung – von der RCIT als COVID-Konterrevolution bezeichnet – kaum weiter entfernt sein.

 

Wir werden an dieser Stelle die Analyse der RCIT zu diesem historischen Angriff auf soziale und demokratische Rechte nicht im Detail wiederholen, sondern uns darauf beschränken, das Wesentliche in zwei Sätzen zusammenzufassen. Wir charakterisieren die Politik der Regierungen seit dem Frühjahr 2020 als eine, die nicht von gesundheitlichen Erwägungen, sondern von politischen und wirtschaftlichen Interessen geleitet wird. Ihre Ziele sind im Wesentlichen die Ausweitung der repressiven Macht des Staatsapparates der herrschenden Klasse sowie die Steigerung der Profite der kapitalistischen Monopole. [3]

 

 

 

"Eine Bedrohung für die Demokratie in vielerlei Hinsicht"?

 

 

 

Gehen wir nun zu den interessanten Aussagen von Prof. Grunwald in seinem Interview über. In der Anfangsphase des Interviews fragt die Journalistin: " Um die Verbreitung des Coronavirus einzudämmen, wurden unterschiedliche Technologien eingesetzt: Die Nachverfolgung von Kontakten, das Tracking der Bevölkerung, zeitweise auch Drohnenüberwachung. Welche Gefahren gehen von digitaler Überwachung aus?"

 

Prof. Grunwald antwortet: "Sobald Menschen wissen, dass ihre Daten und Bewegungsprofile flächendeckend erfasst werden, verhalten sie sich anders, als wenn sie sich frei fühlen. Das wird auch als Panoptikum-Effekt bezeichnet. Das Sozialkredit-System in China macht sich diesen Effekt zunutze: Man will die Menschen durch Überwachung zu einem bestimmten Verhalten erziehen. Die Bevölkerung dort akzeptiert das auch grösstenteils. In einer Demokratie hingegen gehört es zu den Grundlagen, frei denken, sich frei bewegen zu können, ohne das Gefühl zu haben, beobachtet zu werden. Wer geht noch auf eine Demonstration, wenn er weiss, dass er überwacht und möglicherweise später von seinem Arbeitgeber damit konfrontiert wird? Dieses durch Beobachtung sanft erzwungene angepasste Verhalten ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Bedrohung für die Demokratie."

 

Die höchst zweifelhafte Bemerkung von Prof. Grunwald, dass die meisten Chinesen mit dem totalitären Überwachungsregime der stalinistisch-kapitalistischen Diktatur zufrieden sind, lassen wir einmal beiseite. Interessant ist hier, dass der Regierungsberater sich der Folgen einer zunehmenden Überwachung der Bevölkerung durch den Staat unter dem Vorwand der Pandemie durchaus bewusst ist.

 

Natürlich behauptet Prof. Grunwald - als liberaler Befürworter der kapitalistischen Pandemiepolitik -, dass man sich über die umfassende Überwachung keine Sorgen machen müsse, weil wir in einem "demokratischen Staat" leben. "Solange die Erfassung der Daten zweckgebunden ist – wie etwa bei den Corona-Warn-Apps – und jede andere Nutzungsform ausgeschlossen ist, halte ich das für unbedenklich. Zudem muss die Überwachung demokratisch abgesichert und befristet sein. Wenn das der Fall ist, erscheint es mir legitim, dass wir für die Dauer der Pandemie die Bedeutung des Datenschutzes senken."

 

 

 

"Wir machen uns als Gesellschaft immer abhängiger von digitaler Technologie"

 

 

 

Trotz seines ideologischen Bekenntnisses zu liberalen Grundsätzen und seines Vertrauens in die Regierungspolitik kann Prof. Grunwald jedoch ein gewisses Unbehagen über die derzeitige Geschwindigkeit des Ausbaus des Polizei- und Überwachungsstaates nicht verbergen. Einerseits bestreitet er, dass die aktuellen Entwicklungen zwangsläufig zu einer totalitären Gesellschaft führen müssen.

 

Auf der anderen Seite warnt er aber auch: " Wir machen uns als Gesellschaft immer abhängiger von digitaler Technologie. Wenn wir in dieser Frage die schiefe Ebene weiter hinunterrutschen, wird die Umkehr technisch und organisatorisch immer schwerer, weil alles auf digitale Kontrolle ausgerichtet ist. Ein Beispiel sind die Entwicklungen nach dem 11. September: Was seither im Namen der Terrorismusbekämpfung alles überwacht werden darf, das wäre vorher unvorstellbar gewesen. Die Arbeit der Sicherheitsbehörden und des Militärs beruht mittlerweile darauf, Daten abgreifen zu können. So sind beispielsweise Überwachungskameras im öffentlichen Raum zur Normalität geworden. Auch die rechtlichen Möglichkeiten der Überwachung wurden erweitert. Wenn man das nun wieder einschränken würde, wären die Sicherheitsbehörden vermutlich erst einmal hilflos."

 

Die Journalistin, selbst ein wenig besorgt, fragt: " Ist es denn überhaupt möglich, technische Entwicklungen wieder rückgängig zu machen?" Der Regierungsberater antwortet prosaisch: "Es gibt viele Beispiele für Technik, die ausgestorben ist, etwa Faxgeräte. Etwas jedoch absichtlich wieder verschwinden zu lassen, was einmal in der Welt ist, das geht fast nicht."

 

Auf die Frage " Werden wir also auf Jahre hinaus mit den Corona-Apps leben?", räumt Prof. Grunwald alle Zweifel aus: " Die Impfzertifikate werden wohl noch viele Jahre bleiben."

 

Dies sind sehr wichtige Bemerkungen, da sie von einem Regierungsberater stammen, der tief in die derzeitige offizielle Pandemiepolitik involviert ist und der über ein intimes Wissen über die technologischen Entwicklungen im kapitalistischen Staatsapparat verfügt. Er lässt keinen Zweifel daran, dass die technologischen Instrumente zur Überwachung der Bevölkerung, der "Gesundheitspass", etc. - d.h. all jene Instrumente, die für den Übergang von der (begrenzten) bürgerlichen Demokratie zum kapitalistischen Techno-Totalitarismus entscheidend sind, da sind und bleiben werden. Es ist - in den Worten des Professors - "fast unmöglich", diese Entwicklung umzukehren. Natürlich, so erlauben wir uns hinzuzufügen, ist dies nur so lange "fast unmöglich", wie die herrschende Klasse an der Macht bleibt und nicht durch eine sozialistische Revolution der Arbeiter und Unterdrückten gestürzt wird!

 

Auch der Vergleich von Prof. Grunwald mit den Entwicklungen nach dem 11. September trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf. Dies war in der Tat eine konterrevolutionäre Offensive der herrschenden Klasse, die zahlreiche demokratische Rechte aushebelte und ein Staatsmonster schuf, das über jeder Kontrolle der Gesellschaft steht. Man könnte sogar sagen, dass – objektiv, d.h. ohne Kenntnis der Beteiligten – der konterrevolutionäre "Krieg gegen den Terror" der imperialistischen Staaten eine Art historische Generalprobe der aktuellen Pandemiepolitik war.

 

 

 

Nutzung der Datenüberwachung, um die politischen Ansichten der nonkonformistischen Teile der Volksmassen zu ermitteln

 

 

 

Es gibt noch einen weiteren interessanten Teil des Interviews. An einer Stelle fragt die Journalistin: " Jedoch ist die Impfbereitschaft auch mit politischen Anschauungen verknüpft. Kann man auf diese Weise Rückschlüsse auf die Gesinnung ziehen? (durch Datenüberwachung, Anm. d. Red.)"

 

Prof. Grunwald antwortet: "Noch ist die Gruppe der Ungeimpften in Deutschland und der Schweiz prozentual gesehen relativ gross. Man brauchte allerdings nur wenige zusätzliche Daten, um daraus die kleineren Gruppen zu identifizieren und Aussagen über deren Anschauungen zu treffen."

 

Diese Aussage offenbart das enorme Ausmaß der Datenüberwachung – unterstützt durch den zunehmenden Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz – die es dem kapitalistischen Staat erlaubt, Rückschlüsse auf verschiedene Gruppen innerhalb der Volksmassen zu ziehen, die sich unangepasst oder rebellisch verhalten! Da Prof. Grunwald ein renommierter Experte für moderne Technologien ist, weiß er sicherlich, wovon er spricht!

 

 

 

Ein strategischer und grundlegender Angriff der herrschenden Klasse

 

 

 

Die Aussagen von Prof. Grunwald sind höchst interessant. Sie bestätigen voll und ganz die marxistische Einschätzung der COVID-Konterrevolution, die die RCIT in den letzten zwei Jahren sehr detailliert ausgearbeitet hat. Uns war von Anfang an klar, dass die von viel Hysterie begleitete Notstandspolitik im Grunde keine Gesundheitspolitik (oder sagen wir besser, nicht in erster Linie eine Gesundheitspolitik) ist, sondern ein umfassendes politisches und wirtschaftliches Projekt zur Umgestaltung der Gesellschaft. Die Politik der Monopolbourgeoisie wird von der Tatsache angetrieben, dass das kapitalistische System im Verfall begriffen ist. Seit der Großen Rezession von 2008-09 und genauer gesagt seit dem Beginn der Depression der Weltwirtschaft im Herbst 2019 sieht es sich einer unumkehrbaren Reihe von Krisen, Katastrophen und globaler Instabilität gegenüber. [4] Hinzu kommt die weltweite Welle von Volksaufständen seit Sommer/Herbst 2019. [5]

 

Unter dem Vorwand der Pandemie baute die herrschende Klasse die Macht des kapitalistischen Staatsapparats dramatisch aus und schuf gigantische Geschäftsmöglichkeiten für die Monopole der Pharma-, IT-, Sicherheits- und anderer Branchen.

 

Aus diesen Gründen war uns klar, dass diese Angriffe strategischer Natur sind, dass es sich nicht um vorübergehende Maßnahmen handelt, sondern dass sie vielmehr eine grundlegende Umgestaltung der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft widerspiegeln. Wie wir im ersten RCIT-Manifest zur COVID-Konterrevolution, das im März 2020 veröffentlicht wurde, feststellten, "ist "Big Brother" mit einem Schlag da, ganz offen und ohne jeden Versuch des kapitalistischen Staates, dies zu verbergen. Die massiven Überwachungstechniken werden bald weltweit die neue Normalität sein. " [6] In anderen Werken haben wir uns mit diesen Entwicklungen ausführlicher beschäftigt. [7]

 

 

 

Und die "Linke"? Oh, bitte, frag mich nicht!

 

 

 

Große Teile der Arbeiterklasse und der Volksmassen wissen instinktiv, dass die kapitalistischen Regierungen auf der ganzen Welt die Pandemie als Deckmantel für eine dramatische Ausweitung des repressiven Staatsapparats ausnutzen. Sie mögen keine marxistische Analyse besitzen, aber sie wissen, wer der Feind ist und dass seine Politik gefährliche Folgen für die Menschen hat. Deshalb stößt die Politik der COVID-Konterrevolution - trotz aller Panikmache der herrschenden Klasse (und aktuell wieder mit der Hysterie um "Omicron") und trotz der zunehmenden Repression - auf massenhaften Widerstand in Europa und auf der ganzen Welt.

 

In unterschiedlichem Maße und mit unterschiedlichen Schlussfolgerungen sind sich die Marxisten, die Volksmassen und die ehrlicheren Berater der Regierungen (wie Prof. Grunwald) darin einig, dass sich unter dem Deckmantel der Pandemie grundlegende Veränderungen vollziehen. Sie erkennen - wiederum unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten -, dass die Überwachung der Bevölkerung massiv ausgeweitet wird.

 

Eines der bizarrsten Phänomene der gegenwärtigen Periode ist das verblüffende Schweigen großer Teile der opportunistischen Linken zu diesem Thema. Sie leugnen den konterrevolutionären Charakter der Pandemiepolitik der herrschenden Klasse und haben keinen blassen Schimmer von dem laufenden massiven Wandel von der (begrenzten) bürgerlichen Demokratie hin zum kapitalistischen Techno-Totalitarismus.

 

Natürlich sind wir uns bewusst, dass eine solche politische Naivität nicht zufällig ist, sondern ihre materiellen und ideologischen Wurzeln hat. Diese Faktoren lassen sich in der Integration der Führungen dieser Parteien in verschiedene Institutionen des kapitalistischen Staatsapparates zusammenfassen - von direkt in der Regierung wie verschiedene stalinistische Parteien bis hin zu ideologischen Institutionen wie Universitäten. Ein weiterer wichtiger Faktor sind die engen Verbindungen solcher linken" Parteien zur Gewerkschaftsbürokratie (die wiederum in den kapitalistischen Staatsapparat integriert ist).

 

Ein solcher Integrationsprozess führt zu einer zunehmenden ideologischen Verbürgerlichung der Ansichten der Führungen und Kader dieser "linken" Parteien, einschließlich der Übernahme zahlreicher bürgerlicher Vorurteile über den "neutralen" Charakter des kapitalistischen Staates und seiner Gesundheitspolitik. Infolgedessen sind diese reformistischen und zentristischen Kräfte zu einer vollständig domestizierten Linken geworden. [8]

 

Echte Sozialisten müssen mit der "Lockdown-Linken" brechen und ihre Kräfte bündeln, um gegen die COVID-Konterrevolution zu kämpfen. Unsere Aufgabe ist es, eine neue revolutionäre Avantgarde zu schaffen, die ein Programm für die kommenden Massenkämpfe gegen die reaktionäre Offensive der herrschenden Klasse liefern kann. Die RCIT und alle echten Revolutionäre widmen ihre Kräfte dieser Aufgabe!

 

 

 


 

[1] «Eine Technik, die einmal in der Welt ist, kann man kaum absichtlich wieder verschwinden lassen» Während der Corona-Pandemie hat sich die digitale Überwachung verstärkt. Der Physiker und Philosoph Armin Grunwald erklärt, welche Gefahren damit einhergehen. Pauline Voss, 26.12.2021, https://www.nzz.ch/international/technikfolgenforscher-ueber-digitale-ueberwachung-waehrend-corona-ld.1660607?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-de-DE

 

[2] Wikipedia: Armin Grunwald, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Grunwald (Zugriff am 31.12.2021)

 

[3] Die RCIT hat die Konterrevolution COVID-19 seit ihrem Beginn umfassend analysiert. Seit dem 2. Februar 2020 haben wir etwa 100 Pamphlete, Essays, Artikel und Erklärungen sowie ein Buch veröffentlicht, die alle auf einer speziellen Unterseite auf unserer Website zusammengestellt sind: https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-the-2019-corona-virus/. Insbesondere verweisen wir auf zwei RCIT-Manifeste: COVID-19: Tarnung für eine große konterrevolutionäre Offensive. Wir stehen an einem Wendepunkt in der Weltlage. Die herrschenden Klassen provozieren eine kriegsähnliche Atmosphäre, um den Aufbau chauvinistischer staatsbonapartistischer Regime zu legitimieren., 21. März 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/home/deutsch/covid-19-und-der-neue-leviathan/; “Grüner Pass” & Zwangsimpfungen: eine neue Phase in der COVID-Konterrevolution. Nieder mit dem chauvinistisch-bonapartistischen Polizei- & Überwachungsstaat – verteidigen wir demokratische Rechte! Nein zur Gesundheitspolitik im Dienst der kapitalistischen Monopole – erweitert den öffentlichen Gesundheitssektor unter der Kontrolle von Arbeitern und des Volkes! 29. Juli 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/green-pass-compulsory-vaccinations-a-new-stage-in-the-covid-counterrevolution/#anker_4; Außerdem weisen wir auf unser Buch von Michael Pröbsting hin: The COVID-19 Global Counterrevolution - What It Is and How to Fight It. A Marxist analysis and strategy for the revolutionary struggle, RCIT Books, April 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/the-covid-19-global-counterrevolution/. Almedina Gunić und Michael Pröbsting: Über einige ideologische Merkmale der COVID-Konterrevolution. Kommentar zu einem interessanten Interview mit einem deutschen liberalen Historiker, 14. November 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/on-some-ideological-features-of-the-covid-counterrevolution/#anker_4; Siehe auch unseren allerersten Artikel zu diesem Thema von Almedina Gunić: Coronavirus: "I am not a Virus"... but WE will be the Cure! Die chauvinistische Kampagne hinter der "Wuhan-Coronavirus"-Hysterie und die revolutionäre Antwort, 2. Februar 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/wuhan-virus/. Siehe auch eine Reihe spanischsprachiger Artikel unserer argentinischen GenossInnen: Juan Giglio: La izquierda de la "Big Pharma", dejó de defender las libertades, 1.10.2021, https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/2021/10/la-izquierda-de-la-big-pharma-dejo-de.html; Juan Giglio: ¿Por qué la izquierda no cuestiona las políticas de la OMS? 8.9.2021, https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/2021/09/por-que-la-izquierda-no-cuestiona-las.html

 

[4] Siehe hierzu z.B. die Zusammenstellung von RCIT-Dokumenten zur Großen Depression der kapitalistischen Weltwirtschaft auf einer Unterseite auf unserer Website: https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-great-depression/.

 

[5] Siehe hierzu z. B. RCIT: Weltpolitische Perspektiven 2021-22: Eintritt in eine vor-revolutionäre globale Situation, 22. August 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2021-22/#anker_17; RCIT: World Perspectives 2020: A Pre-Revolutionary Global Situation. Theses on the World Situation, the Perspectives for Class Struggle and the Tasks of Revolutionaries, 8. Februar 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2020/. Diese Dokumente enthalten viele Links zu anderen Erklärungen und Artikeln zum Klassenkampf in verschiedenen Ländern.

 

[6] Siehe das oben erwähnte Manifest: COVID-19: Eine Tarnung für eine globale konterrevolutionäre Großoffensive.

 

[7] Siehe z.B. Kapitel II in dem oben erwähnten Buch von Michael Pröbsting: The COVID-19 Global Counterrevolution - What It Is and How to Fight It. Siehe auch, vom gleichen Autor, unser Pamphlet: The Police & Surveillance State in the Post-Lockdown Phase. A global review of the ruling class’s plans of expanding the bonapartist state machinery amidst the COVID-19 crisis, 21. Mai 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/police-and-surveillance-state-in-post-lockdown-phase/.

 

[8] Wir haben zahlreiche Dokumente veröffentlicht, in denen wir unsere Kritik an der Lockdown-Linke darlegen. Sie sind auf einer speziellen Unterseite auf unserer Website zusammengestellt: https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-the-2019-corona-virus/. Siehe z.B. Michael Pröbsting: Warum weigern sich einige Sozialisten, den Massenkampf gegen den "Grünen Pass" zu unterstützen? PTS/FT, PSTU/LIT, IMT und PCL angesichts der jüngsten Phase der COVID-Konterrevolution, 15. Oktober 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/why-do-some-socialists-refuse-to-support-the-mass-struggle-against-the-green-pass/#anker_3; vom gleichen Autor: COVID-19: Aktuelle und historische Wurzeln des bürgerlichen Lockdown-“Sozialismus”. Der Polizeistaat und das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen: Schlüsselelemente bei der Neuauflage des reformistischen “Kriegssozialismus” von 1914, 19. Dezember 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/home/deutsch/covid-19-aktuelle-und-historischen-wurzeln-des-burgerlichen-lockdown-sozialismus/

 

코로나: “방역패스와 감시 기술은 앞으로도 계속 유지될 것입니다”

팬데믹을 엄폐물 삼아 빅브라더가 단박에 와버렸다

 

미하엘 프뢰브스팅, 혁명적 공산주의인터내셔널 동맹 (RCIT) 국제서기, 2021 12 31, www.thecommunists.net

 

 

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며칠 <노이에 취르허 차이퉁> 독일 물리학자 아르민 그룬발트 교수와의 흥미로운 인터뷰 기사를 실었다. 인터뷰에서 그룬발트 교수는 코로나 팬데믹 대응책으로 실시된 정부 정책의 장기적인 결과에 대해 이야기했다.[1]

 

인터뷰는 여러 이유로 사회주의자들과 민주주의자들에게 관심을 불러일으킬 만하다. 첫째, 그룬발트 교수는 알려진 물리학자로서 수년 전부터 테크놀로지 문제 관련 독일 정부 의회의 공식 자문위원으로 복무하고 있다.[2] 존경 받는 전문가로서 그가 독일 정치권의 정책 논의에 깊이 관여하게 배경이다. 둘째, 인터뷰를 게재한 스위스 일간지 노이에 취르허 차이퉁은 독일어권의 <파이낸셜 타임즈>라고 불릴 만큼 유럽 독점 부르주아지 사이에 가장 권위 있는 신문 하나다. 셋째, 인터뷰의 내용은 장기적인 관점에서 지배계급 정책이 부르주아 민주주의에서 자본주의 테크노-전체주의로 전환되고 있는 것을 통찰할 있게 해주는 많은 단서들을 제공한다. 결코 공식 팬데믹 정책의 반대자가 아닌 그룬발트 교수는 부지불식간에 경찰·감시 국가 배외주의적 국가 보나파르트주의 확충이 가져올 장기적 결과에 대해 발설하고 있다. RCIT 코로나 반혁명이라고 부르는 공식 팬데믹 대책에 대한 맑스주의적 평가분석과는 전혀 거리가 방향의 인터뷰임에도 불구하고 말이다.

 

여기서는 사회적·민주적 권리에 대한 역대급 공격에 대한 RCIT 평가분석을 되풀이 하지는 않을 것이며, 다만 본질을 문장으로 요약하고 넘어가겠다. 2020 이래 정부의 코로나 대책은 건강·보건 우려에 의해 추진된 것이 아니라 정치적·경제적 이해관계에 의해 추진된 것이다. 팬데믹 정책에서 자본가 정부들의 목표는 기본적으로 지배계급의 억압 국가기구 확충과 독점자본 이윤 증대에 있다.[3]

 

 

 

여러 면에서 민주주주의에 대한 위협”?

 

인터뷰 초두에 기자가 이렇게 묻는다. "접촉경로를 추적하고 주민을 추적하고 때로는 드론 모니터링을 하는 다양한 기술이 코로나 바이러스의 확산을 억제하기 위해 사용되었습니다. 디지털 감시의 위험성은 무엇입니까?"

 

그룬발트 교수는 이렇게 답변한다. "사람들이 자신의 데이터와 이동 프로필이 일괄적으로 기록되고 있다는 것을 알게 되는 순간, 사람들은 자유롭다고 느낄 때와는 다르게 행동합니다. 이것은 파놉티콘 효과로 알려져 있기도 합니다. 중국의 사회신용제도 효과를 이용합니다. 감시를 통해 사람들은 특정한 방식으로 행동하도록 훈련되게 됩니다. 곳의 주민 대부분은 그것을 받아들입니다. 반면에 민주주의의 기본 하나는 사람들이 자유롭게 생각할 있고, 관찰 당한다는 느낌을 갖는 없이 자유롭게 움직일 있다는 것입니다. 자신이 모니터링 되고 있고 나중에 고용주와 부닥치게 있다는 것을 안다면 누가 시위에 가겠습니까? 감시에 의해 온건하도록 강제된, 이러한 적응된 행동은 여러 면에서 민주주의에 대한 위협입니다."

 

대부분의 중국인들이 스탈린주의-자본가 독재에 의한 전체주의적 감시체제에 만족하고 있다는 그룬발트 교수의 매우 의심스런 발언은 여기서는 일단 제쳐둘 것이다. 여기서 흥미로운 점은 정부고문이 팬데믹을 핑계로 자본가 국가의 주민 감시 확대가 가져올 결과를 충분히 인식하고 있다는 점이다.

 

물론, 자본주의 팬데믹 정책의 자유주의적 지지자로서 그룬발트 교수는 우리가 "민주주의 국가" 살고 있기 때문에 광범위한 감시에 대해 걱정할 필요가 없다고 주장한다. "코로나 경고 앱과 같은 데이터 수집의 목적이 분명하게 지정되어 있고 다른 형태의 사용이 배제되어 있는 , 저는 이것이 무해하다고 봅니다. 이에 더해 감시가 민주적으로 안전보장이 되고 시간제한이 되어야 합니다. 그렇게 된다면, 팬데믹이 지속하는 동안 데이터 보호 수준을 낮추는 것은 제가 정당하다고 생각됩니다.“

 

 

 

"우리는 점점 디지털 기술에 의존적으로 되어가고 있습니다."

 

그러나 자유주의 원리에 대한 그의 이데올로기적 확신과 정부 정책에 대한 그의 신뢰에도 불구하고, 그룬발트 교수는 경찰·감시 국가 확장 속도에 대해 불편한 심기를 감추지 못한다. 한편으로 그는 사태발전의 필연적인 결과물이 전체주의 사회일 수밖에 없다는 것을 부정한다.

 

다른 한편으로, 그는 다음과 같이 경고한다. "사회적으로 우리는 점점 디지털 기술에 의존적으로 되어가고 있습니다. 문제에서 빠져들면, 모든 것이 디지털 제어에 의존하기 때문에 기술적으로, 조직적으로 방향을 바꾸기가 점점 어려워질 것입니다. 9.11 이후의 상황을 예로 들어보죠, 테러와의 싸움이라는 이름으로 모니터링 있게 모든 것들은 이전에는 상상할 없었던 것들입니다. 보안 당국과 군의 업무는 이제 데이터 접근권에 기반을 두고 있습니다. 예를 들어, 감시 카메라는 공공장소의 표준이 되어버렸습니다. 모니터링을 위한 법적 허용 범위도 확대되었습니다. 만약 이것이 다시 제한된다면, 보안 당국은 아마도 당분간 속수무책일 것입니다."

 

인터뷰 기자는 자신 다소 걱정스러운 "기술 발전을 되돌리는 것이 가능하기는 할까요?"라고 묻는다. 정부고문은 건조하게 대답한다. "팩스 기계와 같이 멸종된 기술의 많은 예가 있습니다. 하지만, 일단 세상에 있는 무언가를 의도적으로 사라지게 하는 것은 거의 불가능합니다."

 

"그럼 앞으로 동안 코로나 앱과 함께 살게 되나요?"라는 질문에 그는 일말의 주저도 없이 대답한다. "백신접종 인증서는 앞으로 여러 동안 유지될 같습니다."

 

발언들은 공식 팬데믹 정책에 깊이 관여하고 있고 자본가 국가기구의 기술 발전에 대해 내밀한 지식을 가지고 있는 정부고문으로부터 나왔다는 점에서 매우 중요한 진술이다. 그는 방역 패스 주민 감시를 위한 기술적 도구들, 부르주아 민주주의에서 자본주의 테크노-전체주의로의 전환에 결정적인 모든 도구들이 우리 생활의 일부가 것이라는 것을 의심하지 않는다. 이러한 사태발전을 되돌리는 것은 교수의 말에 따르면 "거의 불가능하다." 물론, 우리는 이렇게 덧붙여야 한다. 지배계급이 계속 권력을 쥐고 있고 노동자·피억압자의 사회주의혁명에 의해 타도되지 않는 한에서만 "거의 불가능하다"!

 

그룬발트 교수가 9.11 이후의 상황과 비교한 것도 핵심을 비껴간다. 이것은 실로 지배계급의 반혁명 공세로서, 수많은 민주적 권리를 침탈하고 사회의 통제를 벗어나 위에 군림하는 국가 괴물을 만들어냈다. 객관적으로, 제국주의 국가들에 의한 반혁명적 "테러와의 전쟁" 팬데믹 정책의 예행연습이었다고까지 말할 있다.

 

 

 

인민대중 비순응 부분들의 정치적 견해를 알아내는 데이터 감시를 사용한다

 

인터뷰 기자가 질문한다. “백신접종을 받고자 하는 의사(意思) 정치적 견해와도 연결되어 있습니다. 태도에 대한 결론을 이런 식으로 [ 데이터 감시에 의해 인용자] 끌어내는 것이 가능할까요?”

 

그룬발트 교수가 대답한다. "독일과 스위스에서 백신접종을 하지 않은 사람들의 비율은 여전히 높습니다. 그러나 작은 집단을 식별해내고 그들의 견해를 평가판단하는 데는 단지 적은 양의 추가 데이터만 필요했을 뿐입니다."

 

진술은 자본가 국가가 비순응적, 반항적으로 행동하는 인민대중 다양한 집단에 대한 결론을 도출할 있게 해주는 확대 배치되고 있는 인공지능의 도움을 받아 데이터 감시가 어느 정도까지 거대하게 확장되었는지를 드러낸다. 그룬발트 교수는 저명한 현대 기술 전문가이므로 확실히 그는 자신이 무슨 말을 하는지 알고 있다!

 

 

 

지배계급의 전략적 수준의 공격

 

그룬발트 교수의 진술은 RCIT 지난 2 동안 아주 세부적으로까지 제시해온 코로나 반혁명에 대한 맑스주의적 평가분석을 완전하게 확인해주고 있다. 많은 히스테리와 패닉을 동반한 계엄령 코로나 대책은 기본적으로 보건 정책이 아니라 사회 전환의 포괄적인 정치·경제 프로젝트라는 점을 우리는 시작 시점부터 분명히 했다. 근본적 수준에서 독점 부르주아지의 정책을 추동하는 것은 다름 아닌 자본주의 체제가 쇠퇴·사멸해가고 있다는 사실이다. 2008~09 대불황 이래로, 그리고 더욱 직접적으로는 2019 가을 세계경제 공황 시작 이래로 자본주의 체제는 돌이킬 없는 일련의 위기와 재난, 그리고 세계적인 불안정에 직면해 있다.[4] 여기에 더해 2019 여름/가을 이래로 글로벌 민중항쟁 물결이 있다.[5]

 

이런 배경 속에서 지배계급은 팬데믹을 구실로 자본주의 국가기구의 힘을 극적으로 확장하고 제약, IT, 보안 부문 등의 독점자본을 위한 거대한 비즈니스 기회를 창출하는 전속력으로 돌입했다.

 

그래서 우리는 지배계급의 공격이 전략적 성격의 공격이라는 , 일시적인 조치가 아니라 자본주의 사회의 근본적인 전환을 반영하는 것임을 분명히 했다. 2020 3월에 발표한 코로나 반혁명에 관한 번째 RCIT <시국선언>에서 밝혔듯이, “단박에 빅브라더 와버렸다. 자본가 국가가 그것을 감추려는 어떤 시도도 필요 없이 공공연하게 말이다. 거대한 감시 기술이 세계적으로 노멀이 것이다.”[6] 다른 문서들에서 우리는 보다 자세히 사태전개에 대해 설명했다.[7]

 

 

 

근데 좌파? , 제발 나한테 묻지 !

 

본능적으로 노동자계급과 인민대중 속에서는 세계 자본가 정부가 팬데믹을 억압 국가기구의 극적인 확장을 위한 엄폐물로 이용하고 있다는 것을 감지한 부분들이 늘고 있다. 그들이 맑스주의적 평가분석을 지니고 있지 않을 수도 있지만, 그들은 누가 적인지, 그리고 적들의 정책이 인민에게 위험한 결과를 초래한다는 것을 알고 있다. 이것이 바로 코로나 반혁명 정책이 유럽을 비롯해 세계에서 대중적 저항에 직면하고 있는 이유다. 지배계급의 모든 패닉 몰이와 공포 마켓팅 (그리고 현재 다시 오미크론 통한 재부팅 시도와 함께)에도 불구하고, 그리고 자본가 정부가 탄압의 수위를 높여가고 있음에도 불구하고 말이다.

 

수위가 다르고 결론도 다르지만, 맑스주의자들과 인민대중, 그리고 그룬발트 같은 상대적으로 위선적이지 않은 정부고문은 팬데믹을 엄폐물 삼아 근본적인 변화가 진행되고 있다는 모두 일치한다. 이들 모두 주민 감시체계의 대대적인 확충이 이루어졌다는 것을 다시, 서로 다른 관점에서 인식한다.

 

시기의 가장 기괴한 현상 하나는 문제에 대해 많은 기회주의 좌파들의 놀라운 침묵이다. 그들은 지배계급 팬데믹 정책의 반혁명적 성격을 부인하며, 현재 진행되고 있는 부르주아 민주주의에서 자본주의 테크노-전체주의로의 대대적인 전환에 대해 완전히 무의식, 무자각 상태에 있다.

 

물론 우리는 이러한 정치적 순진함이 우연이 아니라 물질적·이데올로기적 뿌리가 있다는 것을 안다. 뿌리는 기회주의 좌파 단위의 지도부들이 자본가 국가기구의 각종 제도·기관들에 편입되어 있는 다양한 스탈린주의 당들의 경우처럼 직접적으로 정부에 편입된 경우부터 대학 같은 이데올로기 기관들에 편입된 경우까지 것으로 나타난다. 다른 중요한 뿌리는 이러한 좌파 정당들이 조합 관료층과 맺고 있는 긴밀한 연계고리다.

 

이러한 편입, 이러한 통합 과정의 결과로, 이들 좌파 정당 지도부·간부들의 견해와 관점에서 이데올로기적 부르주아화가 날로 깊어져가고 있다. 특히 자본가 국가와 보건 정책의 중립성 운운하는 중간계급 편견들을 자신의 입장으로 채택하는 데서 이념적 순치 과정의 완결판을 보여주고 있다. 결과, 이들 개량주의·중도주의 세력들은 완전히 체제에 길들여진 좌파가 되어버렸다.[8]

 

진정한 사회주의자들은 집회·시위/이동·통행 금지, 주민 대량봉쇄, 방역패스/백신접종 의무화 등에 찬동하는 이들 록다운 좌파와 단절하고, 코로나 반혁명에 맞서 싸우기 위해 힘을 합쳐야 한다. 우리의 임무는 지배계급의 반동 공세에 대항하여 이을 대중투쟁에 강령·전술을 있는 새로운 혁명 전위대를 만드는 것이다. RCIT 비롯해 모든 진정한 혁명가들은 임무에 전력투구한다.

 

 

 

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[1] «Eine Technik, die einmal in der Welt ist, kann man kaum absichtlich wieder verschwinden lassen». Während der Corona-Pandemie hat sich die digitale Überwachung verstärkt. Der Physiker und Philosoph Armin Grunwald erklärt, welche Gefahren damit einhergehen. Pauline Voss 26.12.2021, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, https://www.nzz.ch/international/technikfolgenforscher-ueber-digitale-ueberwachung-waehrend-corona-ld.1660607?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-de-DE (영역은 모두 필자.)

 

[2] Wikipedia: Armin Grunwald, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Grunwald (accessed on 31.12.2021)

 

[3] RCIT 코로나19 반혁명을 시작 이래로 광범위하게 분석해왔다. 2020 2월부터 시작해서 우리는 100 넘게 팜플렛과 시론, 성명, 논설, 그리고 단행본 책을 냈다. 다음의 우리 웹사이트 별도 하위 페이지에서 이것들을 있다. https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-the-2019-corona-virus/. 특히 다음을 보라. RCIT Manifesto: COVID-19: A Cover for a Major Global Counterrevolutionary Offensive. We are at a turning point in the world situation as the ruling classes provoke a war-like atmosphere in order to legitimize the build-up of chauvinist state-bonapartist regimes, 21 March 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/covid-19-a-cover-for-a-major-global-counterrevolutionary-offensive/. [<코로나19: 글로벌 반혁명 공세를 가리는 덮개> https://www.thecommunists.net/home/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%96%B4/covid-19-cover-for-major-global-counterrevolutionary-offensive/] 다음의 RCIT 2 시국선언도 보라. Manifesto: “Green Pass” & Compulsory Vaccinations: A New Stage in the COVID Counterrevolution. Down with the chauvinist-bonapartist police & surveillance state defend democratic rights! No to health policy in the service of the capitalist monopolies expand the public health sector under workers and popular control! 29 July 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/green-pass-compulsory-vaccinations-a-new-stage-in-the-covid-counterrevolution/ [<“백신여권” & 백신접종 의무화: 코로나 반혁명의 새로운 단계> https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/green-pass-compulsory-vaccinations-a-new-stage-in-the-covid-counterrevolution/#anker_3]; 다음도 보라. Michael Pröbsting: The COVID-19 Global Counterrevolution: What It Is and How to Fight It. A Marxist analysis and strategy for the revolutionary struggle, RCIT Books, April 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/the-covid-19-global-counterrevolution/. [<<코로나19 글로벌 반혁명>> https://www.thecommunists.net/home/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%96%B4/book-the-covid-19-global-counterrevolution/] Almedina Gunić and Michael Pröbsting: On Some Ideological Features of the COVID Counterrevolution. Comments on an interesting interview with a German liberal historian, 14 November 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/on-some-ideological-features-of-the-covid-counterrevolution/; [<코로나 반혁명의 가지 이데올로기적 특징에 대하여 - 자유주의 팬데믹 역사가의 코로나19 평가에 대한 논평> https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/on-some-ideological-features-of-the-covid-counterrevolution/#anker_5]. 문제에 대한 다음 우리의 기사도 보라. Almedina Gunić: Coronavirus: "I am not a Virus"... but WE will be the Cure! The chauvinist campaign behind the “Wuhan Coronavirus” hysteria and the revolutionary answer, 2 February 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/wuhan-virus/ [<코로나바이러스: “우한 바이러스히스테리 뒤에 숨은 배외주의 캠페인> https://www.thecommunists.net/home/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%96%B4/wuhan-virus/]; Almedina Gunić and Michael Pröbsting: On Some Ideological Features of the COVID Counterrevolution. Comments on an interesting interview with a German liberal historian, 14 November 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/on-some-ideological-features-of-the-covid-counterrevolution/; RCIT 아르헨티나 동지들의 다음 스페인어 기사들도 보라. Juan Giglio: La izquierda de la "Big Pharma", dejó de defender las libertades, 1.10.2021, https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/2021/10/la-izquierda-de-la-big-pharma-dejo-de.html; Juan Giglio: ¿Por qué la izquierda no cuestiona las políticas de la OMS? 8.9.2021, https://convergenciadecombate.blogspot.com/2021/09/por-que-la-izquierda-no-cuestiona-las.html

 

[4] 이에 대해서는 다음을 보라. https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-great-depression/.

 

[5] 이에 대해서는 다음을 보라. RCIT: World Perspectives 2021-22: Entering a Pre-Revolutionary Global Situation, 22 August 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2021-22/; RCIT: World Perspectives 2020: A Pre-Revolutionary Global Situation. Theses on the World Situation, the Perspectives for Class Struggle and the Tasks of Revolutionaries, 8 February 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2020/ [<세계 정세전망 2021-22: 혁명적 세계정세 진입> https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2021-22/#anker_14]. 문서에는 각국의 계급투쟁에 관한 많은 성명과 기사 링크가 포함되어 있다.

 

[6] 위에서 언급한 다음의 코로나19 <시국선언> 보라. COVID-19: A Cover for a Major Global Counterrevolutionary Offensive.

 

[7] 위에서 언급한 다음 책의 II장을 보라. Michael Pröbsting: The COVID-19 Global Counterrevolution: What It Is and How to Fight It. 다음도 보라. The Police and Surveillance State in the Post-Lockdown Phase. A global review of the ruling class’s plans of expanding the bonapartist state machinery amidst the COVID-19 crisis, 21 May 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/police-and-surveillance-state-in-post-lockdown-phase/.

 

[8] 록다운 좌파에 대한 우리의 비판으로는, 다음 문서들을 보라https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-the-2019-corona-virus/. 다음을 보라. Michael Pröbsting: Why Do Some Socialists Refuse to Support the Mass Struggle against the “Green Pass”? PTS/FT, PSTU/LIT, IMT and PCL in the face of the latest stage of the COVID Counterrevolution, 15 October 2021, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/why-do-some-socialists-refuse-to-support-the-mass-struggle-against-the-green-pass/; 같은 저자: COVID-19: The Current and Historical Roots of Bourgeois Lockdown “Socialism”. Police State and Universal Basic Income are key elements of the new version of reformist “War Socialism” of 1914, 19 December 2020, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/covid-19-the-current-and-historical-roots-of-bourgeois-lockdown-socialism/