Monopolies of Weapons

A "common sense", racked at the point of bayonets, taught us to postpone (when not to resign) our right to know why the enormous amount that is exercised planetarily is spent on weapons ... without consultation or accountability !. Long history. It is a kind of "understood value" by which we assume that it is "necessary" and "good" to submit to the world market of war goods manufactured by the transnational war industry. And without a joke. "World military spending grows 2.6% pushed by the US and China:" It is a new arms race "" [1]
Monopolies of Weapons

It is a rule that we ignore the "war hypothesis" with which the acquisition of war offers is justified. What threatens us, since when, how and where ... how many are the "enemies" perceived by the "establishment", how are they defined and how are they detected? Who defines where to buy, with what logic of "defense" or "attack" and what tactical and strategic ambushes makes us hostage to the war "products" of the market? Do they give us a guarantee, do they give us discounts, do they have "seasonal offers", how do they advertise themselves? Or is the business that we pay without asking the obsolescence plan that monopolies of weapons come to them according to their crises of overproduction, too? We do not deserve to know in what the money of the working town is spent, especially when the arsenals that are acquired are not exempt of danger - real - of being used against the towns that pay them? "According to the most recent data from the International Institute of Studies for Peace in Stockholm (SIPRI), world military spending increased 2.6% over 2017 to reach 1.8 trillion dollars, 87 billion more than the year previous. At present, it is 76% higher than the historical minimum recorded after the Cold War, in 1998. "[2]

It is a mercantile feast whereby immense fortunes are channeled, mostly to the businesses of: 1. Lockheed Martin (United States) with sales in 2016 of US $ 47,248 million; 2. Boeing (United States) with sales of US $ 29,500 million (Defense, Space and Security Division); 3. BAE Systems (United Kingdom) with sales of US $ 25,600 million; 4. Raytheon (United States) with sales of US $ 24,069 million; 5. Northrop Grumman (United States) with sales of US $ 24,508 million ... are the world leaders in the business of death. [3] It does not take much imagination to understand the commercial plot of such a financial pachanga where the owners share business with the global banking industry and transnational monopolies of "media. The three largest "legal" businesses on the planet. And it does not take much rhetoric to make clear that, in addition to extremely profitable "dividends," these businesses leave death, desolation and planetary humiliations. "Global Arms Industry: Companies in the United States Dominate the Top 100 List" [4]
With the legalized pretext of the "state secret", buyers and sellers constitute a congregation of waste and death behind the backs of the people. Even against the peoples. Not a few of these purchases and sales are the product of very diverse extortions with which it shelters a warlike culture inoculated meticulously to right and left. Films, television series, books, cyber games for boys and girls, songs, myths and fetishes in bulk flood the collective imaginary to clinch the macabre principles of a logic of armamentism turned into entertainment. While the world is bathed with the blood of innocents. "57% of the sale of weapons in the world is controlled by US companies"

Trapped as we are in the logic of colonialist violence, the oppressive powers make us accept that we need weapons, armies, police and all kinds of forces of espionage and repression. They force us to accept, meekly, that something or someone always threatens us and that we must acquire all the seasonal novelties that the "geniuses" of death manufacture without stopping. They sell us weapons and sell us the training, they sell us the "advisors" and they sell us the necessary ideology to keep us faithful to their market. And they sell us, even on credit, the expiration of their paraphernalia to drown us in the logic of "updating", which they have programmed, to destroy national budgets and human beings. And they also sell us the idea that we pay punctually and be (us) "pacifists".

On the other side of history are the peoples who have managed to subject the use of arms to their emancipatory projects. All the independence struggles have fundamental referents that managed (and manage to) rise up in arms to shake off the yoke of imperial domination. Today the great peaceful revolutions, cornered by the bourgeois war threats, only find a way out by resorting to their popular forces

In our education and in our culture, weapons also play a critical role in economic and political systems, are in the hymns and are in the heroes. There are avenues, streets and neighborhoods that honor armed social struggles, we have music, painting, sculpture and poetics of battles against the oppressors. Not a few monuments and statues refer to tools or heroes with which the armed people defeated, militarily and culturally, the oppressor (old or new) who raised their treacherous weapons against the proletariat that, by the way, financed them. The struggle between oppressors and oppressed, the class struggle, gives weapons a radically contrary significance. It is a contradiction where the awareness of freedom and the certainty of emancipation is necessary for a different world, in peace, without social classes, without masters and without weapons. Humanist.