The 'Abdulhamid III' regime and its foreign supporters: What are these cracks?

These things happen suddenly. The mobilization of societies is the same... But we have something else on our minds...

Can a solution emerge from those who have been deceived? Can those who have been deceived now find a solution on their own to the catastrophe they are going through?

Let this be the first question.

And the second question is this: When does the public stop being deceived? Is it when the crisis reaches unbearable dimensions, or when the intelligentsia intervenes?

Both.

If there is a crisis but no intelligentsia, there is no solution. However, if there is an intelligentsia but no crisis, there is also no solution.

Then we need to redefine the intelligentsia within its historicity. And the crisis as well, of course...

The history of social struggles in Turkey highlights the role of the intelligentsia in particular. We see this abundantly before and immediately after the founding of the republic. As is well known, the great social transformation in our northern neighbor, the establishment of a socialist republic, the Soviet Union, played a major role in this regard.

We have come to the present day...

Today, we have to seek a solution by combining these two questions. Expecting a solution from parliamentarism, from the ballot box alone, is now like "waiting for Godot."

Furthermore, shouldn't the deepening crisis in Turkey and the mass protests that have unexpectedly emerged in Europe be considered harbingers of a new era? Somewhat. But it is difficult to say that those in power understand this. We can say that they do not want to understand.

Then a void emerges. Those above (the property owners) cannot rule, but those below (the labor owners) do not want to rule either. Because for decades, they have been heavily indoctrinated through the democracy tales of the culture industry, in a sophisticated language, that they cannot rule and that they lack such capacity. This was a narcotic injection, and it seems to have taken hold. But we know that the effect of this narcotic begins to wear off as the crisis deepens. That is what is happening here too.

What has been happening in Turkey in recent weeks—the pressure established by the "Abdulhamid III regime" through all kinds of recklessness, including detentions, arrests, raids, and billion-lira fund thefts that have no connection to the law—seems like a harbinger of an end... It can be said that the public may compare their own poverty with the wealth of those in power and turn toward a new attitude. It is not quite there yet, but the first signals have begun to arrive.

And what is the situation in Europe?

NEOLIBERAL BARBARISM IS AT THE END OF THE ROAD, BUT...

It is understood from the street protests that have begun to rise and the rise of the far-right that neoliberal barbarism in Europe has reached the end of the road. Example: On the France-Germany axis, if we look at public opinion polls, the "far-right" is currently in power. A change of power is forcing itself to be remembered. This new pressure is so evident that in Germany, the strong name of social democracy (SPD), Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who is in favor of continuing the dead-end wars in Ukraine, has to stand in squares with a microphone in his hand and sing the "German national anthem" and make ridiculous "anti-fascism calls" against the rise of the AfD. He does this while being on the same wavelength as Chancellor Friedrich Merz, supporting the militarism and war there and in Ukraine, despite the massacre in Palestine.

Many signs have truly appeared, and some new actors are almost jumping onto the stage all of a sudden.

We hear more of the screams of those who are leaving, those who have to leave, but who have dug their nails into the seat of power with speed/pleasure—this Islamist/Turkist/Kurdish parasitic class—rather than the slogans of these newcomers marching to power...

Still, we cannot speak of reaching relief.

But we can argue that both in Turkey and in the Europe of Germany, the rulers themselves see that they have reached the end of the road. This should not be considered an exaggeration.

It would be an exaggeration if we said, "Okay, they are leaving, and new ones will take their place to fix the broken things!" Because there is no such thing. Are there people in Turkey who can replace the Islamists? Is there any difference? Well, is there an alternative in Europe that can replace the classic right? There is not. There is no difference between the AfD and the CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens, and the Left Party... Do not be deceived by them criticizing each other. It is a sham fight...

In the graveyard of socialism, and therefore in Europe where old and new despotisms have begun to clash, there is no reason or any light yet to be hopeful in the short term.

Europe is one thing, but Turkey is always a geography of great surprises.

Example: Are 1923 and 2013 not two tremendous pieces of history? Two forward steps of an extraordinary nature that will not be experienced again.

The first shows the establishment of a progressive/revolutionary republic, and the second (the Gezi Uprising) shows that there are millions who can protect all the gains of that brought-to-its-knees republic, and that the owners of the street can take over this dirty business from a much further point to brake, or even liquidate, the reactionary trend.

Although, it is not possible to return to either of them or to seek salvation there. However, for the future, while walking in the middle of a great collapse, it is not that we have no such energy sources at all. That is what we want to say.

We are in the middle of the collapse. We are searching...