Just how estranging and de-humanising from the biological essence of life on earth the effect of living within hierarchical mass societies has become has once again been illustrated this month (June 2026) by some individuals within the anti-capitalist left itself. In a recent left article defending the current Cuban communist type of governance from the tactics of the ex Cuban committees and the USA elites interference in Cuba the author wrote the following;

“….. 67 years after Cuban revolutionary forces marched into Havana, Cuba, and declared victory, this white Cuban scum is still a very irritating element amid continued U.S. attacks against the Cuban people. We couldn’t be more tired of these low life roaches“.

Here we have from within the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist left the same bourgeois and petite-bourgeois fascistic ideology of dehumanisation of human beings by reference to their skin colour and by comparing them to scum and cockroaches. Cassifying human beings alongside insects and vermin, and by skin colour identification of the human species was an elite colonial period invention created to rationalise discrimination, oppression and exploitation of other human beings and labour power. It serves no other purpose. The above authors show their own ignorance and inherited misguided prejudice and have chosen to adopt and adapt a vocabulary created and sustained by anthropocentric colonialist era elites and their 20th century fascist imitators..

Yet this vocabulary has no natural or empirical validity and is simplistically hurled back at the other inheritors of such sociologically derived concepts, whilst its hurdlers pretend to have achieved a higher moral ground, a more rational understanding of class struggle and a more thought-out revolutionary position. Moreover, the general anthropocentric malaise is spread much further. Others on the left have chosen to publish this anthropocentric racist nonsense with little or no critical reflection on its reactionary form and retrograde meaning. In addition the authors and subsequent publishers demonstrate they too have little understanding of the detrimental relationship between hierarchical mass society means of mass production and the ecological and climatic balance of the biological and bio-chemical basis of life on earth beyond their own direct and limited experience of it.

Roy Ratcliffe (June 2026)