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Diary Entry - March 5, 1919

The newspapers scream of inflation - 3.3%, they say, as if this were some natural disaster, some unpredictable act of God. But I see the truth coiled beneath the numbers: capital’s relentless hunger, gnawing at the scraps of stability left to the working class. Fuel prices surge - of course they do. The Strait of Hormuz trembles, empires scramble for control, and who pays? The dockworker, the seamstress, the miner whose wages dissolve like salt in water while the cost of bread rises.

This is not accident, but necessity - the system’s logic laid bare. When capital can no longer expand outward, it turns inward, devouring what little security the proletariat has scraped together. The oil barons wring their hands over closed straits, yet their profits climb. The state wags its finger at inflation, yet refuses to touch the monopolies that engineer it.

And what of the reformists? They will propose subsidies, price controls - bandages on a hemorrhage. Each concession granted only to stabilize the machine that crushes us. They do not see, or refuse to see, that these measures are traps - not steps toward liberation, but chains disguised as safety nets.

Meanwhile, the streets murmur. The unrest is not chaos - it is the first stirrings of consciousness. Spontaneity frightens the bureaucrats more than any organized party ever could. Let them tremble. The masses are learning, slowly, bitterly, that no petition will save them. Only their own hands, clenched in solidarity, can break the cycle.

Freedom - real freedom - begins when we refuse to pay for capital’s crisis.