A tendency you will see throughout history is that every movement passes through an arc: anti-formist (revolutionary) - reformist - conformist/counter-revolutionary. Once the conformist fase is reached, it is bound to be destroyed by its own contradictions and a new movement emerges to replace it. This is exactly what happened in Russia with the Bolsheviks. After the revolutionary wave o 1917-1923 had failed the only force capable of developing industry in Russia was capitalism, and so the communists were all murdered under Stalin, who exploited the trust the working classes put in the CPSU organisation in order to deceive them, to hide from them the fact that the USSR had become a bourgeois imperialist State.
The Stalinist counter-revolution, the failure of the revolutionary wave of 1917-23, the unleashing of the second imperialist world war by the Stalin-Hitler pact of '39, opened up a literal century of counter-revolution that we are only beginning to come out of right now because ... capitalism has become conformist again; it has become a barrier to the development of industry. And like WW2, once again the proletariat will be forced to murder its class brothers on both sides of the front, to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their masters' profits.
If you look at global industrial production indices you'll see that growth in industrial production world wide is slowing down. If you look deeper, the transition point is the global crisis of 2008. This marks it as a global crisis of overproduction. In the more developed countries (US, Europe, etc) growth in industrial production has completely stopped; there has been an industrial stagnation. Where it has not stopped, it has slowed down. And now massive speculation buttles in real estate and the stock exchange are opening up which are guaranteed to burst because industrial production is the basis of all other profit.
The central banks are keeping the world economy on life support and the various governments of the world are applying the palliative of nationalizing private debt by bailing out the companies that are "too big too fail" but they (quite literally) cannot afford to do this forever. First of all, bankruptcy is inevitable; the State does not stand above economic laws. But secondly, even if it were not inevitable, there are studies demonstrating that after the amount of debt in the economy exceeds a certain percentage of the GDP, growth is majorly impeded.
The whole basis of industrial profit is growth of production. Competition cuts down the rate of profit via mechanization which increases the amount of capital (taking the form of means of production and labor power) needed to turn the same amount of profit. This results in an increased production of commodities resulting in an oversaturation of the market and a crisis of overproduction because the economy has TOO MUCH CAPITAL for it to absorb.
The ways the bourgeoisie has to overcome crises of production are threefold: 1. more thorough exploitation of old markets, 2. expansion into new markets, 3. destruction of productive forces.
Now keep in mind labor power is its own productive force. The proletariat is a productive force. You can have a surplus laboring population. In fact you need to have a surplus of people to operate a surplus of machinery.
The world has already been fully conquered and divided up by the imperial powers and by their bourgeoisies, de facto but not dejure. The smaller states are all economic slaves of the larger ones despite their constitutional independence.
There are therefore no markets to expand into. And you can only exploit old markets so far. The question will then become an enforced mass destruction of industry and of human beings taking the form of violent military competition for spheres of influence.
In other words: world war 3 is an economic inevitability. It is the only way out of the crisis for the bourgeoisie. And the destruction of war is one of the driving motivators for it. And so you see increasing focus on civilian targets.
The whole purpose of imperialist war is to kill civilians, destroy industry, and secure new avenues for economic expansion, new markets and new industries.
Pacifism then is a suicide venture. Our response is not pacifism. It is the transformation of world imperialist war into world class war, into international communist revolution. And this requires the proletariat to sabotage its own country's war effort. And this applies to every proletariat, every nation. To coordinate this, a global political party is needed, an international communist party.
This tactic we call "revolutionary defeatism" and we begun to put it into practice for Europe as soon as 1871. It worked marvelously at stopping the first world war. That's what the revolutionary wave was. But because we failed, the bourgeoisie sough its vengeance in the second.
The Russian-Ukraine war and the Israel-Palestine war have opened up in this context. You can expect them to most likely expand, rather than to contract. This is just the dress rehearsal. The next few decades of your life are going to be armageddon.
The bourgeoisie got all pompous after the second world war, the post-war boom. But now it's come to a close and the proletariat has begun to move once again. And so the bourgeoisie feels its eyeballs receding into its skull.
I'm sure you've been observant enough to realize that the current resurgence of the trade union and socialist movements has been due to the crisis of 2008 and the stagnation thereafter. I think you're smart enough to have drawn that conclusion all by yourself.
The issue with the socialist movement is that it is all a deception. It is an ideological smokescreen that the bourgeoisie will use to subjugate the proletariat. For us, our only salvation is the Communist Manifesto.