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@JacobAShell If this procedural stuff is what the dems are leading with, I see much more losing. Still no material plan, just tone managers.

In this scenario GOP hones its message to the suburbs and Dems to the inner cities (rurals ignored). They still get 51-49 splits over and over and over. That's it. How exciting.

@Ne_pas_couvrir The radlibs who overly center race, gender and class, do so with the misunderstanding that equality is possible via redistribution, thats literally the opposite of Marx's thoughts. He clearly stated that equality was impossible, we are forced to be equivalent by the value form.

@Ne_pas_couvrir of nearly all things by the value form, is that ALL classes are instrumentalized, capitalist as well. We become cogs in a totalizing machine of production that make all equivalent in the name of growth. Imagination get reified, so science, tech, and development lose human input.

Without the primitive communism stage, the whole narrative falls apart. Let me explain plainly. That first stage gives Marxism its lost “before.” Humanity begins not fully conscious, but unalienated. People are imagined as loosely connected to each other, to shared life, and to the collective, but at a low level. That starting point is key. (Post)Marxism needs an original wholeness so it can tell its moral drama of repair and return to wholeness. So then, everyone is vibing in this primitive communism and then “the system” shows up. Oh no! In classical Marxism, the system is property, class society, wage labor, and capitalism. In post-Marxism, the same role gets played by whiteness, colonialism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, the nation, the family, hierarchy, or Western civilization generally. The names change. The structure stays the same. “The system” cuts people off from real human life. That is alienation. Alienation is the wound. People become separated from their own labor, from each other, from their purpose, from their community, and from their real social being. The world they created starts to stand over them like a foreign power. Human relationships no longer feel human. They appear as markets, institutions, identities, laws, borders, roles, and systems that dominate the people who made them. Then comes reification. Reification is like a gunk covering all the real sparks. This gunk is what happens when the system alienated human relationships coats real authentic life and that gunk hardens and you think that gunk is “reality.” The system stops looking like something people made and starts looking natural, permanent, objective, and unavoidable. Class, race, gender, property, borders, markets, traditions, and institutions get treated like fixed things instead of historical constructions. So think of it this way: Alienation is the separation.
Reification is the hard gunky coating that makes the separation look normal. This gunk covers everything. It’s a coating that hides the spark. That is why consciousness raising becomes the sacred task here. The awakened elect teach people to see through the system. They name the falseness. They show that what looked natural was constructed, what looked neutral was power, and what looked normal was domination. That, my friends, is de-reification: scraping off the gunk so the buried sparks can be seen again. Then comes repair through praxis. The marginalized are recentered because they are treated as the buried sparks inside the broken order. Their standpoint becomes the privileged site of revelation. Their liberation becomes the path to universal repair. And the final goal is *full communism* or whatever post-Marxist substitute takes its place. This is a restored wholeness at a higher level. All the vibing of primitive communism with all the modern goodies lol. So, Primitive communism was unconscious unity. Communism is conscious unity. Everything in between is the fall, the rupture, the alienating system, the hardening of false reality, the awakening of consciousness, and the revolutionary repair of the world.

@Ne_pas_couvrir This would be good satire if it were a bit funnier.

In 2011, Breitbart breaks down how Frankfurt School Marxists like Adorno, Marcuse, & Horkheimer escaped Germany for 1940s Golden Age California -only to hate the endless cheer, productivity, and capitalism. They devised cultural Marxism to subvert the US.

@tangojoshua @JacobAShell If only.

@JacobAShell She will run, she will lose. And then D establishment will falter and an outsider will take control of the party (could be a centrist, could be a communist)

The reason I've been very bullish on Harris as the '28 nominee is that though many Democrats are sick of the logic that elevated her in the first place, the fact is the old logic has not been dissolved at all, and in the late 2020s it still rules over and determines how Dem-to-Dem encounters tend to play out. This isn't just true of primaries btw, it's also true of meetings among all-Dem professionals, conversations among all-Dem friends, etc. If there's any competitive element whatsoever, the logic which determines the winner of the competition is...the old logic. There has been no "reckoning," so to speak.

@default_friend How about, "Art as we know it is not only dead but feeds current degeneration, making people and things worse". Kind of a clear tangent from some of your previous cogent observations.

I need a new hill to die on

@ericweinstein The only people celebrating assassination, like Luigi or attempts on trump, are centrist liberals. They think "good" leaders, be it CEOs or the pres, are all that stands in the way of a better world. The antithesis of revolution.

These aren’t deranged liberals. They are normalized revolutionaries. We normalized revolutionary thinking. These normalized revolutionaries have jobs, advanced degrees, teaching credentials, mortgages and responsibilities. This isn’t hard to grasp.

@DannyDrinksWine Guess he leaned into the capital.

Tom Cruise's interpretation of "Risky Business" (1983): "'Risky Business' (1983) is about today’s capitalistic society. Do the means justify the ends? Do you want to help people, or do you just want to make money? Joel is questioning all that. So am I. Today the thinking of young people is so linear and non-creative. It’s all about money. Unfortunately, we need something like Vietnam to force people to deal with political issues. I’m not saying I’m some erudite political figure—but it bothers me. At least I’m asking the question. The movie is Joel’s exploration of society, how he gets sucked into this wild capitalistic ride." (Tom Cruise's interview with Cameron Crowe, Interview magazine, 1986)

@andersleehere Sounds like devolution.

People quote Tupac’s “money for war but can’t feed the poor” line but, little do they know, his thinking was evolving at the end of his life. Right before he died he was working on an album about Modern Monetary Theory.

@FirstSquawk Getting close! Jobs should have us, not the other way around.

63% OF GEN Z WORKERS NOW SEE JOBS AS TEMPORARY, NOT LONG-TERM CAREERS

@annbauerwriter Only if the machines are subordinate to us. Putting people over the means of production is one possibility for socialism. The capitalist vanguard is doing the opposite. If your point is that they are setting themselves up for obsolescence, then yes.

@lowmoneys Exactly. It's the perfect setup for global Marxism, as machines ascend.

A friend who works in global security and tech infrastructure asked me what I think the next worldwide crisis will be. (I was very flattered). This is what I said:

@Inhumansoflate1 If the "art" made was rigorous and a sublation of gallery/postmodern art it might actually be a start. Read up on the situationists. Art not as petite bourgeois class aspiration but an expansion of the commons and a break from enclosure, which is how art functions now.

I been telling you the American left is dead . Take a look at this shit

@kittych0cklit @hecubian_devil Sure, but may as well start a better conversation. One that can show current ideology more clearly.

@lowmoneys @hecubian_devil the people who are advocating theft as praxis are not going into this with "public history" in mind

Does anyone really treat art as fungible, though? If someone steals a Rothko, we can just replace with a Botticelli from the basement—same thing?

"Museums should be abolished and their masterpieces distributed to bars (Philippe de Champaigne’s works in the Arab cafés of rue Xavier-Privas; David’s Sacre in the Tonneau on Rue Montagne-Geneviève)." bopsecrets.org/SI/paris.htm

@hecubian_devil "Museums should be abolished and their masterpieces distributed to bars (Philippe de Champaigne’s works in the Arab cafés of rue Xavier-Privas; David’s Sacre in the Tonneau on Rue Montagne-Geneviève)." bopsecrets.org/SI/paris.htm

@hecubian_devil Museums are public history in one sense, but are a clear example of enclosure in another. They enclose creativity and imagination as bourgeois art. The Situationists wrote about this. Museums are a stage in history. We can do better regarding the future of art.

@JacobAShell Art that is culturally visible, comes directly out of political economy. Hard to see it meaning much outside of niche groups. Criticality too has long been engulfed by the Spectacle. A new art would have to somehow sublate all of this.

As intensely political as things always seem, I believe that we are drifting towards a new era (such eras have happened before) where art will be more important than politics again. This is a slow but decisive type of drift, probably cyclical in nature.