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* [[File:Surrealism2.png]] Andre Breton
* [[File:Surrealism2.png]] Antonin Artaud
* [[File:Surrealism2.png]] Antonin Artaud
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* <s>[[File:AnCommunization.png]]</s> Tiqqun
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* [[File:AnCommunization.png]] Hostis
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* [[File:Crafttheo.png]] Eugene Thacker
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}}[[File:KingInYellow.png]] Carcosan Communism, is, simply put, the only alternative to Capital. What are my goals, you may ask? To realize an entity which as of now exists only in the past and the future, but never the present: That entity known as communism. I support the decadent, the profane, the vulgar, the free, the foolish and the mad.
}}[[File:KingInYellow.png]]Communism, is, simply put, the only alternative to Capital. My goals are to realize an entity which as of now exists only in the past and the future, but never the present: That entity known as communism. I support the decadent, the profane, the vulgar, the free, the foolish and the mad.
=== Goals ===


== The Critique of Capital ==
* [[File:Insan2.png]] Insurrection Against Capital
To properly critique capital, one must first understand it's nature. And to understand it's nature, one must understand the accursed share. The accursed share is that share of resources which exists after the maintenance of a system. Take, for example, an animal. When this animal consumes food, it expends most of this energy on maintaining itself. However, there is frequently a portion of this energy which cannot be reinvested into maintenance; Instead, it is stored as fat for later use. This is a perfect representation of the nature of the accursed share. Capital is simply a method of spending the accursed share. Capital is a process in which the accursed share is spent on creating more resources. For example: In a capitalist economy, surpluses are spent on producing more surpluses. In capital, the accursed share is basically utilized to produce more accursed share. This is the circuit of capital: E-G-E. Expenditure, growth and expenditure.
* [[File:Illeg.png]] Abolition of Law
* <s>[[File:AnCommunization.png]]</s> Communization
* [[File:Sorel.png]] Eternal Production and Destruction of Myth


Communism, on the other hand, is any non-capitalist usage of the accursed share. This can be found in abundance in nature, where the productivist logic of E-G-E does not necessarily exist. The accursed share is instead utilized as reserves, for non-essential processes, etc. Now, one might ask: What is the issue with this productivist logic, this capital-circuit? Well, you see, the issue lies in its civilized, moral, and human nature of capital.
* [[File:Biomech.png]] Abolition of Technorganic Barrier
* [[File:Smol_biotranshumanism.png|link=https://polcompballminarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Smol_biotranshumanism.png]] Biological Anarchy
* [[File:Cyberfem.png|link=https://polcompball.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Cyberfem.png]] Primordial Soup Recreation


Capital is the essence of civilization; The two are identical, in fact. It is the capital-circuit which gave rise to civilization and it is civilization which keeps it in place. Civilization is basically a tool of capital. Morality, on the other hand, is not necessarily linked to capital. Instead, morality is a system of values utilized to justify and legitimize a specific system of power-relations. Now, in our case, the relationship between capital and morality is quite complex. While capital has existed since the beginning of civilization, it only began the formal subsumption of civilization into it during the collapse of feudalism and the rise of capitalism as an economic system. When the formal subsumption of capital began, prior moral systems collapsed and new, rationalist systems emerged, such as Humanism and Enlightenment Thought in general. However, this morality was, ultimately, too focused on human desires and needs, as opposed to the needs of capital. And so, with the dawn of the real subsumption of capital, rational humanism was phased out in favor of a purely productivist system of morality. In this system, something is determined to be good or bad depending on whether or not it contributes to, or, more accurately, whether or not it is opposed to, growth. Observe, for example, the LGBTQ+ movement. It has slowly been assimilated into capital because it can both A) contribute to growth and B) not oppose it. In essence, the morality of things in contemporary capitalism is determined by their relationship to capital. As such, capital is far from amoral.  
* [[File:Surrealism2.png|link=https://polcompballminarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Surrealism2.png]] Surrealist Society
* [[File:Crafttheo.png]] Summoning Communism
* [[File:SolarEconomy.png|link=https://philosophyball.miraheze.org/wiki/File:SolarEconomy.png]] Realized Solar Economy
* [[File:Arist.png]] Universalized Aristocracy
* [[File:TechCapCult.png|link=https://polcompball.miraheze.org/wiki/File:TechCapCult.png]] Destruction of Technocapital and Civilization
* [[File:Vpered.png]] Communist Social Relations Replacing Religious Ones
* [[File:Hyperstition.png]] Hyperstitional Realization of Communism


Capital is, indeed, highly moral. It has fixed values, or, one fixed value: That of capital. Capital, is, however, rather decadent. It questions, negates and transforms old values. However, it does not do this endlessly, but instead negates only those values which are dangerous to its goals. Ultimately, capital is a moral, civil and non-decadent system. This is why the proper decadent and the proper amoralist ought to oppose capital: Because it is simply playing at being amoral, at being decadent. Capital is the end of change and the end of free time. Capital is the end of decadence, ultimately. It is the crystallization of a specific set of values and their immortalization. So then, what is the opposite of it?
* [[File:Taoism.png]] Utter Spontaneity


== Communism and The King in Yellow ==
== Civilization ==
“In the civilized mechanism we find everywhere composite unhappiness instead of composite charm.” -Charles Fourier


=== "[...] I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..." ===
P A R T I: The Origin of the Civilized
The King in Yellow. Hastur. The city of Carcosa. In Robert W Chambers groundbreaking collection of short stories titled the King in Yellow, he weaves an eerie narrative through snippets of a play, bouts of madness and the hinting at of a dystopian future. In the tales, one common thread exists; That of the King in Yellow, a disturbed play whose second act is said to drive any who read it mad.


The play itself identified as a horrid monstrosity by those who do not understand it, and a borderline biblical text by it's readers. It plays a central role in Chambers' story The Repairer of Reputations, which features centrally a young and wealthy man who has read the book in question, after falling off of a horse and going 'mad'. What is fascinating in his characterization of the book is that it reveals truths of which "human nature could not bear the strain." Brilliant! The King in Yellow is not just an assault upon sanity, but so too upon human nature!
Civilization is the systematized repression and stratification of desire. It is that which is constricted. It is thus not unsurprising that it is so deeply related to the phenomenon capital. Greater individuals than I have conducted a radical analysis of the relationship between the two, but I seek to both analyze the capital-civilizational relationship as well as the tools that we must utilize to surpass it. And so, we must begin by understanding the nature of civilization.


In the Repairer of Reputations, an elderly man known as Mr. Wilde, the titular repairer, is considered mad by all but a dear friend by the protagonist. Wilde is supposedly deranged and yet is able to locate with perfect accuracy the location of a famously lost suit of armor. While it is unclear whether this was an accurate depiction of reality or not, it could perhaps hint at Mr. Wilde, another reader of the King in Yellow, 's advanced insight imparted upon him in the tale. While Chambers seems to share Lovecraft's fear of hidden knowledge, could we not interpret the evident truth of such knowledge as beneficial? Could we not interpret this supposed madness as enlightenment?  
Civilization is a systematized repression, seemingly alien to nature, seemingly alien to *us*, that has simultaneously infiltrated our lives to such a vile extent that it is difficult for most to imagine a state of existence beyond it. It finds its root in the complication of societal relations and the construction of a division of labor, first based upon gender, then upon other characteristics, until the gradual hyper-stratification we see today emerges. When a community begins creating fixed roles for individuals to fulfill, it becomes ‘civilized’. But why did these roles emerge? Why are they so apparently foundational to civilization?  


The protagonist of both the Repairer of Reputations and the story The Yellow Sign mention an alleged symbol containing such terrible power that whoever looks upon it is driven mad. It is arguably cursed, much like the knowledge imparted by the play itself. But what is it about this knowledge that is so terrible? Is it that it seems to inspire change in all who read it? Is it that it challenges what is to make way for what could be? Is this book not a form of decadence, of questioning and critique? Is it not the FEAR of decadence that causes its readers to be branded as mad? I think so!
It is because of capital. Capital is the very logic of growth itself. It is the thought of producing in order to produce more later on. It is a loop of ever greater production, of ever greater  complexity. Capital is the name of this circuit, and civilization is its factory. The division of labor, specialization, is necessary for more efficient production. If production is more efficient, the circuit of capital can be prolonged and proliferated. Prosperity is simply a side affect of capital-civilization. As production becomes more streamlined, resources become more bountiful. This is the supposed purpose of capital. That is a lie. Capital’s purpose is simply capital. It is simply to continue becoming.


The King in Yellow is not some horrible text of undulating terror. It is a tome of change, of inspiration and so-called 'madness'. It is profane! It is decadent! It is the destruction of what is! It is even claimed in the text itself to be a work of art like no other. Could it be that communism is our "Yellow Sign"? A profane concept which infects the minds of its followers with what others view as madness? Indeed! Communism IS the Yellow Sign, and every communist is a King in Yellow. Let our tatters flow in the winds of change as the Mystery of Hyades is spread across the world, enveloping it and sinking it beneath the light of black stars! Tell me, reader, Do You Know the Yellow Sign?
Civilization was a notable transformation of human existence, signaling the end of the communism and the beginning of capital. Civilization is necessarily repressive just as communism is necessarily freeing. Civilization is necessarily repressive because its existence rests upon repression, upon division. Labor must be divided in order to maximize its efficiency, people must be divided in order to maximize their efficiency, division, division, stratification, order, structure!  
 
Civilization also relies upon the institution of ‘norms’, or society-wide repressions. Most notable and most deeply seated are those norms which are sexual. Sexual repression is instituted by civilization for one reason and one alone: The maximization of capital-accumulation. Take, for example, the many-thousand-year-old prohibition of homosexual activity. What is the root of this revulsion, this disgust towards same-sex love? It is because homosexual intercourse and relations are not productive in any sense of the word. They are purely useless. They do not aid in the production of more children and thus more capital. They do not aid in the subjugation of woman, and thus the maximization of women’s performance of reproductive labor.
 
While on the topic of the ‘second sex’, let us draw upon the great work of the feminists and analyze the relationship between civilization and the female. In the division of reproductive labor(childcare, housework, any labor that contributes to the rearing of the next generation) we find the first division in society, one perhaps older than civilization itself. There has always been some distinction between the labor of the sexes, but in prehistoric, communistic society, there was a level of flexibility, of fluidity in these roles. It was not yet the time of patriarchy. Women, if they so pleased, could engage in ‘male’ labor, and vice versa.
 
The birth of civilization was the solidification of sexual roles. No longer was the division of labor primitive and based primarily upon a pragmatic approach catering to the biological differences between the sexes, but rather a concrete and sweeping expectation, a repressive norm that colored the relations between sexes for thousands of years to come. Now, it was the women’s *obligation* to engage in reproductive labor, and it was now the man’s responsibility to engage in all other types of labor. This is the difference between the roles of the sexes: The woman must perform one type of labor and only that labor; The man can perform any other kind of labor but reproductive labor. The woman becomes a reproductive machine, while the man remains a free agent in society, to the extent that he can be.
 
The more roles like “man” and “woman”, “servant” and “leader”, “us” and “them” become solidified, the more “civilized” a society becomes. The more repression and stratification becomes institutionalized, the more “civilized” a society becomes. Civilization is a system of subjugation, oppression and repression, simple as.

Latest revision as of 05:54, 11 April 2024

Communism, is, simply put, the only alternative to Capital. My goals are to realize an entity which as of now exists only in the past and the future, but never the present: That entity known as communism. I support the decadent, the profane, the vulgar, the free, the foolish and the mad.

Goals

  • Insurrection Against Capital
  • Abolition of Law
  • Communization
  • Eternal Production and Destruction of Myth
  • Abolition of Technorganic Barrier
  • Biological Anarchy
  • Primordial Soup Recreation
  • Surrealist Society
  • Summoning Communism
  • Realized Solar Economy
  • Universalized Aristocracy
  • Destruction of Technocapital and Civilization
  • Communist Social Relations Replacing Religious Ones
  • Hyperstitional Realization of Communism
  • Utter Spontaneity

Civilization

“In the civilized mechanism we find everywhere composite unhappiness instead of composite charm.” -Charles Fourier

P A R T I: The Origin of the Civilized

Civilization is the systematized repression and stratification of desire. It is that which is constricted. It is thus not unsurprising that it is so deeply related to the phenomenon capital. Greater individuals than I have conducted a radical analysis of the relationship between the two, but I seek to both analyze the capital-civilizational relationship as well as the tools that we must utilize to surpass it. And so, we must begin by understanding the nature of civilization.

Civilization is a systematized repression, seemingly alien to nature, seemingly alien to *us*, that has simultaneously infiltrated our lives to such a vile extent that it is difficult for most to imagine a state of existence beyond it. It finds its root in the complication of societal relations and the construction of a division of labor, first based upon gender, then upon other characteristics, until the gradual hyper-stratification we see today emerges. When a community begins creating fixed roles for individuals to fulfill, it becomes ‘civilized’. But why did these roles emerge? Why are they so apparently foundational to civilization?

It is because of capital. Capital is the very logic of growth itself. It is the thought of producing in order to produce more later on. It is a loop of ever greater production, of ever greater  complexity. Capital is the name of this circuit, and civilization is its factory. The division of labor, specialization, is necessary for more efficient production. If production is more efficient, the circuit of capital can be prolonged and proliferated. Prosperity is simply a side affect of capital-civilization. As production becomes more streamlined, resources become more bountiful. This is the supposed purpose of capital. That is a lie. Capital’s purpose is simply capital. It is simply to continue becoming.

Civilization was a notable transformation of human existence, signaling the end of the communism and the beginning of capital. Civilization is necessarily repressive just as communism is necessarily freeing. Civilization is necessarily repressive because its existence rests upon repression, upon division. Labor must be divided in order to maximize its efficiency, people must be divided in order to maximize their efficiency, division, division, stratification, order, structure!

Civilization also relies upon the institution of ‘norms’, or society-wide repressions. Most notable and most deeply seated are those norms which are sexual. Sexual repression is instituted by civilization for one reason and one alone: The maximization of capital-accumulation. Take, for example, the many-thousand-year-old prohibition of homosexual activity. What is the root of this revulsion, this disgust towards same-sex love? It is because homosexual intercourse and relations are not productive in any sense of the word. They are purely useless. They do not aid in the production of more children and thus more capital. They do not aid in the subjugation of woman, and thus the maximization of women’s performance of reproductive labor.

While on the topic of the ‘second sex’, let us draw upon the great work of the feminists and analyze the relationship between civilization and the female. In the division of reproductive labor(childcare, housework, any labor that contributes to the rearing of the next generation) we find the first division in society, one perhaps older than civilization itself. There has always been some distinction between the labor of the sexes, but in prehistoric, communistic society, there was a level of flexibility, of fluidity in these roles. It was not yet the time of patriarchy. Women, if they so pleased, could engage in ‘male’ labor, and vice versa.

The birth of civilization was the solidification of sexual roles. No longer was the division of labor primitive and based primarily upon a pragmatic approach catering to the biological differences between the sexes, but rather a concrete and sweeping expectation, a repressive norm that colored the relations between sexes for thousands of years to come. Now, it was the women’s *obligation* to engage in reproductive labor, and it was now the man’s responsibility to engage in all other types of labor. This is the difference between the roles of the sexes: The woman must perform one type of labor and only that labor; The man can perform any other kind of labor but reproductive labor. The woman becomes a reproductive machine, while the man remains a free agent in society, to the extent that he can be.

The more roles like “man” and “woman”, “servant” and “leader”, “us” and “them” become solidified, the more “civilized” a society becomes. The more repression and stratification becomes institutionalized, the more “civilized” a society becomes. Civilization is a system of subjugation, oppression and repression, simple as.

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