Epoch Neo-Marxism

Self Insert "People can really believe anything these days!" - Ismism This page is meant to represent Marivistu's political views. Please do not make any major edits without their permission.

In Development "I'll stop reading eventually." - Left Communism This page is still in development due to ongoing reading by NewMaritimeVistula, multiple things may change drastically.

This is more of a criticism page than a solution page for now. I aim to criticise the current as you must first hate the current to want the new.

Epoch Neo-Marxism
Basic Information
Aliases	Neo-Vistulism Sleepy Socialism The to my , The to my The to my
Alignments	LibLeft  Culturally Ultra-Left  Technologically Progressive  Socialists
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Unchained Progress Revolutionary Socialism Antonio Gramsci (Hegemony) Vikky Storm (Gender) Mark Fisher (Capitalist Realism) Antonio Gramsci (Hegemony) Vikky Storm (Gender) Mark Fisher (Capitalist Realism) Gilles Deleuze (Deterritorialisation) Félix Guattari (Deterritorialisation) Paul Gilroy (Postcolonial Melancholia) Anton Pannekoek (Council Communism) Libertarian Marxism Unchained Progress Anti-Gender Morphological Liberty Deterritorialisation Council Organisation AI Planning Fully Automated Communism (sympathetic) Counter-Culture Acid Corbynism Anti-Capitalist Realism Optimistic Nihilism Neo-Marxism Post-Postmodernism (sympathetic)
Variations
Sub-Ideologies	Proto-Militant Socialism Progressive Fascism (accused) Guild Socialism Guild Democracy Universal Nationalism
Character Information
Likes	Progress for Progress Sake Karl Marx The Proletarian
Dislikes	The Tranquiliser The Horseshoe Capitalist Realism Moderation Postcolonial Melancholia

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing towards what will be.

Khalil Gibran

Welfare is the new opium of the masses.

Epoch Neo-Marxism

Epoch Neo-Marxism is the views of Marivistu. They are mostly inspired by Antonio Gramsci on culture, Vikky Storm on Gender, and Mark Fisher on Capitalist Realism and the imagination of new realities. It wishes for the use of counter-culture, counter-hegemony (called proletarian hegemony) and ruthless criticism in order to envision a new future away from capitalist realism and the democracy ruled by its subscribers and their friends in the market.

Epoch Neo-Marxism is extremely supportive of technology as it can be used to envision new futures more efficiently and less bound. It also believes technology can help with the battle for social liberation against an increasingly conservative media, spread to keep oppression as an accepted norm, which in turn benefits capitalism, being a system built on oppression.

Other than the influences mentioned above, Epoch Neo-Marxism is also influenced by Paul Gilroy and his works on Postcolonial Theory (specifically Postcolonial Melancholia) and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's ideas such as deterritorialisation.

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Hegemony

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Antonio Gramsci

Counter-Hegemony

What can be done to destroy a hegemony? To defeat a hegemony, you must squash it, ensuring it will never come back. Currently the hegemony works through feeding on any moderate divergence ( anti-capitalism is capitalist) and creating a metaphorical culture box which we all stick to. This culture box includes ideas such as the love of peace (which rids people of necessary revolutionary fervour), the veneration of hard work (which is seen in social capitalist movements which want to make the world more about merit) or the worship and chase of value (the acceptance of money as an alternative to the abolition of the system itself), among other things. What we must do is tread outside of this box and deem movements which fail to do this as merely servants of the miserable hegemony, the new movement must be revolutionary, staunchly against work and unaccepting of financial appeasement.

The Culture War

The culture war is a scheme made up to distract the left from real problems, like which politician should be shot first.

Epoch Neo-Marxism

Jokes aside, the culture war is silly. It is no "war", it's a co-optee of the neoliberal scum which causes identity to be commodified Identity has of course become a marketable product/spectacle as ideas such as race, gender and sexuality are exploited for profit thanks to consumer culture finding appeal in the progressive mask corporations hide themselves under. Products are branded as inclusive without creating any real change, this is because these corporations do not stand for real change but instead for real profit by capitalising on social justice movements. Social justice movements are also depoliticised by this commodification as it loses its message, the entire point of it. This is because these movements are reduced to mere tokens, in a process called tokenism. This is like with things like affirmative action which merely forces support characters into a firm or educational institute rather than allowing for intersectionality to come about through acceptance, which overall just leads to more hatred of them as they are blamed for policies like affirmative action (I believe our government is purposefully using this when housing illegal immigrants to shift people more towards right-wing populists like Reform UK, as the spectre of communism still haunts all.)

Ruthless Criticism of all that exists

Social Democracy

Social democracy, which demonstrates the left's repressive moderation from anti-capitalism to "new and improved" capitalism, is the embodiment of the hegemony theory that Gramsci believed in where the system currently possesses a monopoly over our culture and thought.

Gender

Gender is an integral social construct of the capitalist system. It is centred around wage labour and has transformed marriages — unions between citizens — into mere labour-centric contracts. Vikky Storm explains this well in her Gender Accelerationist Manifesto. "The male part of reproductive labour was increasingly to labour for a capitalistic boss, and the female part to support his wage labour from home."

Left-Wing Market Anarchists

The cold truth is that a free market would not cause cooperative control of business, no matter how much you dream. The state does not enforce the capitalist social relations because you don't need anything to enforce them anymore. This is because capitalism has already established its hegemony over us and so the slaves will act like slaves because they're now pretty much programmed to. So what will anarcho-capitalism bring? Simple. It will intensify the hierarchical social relations the current capitalist system already has. But first, what are social relations? Social relations are like the way people act determined by their social position, affected by the environment i.e. the ideology someone has developed under. Capitalist social relations are ones of social hierarchy i.e. people at the top and "people" down at the bottom. And, yes, as I have said, Freeing the market does not rid of these capitalist social relations. It simply allows them to run wild. Purchases would be ALL commodities, the definition of a commodity would expand to include humans (any type), weaponry and more. Left-Rothbardian in my opinion would be a failure which would not result in any kind of cooperative market.

Why Anti-Capitalism?

Here I present myself a question - what is my motive for anti-capitalism? I believe in anti-capitalism because of the unjust social relations present in capitalism in which the proletarians are given no alternative but to steal their labour and any deviance from this is territorialised to fit a new genre, much like complaints were (e.g. gangster rap is a great example.) These social relations are not just now economic but also cultural, we are bound to them, like a new mental bacteria, limiting our imagination. As Fisher said, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. So what is bad about these social relations effecting our mind? Well. It saps away the creativity of the people and leaves them unable to express their opinion. And what if they do express it? It'll be introduced to the system, which feeds on hatred towards itself. So we are stuck in a perpetual loop. And these perpetual loops contain these oppressive constructs which keep the oppressive constructs meaning the oppressive constructs themselves are perpetual. So the main reasons I oppose capitalism are its hegemony on culture which results in effects such as capitalist realism and the oppressive social relations set about by it.

How Anti-Capitalism?

Deterritorialisation

The deleuzoguattarianism idea of deterritorialisation greatly interests me. It was set out in the two's collaborative work named A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia and speaks about the opposite of territorialisation, which the market-centric society were engage in daily uses as we engage with it, whether we engage in an agreed way, a negotiated way or even a way of outright rejection. Our society grabs its enemy's weapon. So what is deterritorialisation? It is the process in which already established structures which we could consider universal such as gender are destabilised or undergo an incredible transformation, resulting in it becoming divergent from capitalism. This is the cultural way of fighting against the post-neoliberal system we live in, including capitalist realism.

How does deterritorialisation link to capitalist realism though? Well capitalism realism is currently the result of extreme territorialisation, where alternatives are not murderered, as that would be violent and the neoliberal system must make itself appear peaceful, but instead these alternatives are territorialised, meaning they become part of the system. An example of this is gangster rap whose messages of "fuck the police" have now become mere slogans to print on a t-shirt or coffee mug and any real sentiment of it is assumed to be part of that genre.

On Reformists

Reformists are not necessarily bad people, they are merely stuck in a hard world. We live under a world filled with a love for peace, and therefore a hatred of revolutionary tendencies. Reformists are not exactly worshipping or loving the system but instead being forced into appeasing it by a misguided populace. Take Jeremy Corbyn for example, a reformist who I consider a great man. He wished to achieve socialism by democratic means and that is a noble goal, it just unfortunately didn't work. The election was rigged and not by the methods you think of, not by stealing votes or armed police forcing us to vote for the Tories, but by the media, by those the establishment is a benefactor of. So, my conclusion is, whilst reform is an ideal which empowers the establishment, reformists are not always establishment drones.

The State

Socialism will be free or it will not be at all.

Rudolf Rocker

Proletarian Directorate

I believe in an actually existing dictatorship of the proletariat, different to the corrupt bureaucracy which formed in the Soviet Union. The dictatorship of the proletariat will not be the dictatorship of the party, for the party as a domineering vehicle is doomed to fail. Instead, the state being organised through workers councils shall be the true proletarian state.

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Relations

Žemerald

For the few flawless (or nearly so) ideologies.

Žem

For the ideologies which glisten brightly in the sea of shit.

• Rocksism - Your views are definitely good, synthesis anarchy is a noble goal which aims to bring about a unified anarchist idea, which certainly would be useful when trying to abolish the state. I see you have Capitalist Realism on your Want to Read section, I would definitely recommend it, it's very great. I like your decommodification of products idea, that is a breaking down of a feature of utmost importance to capital. While I don't believe in communization personally, I do think it is a good ideal. (You should totally abolish gender though for the truest individual freedom.)
• Neo-Leninism - Reading your page, your beliefs are definitely not too bad, I love your ruthless critique of social democracy and I totally agree with you that capitalism is working as intended and any attempt to fix it is anti-communist bullshit which does not even attempt to break out of the hegemony capital has over our very minds, our media, everything in the goddamn fucking world. I agree with you that many Democratic Socialism supporters have no idea what socialism means, I mean just...ask an average self-proclaimed socialist who votes socialist parties, they'll likely say its just "more wages" or something. Your dislike of party dictatorship is great, fuck yeah and council communism is a very good system. I like your revolutionary stance as well. Yeah, overall, you're rather great comrade.

Ruby

For the fairly good ideologies.

• File:Ancomf.png Anarcho-Communism - You're good, but you must realise that state isn't the only thing keeping capitalism up - there is also culture. I've said this before: a slave will continue to be a slave if they are programmed to be a slave. What is needed is an extreme disestablishment of social norms and only, and Only Then can communism be established.

Iron

For the middling ideologies.

Rust

For the bad, but not repulsive ideologies.

Wegiel

For the repulsive ideologies.

Brimstone

For the purely evil ideologies.

• Brazilian Liberalism - As an enforcer of the cultural hegemony which Gramsci told of and a subscriber to capitalist realism, you are everything I am against. You also have now become a monarchist and a monarch, no matter how constitutional they are, is a symbol of the oppression of proletariats and its effect of "unifying the nation" only spreads two ideas: we "need" a monarch to be together and the monarch is our protector. Your economics are disgusting as well, the ultimate tools of pacification of man, designed to stop the poor from eating the rich, like all neoliberal or third way scum. You claim to be Culturally Center-Left and this is an example of moderation which I despise. Overall, you are simply despicable and your kind of thought needs to be countered with new thinking.

Reading

Written

• Notes on Capitalism

Finished

• The Freedom Complex Volume One (Christian Schumacher)
• The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto (Vikky Storm)
• Chaos Theory : Two Essays on Market Anarchy (Robert P. Murphy)
• Volin - Synthesis (Anarchist) (suggested by Rocksism)
• The Futurist Manifesto (1909, F.T. Marinetti)
• Capitalist Realism - Is there no alternative? (Mark Fisher)
• Three Components and Three Sources of Marxism (Vladimir Lenin)
• On Authority (Friedrich Engels)
• On Authority (Mikhail Bakunin)

Reading

• The National Bolshevist Manifesto (2006, Karl Otto Paetel)
  • Current chapter: The Nation as the ‘Highest Value’

Plan to Read

• Workers Councils (Anton Pannekoek)
• National Anarchist Manifesto
• Myth and Reality (Mircea Eliade)
• The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (Mircea Eliade)
• The Individual and the Becoming of the World (1926, Julius Evola)
• Selections from Prison Notebooks (Antonio Gramsci)

Suggestions (you vvill add links)

• Albert Camus - The Rebel (by Rocksism)
• Friedrich Nietzche - On the Genealogy of Morality (by Venatrixism)
• Invisible Committee - The Coming Insurrection (by Venatrixism)
• « Du contrat social; ou, principes du droit politique - Par J. J. Rousseau» (by  Baxism)
• Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (by HeredyBall)
• Saul Newman - Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State by LordCompost
• Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence ( Sundog)
• Confucian Analects ( Sundog)
• A Meta-Artifist Manifesto ( Sundog)