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Self Insert "People can really believe anything these days!" - Ismism This page is meant to represent Jefbol's political views. Please do not make any major edits without their permission. |
Post-Jefbolism is an "ideology".
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Beliefs
Spontaneity
1. Communism is not an 
ideal or a utopia to be chased after, not a 
system to be established, 
some abstract goal for an ideal society to be modeled after through the iron fists of state apparatuses. It does not merely exist in 
autonomous zones, in 
individual lifestyles, in government initiatives. Rather, 
is the movement to abolish 
the current state of things, it is 
an active process. It actively seeks to abolish 
class, wage labor, 
the commodity, 
states, 
gender, 
nationhood, etc. The 
proletariat is a 
war machine against 
Capital, it is the class which is capable of abolishing these current capitalist relations, of killing real life gods and 
demons.
2. The proletariat desires to destratify desire, to let it free from the tendrils of machinery and territory attempting to swallow it up. This is what makes it a war machine in the first place.
"A new era in the class struggle is beginning. The workers have imposed it on the capitalists, through the objective violence of their organized strength in the factories. Capital’s power appears to be stable and solid; the balance of forces appears to be weighed against the workers. And yet precisely at the points where capital’s power appears most dominant, we see how deeply it is penetrated by this menace, this threat of the working class."
3. The struggle to negate Capital is the struggle to negate the proletarian. The desire to destratify desire, to abolish current social conditions, is necessarily suicidal. The "proletariat" is only a multitude after all, a loose condition subjected onto them by Capital. Such a condition is undesirable, it only means stratification and more stratification.
4. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari explained already how the war machine, something independent of territory, something which sought to destroy the existing conditions, has been subjected to the state and Capital itself. Used as a cow for the milking of the state's reproduction and therefore of Capital's reproduction, something whom we could say to emphasize their identities would be to reproduce their stratification. The war machine has become a co-dependency of production, a cog in the state machine. Is this not sounding familiar?
5. The proletariat indeed is at its core autonomous from Capital. But there exists a catch! The proletariat's spontaneity is first choked out of its revolutionary components, and then used to fuel the bourgeois institutions of power, turned into a mass consumer/worker base to be domesticated into servants of Capital. Its entire existence is at the mercy of Capital, as it is incorporated into power structures and milked for the purposes of the production and accumulation of commodities, and the reproduction of Capital within daily life. Class struggle ironically becomes shaved out of its soul as it becomes only a spectacle, a place of affirmation for only small glimpses of spontaneous desiring. The real class struggle exists now in spite of contradiction between affirmation of conditions and negation of conditions. Its resolving and the communist struggle to abolish classes can only the proletarian's own suicide.
6. The workingman desires his own condition. This is something that Deleuze & Guattari examined closely, as well as Lyotard, who analyzed in the Libidinal Economy critiqued former notions of ideology. Marx theorized that the proletariat has been stopped in their tracks from realizing their condition because of some ideological fantasy we are made to believe in, some trickery by the bourgeoisie. In reality, this is all but nonsense. Do we really have to quote Lyotard just for this? "The English unemployed did not become workers to survive, they - hang on tight and spit on me enjoyed [ifs ont joui de] the hysterical, masochistic, whatever exhaustion it was of hanging on in the mines, in the foundries, in the factories, in hell, they enjoyed it, enjoyed the mad destruction of their organic body which was indeed imposed upon them, they enjoyed the decomposition of their personal identity, the identity that the peasant tradition had constructed for them, enjoyed the dissolution of their families and villages, and enjoyed the new monstrous anonymity of the suburbs and the pubs in the morning and evening." Capital is not merely tricking its subjects into believing in its own logic, instead it is controlling desire on a large scale, making it produce the conservative libidinal deposits that make it thrive.
7. Spontaneity is the expression of the desire to decode desire, to break free from Capital's hyper-stratification and to negate the condition of oppression. it is an expression of a desire for power. Through strikes, protests, riots, etc. These are genuine attempts at escaping the proletarian condition, a refusal to be mere puppets of production. Spontaneity however can only be exercised within whatever territories Capital allows it to, ultimately, they are easily crushed by Capital. Such displays are only spectacular displays of failed escape. But they do show one thing; desire even when stratified necessarily remains there, to create insurrectionary attitudes means an offensive on the psychological field of combat.
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