Sup, here's what I've read/am reading:
Principles of Communism
The Communist Manifesto
On Authority
What is Authority?
The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto
Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered
Syndicalism
The Alt-Woke Manifesto
Anatomy of the State
Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy
A Brief Description Of Egoist Communism
A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism
Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
A U/Acc Primer
Economic Nihilism
Ads are everything, not AI
Unconditional accelerationism as antipraxis
Unconditional Acceleration and the Question of Praxis: Some Preliminary Thoughts
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair
Left Hyperstition 1: The Fictions of Capital
Left Hyperstition 2: Be Unrealistic, Change What's Possible
Exiting the Vampire Castle
Random Mumbles
(I wonder how long it'll take for me to contradict myself )
"Drugs! (so much LSD) sex (I'm hot but leave me alone) and rock n roll ! BUT NOT BOURGEOIS! WE ARE HUMBLE" - Mentally ill intoxicated russian man.
Throw Kautsky 🤯 in the Trash 🚮
FriendsKaisers?! You stink of capitalism, you've been out engaging in imperialist debauchery again, I swearIvanKautsky, I can't keep doing this!
Kautsky's Second "Internationale" was an anti-proletarian, and non-internationalist group, a rather shameful representation of the international proletariat. As said in Stalin's Foundations of Leninism (and probably other better literatures, I just read parts of this one specifically), they compromised like a bunch of feeble imbeciles, turning "war against war" into "war for the national fatherland". National fatherland. Nationalism is a bourgeoise impulse, not fit for proletarian internationalism at all. Kautskyites are also semi-reformists, it must be made clear that the modern bourgeoise state is not a springboard to launch a revolution from, all it is a tool for class power, in this case, bourgeoise power. There will be no proletarian power from such a tool. Fuck you Kautsky, rip bozo 🚬
Anti-Populism from the Left
This will likely not apply to people on the right or centre
What is wrong with this picture? Well, Zizek said, populism is inherently reformist, if not to say reactionary. Its fundamental fantasy is of an Intruder, or more usually a group of intruders, who have corrupted the system. Hence the problem is never the system, capitalism, but the oligarchy, this particular, lazy, exploitative bunch who happen to have control now. Once They are removed, everything will be alright... Hence populism always frame its project in terms of a series of demands addressed to the ruling elite. Antagonism is defused into a craving for recognition. (To push this analysis further: it's clear that the (entirely complementary) obverse of the demand for recognition is the demand that this or that politician resign, which is why endlessly 'renewed calls' for resignation are constant background noise on the post-political scene.)
Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.
As told by the first quote, attributed to Slavoj Žižek, not sure if its his exact words or summarised, but whatever, the fundamental problem with
"left-wing" populism is its belief that a
"group of intruders" (or a single intruder) has
corrupted the system (i.e. capitalism) meaning they believe the problem is not capitalism but rather an external force - a "leader of capitalism".
(But capitalism is an abstract parasite, can we say those who spread around the parasite are leaders of the parasite? Or are they merely slaves to it. I'll leave myself with that thought[3], it's sort of unrelated so I've crossed it out.). Modern left-wing populism knows it is simpler to blame the fellow man than an entire system, which we are cultured to venerate and view as naturalistic. Overall, left-wing populism is not anti-capitalist, the two should not be conflated. It is anti-elitist, not recognising that capitalism is the problem in the first place, it instead incorrectly pins the blame on some external mega elites.
- ↑ Debatably, some ideologies that are considered leftist in the modern world are totally hated by me like
revisionist bourgeoise sloganism,
fake anti-capitalism or
degeneration at its finest
- ↑ Wow yes I like
Gramsci, call me
"literal Stalin!1!" or something like that
if you wish
- ↑ May sound a bit
class collaborationist to some, it does not mean to be (total bourgeoise death), I'm just being rather curious about things I guess.