Forces At Work

Sporadic political outbursts, undercooked theory, and playlists. Most posts edited and re-edited a dozen times after publishing.

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Tag: communism

  • Campism is a non-sequitur

    The campist says “conditions are not ideal, but we must conform to them and put aside ideological considerations,” as if the pressure to conform could ever escape what is latent in choosing an opposition. If you oppose a pole within capitalism, you either have ideological considerations for doing so, which necessitate considerations of praxis, or…

  • Another reiteration of principles

    We’re not challenging the world in successive steps on a linear trajectory over 500 years. We’re not fighting Israel, so we can move on to fighting to US after, and face capitalism only at the end of the journey. We fight Israel to fight the US to fight capitalism in one motion. No stages. Everything…

  • Gendered socialization, capitalism, cheap dunks, etc

    To make a perhaps counterintuitive explanation about my attitude towards gendered socialization, I will relate it to liberal demands to censor the internet. Liberals are actually correct in some way that the internet is facilitating reaction, for example. They may even slow reaction down through censorship. However, the actual source of the problem is capitalist,…

  • Violence

    I would never claim that a demand for violence against the system should be off-limits. I think at any point in US history, or in the history of capitalism, violence would have been justified, both in terms of everyday self-defense, and in overcoming the system for something beyond it. You would be right to say…

  • Satanic bourgeois perverts

    Society at a structural level imposes a kind of violence on us and into our ideological practice. Human subjectivity itself, independent of social norms, has a structure that sets us up for antagonism, although I think that is something that could be ameliorated to a large degree in a different society. I think successfully addressing…

  • Engels, labor aristocrats, consumption, desire, revolution

    “You ask me what the English workers think about colonial policy. Well, exactly the same as they think about politics in general: the same as what the bourgeois think. There is no workers’ party here, there are only Conservatives and Liberal-Radicals, and the workers gaily share the feast of England’s monopoly of the world market…