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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  • 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…

  • The rationl and irrational

    I have no desire to uphold bourgeois ideals around personal mental health because I have been crazy on their terms my whole life and have been attacked by that same system the whole time. The rationality I will speak of in terms of social organization is my weapon against that system. I am not giving…

  • Liberal recuperation, protest, violence, universalism

    In times of legitimate social anger, expressed instantaneously and spontaneously in reaction to events, we must carefully always assess the forces of liberal recuperation. The raw expression of events in the aftermath of injustice are always given a mediation by the system that encloses it within the liberal ideological imagination. Events are captured by liberals…

  • Notes on “”voluntarism””

    On the left, people rarely use “voluntarism” as an attack on others in a responsible manner. What I think is a worthwhile political subjectivity will be hard to explain as something other than voluntaristic, without inviting an attack from determinists, or from Marxists who feel the correct plan has already been handed down from Lenin,…