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: philosophy

  • The Law

    Society wants that cops are perfect instruments of the law. All their conduct gets taken as inherently necessary. Yet the resentment that drives one to be a police officer on one hand, and the enjoyment that they get in being the perverse instruments of law on the other, mean that their conduct is excessive and…

  • “Just” “do” “something”

    Whatever the individual’s responsibility is now, in times of chaos and collapse, it must always be connected back to a collective response, in terms of political demands we make against the ongoing crisis. People must “do something” not as individuals with an obligation to conform to the ideal of unconscious society’s de facto moral individual,…

  • Scatterbrained thoughts about privilege, benefit, interest, etc

    The role of the state in relation to the worker, from the beginning, was to subdue them. The premise of liberal-democratic capitalist society is that the individual worker is free. The system must keep labor subdued in that false experience of freedom for the entire system to function. This tendency to ameliorate harsh conditions for…

  • 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…

  • Monstrous alienation

    The left side of this video still is what is granted to the right side and vice versa to keep them locked in capitalist relations without revolt. The worker can at least spend, and the consumer is sustained from their labor. This ends up being unfreedom on both ends. They are both a consequence of…

  • 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…

  • 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…