bourgeoisie will choose barbarism before the see a light of socialism
I think this is a good article but she asserts some things about what the Left believes that I do not subscribe to. LARB brain is powerful but its horizons are small
In all reality tax payers, bailouts, government contracts (legit just a system that transfers taxed wealth from the working class right back to the capitalists).
Main source is ads, but ads are just transfer of surplus received in production (marketing budget(tm)) to the other classes of capital, so they are exact same as financial capital (banks) taking their cut in bond yields.
I just don’t understand why marxists are so enthralled with big data, they don’t use data to exploit, they are parasites on exploitation chain of production, same as bankers, or landowners, or ip rights holders.
Kill ads, and google and facebook go under in a quarter
The only tech ting I'd take is data analysis (the ways it can be used to aid public programs such as community health would be amazing) and logistical systems such as those from Amazon but down to ensure proper resource distribution (but without the inhuman as ghoul shit)
Whether or not this is legitimate, it feels like it may be a good semantic shift. The kind of power structures and hegemony we’re enmeshed within today I think cannot be overcome by the tactics of yesterday. There are real issues with 150 years of anti-communist propaganda and idk if they can be overcome in a way that galvanizes enough people to the correct enough understanding of it to then grow and expand beyond it to then create a new response to our “new” reality…idk if that’s feasible or if we have enough time. I’m wondering if a new social-philosophical framework can be created that would have the same imaginative, novel impact that communism had when it was new. An unlocking of mass understanding/realization. And I realize that communism is the state of being we can achieve once we as a class take control of and break the historical materialist cycle of exploiter-exploited. That end goal wouldn’t change because we’re still fighting that underlying historical process. But can we springboard within the conversation of Neofeudaliam as an evolution of capitalism (or rather maybe synthesis of capitalism and feudalism) to create a new kind of evolution/synthesis of communist resistance/revolution? New name, new structures, new tactics — all as an organic response-critique of this “new” framework of Neofeudalism. Could that be a project, refreshing and without as much barrier-to-entry propaganda attached, that we can start to work with?
Not directly but this "giving communism a new name" thing is what Frederic Lordon touched in a recent interview i posted.
I’m not sure why everyone pretends that a new world is upon us every time the same fucking thing happens.
we have the attention span of a goldfish
I wonder if Gilded Age academics were also convinced they were entering a neo-feudalism
