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?
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.