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On @jmrphy podcast @Outsideness says something to the effect that "emancipation corresponds strictly to a process of dehumanization." He is trying to meet Murphy half way as it were. I don't think that the term dehumanization means shooting ppl and throwing them in ditches in
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2/ this context, but rather that human political desire no longer constitutes the center of human existence, and that production (capital) comes to replace that center. Power is the opposite of equality, and a perfectly equal society would be radically dis-empowering to the very
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3/ leftists that go on and on about equality. The trouble is that natural/tribal society is radically parasitical: it maintains "equality" (of outcome) by stealing the goods from anyone with a surplus. This is called "sharing" or a "property-less society."
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4/ The problem w/ sharing is that it caused a million year economic depression. Tribes prevent the accumulation of capital, and thus, they prevent humans from rising out of poverty since no one can run a farm, open a factory, etc All productive surplus gets "shared" to oblivion
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5/ The result is starvation, disease, death, malnutrition, high infant mortality, no medial care, etc. There is a reason that societies that undergo communist revolution have these problems: as a civilization approaches its "natural state" it dies.
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6/ Trouble is, it is human nature to want to go back there. We are genetically programmed to try to go back. This is why you can never put humans a the center of anything politically and get a positive outcome. It is also why emancipation is "dehumanizing" because it must not
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7/ really give people what they want: to kill people and take their stuff. Capitalism then, is superior to human nature, and it is accelerating and will deliver human beings from themselves.
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8/ Capitalism is more ethical that human nature. Power is the condition of one human being "above" another. Equality is liberation from other human beings. Only productive forces can liberate us from our "betters" who try to enslave us in monkey status hierarchies.
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9/ Thus, liberation is "dehumanizating" in the sense of no longer putting sociopathic status monkeys in positions of power at the center of everything. Capitalism subsumes the Will to Power to the Desire to Consume.
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10/ Capitalism forces people to produce valued in order to be valued, and that is the ultimate nightmare for leftists, who talk about emancipation and freedom but really just want to indulge their will to power.
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11/ All communist revolutions fail because they succeed in giving power monkeys the power they crave.
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