A few words about Karl Marx. They're comically topical, especially if we start with the most mindless version of communist politics. ...
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... It would be the absurd, straw-man version, if it weren't that people are idiots, so the most stupid version of anything tends to prevail
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... in the absence of an efficient, impersonal, competitive mechanism (capable of doing the intelligence sifting). *Ahem* capitalism. ...
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... So here's communist politics for dummies: a) The masses are being exploited b) [*some magic thing*] c) Communism! Don't laugh ...
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... Current Alt-Right thought processes aren't very far from this. A "things are so fucked!" narrative substitutes for political theory. ...
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... Marx doesn't think like this, of course. Instead, he envisages a robust process of political opportunity working through Capital. ...
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... The masses are collectivized, organized, and politicized by the industrial process itself. The self-reflective party builds on this. ...
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... In other words, however misguided in numerous respects, it grasps a crucial principle of realistic political theory. ...
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... Infantile Utopianism in politics ends at that point where the dynamic arrangements in place are seen as definitely exploitable. ...
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... What, then, is the equivalent on the right? It certainly isn't simple "quietism". The crucial opportunity is network decentralization. .
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... Only because Cathedral-phase modernity is undergoing the Internet Revolution is it realistically defeatable (or self-subverting). ...
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... Everything the Outer Right has achieved in recent years -- which is a lot -- has been based on going with the grain of the Internet. ...
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... If you're not asking "How does this strategy comply with the deep social dynamic (to decentralization)?" you're doing it wrong. ...
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