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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Marx's strategy is to identify a central tendency in society and to enact a political strategy to exploit it.
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Marx's problem is that his favored tendency, the falling rate of profit, is utterly fictitious.
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The falling rate of profit is the passivist side. System destroys itself. The active side is industrial socialization
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... proletarian mass self-organization, on the model of cooperative labor (embryonic in the factory).
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Better to say, with Negri, that industrial socialization produces a potential revolutionary subject ...
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... and that the problem of revolution is to find a way for this potential subject to actualize itself.
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The most charitable thing to say about this, is that the returns have been less than promising.
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Of course, I agree, and would go much further. It was a local trend inflated far beyond its range of application.
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... The one thing worth learning from (ironically, given the left today) is that you don't begin from grievance.
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