bexbac
22nd February 2013, 09:28
I've tried to post an introduction here over the last couple of weeks, but each time, the posts were going on too long while delving into complex controversial questions about actualized successful communist revolution in the 21st century world and---more basically---about where the future course of humanity proceeds from here.
After ages of seeking answers from the various other leaderships that would be more "comfortable" to Leftists and to the kind of Leftist I once was, I have instead turned to seek WHAT ESSENTIALLY MATTERS and HOW TO WIN at any cost and despite uncomfortable and radically unorthodox conclusions.
What matters? What is the most basic way to conceive of a worldwide communist revolutionary victory? I believe it means that some global community of a remnant of humanity (numbering at least a few million worldwide) is hegemonic on this planet, is characterized by communistic classlessness and not by any kind of coercive states, and this requires that the necessary historic preconditions for communism still exist (most of Earth's contemporary human infrastructures, technologies, collective knowledge/skills, resources and of course habitable living space throughout most of the planet must still exist).
We pick up from the aftermath of the abolition of class society and thus the complete destruction of all benefactors and defenders and addicts to such societies, and we begin proceeding on the future course of our species.
I'm hinting at a very controversial position here. Neither mere political efforts, nor street protesting and strikes, nor terrorism, nor hippie dropout efforts could achieve the necessary victory conditions. In fact, there is certainly no way that 7+ billion humans are coming along with us across the threshold to a better future world..these futureless many who have been so spoilt and scarred by ages of class and socially stratified society, who have internalized the values and practices of our enemies for so long that they will essentially in their own words swear (probably accurately) that exploitation and oppression is written in their souls and "human nature".
Surely a few million of the people around the world are not so far gone however. It is within them and through their action that I hope for a better future world, because they somehow still retain a different "human nature" (for lack of a better term), because they still want to strive for a more truly human world (ie., a communistic world) though they have until now had no serious capable honest leaderships or revolutionary strategies to confront and successfully overcome class society in our time. The potential for communism certainly remains today. However, I suspect we've been looking in all the wrong places and looking for all the wrong ways with all the wrong people in futile struggles to actualize it...and I suspect this is a very painful realization, such that continuing the old routines and living in deep denial and expecting masses of billions to eventually "wake up" is preferable for most Leftists.
For years, we have looked for inspiration from mass uprisings in history past and present. Now, I take inspiration from the old story of Noah and his Ark. I realize that seems counter-intuitive, to say the least. You have to really find yourself finished with all the other "options on the table" before you can even allow yourself to imagine the basic concept. And you must find yourself to be truly alienated from all of class society, from its values and its relations and its many defenders (both exploiter and exploited, oppressor and oppressed have shown you that are truly irredeemable monsters).
Class society can only be destroyed and overcome in the 21st century if:
a). We---a conscious community remnant of a few million humans from around the world---are communist in our "human nature", relations, basic values and aspirations; we must really be a new better species.
b). The rest of humanity is utterly wiped out throughout the globe, along with all their exploitative and oppressive relations; let's literally take this world from their "cold dead hands" (American Leftists will recognize this old line used by anticommunist flag-waving rightwing scum).
Here's where that Noah inspiration makes sense, if you creatively and seriously think about it as applicable in 21st century conditions for our own purposes. There are several challenges to achieving these basic victory conditions. The remnant of a few million must survive beyond the means used to rid the entire world of class society. Also, the global environment must remain essentially habitable (or become so again in a short time), and most of what humanity collectively has thus far build and discover must remain available to us afterwards. Provision must be made to ensure that remnants of as much of the diversity of life as possible beyond our own species is preserved and thus able to be replanted or resettled back into Earth's environment in the aftermath of victory. Also, of course, no external "god" is going to intervene on our behalf with some global great flood or any other means of achieving victory...so we will have to figure out sufficient successful means that are possible and compatible with the above critical conditions met. And, of course, we have to be able to do all of this without being stopped by our enemies...so our "Ark" must literally be out of reach of any of our foes, and at the same time give us strategic advantages and the ability to act decisively, and in the end be able to "return to dry land". I believe the possibilities to do all this already exist today, but the window of opportunity is limited to perhaps one decade. But, if today's Great Powers successfully expand militarization of space and/or private companies are able to establish long-term active dominions in space...it's game over for our species.
The clock is ticking loudly, and we're currently at a few minutes until midnight, so each of us must decide where we are going to be when midnight arrives and what we will do to determine what occurs at 12:01. There is no longer enough time to wait for 7+ billion people, even if they could "wake up". Time to decide which few million people you would want to remain and start our future course again. We have a short time to steel our resolve, make plans, find our necessary people, and then act seriously to complete a different process of global communist revolution.
Time to get a new dynamic revolutionary perspective: right now, walk away from your computers, look up into the night sky, and realize that you are indeed looking at a key to the liberation of Earth and the future of our species.
Of course, neither you nor I can do what must be done alone, so we best sow and forge our collective collaboration in a manner that lays the foundation basis for the sort of better world we intend to actualize. Communism begins as our way of life and of being, not in some far off future, but right now. There will not be any room in our future for anybody else who won't or can't do that, and we don't need them anyways.
Thoughtful contributions? Questions? Wanna debate (seriously, not for entertainment)? Wanna brainstorm?
After ages of seeking answers from the various other leaderships that would be more "comfortable" to Leftists and to the kind of Leftist I once was, I have instead turned to seek WHAT ESSENTIALLY MATTERS and HOW TO WIN at any cost and despite uncomfortable and radically unorthodox conclusions.
What matters? What is the most basic way to conceive of a worldwide communist revolutionary victory? I believe it means that some global community of a remnant of humanity (numbering at least a few million worldwide) is hegemonic on this planet, is characterized by communistic classlessness and not by any kind of coercive states, and this requires that the necessary historic preconditions for communism still exist (most of Earth's contemporary human infrastructures, technologies, collective knowledge/skills, resources and of course habitable living space throughout most of the planet must still exist).
We pick up from the aftermath of the abolition of class society and thus the complete destruction of all benefactors and defenders and addicts to such societies, and we begin proceeding on the future course of our species.
I'm hinting at a very controversial position here. Neither mere political efforts, nor street protesting and strikes, nor terrorism, nor hippie dropout efforts could achieve the necessary victory conditions. In fact, there is certainly no way that 7+ billion humans are coming along with us across the threshold to a better future world..these futureless many who have been so spoilt and scarred by ages of class and socially stratified society, who have internalized the values and practices of our enemies for so long that they will essentially in their own words swear (probably accurately) that exploitation and oppression is written in their souls and "human nature".
Surely a few million of the people around the world are not so far gone however. It is within them and through their action that I hope for a better future world, because they somehow still retain a different "human nature" (for lack of a better term), because they still want to strive for a more truly human world (ie., a communistic world) though they have until now had no serious capable honest leaderships or revolutionary strategies to confront and successfully overcome class society in our time. The potential for communism certainly remains today. However, I suspect we've been looking in all the wrong places and looking for all the wrong ways with all the wrong people in futile struggles to actualize it...and I suspect this is a very painful realization, such that continuing the old routines and living in deep denial and expecting masses of billions to eventually "wake up" is preferable for most Leftists.
For years, we have looked for inspiration from mass uprisings in history past and present. Now, I take inspiration from the old story of Noah and his Ark. I realize that seems counter-intuitive, to say the least. You have to really find yourself finished with all the other "options on the table" before you can even allow yourself to imagine the basic concept. And you must find yourself to be truly alienated from all of class society, from its values and its relations and its many defenders (both exploiter and exploited, oppressor and oppressed have shown you that are truly irredeemable monsters).
Class society can only be destroyed and overcome in the 21st century if:
a). We---a conscious community remnant of a few million humans from around the world---are communist in our "human nature", relations, basic values and aspirations; we must really be a new better species.
b). The rest of humanity is utterly wiped out throughout the globe, along with all their exploitative and oppressive relations; let's literally take this world from their "cold dead hands" (American Leftists will recognize this old line used by anticommunist flag-waving rightwing scum).
Here's where that Noah inspiration makes sense, if you creatively and seriously think about it as applicable in 21st century conditions for our own purposes. There are several challenges to achieving these basic victory conditions. The remnant of a few million must survive beyond the means used to rid the entire world of class society. Also, the global environment must remain essentially habitable (or become so again in a short time), and most of what humanity collectively has thus far build and discover must remain available to us afterwards. Provision must be made to ensure that remnants of as much of the diversity of life as possible beyond our own species is preserved and thus able to be replanted or resettled back into Earth's environment in the aftermath of victory. Also, of course, no external "god" is going to intervene on our behalf with some global great flood or any other means of achieving victory...so we will have to figure out sufficient successful means that are possible and compatible with the above critical conditions met. And, of course, we have to be able to do all of this without being stopped by our enemies...so our "Ark" must literally be out of reach of any of our foes, and at the same time give us strategic advantages and the ability to act decisively, and in the end be able to "return to dry land". I believe the possibilities to do all this already exist today, but the window of opportunity is limited to perhaps one decade. But, if today's Great Powers successfully expand militarization of space and/or private companies are able to establish long-term active dominions in space...it's game over for our species.
The clock is ticking loudly, and we're currently at a few minutes until midnight, so each of us must decide where we are going to be when midnight arrives and what we will do to determine what occurs at 12:01. There is no longer enough time to wait for 7+ billion people, even if they could "wake up". Time to decide which few million people you would want to remain and start our future course again. We have a short time to steel our resolve, make plans, find our necessary people, and then act seriously to complete a different process of global communist revolution.
Time to get a new dynamic revolutionary perspective: right now, walk away from your computers, look up into the night sky, and realize that you are indeed looking at a key to the liberation of Earth and the future of our species.
Of course, neither you nor I can do what must be done alone, so we best sow and forge our collective collaboration in a manner that lays the foundation basis for the sort of better world we intend to actualize. Communism begins as our way of life and of being, not in some far off future, but right now. There will not be any room in our future for anybody else who won't or can't do that, and we don't need them anyways.
Thoughtful contributions? Questions? Wanna debate (seriously, not for entertainment)? Wanna brainstorm?