Afternoon Comrades.
Apologies for the late publishing time of today’s dispatch but I needed some rest, as simple as that. Also, and this as a nice surprise, I wanted to go through everyone’s feedback and questions to last weeks essays and those are always welcome. With that, let’s wrap this mini series up with a few thoughts and notes.
We now live in the most precarious of times, us working people, as we have entered a total “masks-off” time in the end stages of Western Capitalism. To be clear, this isn’t one of these usual ponzi-scheme warnings of: do this to avoid fascism in our times bullshit. We’re here. At some time before we were all born there may have existed a point where that could have been averted but we all know how that story played out. I do think the progression of their history inevitably led to this point - and this is where the wording becomes important.
I don’t believe in an “an end of History” - which, to this day, and as mind numbingly surprising that may seem, is how a lot of the bourgousie thinks - but I do firmly believe in an end to Their History, and it is here, for better or worse, but the nice part of this is that we have a say in how it pans out. Whatever feel good cotton candy white supremacist capitalist xanax dream they themselves imposed on us and everyone else is over. Up until this point the focus on establishing this was measured in economic realities and those were and remain important. For years now we have used the term late stage capitalism, myself included and mostly that wording fails in its linguistic attempt. The Neo-Liberal Capitalist Era, imposed by the US and Britain starting from the late 60s, is over. The system worked, for a few of them, but certainly not enough to maintain the support of the mysterious “middle classes” across the White West. Apart from those semi-mysterious 1% everyone is living in credit hell and one step away from being homeless. The gig has been up since 2008 and they knew it, and the tool left to the 1% to maintain enough social cohesion to continue to rinse us workers was the case of dominant morality.
That, to answer the majority of questions, was the purpose of spending so much of our time on this subject. When the rulers feel so secure in their might, as fraudulent as it may be, their self-imposed masks of being moral drop, and we get to see the horrid face of our societies, what it does to us and the even more importantly, to the rest of the world. This creates a power vacuum and “nature”, abhors a vacuum - and this will get filled. Hence the statement that we live in precarious times. The ruling classes will always choose fascism, might is right, by any means necessary to maintain their control of wealth. The mysterious middle classes usually do to - but that is more of a historic analysis and one I am not 100% behind going forward. What we do, then, matters the most.
Again, the point of the last week, as well as today, is to make you and hopefully those that you speak to, aware that one of most powerful binding forces of our times is coming to a rapid end. Even if it was all pretense, it was still real enough - in the end, our experienced material reality is a performance by individuals, to an extent anyway. As far the infamous 1% are concerned, its End Times - not in the sense of the Christian Fascist Maniacs that Steve Bannon and co wields - but an end to their experienced History. Thus they are faced with building a new tomorrow, something that they have been busy with - and their version is not anything I want to be a part of - if you think Black Mirror is off-putting- well, strap in. On the counter argument, however, there’s us - and the question of morality and morals remain important, to us, just as important as understanding their morals and their usage against us. Can we build a different world without morals and morality, I most certainly doubt it, however, now is the time to actually think about these and decide for ourselves what right and wrong is, how ethics can and should be applied and for once not subject ourselves to some horrid punishment-based concept of grovelling before their thrones of bones.
Again, the question and conversation of morals and morality is as important as the economic ones and if one were to be super marx-zen about it all, it is all the same conversation.
The Beginning is Here and We Serve The Revolution.
Thank you as always for your time, attention and support.
Yours, warmly
V.