Morning Comrades.
You’re in for a ride mostly because I enjoy metaphysics and also because I do think this is one of the most pressing conversations for us to be having at the end of our western histories and the coming revolutions. Make no mistake, that time is here and it is predominately up to us how these play out, and what kind of revolutions we will be having. To start, metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, identity, time, and space- and more importantly, reality and truth.
Seeing that we are at the precipice of western modernity, late stage capitalism if you will, the two most fundamental concepts of power, and thus “society” are reality and truth and following the logical trajectory of capitalism, these two concepts at what is staring back us from the Nietzschean Abyss. Simply out, no one knows what is real nor truthful anymore and from a revolutionary point of view that is both fatal and potentially, good. For revolutionaries the problem has always been that of creating a collision between two sides: a politics against history and a communism stronger than modernity. Because, these two crumbling columns- history and modernity- are in the end part of a single pillar: Das Kapital.
Again, in more acutely relevant words: Since nothing makes sense anymore and we cannot discern between what is real and what not, we must reclaim reality and truth, understand what they are and how they are made for our revolutions to be successful. If you are as sick and tired from the logical conclusion of capitalism and its henchmen, here we go. A violent upturn of reality without a head simply replaces one binary of violence with the other and we all know how that plays out.
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