Reimagining the Logic of Class War

The Consequences of Capitalism's Evolution

Morning Comrades.

I crack myself up sometimes, or rather, the various people in my head laugh at each other, often, and this is one of these scenarios. In a nutshell, the entirety of this dispatch, and with that, the entirety of sociological study of the working classes over the last 70 years can be condensed into:

Things change and our assessments and actions based on said conclusions have to change with them.

Duh.

To be even more frank, a core essence of Marx is just that: Shit changes, use this method to figure it out and act accordingly. Yet, as with most ideologies there is a mountain of assholes that abuse these metaphysical structures for personal gain, power, control etc - and these dogmatists, the modern priests of tradition, need a solid slap, and this aims to be just that. Dogmatism, the tendency to lay down principles as undeniably true, without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others, is a fallacy even within Marxist thought that enables nothing but the above. With a slew, especially out of North America, of new “communist parties” being formed that positively reek of chauvinism and dogmatism, we are going to explore how one of the central tenants of our lives, class realities/ relations and us being part of the working class, has changed since the communist manifesto ( again, duh ) and how we, rather than fetishizing everything from the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik Revolution etc. need not only be rooted in reality but have the capacity for the future. I’ll tap into a number of sources in here from Harvey, Federici, Braverman and Jameson as well as The Invisible Committee. Let’s get into it.