Our current consensus reality is heavily shaped by capitalist propaganda. If we achieve a material revolution but not a magical revolution, if we overthrow Capital but don’t destroy Capitalist Reality, then we’re going to reproduce the conditions of capitalism. That was one of the failures of the Soviet Union. The people in charge still thought like capitalists. They still believed that human nature was in conflict with the stateless classless utopia that Marx described as the future. The USSR leadership were believers in capitalist realism, as many Stalinists are today.
Humanity is a social construct and I want to spark a revolution that sees us move beyond it. I don’t think humanity is the “destiny” of our civilisation, I think we have a much greater potential for growth. I’m a transhumanist, and I think the mental is way bigger than the physical in that journey. I don’t think a realist can be a transhumanist in a meaningful way. Elon Musk is not transhumanist in a meaningful way. He’s very human, he’s very interested in continuing the human tradition of domination and exploitation. He’s a monkey that wants a bigger pile of bananas than all the other monkeys. I don’t think that’s the future. I think if we don’t grow beyond that, then we’re all going to die.
Yes, humanity needs a spiritual transformation of thought.
Marxists are materialists necessarily because it stems from a rejection of capitalism and private ownership. The vision of a classless communist society is extremely vague and put off to the far future.
Leftists often stay trapped in criticism, deconstruction, contrarianism. Anti- capitalism becomes an end unto itself. If the revolution is successful, revolution itself becomes a fetish.
Our current consensus reality is heavily shaped by capitalist propaganda. If we achieve a material revolution but not a magical revolution, if we overthrow Capital but don’t destroy Capitalist Reality, then we’re going to reproduce the conditions of capitalism. That was one of the failures of the Soviet Union. The people in charge still thought like capitalists. They still believed that human nature was in conflict with the stateless classless utopia that Marx described as the future. The USSR leadership were believers in capitalist realism, as many Stalinists are today.
Humanity is a social construct and I want to spark a revolution that sees us move beyond it. I don’t think humanity is the “destiny” of our civilisation, I think we have a much greater potential for growth. I’m a transhumanist, and I think the mental is way bigger than the physical in that journey. I don’t think a realist can be a transhumanist in a meaningful way. Elon Musk is not transhumanist in a meaningful way. He’s very human, he’s very interested in continuing the human tradition of domination and exploitation. He’s a monkey that wants a bigger pile of bananas than all the other monkeys. I don’t think that’s the future. I think if we don’t grow beyond that, then we’re all going to die.
Yes, humanity needs a spiritual transformation of thought.
Marxists are materialists necessarily because it stems from a rejection of capitalism and private ownership. The vision of a classless communist society is extremely vague and put off to the far future.
Leftists often stay trapped in criticism, deconstruction, contrarianism. Anti- capitalism becomes an end unto itself. If the revolution is successful, revolution itself becomes a fetish.