From Post Prolertariat
The gap between need and reality and the reckless policies of the
bourgeoisie has never been wider than today. In this “postmodern” world
of alternative facts, Science is the new God.
It was Lao Tzu who reminded us:
“The way you can go
isn’t the real way.
The name you can say
isn’t the real name.”
Humans have risen to become masters of all, including nature and to a
small degree even the endless void of outer space. Yet as a result of this
process, of civilization itself, all life on Earth faces the serious possibility ofthe total destruction of the biosphere. This is the result of the dominance
of men over all things.
We have to destroy the global Leviathan and end this civilization once
and for all.
The creation of a classless human existence is more necessary, and
possible, than ever before in history. A deliberate re-establishment of the
ancient and natural communist social relations (which defined human social
organization for millions of years), with production organized on the basis
of freely associated people forming communities on common property,
would aim to allocate the wealth of the production process first and
foremost to satisfying the needs of fellow community members. No more
“intellectual legislation” of scarce productive resources.
We do not seek to achieve a techno-industrial dystopia— anarcho-
syndicalist, Marxist or otherwise . We want to abolish commodity relations.
Industrial society, and eventually the proletariat, will have to go with it. The
romanticized industrial worker is not and can no longer be a source of
“pride in an increasing number of workers, but at most embarrassment”.
We reject the old mythologies of certain historical events as the
epitomes of social change. The old labor and workers movement has
become mythological. The corpses of Bakunin, Bordiga, Lenin, Luxemburg,
Trotsky and Marx have become zombified through black magic, and have
long-since been raising an army of dead-ites— “dubious figures crawled out
of the dustbin of revolutionary history” as the Friends of the Classless
Society noted a decade ago.
We have to immediately, greatly reduce the impact of human
consumption on nature and wildlife. Very few people want to live on a
dead, desert planet, with no nature or wildlife. This is the stark reality the
planet faces in as little as a few generations. We must abolish industrial
mass production as soon as possible.
We have to destroy the division of labor, including and especially
where these lines are drawn across ableist, ethnic, gender, national and
sexual lines.We have to overthrow money and capitalist value relations.
In order to reach these goals, we propose to greatly intensify the
efforts of the formation of collectives, discussion and reading groups,
immigrant organizations, neighborhood organizations, women’s
organizations and workplace organizations (where they happen beyond the
framework of industrial unions).
We reject any collaboration with any state, government, or
government-linked group or individual. Likewise for any bureaucrats, chiefs,
cops, directors, dons, judges, lawyers/attorneys, managers, patriarchs and
other officials linked to any capitalist, corporate, government or national
institution.
We reject any matters of centralism, hierarchy, leadership, or
management.
We advocate subversion. We reject Blanquist or Leninist coup d’etats.
As the old proverb goes: “The emancipation of the working class can only
be the task of the working class itself”.
We think arms should and must be in the hands of individuals alone.
We advocate the incorporation of self-defense into personal philosophy and
daily life, as well as the formation of action groups, cadres and fire teams
focusing mainly on preparation, self-defense and survivalism.
We reject the formation of centralized and longstanding formal armies.
It is not our aim to create “autonomous” or “liberated zones” of
territory. This can lead to nowhere but open armed conflict, and therefore
annihilation, destruction and eradication by the state. In our present
Confucian reality, the old Taoist proverb of “acting through non-action”
makes a lot of sense to us. But we also understand that nothing changes
when nothing changes. It’s our task to understand the internal logic that
underpins capitalism and to negate it through our participation in the real
movement.The collectives and networks of pro-revolutionaries we propose must
remain illicit and “low-key”, or low-profile to everyone who refuses
involvement. Put one way, we advocate the “underground railroad
approach” over that of open “sanctuaries”.
These collectives and networks must be embedded, situated in
everyday life.
In order to stay outside the realm of petty bourgeois lifestyle-ism,
these collectives and networks will eventually confront the state,
government, bourgeoisie and capitalist value relations “directly”. In lieu of
this, we reject the glorification of martyrdom, violence and war. Our hope is
to make life better, rather than death easier.
Against the mentality of last case resorts and best case scenarios, we
favor the tactic of swift and decisive collective action against the whole
present state of things.
We see this manifesting martially via the widening crises of capitalism,
through the development of revolutionary individuals, collectives and
networks— and eventually resulting in an explosion of social revolution and
a smashing of bourgeois power. But we have to first build collectives and
networks to lay the groundwork. If this doesn’t happen in the next
generation or two, it might be too late.
Against the Leviathan!
Against domestication!
Against class society!
Change or die.
Written by the Post-proletariat
from the southeast United States
March 2017