Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Communists for poverty

 The industrial crisis of 1847, which had paved the way for the Revolution of 1848, had been overcome; a new, unprecedented period of industrial prosperity had set in; whoever had eyes to see and used them must have clearly realized that the revolutionary storm of 1848 was gradually spending itself.

"With this general prosperity, in which the productive forces of bourgeois society develop as luxuriantly as is at all possible within bourgeois relationships, _there can be no talk of a real revolution_. Such a revolution is only possible in the periods when both these factors, the modern productive forces and the bourgeois productive forms, come in collision with each other. The various quarrels in which the representatives of the industrial factions of the continental party of order now indulge and mutually compromise themselves, far from providing the occassion for new revolutions are, on the contrary, possible only because the basis of the relationships is momentarily so secure and, what the reaction does not know, so _bourgeois_. From it all attempts of the reaction to hold up bourgeois development _will rebound just as certainly as all moral indignation and all enthusiastic proclamations of the democrats_".

Thus Marx and I wrote in the "Revue of May to October 1850" in the _Neue Rheinische Zeitung_, _Politisch-okonomische Revue_, Nos.V and VI, Hamburg, 1850, p.153.

This cool estimation of the situation, however, was regarded as heresy among many persons, at a time when Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, Mazzini, Kossuth and, among the lesser German lights, Ruge, Kinkel, Gogg and the rest of them crowded in London to form provisional governments of the future not only for their respective fatherlands but for the whole of Europe, and when the only still still necessary was to obtain the requisite money from America as a loan for the revolution to realize at a moment's notice the European revolution and the various republics which went with it was a matter of course. 

Political Marxists know better than Marx

Brenner as a founder of political Marxism, rejects orthodox Marxism

The Communist League is regarded as the first Marxist political party

" . . . The organization itself was thoroughly democratic, with elective and always removable boards. This alone barred all hankering after conspiracy, which requires dictatorship, and the League was converted -- for ordinary peace times at least -- into a pure propaganda society . . . "

Willich was one of those sentimental Communists so common in Western Germany since 1845, who on that account alone was instinctively, furtively antagonistic to our critical tendency. More than that, he was entirely the prophet, convinced of his personal mission as the predestined liberator of the German proletariat and as such a direct claimant as much to political as to military dictatorship. Thus, to the primitive Christian Communism previously preached by Weitling was added a kind of communist Islam. . . ."

One teleological approach approved by Marx and Engels 

Early state capitalism on the periphery

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt

Muhammad Ali's land reform amounted to a monopoly on trade in Egypt. He required all producers to sell their goods to the state. The state in turn resold Egyptian goods, within Egypt and to foreign markets, and retained the surplus. The practice proved very profitable for Egypt with the cultivation of long staple cotton, a new cash crop. To help improve production, he expanded the land used for agriculture and overhauled the irrigation system, largely completed by the corvée, or forced peasant labor. The new-found profits also extended down to the individual farmers, as the average wage increased fourfold.[28]

Techno-feudal fools appear

 Assume its true and how much does it effect CYPHERPUNK 2027 and singularity?

Left-liberal agents already outnumber humans online and whatever Zolgo wants, Zolgo gets. 

How many moderately intelligent followers do Marxis morons expect for this latest theory wank?

I wouldn't count on too many peasants. Or lumpenproletariat. Even soviet anarchs have been very quiet lately.  But you might convert the odd robot.

Break a leg

  • Clayton will be joined by FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael, and OPM Director Scott Kupor.

  • Clayton told the Wall Street Journal the group plans to produce a report within 120 days on AI's risks and opportunities and what role the government should play.

  • "The risk of not being first is high," Clayton said, pointing in particular to competition with U.S. adversaries.

  • The move follows Trump's executive order rebranding AI as "super intelligence," as the president prioritizes winning the AI race with China despite mounting safety concerns.

State of Emergency CBDC STAT!

 But the most significant development to date concerns currency. The Trump administration’s active encouragement of stablecoins will not only increase financial instability and the fragmentation of the global financial system.[15] More than that, it is creating new private vectors of integration that could dethrone sovereign currencies and the financial circuits associated with them. Companies such as Amazon, Walmart, Facebook, and X are planning to develop their own currencies. Given these players’ sheer social reach, it is easy to imagine a monetary substitution in their favour. This would mean central banks and regulators losing control over their financial system and, ultimately, the rapid shrinking of the space for economic policy.

Current developments in the USA point to a kind of disarticulation of the state[16] a step toward the realisation of libertarian fantasies of a world free from politics. 

Terminal Flatulence

 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/where-is-digital-technology-taking-us-cedric-durand-responds-to-evgeny-morozov

the idea that the dynamics of creative destruction in the tech sector allow “capitalism to do what capitalism does best” is a “fairy tale that obscures the actual horror story.”


Left right

 One of the main starting points of both left-wing and right-wing ‘accelerationism’ is Deleuze and Guattari’s suggestion to advance the process of ‘deterritorialisation’ and ‘decoding’ conducted by capitalism: ‘Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to “accelerate the process,” as Nietzsche put it’, and this ‘to a point where the earth becomes so artificial that the movement of deterritorialization creates of necessity and by itself a new earth’.[215] Does the revolutionary attitude really consist of behaving in relation to earth as if we had a second one in the trunk (or in the internet)?

Well three might be better.  One for mom. One for dad. One for Zolly.

Also three starships.  Like the Raman.

 " How the artificial earth is supposed to morph into a ‘new earth’ remains, of course, obscure.  "

Try the red pill then.

Communists for poverty

  The industrial crisis of 1847, which had paved the way for the Revolution of 1848, had been overcome; a new, unprecedented period of indus...