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Old 04-07-2005, 07:57 AM   #4 (permalink)
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the only interesting thing about this is the degree to which the author misunderstands the most basic elements of marx.
the united states is entirely shaped by capitalist relations of production.
any attempt to equate this space with the communism outlined in the manifesto is a priori ridiculous.
i dont know which militia whackjob produced this webtext, nor do i understand how anyone not also involved in milita-type politics could possibly take this seriously.

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Communism = tyranny.
nothing would be more tyrannical than the abolition of alienation not only at the level of relations of production, but more generally.
nothing would be more tyranical than the abolition of the capitalist division of labor, its specialization, its reduction of those who sell their labor power for a wage to an extension of the machine they operate....
nothing would be more tyrannical than creating a situation in which all of us, not only the wealthy, could operate in the world as complete human beings.
geez...who would want that? better this way, a system in which the cultural and economic elites get to explore their creativity (for example) so that the rest of us do not have to.

there is ***no*** necessary linkage between the type of post-capitalist socialism outlined--and only outlined--in the manifesto and stalinism etc., except maybe in the sealed jar of far right ideology, which seems to presuppose ignorance of the texts, ignorance of history, ignorance of the nature of capitalism as actual system of production. the type of socialism marx outlined would look far more like direct democracy than anything else. you seem content with defending the american-style pseudo-democracy, the capitalist system around which it has been elaborated, with all of its implications. you seem content with capitalist ideology, which you try to radicalize by focus on the absolute autonomy of this fiction called the individual, and which you then confuse with freedom.

i suppose that if you extend your powerlessness far enough, if you approach absolute zero, you can confuse your condition with which would be possible in a free society. what you could not do is confuse the american system with a free society--so it is better to simply pretend that your freedom lay in the zero.
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