Our Fight for Survival Goes Beyond Proletarians Versus Plutocrats; It
Is Now a Doomsday War between Humanitarians and Moral Imbeciles
THE MARXIAN CONCEPT of class struggle was for many decades our most powerful tool of consciousness-raising and liberation.
It was understandable enough -- and therefore compelling enough -- to encourage widespread rebellion in the 19th Century and to fuel successful revolutions in the 20th Century. It also terrified the Capitalists into allowing a number of social-democratic reform movements as well -- the New Deal most assuredly included.
But now in the 21st Century -- ironically just as We the People are awakening to the fact our Mother Earth is challenging our entire species to either abandon its ecocidal misogyny or become extinct -- we may need to re-think what class struggle is telling us.
That's because the enlightenment, solidarity and urgent call to action with which Marxism inspired the vast revolutionary and reformist majorities of yesteryear seem beyond the comprehension of all but a tiny minority today.
An obvious and undeniably major part of our problem is the One Percenters' absolute mastery of propaganda and psychological warfare. Schooled by Josef Goebbels and his huckstering kindred, they have warped our minds with their profoundly seductive but ruinously divisive toxins of imposed ignorance, linguistic distortion and identity politics.
Now, brain-warped as we are by Capitalism's monstrous Big Lie of equal opportunity, too many of us can scarcely fit class -- caste, actually -- into our notions of individual selfhood, much less into our collective expectations and demands.
In the past I have denounced these examples of our species' suicidal malfeasance as byproducts of how the Capitalists have dumbed down the formerly activist population of the United States into a hopelessly submissive Moron Nation -- the most apocalyptically ignorant realm of all the mentally enfeebled dunce-domains that rape our Mother Earth for fun and profit.
Yet now I think maybe we should look beyond what the One Percenters are doing to us and our planetary Motherland. Maybe we should instead be asking why the patriarchy's 6,000-year campaign of genocide1 -- the product of a tiny fraction2 of our species' lifespan -- has evolved into a campaign of undeniably terminal ecocide.
Marx, Engels and Lenin tell us the Capitalist Ruling Class behaves as it does because that is the present-day expression of the age-old self-protective momentum of tyrants -- an assessment with which it is surely difficult to disagree.
Meanwhile our own history reveals the notion of a "moral universe" that "bends toward justice" is naught but another variant of "change we can believe in": yet another Big Lie. It is this deception that sustains the self-betraying emotion we call "hope." It suborns our impulse to confront those alleged humans who prey upon us; it numbs us to the fact their boiled-frog ecocide is ultimately as deadly as an attack by rabid grizzly bears -- and it must therefore be battled accordingly.
But why -- seemingly for the first time in our species' 200-thousand to 250-thousand-year experience -- have its tyrants become bipedal doomsday machines?
Might today's strife also be symptomatic of some hitherto unrecognized evolutionary division of our species into two warring subspecies -- humanitarians versus moral imbeciles? Homo sapiens humanitariensis versus Homo sapiens mala in sē.3
The latter -- subspecies or not (and I am convinced they are a subspecies if not also a mutation) -- are now undeniably killing us all.
They have tabooed and suppressed the empathy and cooperative instincts that enabled our species to survive four ice ages and no one knows how many other long-term disasters. And now they are methodically replacing those instincts with exactly the same murderously acquisitive moral imbecility that characterizes trophy-hunting serial killers. Think Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer -- slayers no less possessed of legal personhood than Monsanto and IBM -- or so rules the United States Supreme Court.
In other words, the moral imbecility that defines Homo sapiens mala in sē repudiates everything that defines the rest of us as fully human. Which argues for their existence as a subspecies if not also as a mutation.
Moreover they have bred seemingly limitless mobs of humanoid puppets who are as gleefully predatory as the dictators, serial killers and mass murderers themselves, the latter three categories obviously the new subspecies' apex archetypes.
Meanwhile for all the rest of us it is as if one of the Pentagon's CBR4 warfare labs has -- after years of clandestine effort that no doubt began in some secret cellar on the outskirts of Berlin in 1936 or 1937 -- finally collected enough fossil DNA to bring the tyrannosaurs back to life as auxiliary infantrymen.
But like the poison gas at Bhopal, the tyrannosaurs escaped from confinement.
And now these dread creatures are feeding on us in obedience to their breeders and their breeders' sadistic deity's scriptural mandate to "be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it" -- and as with that ill-fated city in Vietnam -- destroy the planet to save it for their god.
All this said, I hope it remains clear I am not disputing the reality of class war. Indeed I have it lived it in one form or another nearly all my life.
But I am suggesting what we define as class warfare has grown far broader (and often more complex) than its 19th Century name implies -- and that if it is to remain usefully compelling in the 21st Century, it must needs be clarified, expanded and given a more up-to-date, more descriptive label.
I am also suggesting that Marx, Engels, Lenin et al -- none of whom could have recognized the scriptural Final Days as a blueprint for real-world apocalypse -- were seduced into a now-obviously excessive optimism by the very religions they repudiated.
Which leaves it up to us, Homo sapiens Humanitarienses, to transform our pessimism into the fuel we need for taking the next step -- lest Homo sapiens mala in sē complete their six-millennium effort to exterminate us all.
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1Not the least because I see its predatory dynamics demonstrated in terminal form by the apocalyptic politics of present-day local, state, national and global governance, I accept the Gimbutas hypothesis -- of genocidal global conquest beginning about 6000 years ago by Indo-European nomads whose (unnatural) patriarchal doctrines mandated extermination of all (naturally) matrifocal humans -- as proven both by Ms. Gimbutas' relics and the historical logic of seemingly endless, ever-escalating patriarchal violence.
2Assuming a 250, 000 year lifespan, 6000 years is a mere 1/42nd of it, 0.02 percent.
3Most assuredly no Latin scholar, I followed the model of Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis to construct Homo sapiens humanitariensis. Naming our rival subspecies Homo sapiens mala in sē -- "humans evil in themselves" -- required consulting the two Latin phrase books stashed amongst the 26 reference volumes I keep handy at my desk.
4CBR is a U.S. military acronym meaning Chemical, Biological and Radiological.
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Exemplary News: First the Ugly, Next the Bad, Finally the Good
Fascist Death Squad Murders Columbian Women's Rights Activist
"Women's rights activist Maria Caicedo Muñoz was found dead in Rio Macay, Cauca department Friday. She was... kidnapped from her home in the municipality of Argelia, Cauca, (Columbia) by armed men, while her two daughters were tied." (This report was previously published on the Facebook page of the Communist Labor Party's Tacoma Chapter. It is included here for readers who do not normally peruse the CLP website.)
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"Being Trans In America Was Already Scary. Now It’s Terrifying."
"A new federal order wouldn’t just deny civil rights protections to trans people. It would deny we exist altogether. I’m a trans woman, and I’m terrified. Already, on any given afternoon, I’m regularly and publicly catcalled, mocked, laughed at, and treated as an object of social disgust..."
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Technology Access Gap Leaves Millions of Students Struggling to Keep Up
"...lack of in-home internet access is an enormous problem for students in all 50 states. This has been corroborated by researchers at Pew Research who discovered that 17.5 percent of school children in grades 6 to 12 have ongoing difficulties completing school work due to a lack of internet access."
Comment: it's poverty -- the ever-worsening impoverishment deliberately inflicted on us by the H. s. mala subspecies -- that shoves Internet access out of reach for an ever-increasing number of households.
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Trump’s NLRB Just Quietly Ruled to Make Union Pickets Illegal
"An all-Republican panel of President Trump’s National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) recently ruled that janitors in San Francisco violated the law when they picketed in front of their workplace to win higher wages, better working conditions and freedom from sexual harassment in their workplace. The ruling could result in far-reaching restrictions on picketing that limit the ability of labor unions to put public pressure on management."
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"Disaster Waiting to Happen": Trump OKs Oil Drilling in Alaskan Seas
"Ignoring once more the existential necessity of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and transitioning to a global energy system powered by renewable sources, the Trump administration on Wednesday delivered another major victory for Big Oil by quietly approving a Texas company's plan to drill in federal Arctic waters six miles off the coast of Alaska."
Comment: such is H. s. mala in action, its relentlessly destructive behavior proof it is no longer fully human.
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The Sinister Reason the U.S. Persists in Waging Losing Wars
"If you ask — and few Americans do these days — why this country’s losing wars persist, the answer should be, at least in part: because there’s no accountability. The losers in those wars have seized control of our national narrative. They now define how the military is seen (as an investment, a boon, a good and great thing); they now shape how we view our wars abroad (as regrettable perhaps, but necessary and also a sign of national toughness); they now assign all serious criticism of the Pentagon to what they might term the defeatist fringe."
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Two Spirits, One Heart, Five Genders
"...all Native American societies acknowledged three to five gender roles: Female, male, Two Spirit female, Two Spirit male and transgendered...(but) Europeans and eventually Euro-Americans demanded all people conform to their prescribed two gender roles...(however) The Native American cultural pride revivals that began in the 1960s...brought about a new awareness of the Two Spirit tradition and has since inspired a gradual increase of acceptance and respect for gender variance within tribal communities."
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Call 1-844-WYT-FEAR: You're Scared! You're White! You're Probably A Racist!
"Because we've all likewise had (more than enough), The New York Times and Niecy Nash, actress and 'advocate for not calling 911 on black people for no goddamn reason,' took it one step further, partnering on a new infomercial and hotline, 1-844-WYT-FEAR, for white people 'feeling scared about a black or brown person in your proximity'- i.e., 'when it's not an emergency, just harassment.'"
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Muslim Groups Raising Substantial Funds for Synagogue Shooting Victims
"A crowdfunding campaign started by two Muslim groups has raised more than $55,000 for the victims of the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday...'The Muslim-American community extends its hands to help the shooting victims, whether it is the injured victims or the Jewish families who have lost loved ones,' the fundraising page reads. 'We wish to respond to evil with good, as our faith instructs us, and send a powerful message of compassion through action.'"
Comment: Kudos to the Muslim groups. But I nevertheless must ask: what does it tell us about ourselves there is never such a massively diverse national outpouring of sympathy, empathy and helpfulness when the victims are people of color or LGBTQ people? (Thanks to JP for alerting me to this story.)
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Dog Scams McDonald’s Customers Out of Burgers by Pretending to Be a Stray
"A woman in Oklahoma City has resorted to dog-shaming after she caught her pet sneaking out at night to beg for hamburgers at a nearby McDonald’s." (Thanks to TigerLille1 for sending me this feel-good link.)
-- LB/28 October 2018
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