Building a Revolutionary Movement
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what a revitalization on the left would look like. We have 10 years of dead fucking movements on our hands and we have a wildly accelerating situation with fascists in Silicon Valley. Tech is quickly becoming the stage of the action as the rest of America is pummeled by it and slips further and further into a type of suspended animation.
We have no other option than to abandon the reformist strategies that have dominated social movements in this country. I invite you to look around and see how far reformism has gotten us. Things are worse than ever. The reformist movement is able to exist side by side with the capitalist machine as it hitches a ride and tirelessly tries to oil a wheel here and there as it rolls over us. We instead must put ourselves in direct and open conflict with the capitalist economic system. There can no longer be any question of where we stand. We must secure a movement that is free from reformists and that is focused on DIRECT confrontation and opposition to the existing financial system, not sloppy patchwork for it. The movement that does exist is utterly corrupted by them.
Reform doesn’t work; it is not mystery why our movements have failed and the money poured into them has come to nothing; the manpower and financial spend of the left over the past 10 years has disappeared into a fucking hole, and far from having a sustainable movement, or one that has fucking learned something and is ready to play in the REAL game of games, we have a dead one. The lights are out in this thing’s eyes. Reformists have shown time and time again their ability to sustain resistance, is simply not there. We didn’t even have guns or a militia when Roe v Wade went down, which is fucking insane. There are many ways to achieve our goals that require no illegal or clandestine operations whatsoever; militias are protected — why didn’t we have one sitting outside every Planned Parenthood? Is it because reformists have made any talk of actual defense anathema? Because they have failed to protect us and never planned to?
Reformism was never going to work, but now that we have seen, everyone can see, with their own eyes, that 10 years of reformist efforts have come to nothing… it is indeed time to build.
Our primary agenda item is to establish an actually revolutionary movement in this country. One whose aim is to go about, but any and all means, securing the change of the economic system in this country. There is no compromise to be made. Capitalism will never produce anything but unending chaos and suffering and disruption and death, war, agony, etc., look around you, this is bullshit. Capitalism in its very essence, can produce nothing other than this constant misery. The pains we suffer are coming off this thing like lightning bolts. Only a revolutionary movement that is actually opposed to capitalism can be a vital force.
Our primary goal is the establishment of a true revolutionary movement, be it very small. We are going to be reconstituting a movement from scratch, which means building it up piece by piece, person by person, to get some kind of scaffold together, and go from there. A historically precedented first activity is to engage in writing up our theories of how things should be done. This is my contribution to that conversation.
A movement is infrastructure, movement is a foundation for infrastructure, it is the first piece of infrastructure that we need even as it exists between parties. Even with only a few initial adherents we achieve the key and decisive inception: a swift and sure demarcation of priorities, away from failed reformism and towards direct engagement with the capitalist economic system. The establishment of a revolutionary party is and of itself a vital act and is in and of itself the first goal and is in and of itself revolutionary. This is the most fundamental unit needed in order to someday bring the conflict with capitalism to a head.
As far as the candidates for our movement, they should envision themselves much as we materially are: as people who are caught up in an ongoing, ever-unfolding of capitalism, we are watching a financial system destroy, at increasing and increasing speed, our entire generation. The lives of our generation are being wasted in a sick game. Each day, capitalism is a material, mobile thing, that is plotting and planning, that is taking out populations and cities and jobs and health, that everyday is a material battle where concerete entities led by specific groups of executives, politicians et al are at war with us, that we are spiraling into hell with them. Our candidates come to know capitalism as a breathing roaring thing; we hunt it, we track it, we come with knives, we expose it, we weaken it, we know its conspiracists and agents, we know how it moves.
So in this piece I just want to put together a few ideas of how a revolutionary movement could be structured and what its aims are. I think we should first engage in the interior discussion, politely, through the formal writ, of what this thing could look like. In this piece I go through some of the ideas I have, less as an official proposal and more as an exploratory exercise. We must always be curious and open, while knowing when the time is to STFU and work. The great thing about revolutionary activity is unlike the reformists, we have an actual, existing, real, accurate theory of how this works, to drive our actions. Reform simply does not offer a coordinating structure because reform is not indicated by a single material analysis of the capitalist economic system. There is actually no theory and no practice and no hardened, proven texts to work off of for the reformist. It’s vapor. The reforms are obliterated before they are bolted on, especially as capitalism, frantically trying to avoid death, moves faster and faster and faster. On contact, reformism ricochets into nothing.
In my mind one of the key priorities of a revolutionary movement is keeping reformists and reformist ideology out. Rather than debating with the reformists endlessly — they will happily waste all of our time — we are refusing to compete with them and we simply do not have time to sit down with them one by one and painfully walk them through the error of their ways. They will keep us stuck in petty argument for far too long; they have made their case, and we shall make ours. With action. Separately.
By ending the question of reform outright, a coordination of vision happens and a clarity falls over the battlefield. “Getting out the votes” and “raising awareness” and “campaigning” and “driving policy reform” and “DEI” and “representation”, has predictably disappeared into capitalism, sucking in with it massive amounts of money, time and energy. We become open to other modes, models, structures, operations.
We must come up with at least a small group who agrees on these principles and is at least open to the idea of dying for them or at least making a significant sacrifice for them. Perhaps the ideal is less one centralized organization, but rather a collection of teams that maintain their own meetings and agendas and team identities; we can then link up multiple small teams to come to agreements on higher-level items, smaller teams each carrying out some aspect of an agreed-on program. I am extremely drawn to the idea of using teams as the basic unit in the organization. This helps with responsibility, accountability, splitting up work, and giving people freedom to freely assemble on their works. We want a productive, fulfilling structure and people enjoy working in teams and people enjoy assembling and working in high-performance teams. My vision is of a constellation of high-performance teams making up a flexible, generative movement, each of us poised to go, able to benefit from numbers and the broader organization but able to self determine and master their field of inquiry. My preceding article, on the financial crisis on the left and how to better structure the movement economically, talks more about this, and how from the economic structure of a revolutionary movement, flows organization.
As revolutionaries we come to the problem of the world as scientists, tinkerers, explorers, investigators first. We must be problem solvers: we are faced with the problem of how to overthrow the beastly financial system. Our overarching goal is to determine how to make this change happen and to work directionally towards it with each operation.
In the early days, we come with curiosity, with thoughtfulness, with seriousness, with materialism, to think critically about this problem. Our movements have not been configured, at any time during the past ten years, to even open an initial inquiry into what we are looking at as far as revolution of the financial system in this country, what tactics might work, what new analysis must be done, what new structures must be formed, what vulnerabilities exist, what financial trajectories are ongoing. In my mind I think of it as trying to hack a computer system, analyzing and exploiting vulnerabilities, creating maps of the system so that we may deploy resources into them.
We are doing this from scratch because reform strategies have NOT focused on creating rigorous, rich, material maps of the financial systems whether that is banking, tech, healthcare, etc. These maps, created and analyzed by materialist revolutionaries, lets us understand how to best enter conflict with the system. What I have done all these years is create a detailed system analysis of the venture capital economy. I know where its weaknesses are, I know strategies that have and haven’t worked on it, I know the specific players, I know the trends and the patterns, the timelines, the goals, the regulations, the financial structures. That is the level of work that is needed in order to do actual work that is going to destabilize this system, exploit and expose weaknesses in it, open it up to attack, permit ongoing efforts to build something that can wipe it out.
Thus the initial days of the movement or any cell of it, looks a lot like a think tank that is looking at this problem anew and that is creatively and generatively coming up with new ideas and strategies.
I think a first major issue is obviously recruitment of those elements who will begin to create the frameworks and set up the initial revolutionary infrastructure. This infrastructure includes things like a funding mechanism, an independent press, a system of selecting priorities, regular meeting schedules, formation of teams, assemblage of projects. I do NOT think that having purely open recruitment is a good idea whatsoever. Unlike the reformists, we are not looking for a big tent, we are not trying to go “mainstream” non-strategically, we do NOT measure our success by number of members of signups or email opens. We have done big movements and had big movements; this clearly isn’t an appropriate strategy at this time and turning away from this model is another place where we are able to recognize what has not worked AND do something different. We are looking for an effective movement above all. We are building something to truly take capitalism.
The reformists have operated on the basis of widespread mass awareness and participation; everything has been about getting as many bodies as possible signed up for mailing lists and subscriptions and protests and campaign flyers. This has allowed a mass watering down of movements as people drift aimlessly with no commitment or accountability, in and out; as people come to seek social lives in the movement and then it becomes about their fun little parties and hanging out with their new buddies; as opportunists descend seeking whatever fleeting fame or ego boost; as the carousel of male leftist pundits uses anything it can find as an excuse to listen to themselves talk on a podcast for 60 minutes. The reformists are full of weak players, full of opportunistic players, full of non-committals. Difusion of accountability and weak attachment, attrition and loss of momentum, short attention spans, lack of commitment to the cause, have all been huge parts of the reformist movements. The reformists are obsessively focused on image, awareness, superficialities. That is who they are stemming directly from the degenerate reformist politic. Reformists want to know, always, what the movement can do for THEM.
I think the lack of discernment about members leads to bad things and to an amorphous, social-life oriented movement instead of a consistent, professional movement, that puts absolutely nothing before the achievement of the goal, because we know at every level of our consciousness that this is the only way. The motivations of the revolutionary and the reformists are totally different. The people they attract must be different. At the very least, difference difference difference, from what has been done and which we have seen fall on its face and fail again and again and again. Change. We desperately need change.
Our movement is to be discerning and to have high standards. We are exclusive, not cliquish. It is my strong opinion that we don’t have social relationships with each other. This is about work, this is about a fight for our lives. Social relationships — which have been used as the major site for reforms in themselves — have been destroying our movements, over and over and over, and we do not have time. We are trying to change the economic system and there is a level of seriousness to this work that demands we have our social relationships outside of that structure.
We strive to build a movement of full-time, dedicated professional revolutionaries. We are not a part time job. Lenin has beautiful expressed the importance of establishing a professional revolutionary movement and of professional revolutionaries who are able to devote heart and soul to the movement. That means that funding is of critical order so we can get people what they need to work on this full time; I address this more here, both the topic of professional revolutionaries and how to fund them. I think this is absolutely vital and we should be very creative and very aggressive on what it takes to secure this. This means money, resources, housing, food, supplies and so on.
As we have seen in revolutionary history, many people will have to abandon much of their lives for this, risk a lot for it. Let it be so. Maybe we create a movement that is about the do or dies for once, not the opportunists. A movement of people who plan to sacrifice and a movement of people who expect to gain are not the same.
Further, the causes we work on are objectively among the only causes that justify long, tiring work hours, these are the only causes that justify certain estrangement from perhaps your own social group but more broadly, all of society. We must in particularly avoid members who are desperate to disrupt movements by constant demands to be catered to. I am very tired of this. I am very tired of pretending it is unreasonable to expect people to fulfill commitments and not to treat this like their social lives or worse, some kind of posturing for acclaim and clout and so on.
The only goals are to drive us closer to revolution and to build up a revolutionary organization that can take us in that direction.
After all, the revolution is a pass/fail, group project. Personally, I am quite willing to die for this, I will have absolutely no problem pushing myself to achieve in this area. We are serving a higher ideal; not ourselves. The movement doesn’t exist FOR us. It exists to use us as willing vessels to do what the fuck needs to be done.
To that note, the revolutionary movement offers a different kind of social relationship in its way. It is far from bleak!!! Our movement offers great fulfillment and great communion with each other. A working relationship with another revolutionary is just as valuable, just as meaningful, and just as deep as other kinds of relationships, it is just different. There is incredible joy and fulfillment of working with other team mates to achieve goals and to score victories. The emphasis is on building these types of bonds with each other, not on fleeting social tea times. The bond between revolutionaries is much deeper than the reformist bonds. This is something to be embraced, even if it is not what we are used to.
So we get a small group right. Then we do the new layer. Then the next. We build with integrity and diligence from the beginning. We ourselves do not flow out of the disruptions, using upheaval to desperately funnel people back into our tent. We use upheaval to drive anti-capitalist agendas. We make the disruptions, and use them, but we do not blindly “trend jack” to pour a bunch of raving reformist opportunist idiots with Soundclouds and Substacks into an undisciplined movement. Time to grow the fuck up.
This leads to the question, of course, of how to find the members. I like a scouting model as opposed to an application model. There is no need for indiscretion and perhaps (though we should assume constant infiltration), proactive recruitment will help to cut down on ops.
Where to look? I for one would like to search for revolutionaries from cohorts that have been overlooked in previous movement efforts, what configurations of people can we use to launch broad based, revolutionary attacks. The reformist movements have had their way with tired and predictable cohorts and they have left a number of people out. What has been left out of the movement? What has been given no place in the reformist movement and thus indicates a natural inclination away from it? A few cohort groups that I think would make a natural fit with a revolutionary movement: sex workers, pedophile victims, people with psychotic disorders and people with eating disorders, stay-at-home girlfriends and wives would be a great place to recruit from as well. I also think there might be some people in the crypto community, where we’ve already seen non-trivial resistance and analysis of the venture capitalist threat.
It would be my ideal that the initial build-out at least, is women-only. Leftist men on the whole have behaved absolutely sickeningly towards women in the movement, in a phenomenon that has been continuously documented: grandstanding, sexual harassment and abuse, stealing of work, outright harassment of women on the left. I was hounded and made fun of for literally years by the DSA because I dared to critique them as reformists, coming from the perspective of a revolutionary woman in a long-term independent battle against venture capital, and having produced the largest body of tech critique in history. And they dared to insult me, hound me, discredit me. Where is your movement now?
That bullshit is so played out and one of the major organizing planks needs to be to figure out how to keep men the fuck together so they aren’t ruining everything for us. Letting men run the movements has been a huge mistake. That is not to say there is no place for them but an existing framework must be established that does not permit for this bullshit. I have never gotten a fucking bit of respect from men on the left, nor have many of the revolutionary-inclined women I know. The good news is that there are a number of women who are very estranged from the reformists as a result and that disaffected community is exactly what we are looking for. Another cohort: people who have been pushed out of the reformist movement for being too radical. Lol.
The goal is to come up with a committed core group that sets to work first coming up with a theory of action that we can then begin to test out in the real world. We are not a reading club; that said, in moments of intense strategizing we should fall back on the time-tested strategies of argument that have gone down in revolutionary circles for years now. I see decisions on what we are doing, being done primarily through writing of arguments; there is a reason that this practice, used before us many times, produces a desired result; specifically, the purpose of debate is to determine the most vital of priorities, the strategic priorities, the foundational priorities, upon which the practice of the movement is founded. As it did with the works of Marx and Lenin, the priorities emerge. We are looking for, in our professional assessment, that which can cause the most impact, and would be the most strategic use of our time on material dimensions, which can be reasoned about. This is an ongoing project.
Scope is a major concern. The mechanisms of the capitalist system are wide and expansive. We need to start in material, workable areas, something that has scope and yet provides an initial launch pad for, god willing, moving into other areas; an area we feel we can make progress in. We should particularly focus on those systems that seem closest to the heart of capitalist dynamism, its never-end propulsion through the “market”.
I would argue we should focus on the tech industry, that it would make an ideal target for revolutionary work and the first focal area of a revolutionary movement. By following venture capitalists I have myself become a revolutionary because I know the only way they will stop is if we MAKE them stop. I have seen it through my own eyes, that there is no reform that will work or change anything. This is a battle to the death that they have initiated.
I have throughout this blog made the case that tech and venture capital is at the bleeding, roaring edge of capitalism; it is that part of the system that is producing the “revolutions in the instruments of production” which propels capitalism and is constantly disrupting the relations of all society, making it the center and lead of capitalism in this country.
Not only that, but tech is quickly-moving, rich, weapon-owning fascists, organized and monied and armed fascists. They are BY FAR the largest fascist threat in this country and they are working on fascist takeover, revolution, and the literal establishment of a fascist tech state. So there is also a moral imperative that comes up here; as revolutionaries of capitalism it makes a ton of sense that we aim ourselves directly at this heart. Tech also touches every other form of oppression and is a driver for it; it is a multi multi multi issue thing, which means that even if someone is an expert in an unrelated area, there WILL be a tech angle on it. Everyone is profoundly and tangibly affected by tech; as I mentioned those “cohort groups” earlier, pedophile victims, sex workers and even eating disorder victims, are among the parties that have been most affected by tech.
The tech industry is in an advanced state of capitalism and it is moving very quickly. It has highly concentrated wealth and power in the hands of venture capitalists, it is actually creating its own contained financial infrastructure which means we have a financial system on our hands that, right now, is smaller and somewhat sheltered from the broader US financial system, just owing to their own insularity and desire for sovereignty — tech is a financial system that we can meaningfully interrupt. The ecosystem is NOT so big that we cannot come to a strong shared understanding of it as a group of like-minded people. It is also in the middle of a number of major changes — such as the metaverse, AI, crypto — all of which will be offering all kinds of disruptions, all kinds of social unrest and destabilization, all areas where a revolutionary movement can intervene and dynamically engage in / sabotage, whatever.
Also, people just fucking hate tech and we essentially have just an ongoing hatred of tech in the society that can be mobilized strategically in a given moment. It’s sitting there just like a bank (lmfao) that we can put the run on at any moment.
Going to my point about picking a focal area that is right near the machine, part of that analysis needs to include an assessment of what areas of the system are most likely to cause a cascading failure within capitalism, are most likely to kick off a chain impact and an opportunity for disruption to occur further around the system. The run on Silicon Valley Bank supplies just one small testament to the idea that there is a lot of possibility to use tech as a launching pad for something that will spill into other parts of the country and world. In fact, the opportunity to cause cascading failure situations, carefully orchestrated, can by accomplished through a large number of strategies, and need not be violent nor illegal. The movement should only use violent tactics when that opening is deemed definitive and decisive. The vast majority of this work requires absolutely no secrecy and no illegal activity whatsoever. For example, VCs just nuked an entire bank and that is all well and good. They kill a bank, we kill off one of their lil fintech startups, it’s all good. We can launch financial infrastructure and engage in combat with hostile financial infrastructure too!!!
I provide some more thoughts on what choosing tech and venture capital as an early target could look like in this article.
Within a specific focal area, we incubate and grow our movement.
Another possible angle is an all-out attack on pedophilia rings in this country, especially because they are so close to the financial infrastructure (trafficking rings, pedophile rings among the powerful and wealthy, the cover up jobs, the use of crypto and fintech to transact in child abuse), would make a super compelling and super interesting and novel revolutionary formation. There is clearly a vast network of pedophiles in this country and they are all connected. This makes them a target. They have barely been investigated, as rings slip away with only one or two members caught and prosecuted.
I think there is a lot more possibility in the Epstein ring and I think there is definitely a potential there. That ring goes all around the world and while a legal process has concluded, there has not been a revolutionary inquiry into it. It is my personal belief that digging that up and digging up its other members, could significantly destabilize things enough to make a window that we can jump through. For example, there are many ties we KNOW about from Epstein to venture capitalists and tech elite. And that ring just keeps going and going. For example, I spent several weeks last summer with my colleague Lauren Chief Elk, to dig up evidence of Andy Warhol’s serial pedophilia; sure enough, Epstein is directly connected to the art school that Andy Warhol founded. Once more, pedophile victims come up here as an un-thought of revolutionary cohort. Pedophilia rings are wrapped tight around the financial system; they are deep inside of the technical systems as well, they are in the very heart of power. This could be one specific area we focus on: can we combat pedophilia as a revolutionary engagement? What would that look like?
It is my belief that if the pedophile rings were ACTUALLY uprooted from America, capitalism would collapse.
It is definitely possible to run more than one agenda at once, but I think getting running in just one area would be the more prescient choice. And I would be very interested in other people’s thoughts on where to strategically focus on. There are many options. There are many rabbit holes that may yet lead us to a direct confrontation with the enemy. The point of this is not to flesh out all of the options but rather to suggest the initial goal of a small group of souls that can collect itself around this agenda: to pick an initial area of scope with which to begin to understand, build in, flame, poke, investigate, disrupt, agitate, map, explore and put together missions, whether that is trying to expose the interconnected pedophile rings or whether that is trying to get venture capital financial infrastructure shut down, or to get venture capitalist financial conspiracies arrested on RICO charges. Or something.
In sum, a discrete and focused area that we believe may expose opportunities of various sorts that help us carry the movement into a position that is more likely to succeed in reclaiming its natural rights. And perhaps in such early days it is not so much important WHAT is chosen but rather that we begin to feed the movement activity and information and possibility and projects.
We must always remember that we are starting with basically nothing here and thus the goal of making an approximation, an early outline, is a terrific step forward. Should the movement grow, then we can begin to add on more projects, more specialty teams, more infrastructure, and so on. But we need to start somewhere and the most important is to gain some specific and disciplined momentum, to get the basics going through specific successful missions and achievements and healthy, productive revolutionary teams.
So how, in general, would we propose to operate? Something I’ve begun to address across various articles, but for starters, I want to propose that our movement looks at the fight with capitalism is a very different way than the reformers do.
In our version of the world, we see capitalism as a living, breathing, active force, one that is constantly moving, one that is constantly involved in the dialectic. We, in fact, are in a dialectic with it. We look at this as a living system and we react according. There are constantly weaknesses being exposed in the capitalist system as well as all kind of dynamic events that are opening windows for rapid change, that are opportunities for aggression on our part, that let us exploit vulnerabilities and progress the revolutionary agenda. The reformist movement is brittle and ineffective at responding to ongoing events. It responds to what capitalism has left in its wake, pressing reform on the system and violences it continually generates. The revolutionary movement, meanwhile, is formed around the nimbleness, athleticism, buoyancy to take advantage of these moments.
I think about disruption of capitalism a lot through the idea of windows; these are exposures in the system where it is possibly to propel the mission, to take advantage of something happening. For example, the recent crash of Silicon Valley Bank, provided me the opportunity to slip essential legal framing for the prosecution of venture capital into the financial/crypto community, to agitate for such prosecution, as a means of weakening the financial apparatus of capitalism, which is now at war with itself (tech vs America), taking advantage of the fissions that arise, as well as spreading a very concrete, revolutionary financial analysis that directly leads to the conclusion that getting rid of venture capitalism is the only option.
A window is a time like the Queen’s death, when Black people and Irish united in joy at the end of a sickening and beastly oppressor. This opened the window *to* establish a revolutionary coalition that could persist beyond; I don’t think this opportunity was taken to its fullest; that said, we live on the inevitability that capitalism is nearing its end and the right push at the right time, could easily put it over the edge. I wrote here about how tech has spent the past 10 years desperately trying to hold global revolution at bay, another excellent reason to focus on tech. With tech out of the picture, and its platforms free of fascist control, we could be looking at global revolution breaking out right then and there. We are here to pour fucking gasoline on the merited situations that come up. We aim to find vulnerabilities, to expose and weaken infrastructure, to position ourselves best in the all-out war that is ongoing in this situation.
So therefore, what we do is create revolutionary infrastructure, getting ourselves into a position, by any means necessary, to fight the enemy financial system. What is a revolutionary infrastructure? A revolutionary infrastructure is the people, missions, and tools we need to fight as a revolutionary body and of the teams or cells that compose it. Revolutionary infrastructure includes intelligence, recon, opposition research against the enemy. Revolutionary infrastructure includes deployment plans for getting air dropped into active windows and active seethings of capitalism. It includes an independent, revolutionary technology press — one whose sole purpose is to spread the proper economic analysis and methodologies that have been offered to us. It includes rigorous education in Marxism, Leninism, et al; the reformists have spread incalculable damage against the reputation of these great bodies of work, by using them to uphold a reformist agenda which in fact, the entire school of Marxism condemns in the harshest terms.
Revolutionary infrastructure includes booting up a propaganda machine; agitating for a new age of revolutionary art, writing, poetry, graffiti, and so on. All we have had is reformist propaganda; we need an intellectual renaissance out of the anti-intellectualism of reformism, and part of our job will be to agitate for such a renaissance, to produce and embody it. Revolutionary infrastructure includes having resources for web design, printing, financial management, legal assistance, to support our organization’s activities. It includes people dedicated to international reach-out, coordination and solidarity building on an ongoing basis, building a truly global movement, uniting with common friends, building teamwork across those lines. This includes reviving the long tradition of revolutionary international summits. It includes the nets and the traps for when its go time. It includes mapping out specific financial conspiracies and attempting to use those to weaken them further. It includes targeting specific capitalists for such purposes. It includes revolutionary educational programs; the reformists have poisoned the minds of everyone and everything in America — as Lenin has stated, it is absolutely mandatory to conduct a theoretically rigorous program of education that gives people a fucking way out of the reformist bullshit, that attempts to undo at least some of the damage of yet another 10 years of voting for democrats and asking for “representation” along bloodthirsty capitalist pigs.
With some momentum, I think we absolutely need to establish an independent press that we can use to publish about the revolutionary movement, to publish analysis through the scientific lens of revolution, and to provide a dynamic touch point for revolutionary thought. The independent revolutionary press has been the center of revolutionary thought and the origin of revolution again and again. And I do recommend focusing on a longer, written form factor. Social media is compromised in many ways and should be used as a strategic tool, not the center of organization as it has been long after such proved ineffectual, a tsunami of reformism seeking its precious “awareness”. The fact that people are able to fire off 140 character gotchas that interrupt serious leftist parties, and yet are never held to account for providing a cohesive world view, shows us just how depraved and impoverished the existing norms of leftist production are. Most of the reformists can’t last a second outside of a few sentences. Their arguments fall flat because their entire theoretic foundation is fucking bogus. It is no wonder the reformists have thrived on compromised social media infrastructure.
I am also interested in the creation of revolutionary infrastructure that includes revolutionary courts, revolutionary and citizen’s tribunals; these have been used in the past by revolutionary movements and I think pursuing these legal-economic routes offers something particularly compelling. These are frameworks for justice, articulations of the case for revolution, mobilizations of justice.
There are many different ways to fight capitalism, to expose it, fight with it, to its downfall, agitate against it, to level legal and economic attacks on it, to organize against it, to exploit its weaknesses, to target and neutralize its actors, to take spears when their belly is exposed, to aim a consistent outrage of REVOLUTIONARY propaganda at them, to create and inflame moments of social unrest not towards reform, but towards revolutionary action.
This should be a time where we are feeling unburdened from the weight of the reformist politic. It has proven itself empty, useless, wasteful. Let’s not waste anymore fucking time on their movement and build one that might have a shot in hell of winning. Let us, for a time at least, be playful, be creative, be generative, be open, expansive and hopeful, dream of something different than the glum dreams of reformists, participate in something other than a doomed reformist movement, dream of a movement that would be worth dying for, a revolutionary movement.
Let us get ready.
LFG.