a neverending story
a general strike that never ends, based not in outright refusal, i.e. not in negation. but in malapportionment. not doing what you're supposed to do. i.e., willful disregard of socioeconomic triggers like wage and salary levels, social prestige and overt power, etc.
anchored in alternative institutions and "experimental tanks," cells and social centers that allow an alternative communal focal point (but keep their incendiary ambitions small and focus on the creation/elaboration/preservation of a culture, a habitus, so as to not be crushed and not be effectively and causally linked to the "general strike"; conscious so as to prevent incorporation but unaggressive as to stave off dialectical integration.
a strike that never ends composed of malapportionment. the centers build the values which organize the modes and qualities of labor formed. the styles, the organization.
an ass-buggery of that silly economic law that production creates its own consumption. the movement of autonomous living labor creates its own conditions for material production and reproduction.
but what does this mean relative to the economy and politics as a whole?
*such workers will receive progressively lower wages and shares of surplus, through greater labor supplies in limited sectors
*surplus will begin to radically diminish, crisis of underconsumption, costs will lower
*continuous growth in asset/income inequality
*shift in values- thrift versus luxury
meaning then a focal elite controlling a diminishing surplus generated by an autonomous mass of workers producing their own extra-economic society. so we create through agency a replication of marx's basic conditions. except with the addition of will. ferocious and intensely creative will. will that would collectively have no fear of simply abandoning Empire. one day no one shows up for work and no one pays any taxes and boom, that's it.
ridiculous. maybe. the general strike that never ends. an untraceable strike. a strike that cannot be challenged except by brute slavery.
a strike based on the development and improvement of collective/individual will, will focused around the generation of autonomous cells and institutions.
where to work though that this possibility is not crushed in the general collapse of spirit? eh, college towns are good enough. might as well get kids to secede then and there, and stay there. float in between itinerantly. at some point they'd address it but given clarity and self-control, how?
impossible. maybe. maybe impossible inasmuch as taking over rapidly all society. but in carving out a sector? the only real limiting factor is spiritual, emotional, familial. economic, but more a question of financial techniques. how to develop real coops and collectives (such that logics of intensification can develop, and allow the participants constant access to savings such that they can reconcile their acts with reason if not with consumerist pleasure). how to develop autonomous businesses (and volunteer at them during pleasure times, etc).
we don't need to reinvent the world, we just need to double it such that it can reinvent itself.
anchored in alternative institutions and "experimental tanks," cells and social centers that allow an alternative communal focal point (but keep their incendiary ambitions small and focus on the creation/elaboration/preservation of a culture, a habitus, so as to not be crushed and not be effectively and causally linked to the "general strike"; conscious so as to prevent incorporation but unaggressive as to stave off dialectical integration.
a strike that never ends composed of malapportionment. the centers build the values which organize the modes and qualities of labor formed. the styles, the organization.
an ass-buggery of that silly economic law that production creates its own consumption. the movement of autonomous living labor creates its own conditions for material production and reproduction.
but what does this mean relative to the economy and politics as a whole?
*such workers will receive progressively lower wages and shares of surplus, through greater labor supplies in limited sectors
*surplus will begin to radically diminish, crisis of underconsumption, costs will lower
*continuous growth in asset/income inequality
*shift in values- thrift versus luxury
meaning then a focal elite controlling a diminishing surplus generated by an autonomous mass of workers producing their own extra-economic society. so we create through agency a replication of marx's basic conditions. except with the addition of will. ferocious and intensely creative will. will that would collectively have no fear of simply abandoning Empire. one day no one shows up for work and no one pays any taxes and boom, that's it.
ridiculous. maybe. the general strike that never ends. an untraceable strike. a strike that cannot be challenged except by brute slavery.
a strike based on the development and improvement of collective/individual will, will focused around the generation of autonomous cells and institutions.
where to work though that this possibility is not crushed in the general collapse of spirit? eh, college towns are good enough. might as well get kids to secede then and there, and stay there. float in between itinerantly. at some point they'd address it but given clarity and self-control, how?
impossible. maybe. maybe impossible inasmuch as taking over rapidly all society. but in carving out a sector? the only real limiting factor is spiritual, emotional, familial. economic, but more a question of financial techniques. how to develop real coops and collectives (such that logics of intensification can develop, and allow the participants constant access to savings such that they can reconcile their acts with reason if not with consumerist pleasure). how to develop autonomous businesses (and volunteer at them during pleasure times, etc).
we don't need to reinvent the world, we just need to double it such that it can reinvent itself.