The Need for Communists to Overcome the Future

and it's really easy to pander to people

and say oh we could just turn the wheels

of time back and go back to the past

like what trump is doing we just you

know go back to the age of um american

manufacturing in the 20th century and we

shouldn't be positioning ourselves in

that way not only because it's not true

but because it's not even fucking viable

anymore right we have to embrace the

cutting edge of the era and with all the

implications

that comes with that i mean that's the

decisive significance of marxism i want

to remind you guys

that there had always been communi

there's always been socialists and

communists and there was feudal communi

socialist and reactionary socialists

conservative socialists or whatever the

fuck you want

and

you know i i want us to

not lean in too much on the reaction to

progressivism

that i have had to

lead right because i want people to know

that marxism is not progressivism

marxism is not progressive liberalism or

whatever but i mean on the flip side end

of the coin

you know

it's i want to tell you guys something

both

dugan

and people like nick land influenced

infrared

it's not just dugan who's also you know

himself

brilliant right he's by he's by no means

some kind of like archaic folk thinker

but it's also nick land and then

that's why one of the reasons i really

want to work on this new video about

russian cosmism

and the soviet avant-garde

is because

i really want to do justice

uh to that kind of aspect of marxism

that may not be true from you know

because let me tell you guys why

sometimes

i'm gonna put this dude

in the plainest way possible right

and it's gonna make sense like this it's

gonna immediately make sense and you're

gonna understand what i'm talking about

so when it comes to conservatism right

we're always dealing with an excess now

what are conservative values raise a

family go in the real world get a job

do the things that you know

your father did and your father's father

that's all fine and well i'm not against

that right

the problem is when it comes to these

online communities these internet

communities

there's just an excess you're dealing

with right you can't really return

to conservative authenticity

when there's just this lingering excess

which we want to somehow

act upon give expression to give form to

and which we need to supplement this

kind of conservative fantasy and that's

what it fucking is it's a fantasy right

and examples of that

are how you go into like a fascist

discord and

these are fucking degenerates they have

anime profile pictures and they're just

like you know they're complete fucking

degenerates

and you don't have any conservative

authenticity there whatsoever there's

all i mean fem boys are with swastikas

is very common among

the

alt i don't know i don't even know it's

called any alt right whatever the fuck

it is you know you have to understand

there's an excess there

that conservatism on its own cannot

address

so what i'm really trying to tell you

guys is that

we need to address that excess we need

to address that extra thing

which is i think technological modernity

right i think that's what it represents

it represents this kind of futurism this

excess alienation of technological

modernity that doesn't allow us to

return to our comfortable cozy kind of

conservative you know norms that we're

familiar with there's something

alienating

about the changes that are happening and

one of the ways we cope with that

alienation

is by kind of like

um turning this immediate authenticity

of conservative life

uh into some form of like

uh image we turn it into an image that

we have a fantasy of and then all of a

sudden you have furry conservatives and

all of a sudden you have like all of

these weird degenerates who get in on it

because you can't just be the thing you

can't just be a normal fucking person

who has a family and has these kinds of

like basic norms of uh you know family

values uh traditional gender norms i

don't fucking know like traditional

sexual norms whatever uh traditional

aesthetic more you know

so that's i think what the importance of

the cutting edges

and i think that's confused a lot of

people i think a lot of people look at

me when i'm talking about how communism

is inherently conservative and it's like

the dialectical aspect of that gets lost

on them right and they're just trying

they're making it seem like i'm trying

to say like oh well call me new zoom in

no that's not what i'm fucking saying

keep in mind the dialectic part of this

and it's it's kind of like this

structure dugan calls archaeo modernity

it's this archaeo modern structure

where the conservative aspect isn't

because i'm trying to project this

fucking fantasy of some wholesome

comfortable and familiar thing

i'm trying to point out how

the tragedy is that when we

let our

wildest excesses loose of imagining the

future and having this kind of

alienation we run into some kind of

imminent

dialectical contradiction and it's the

reference of that contradiction that is

the object of traditionalism and

conservatism not in the sense of the

schools of thought of traditionalism

like julius evola and all those kind of

people but just like the basic

conservatism you have in non-western

countries or even you know in in

among conservative people in the west

itself to a certain extent right but

when you enter that kind of excess which

we have to deal with somehow

when you mirror that conservatism with

some kind of like

like some kind of like fucking um

uh

artificial

and imaginary form of

replicating it you end up with it like

uh astute opposite right

when you try to so let me put it this

way right it sounds kind of like schizo

what i'm saying it sounds really schizo

right so

i'm gonna really simplify it for you

okay

so we begin with our normal family life

we begin with our everyday kind of sense

of what's familiar and what's normal

and then we're faced with some kind of

alienation that separates us from this

immediacy right so then

the thing you want to do is return to

the immediacy right

well how how do you return to that

immediacy

i do want to return to that there is

something true about the original thing

we lost the

original human social bonds we lost the

original family

life that we lost right all that kind of

stuff i agree

but

you can't just pretend like the

alienation didn't just fucking happen it

needs to be addressed somehow

and if you don't address it this is

what's going to happen so you begin with

your immediate family life and then the

alienation comes in

and then all of a sudden

you have no way of representing

that original thing you used to have

normal family life except through the

very medium

of that same alienation it's like

we can't even represent

um

the traditional past without using the

internet anymore we have to use youtube

videos and the internet and and make

movies and and have these online discord

communities and all that kind of shit

and then you know we just kind of wink

wink and then on the side what there's

fucking degeneracy and furries i mean i

think you know where i'm coming from

here is that i am

way more ultra conservative

than

the right

i'm way more traditional and ultra

conservative than the right than the

right wing i am genuinely like for

example i think a lot of right wingers

will say some shit like uh

oh anime and furries are degenerate

but they're only degenerate because they

don't conform to my image of what a good

family is it's just all superficial

images and that's why on the side no

matter how much you call it fucking

degenerate you're still partaking in it

it's like there's like this pathological

need to have an anime profile picture

and there's just this need to be tempted

by the furry shit and all these degen

femboy whatever the fuck i'm a stalinist

you know what a stalinist means it's not

about the image we are fundamentally

traditional we're not just replicating

an image of tradition we are arriving at

the essence of what

normal

human norms are

through the full exhaustion of

technological

and cultural modernity we are gonna

fully embrace modernity we're gonna

fully embrace that alienation and from

there we are going to arrive at the

basic

limit

upon which we define ourselves as human

that's where you're going to get basic

human norms and shit from not from some

idealized image that's comfortable and

makes you feel warm and it makes you

kind of

feel like you're you're hugging your mom

again or some shit right we gotta we

gotta be men here

right and i feel like a lot of

conservatism is just man child shit

you know i mean being a man means

going through it not retreating not

trying to react to it

going through it that's what marx was

saying about capitalist modernity we got

this capitalist modernity that's on the

horizon

and it's wiping everything out what do

we do

are we just gonna sit there and go no

i'm gonna protect my teddy bear don't

touch my teddy bear capitalism no we're

gonna say we're going through it we're

going through it you know what that

means in this dj fucking internet with

all that only fan shit and all that

sick shit

what if we're looking at the wrong

culprit what if instead of saying shit

like oh the problem is technology the

problem is the internet the problem is

these new social networks that change

the way we're interacting what if it's

the opposite what if it's the fact that

we're idealizing the past too much what

if when we embrace the full power of the

internet when we embrace this digital

age when we embrace this fourth

industrial revolution when we embrace a

real great reset what if then the real

power of the d-gen shit will be wiped

away what if when we fully embrace this

fucking smart city bullshit whatever the

fuck they're talking about living in

pods whatever death stranding fully

embrace that shit

only fans will disappear all that dj and

shit will fucking disappear

right

it's the opposite culprit that's

responsible for degeneracy

it's the opposite of what you think it's

not because of technology the pro i'm we

have to learn from nick lands

accelerationism the problem with amazon

isn't that it's too

big and it's too technologically

transformative oh let's go back to the

past let's go back to no we're not going

back to the past we're going to seize

the amazon means of production and we're

going to go forward

you want to end this furry shit you know

that's what furries are and that's just

the biggest example of degeneracy by the

way but they're trying to preserve

something that's destroyed and dead

let's accept this future with our sober

senses and let's welcome

the wisdom of the past when it

authentically

discloses itself to us but let's not

artificially worship and artificially

idealize the past

remember the lesson from marx we have to

go through this process and only when we

go through the process are we going to

be able

to authentically arrive at the true

essence of the past

you understand

and i feel like this is an aspect of

infrared that has been forgotten because

of the war i've been waging against

leftists and because of the reaction

i've gotten from these fucking leftists

the whole aspect of this new era was

lost you got to understand our original

aesthetic guys we were not these people

who like we were not trads in a trip you

know in a common sense like where we

just like oh let's go back to the shitty

old european architecture or something

we like zaha hadid we are like kanye

west futurists

we we're on ps5 energy that's where we

were that's where we were from the very

fucking beginning you know and i feel

like that's been totally forgotten and i

myself have been a fucking culprit

especially because i've been on twitch

for a year right and twitch

it's like it's so

so like cutting edge

that you know for me it's like okay i

have to do the opposite of that and i

have to like be like the force of

conservatism and that's what makes it

based right but now i feel like we can

be more well-rounded we don't have to be

one-sided anymore and i could tell you

we gotta like

i'm taking twitch with me like twitch

banned me but i'm taking it with me here

so we have both we gotta have both that

cutting edge

and a respect and veneration for the

wisdom of the past that's not based on

idealized images

but it's based on something concrete and

human you understand

but yeah we've always been kanye west

futurists

we've always been ps5 futurists we've

always been

zaha hadid futurists where we were

always looking toward the future

embracing the future

and uh i'm sick of that like i'm sick of

that man-child type of

wavelength

that's going to attract people who just

want something familiar i want you to be

alienated i don't want you to find this

shit familiar i want you to be alienated

from it i want you to feel alienated

alienation's good

alienation's the best thing that's ever

you know what i mean

you gotta you gotta be a man in this

world you can't just be a fucking man

child forever

and and because you know it's it's a

brutal brutal thing on the internet you

know

being able to embrace the alienation of

the internet as the ground of new

freedom

that's how you destroy the evil that's

how you destroy the dgen shit you know

what is more

let me tell you this

the dude who's on discord oh discord

kitten watch anime with me

that's a dude who's taking something

beautiful and shitting it up with their

sweaty

you know

musty ass

and i'm saying why don't we embrace that

shiny cutting edge instead you know what

i mean

why don't we embrace that shining

cutting edge instead

and i'm not saying i'm not saying it in

an avent guard sense right i'm just

saying it in a sense of there's a future

ahead of us

and instead of running away from it we

should be at the forefront of it we

should be embracing it

we should be at the forefront