Canary in the strip mine
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People talk a lot of shit about the lumpenproletariat and I don’t understand why. Petty criminals, sex workers, gang members, and mentally ill people seem just as aware of what’s going on as anyone else. The real lumpenproletariat that’s impossible to organize is suburbanoids. I guess it was different two hundred years ago. I guess the context really is quite different. Now the state has cops to do all it’s dirty work, while people who used to be dismissed as lumpen are forced in to a sharp contest with the state by cops and landlords.
The Black Panther Party argued that lumpen could form the material base for revolution within the imperial core. Revolutionary Intercommunalism is badass
Yes and that’s why they started the rainbow coalition. They just demanded that anyone joining the movement leave the confederate flags and shit at the door.
Fuck the Confederate flag obviously, but I’ve never read anything about the Young Patriots Organization dropping it when they joined the rainbow coalition?
Georges Bataille fucking VIBRATING in his grave right now.
Paging @solaranus
There is no excess energy (wealth) to be expended without growth (in this case, via aesthetic pleasures), and so now conflict with those systems (nations) with excess energy (resources that they themselves cannot fully utilize) becomes ever more likely.
Bataille, galaxy-brained French horndog that he was, seemed to be on to something.
