Wednesday, January 2, 2008

communism and the will to live

I cannot breathe.

How can I? The idiotic cult of death is still alive as ever—permeating every little bit of my existence; all those phantom-acolytes in school, workplace, mom, and dad, making disgusting pronouncements that call everyone to throw themselves to the nothingness of some inexistant “greater cause”--of that monstruosity called virtue and the ideal.
We haven't advanced a damned bit since the beginning of civilization. We are still obsessed by the fucking phantoms of virtue: of the hard worker, the humanist, the humble, the martyr.... the man who willingly castrates himself, and then points at his mutilated genitals and regurgitates “damn you, damn you, you evildoer!”.

Yeah, all of us have heard about those stupid shit-filled declarations of “family values”, “nationalism”, “work-ethic”--ideals that we need to work hard to emulate, rather than those ideas emulating us. Temptation is looming inside our guts, and we are so pathetic, so hypocritical, that we publicly deny that will to live, while secretly craving for it.

What has this to do with communism?

The cult of death—that supression of the will to live, is the most solid base of class society. The most reactionary elements of society are always cultists of death—always. Whether they are rallying behind family values, nationalism, work ethic, culture, tradition—they always speak about the refusal of the will to live. Whether it is the capitalist glorifying boring hard work, the conservative condeming gay marriage, the soldier being sent to die, or monoculturalism—we always see the hateful zombie condemning flesh, blood, and true creativity.

After refusing the importance of our immediate desires and dreams, everything seems logical. Dying for your country, hunger, hatred for your lust, being bored to death---the will to live is categorized as “beast-like”, as irrational, while the will to die becomes the stellar, shining star for everyone to follow.

Radical change always comes with the affirmation of the will to live. The French Revolution didn't shake civilization just because of “altruism”, or empty self-martyrdom—it thundered precisely because people were desiring deep inside their heart, a qualitative change in their lives. Communism is precisely that affirmation of the will to live in the capitalist mode of production. The communist preaches that “we are nothing, we should be everything!”, while the revolutionary break changes the phrase to “We are nothing, we shall be everything!”,

There are books and books about the theoretical framework of communism and its historical roots, but it is extremely important to understand the gears that move mass socialist action, which in their most basic essence, are nothing more than politics of temptation, rage, and dreams.

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