The story goes like this. Absolutism conquers feudal decentralization. Renaissance rationalization, combined with oceanic navigation, transforms the feudal menstruate into a formal bureaucracy.
Better trade and an improved plow from the east improves the political economy of the peasants. The political economy of the peasants is usurped by the political economy of the burghers and the usurious lenders. The groundwork for commoditization takeoff is set. The Luminous Revolution disintegrates the remains of the feudal political economy.
Metallurgy and engineering take the advance, and modern industry develops. Earth is captured by a techno-capital singularity. Smith and Ricardo form the first premises of capitalist political economy, which is taken up by the socialists, weaponizing the Manchester School against the bourgeois.
Savings banks collapse and trusts are formed. State intervention enters the battle. Trusts are broken up, but state centralization of finance ensues.
Scientific management transforms capitalist industry in the workshop. State capitalist monopoly cartels dominate the commercial markets. The empires consolidated around their state capitalist monopolies arms race each other into a bloody conflict the likes of which has never been seen before. The old laws of war and justice are dominated by a logistical industrial enterprise. Lenin's Bolsheviki force the Germans'hand and in a desperate maneuver the Bolsheviks are given safe passage to the Russian Provisional Republic and the Kerensky regime is toppled.
At the culmination of the imperialist war the Bolsheviks Stavro Tcherviki stormed the gates of Babylon. By the 1920s, Carnegie was proclaiming himself as a socialist. By 1929, a terminal crisis affects the state-monopoly capitalist political economy. Rampant credit-driven speculation ruptures the investment cycle of state-monopoly cartels.
The state-monopoly capitalist political economy is transformed by two intermingled social movements other than Bolshevism. Neo-socialism establishes fascist corporate states, and Keynesian reformism establishes a consumerist political economy built on credit to provide buoyancy. to the state monopoly cartels.
Three distinct socialist blocs are formed. Masonic and speculative forces make the advance, and toying with geopolitics, turn them against each other. In a socialist globe war, the fascist corporate states attack the Republic of Soviets, only to be attacked from the rear by their reactionary and plutocratic handlers in the democracies to the west.
Emerging from the ruins of the Second Globe War, the United States imposes its dollar hegemony, while the Republic of Soviets transposes its Soviet political economy in its sphere of influence according to national particularities. In matters of currency, the reign of gold is ended by a system of national standards of accounting. East and West arms raise each other for international gravitas. Nothing of the capitalist political economy survives the middle of the 20th century except a bourgeois magistrate in a plebiscitary welfare state.
By the end of the 20th century, the Keynesian social market economy of the West is privatized as part of a transformation of the bourgeois magistrate into a more efficient apparatus of Western unipolar hegemony. In China, the Party of Mao adapts to the changing battle and rearranges state industry to capture foreign investment, and develops the forces of production according to a new project, dominating commercial markets and laying the groundwork for a new world. groundwork for a project of multi-polarity.
Neo-China arrives from the future. Yeah! Hey guys, Ghostman of New Vegas here, tuning in once again for a new video.
I wrote Marxist Priterism during a psychotic episode caused by my anti-malarial medication that I had to take on a research trip to Ghana. The style of the article is looking back, read as well. Psychotic.
But honestly, I think it is some of my most interesting writings, which can be found on my blog, of course. While this psychotic episode was horrendous and fucking scary, it did at least give me some kind of creative influence on this topic which I think is useful for this video seeing as I've recovered and reached euthymia. Also if you're planning on going to Africa, some good advice coming from experience here is to skip the anti-malarial medication and just use bug spray.
It'll save you a great deal of pain and suffering. With that out of the way, let's begin the video. The idea that we already live in socialism can only be understood if we go back to the fundamental transformation of the capitalist mode of production which took place after Marx's death. That is the highest stage of capitalism, being state monopoly cartel capitalism or imperialism as popularized. by Lenin.
Lenin of course was not the originator of the theory but rather expanded upon the theory originated by the English liberal John Atkins Hobson. Hobson's theory of imperialism is premised on his theory of overproduction and underconsumption. Essentially the advanced capitalist powers of his day reached the point to where they had an abundance of surplus capital that if not invested overseas would be unprofitable. Therefore because of the need of capital export this required an imperialist military power which would ensure that colonial markets remain open for foreign investment of surplus capital. The basic trend of development for the advanced capitalist nations is that after a period of isolation and capital accumulation, they would embrace free trade and a mercantilist economic policy which would be a great way to build a new economy.
prioritizes the export of goods and competition within the consumer markets of the world. This is true at least for the majority of the 19th century, however. However, by 1890, things start to change.
A surplus of capital in these advanced capitalist nations became unprofitable, so the excess capital exported overseas to colonies or suzerain states, which in combination with cheaper labor and intermediate goods, reaped greater and greater profits. The shift from the export of goods to the export of capital is the fundamental transformation and capitalist commodity production that differentiates capitalist imperialism from its lower stage of capitalism. This fact, in combination with the new role of finance from intermediary functionaries in capitalist production to a commanding nucleus in capitalist imperialist production, as well as the arrangement of capitalist institutions from small and loosely associated joint stock companies to intermingled state monopoly cartels taking on state contracts and administrative roles, Capitalist imperialism, therefore, if it is to be conceived in the early 20th century as the highest stage of capitalism, must also be conceived as capitalism transitioning into something else. Lenin once said that the main distinction between state monopoly imperialist capitalism and socialism is Soviet power. And in the final chapter of imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, Lenin stated that capitalist imperialism which had rearranged capitalist industry according to the holding system, had prepared capitalism for the deliverance of Saint-Simon.
Lenin stated that imperialism's place in history is the transition period by which capitalism is transforming into a higher organization of production. While taking into consideration the fact that the modern economy is absent of Soviet power, can we still say that we are living in the capitalist imperialism of the early 20th century? Or have the advancements in the forces of production since then brought us already into a new mode of production? As bizarre as it sounds for Marx to say this, can we say that we are living under a bourgeois form of socialism?
The purpose of this video is to argue exactly that point. In my view, the deliverance of Saint-Simon has already happened, and that the deliverance of Marx has only partially occurred, but its total deliverance has been refuted by history. Political ideology offers a plethora of deliverances that can be broken down into two positions.
There is the deliverance of the first position towards an open market of free competition, which history has totally and utterly reputed when capitalism entered its imperialist stage. The deliverance of the second position has been partially realized with China forming the productive engine of the world economy, but it is clear that today a total realization of the aims of global communism is a fool's errand, eroded by economies of middle-class social peace that even China's development is moving towards. There is the deliverance of the third position into autarkic militarized corporate states, which has been snuffed out in its cradle and is today totally incongruent with the reality of geopolitics.
Therefore, all that remains is the deliverance of the fourth position, formulated in my opinion first by Sorel, and expanded upon later by Dugan. A deliverance of fatalism against any rigid totalizing system and singular mode of civilization. A deliverance which negates all deliverances. A deliverance against teleology.
A deliverance towards a syndicalist patchwork. Wither away the nation-state, proclaim the glory of empire and let a thousand systems bloom and reignite the social war which is the true flame of civilizational progress. The first feature of already existing bourgeois socialism is the nature of capital export in the economy today. Capital export in the early 20th century was an emerging feature of capitalist imperialism but is today a standardized process under a global holding system which constitutes a global workshop. What we have today is a mass industrial scale of Robert Owen's parceled production model using global supply chains and logistics all concentrated around Anglo-American intelligence and logistical institutions.
While there might not be Soviet power today, we have instead bourgeois institutions such as regulatory boards and commissions that are intertwined with high finance and monopoly cartels. At the end of imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, Lenin cites the social chauvinist Gerhout von Schulze-Gabernetz on the topic of interlocking. Once the supreme management of the German banks has been entrusted to the hands of a dozen persons, their activity is to-day even more significant for the public good than that of the majority of the ministers of state the interlocking of bankers ministers magnates of industry and rentiers is here conveniently forgotten if we imagine the development of those tendencies we have no doubt carried to their logical conclusion we will have the money capital of the nation united in the banks the banks themselves combined to the cartels the investment capital of the nation cast in the shape of securities then the forecast of that genius saint simone will be fulfilled the present Anarchy of production which corresponds to the fact that economic relations are developing without uniform regulation must make way for organization and production Production will no longer be directed by isolated manufacturers independent of each other and ignorant of man's economic needs that will be done by a certain public institution a Central Committee of Management being able to survey the large field of social economy from a more elevated point of view.
We'll regulate it for the benefit of the whole of society. We'll put the means of production into suitable hands, and above all, we'll take care that there be constant harmony between production and consumption. Institutions already exist which have assumed as part of their functions a certain organization of economic labor, the banks. We are still a long way from the fulfillment of Saint-Simon's forecast, but we are on the way towards it.
Marxism, different from what Marx imagined, but different only in form. Does this interlocking of banks, cartels, and government ministries not describe exactly the present situation? Do we not already see a fundamentally Saint-Simonian organization of production, where instead of mere private interests we have public trustees in charge of financial institutions and cartel magnates? Is Elon Musk more like a traditional private capitalist or a Saint-Simonian public trustee? What we have today is not capitalist imperialism, but rather what I call social imperialism.
a form of imperialism where capital exports have become a standardized system, of organizing global production and where the holding system is interlocked with state institutions as the predominant economic arrangement. The main drive behind this form of imperialism is less so the profit motives but rather an impetus of the Anglo-American global order to preserve social peace against any existing or emerging sovereign power. The enemy isn't one ideology or group but rather sovereignty itself which has no place in the global order established upon soft power control, negotiation, compromise, regulation, and agenda making.
When can When can we say that capitalist imperialism started to transition into bourgeois socialism? I would put the date anywhere around the 1929 world market crash through to the end of the second world war and the establishment of the Bretton Woods system. Post 1929 what essentially happened is that the west was engulfed by two distinct socialist movements that were apart from and even antagonistic towards Bolshevism. On one hand you have the Keynesian monetary reforms that introduced vast government spending on public works and also the expansion of consumer credit throughout the 19th century.
the public. And on the other hand, you have the neo-socialist fascists who, through a revolution from above, imposed militarized corporate states which diverted surplus capital into a war economy. All three of these blocks of socialists would come into a clash in what I like to call the socialist wars, which compromises the skirmishes in the Second World War throughout the entirety of the Cold War. That is, of course, until Anglo-socialism reached its neoliberal and neoconservative stage, which resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the tendrils of an NGO soft power which were set upon the globe. Another fact of this already existing socialism is the fact that the law of value no longer applies to the fiat currency post Bretton Woods consolidation which established a unit of account financial system based on the greenback.
For the law of value to apply it requires labor to be approximated with the aggregate quantity of labor time imbued within a commodity in relation to a third commodity which can be gold or silver as currency. Instead of traditional capitalist finance we have a centralized financial system that that is interlocked with state ministerial institutions, which according to the economic principles of modern monetary theory, prints a given quantity of money capital which is invested into liquid assets. Therefore, money today is not a representative of any sovereign value form, but rather a unit of account which the state imposes upon civil society. The whole of the economy today is subject to macroeconomic planning by NGOs, ministerial government institutions, and central banks. Because of this Anglo-Magisterial-Fabian-Socialism, order centralized in Atlantic countries, the population bears the social relations not as proletarians but rather as citizens of a multinational socialist commonwealth.
Citizens whose social relations aren't just defined by wage labor but also through government welfare initiatives and social insecurities offered by the corporate holding system such as 401ks and mutual fund accounts. The commodity form also bears significant differences than it did under capitalist imperialism. The first fact is that they are delinquent and delineated in units of fiat currency which marks it as a quantity of total GDP, and the second is that they are subject more so to supply chain logistics rather than traditional market forces.
For example, Walmart and Costco sell their goods not like a traditional outlet of exchange would by the margins of cost and revenue, but rather according to rationally planned supply chains under managerial oversight. Devices like smartphones and laptops are also not traditional commodities, but rather parceled out units of social capital which allow allows consumers to participate in the attention and data economy. Therefore, at least in the NATO sphere, the predominant driving force is not the profit motive, but rather an impetus to maintain social peace.
This conception is key to understanding contemporary geopolitics, and since politics in general is downstream from geopolitics, it is the key to understanding today's politics in general as well. The role of China in our global economy is to capture the capital export of the Anglo-Socialist needles China's form of socialism, rather than operating along the Soviet method of wholesale nationalization of enterprises to direct profits into public goods, the state instead imposes a 20% capital gains tax which it uses to fund its extensive public works projects. This is a feature of other development states such as Vietnam and Singapore. Therefore, we have to rethink socialism outside of mere wholesale nationalization of the entire economy, which was an early primitive model of socialist development anyways.
To instead of rearranging the... already existing socialist holding system. Development state models are one method of achieving this, but does not totally solve the issue of private monopoly cartels.
Syndicalism, which arranges monopoly holding systems under scientific management, is also another method of doing this, and does solve the issue of private monopoly cartels, while not totally subsuming them into the inefficiencies related to complete state ownership. Therefore, my preferred model of socialism is best described as a combination of state-owned enterprises, syndicalist cartels, and private... small businesses within a patchwork civil society.
The advent of machine learning also constrains the need for bureaucracy, meaning commissions with the right sort of technical specialists can be more efficient than a board of representatives of shareholders. You could likely syndicalize the economy by getting shareholders to voluntarily impose a syndicalist commission of technical specialists instead of the board of representatives. The need for extensive management can also be reduced with workers having more sway in their workshop, as well as the terms.
of their employment within the confines of technical planning, and without a bloated managerial bureaucracy. Profits today are not so much a matter of being the motive force of production, but rather, a matter of reproduction and maintenance of the socialist holding systems, which is handled by utilitarian social and economic planners, and speculated upon by the bourgeoisie. The motive force of production today is as previously talked about social peace but also the objectives and ideas of a brand.
Like in the Soviet Union where the driving force behind production and administration was a myth of a coming communist future, our megacorporations have their own contending socialisms that are distilled into brand images. McDonald's and Wendy's will sell you not commodities of foodstuff, but rather a Taylorist food industry with quick service. Apple sells you a mode of digital social capital, while Google sells you another with a more open-ended user configuration. Therefore, what we have here is a set of competing corporate socialisms, which each have their own vision for a unique organization of social relations.
Lording over these competing socialisms are state intelligence and the academic cathedral, where New England's agendas and projects for social engineering originate. This factor of present day civil society is also a very important driving factor in social imperialism. The drafting of agendas such as modern environmentalism is inexorably bound up with containing the oil production of sovereign states to stop competition with the oil monopoly of the natosphere. Agendas such as inclusion, diversity and the LGBTQ plus movement are really cathedral-driven psychological operations to engineer a homogenous, deracinated and and pacified population whose identities are tied up with the prevailing institutions.
The goal is essentially to create demographics of mentally ill, deracinated cosmopolitans whose only spiritual attachment is to the institutions of this Fabian socialist commonwealth concentrated around NATO countries. This is being accomplished through mass immigration and through institutional brainwashing of the young into sexual confusion and delirium. The phenomenon called bio-Leninism is also part of this as well, where the ranks of institutions are being filled with dysgenic bio-trash in order to create a chameleal structure of yes-men for the agendas of the open society and the world economic forum. Leftoids will tell you that we live in this hyper-capitalist oppressive society dominated by evil white racist men, when in reality we are living in a Fabian Anglo-Socialist commonwealth maintained by NATO soft power and social engineering by the academic cathedral. Ever notice how all of our heroes today are a diverse cast of intelligence operatives?
Isn't SHIELD basically a brand image for the diverse? and inclusive Anglo-intelligence agencies such as the CIA, MI6, CSIS and ACES. All of our idols are fictional agents of social imperialism, and their statues are mass-produced and made of plastic. The culture of bourgeois imperialism is essentially this postmodern form of Roman Paganism, with a completely artificial civil society based on bread and circus, social engineering by the cathedral, and institutional soft power.
The 2000 AD comics, Judged Dread describes a post-nuclear holocaust future where civilization continues to exist in a sectioned off concrete jungle ruled over by corporate magistrates. The truth is that we, much like in Judge Dredd, are living in a post-apocalyptic civilization in the sense that we have already arrived at the end of history in the form of universal states and soft power institutions. Our apocalypse was the socialist globe war we know as the Second World War which imposed upon us a global governance system. and Americanized Europe through the Marshall Plan and the Bretton Woods system of accounting for the transfer of goods and capital.
At least for the West, this is what it means when we say that we are living in a post-modern epoch. The proletarian revolution already happened. The way Lenin dealt with the aftermath of the Salipin reforms was to parcel out land holdings into individual plots of land for each peasant family. I think the way in which we deal with the aftermath of Fabian Anglo-Socialism should be much the same way. And, as it happens, there is already a 21st century Lenin who proposes a solution very much akin to Lenin's dealings with the sleep-in reforms.
Am I talking about Haas? No. I am talking, of course, about Curtis Yarvin. What Curtis Yarvin wants to do is parcel out the interlocked state monopoly holding system and government into a patchwork of chartered joint stock corporations.
Funnily enough, certain socialist thinkers like George Sorrell imagined much the same thing when writing The Socialist Future of the Syndicates. I live in one of the heartlands of Anglo-Socialism, that is southwestern Ontario surrounded by the Great Lakes. When Trudeau called Canada a post-national country, he was actually hitting on something very true.
The fact of the matter is that Canada is a conglomeration of provincial corporations which have subsidiary municipalities which are constitutionally creatures of the provinces. Canada is less so a nation and more like a giant state monopolist holding system that imposes on its population a plebiscitary sham of democracy.. ruled over by soft power institutions which maintain social peace and serve as a staging ground for whatever the Anglo-Socialist Fabian elites plan to do with the United States of America in the coming years. All of the machinations of the cathedral which are coming into being under the administration of Joe Biden have already been tested here in Canada.
Our national composition is also very similar to Great Britain's, which has a mass of uneducated and deracinated cosmopolitans ruled over by an entrenched aristocratic elite with an intermingling bioluminescent magistrate of yes-men. In the face of all this, what I propose is something I like to call Operation Post-Canada, which is a project of self-governance which aims to rearrange this corporate holding system called a country by releasing the municipalities of semi-autonomous, suzerain creatures of a much cheaper provisional republic. The duties of this republic are to manage state-owned enterprises, institute macroeconomic and strategic planning, Uphold the new constitution which will be made open source and handle international relations while legal and administrative systems will be left to the Municipalities to deal with to do this this requires a repeal of the Constitution Which can only be done with a vote of a majority of provinces So the best way to go about this would probably be to join the People's Party and create a radical syndicalist libertarian faction Which aims to rebuild the Canadian state from scratch as a promethean drive towards the future Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed the video. It is of course good to be back.
I am currently taking a year break from school at the moment to work and save up money, so in my free time I will be a lot more interested in creating new videos, so maybe I'll finally get around to making that George Sorrell video. I doubt I will ever reach a point of regular uploads because that just isn't really my style. I prefer to operate from random bursts of creative inspiration rather than some kind of forced schedule which would probably reduce the quality of my content anyways.
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