My latest piece for the organic radicals website looks at the ideas of Jacques Camatte “Revolution will make itself felt in the destruction of all that is most ‘modern’ and ‘progressive’” Jacques Camatte (1935-) is a political philosopher who rejects both marxism and industrial capitalism and has influenced the green anarchist movement in the USA.
Many of these concepts were well elaborated in Guy Debord's "The Society of The Spectacle". The absorption of all counter movements is well defined in McLuhan's "The Medium is The Message". And in Jerry Mander's book 'In The Absence of The Sacred" he states: "Machines Destroy Sacred Space".
Such good names, anarchism without a rigorous philosophy and understanding of the modern world and of human nature, the self, is doomed to failure.
Anarchism is not about mediocrities who are keen on waving black flags and being commited to ideologies, stuck in 19th century enlightenment utopianism. No, to hell with that.
There are certainly worthwhile things in Camatte's thinking. But now I am less inclined to think that another "-ism" will be the right one. Denis Rancourt is a multidisciplinary scientist (arguably one of the extreme few to understand the true nature of the Covid Great Reset early on as well as blow out of the water the Narrative TM with genuine scientific rigor) also writes on social theory.
A couple short excerpts:
"None of these models [Capitalism, communism, anarchism] can result in a stable large-scale society because spontaneous creation and growth of dominance hierarchies will always occur, and the resulting dominance hierarchies continuously consume or destroy all the groups, associations and institutions that might enable democratic frameworks and islands of liberty."
"But the most useful model of all is the realization that there is a constant systemic driving force towards a more authoritarian and more powerful societal hierarchy of dominance, and that its target is the individual (and authentic communities) precisely because the essential element of push-back against hierarchical encroachment is that very individual, which naturally seeks liberation and meaning."
I report a study, still open in development, that might be of interest to you, "For a minimal Theory of Capital":
https://www.ilcovile.it/V3_TMC_en.html
Cordiality
Stefano Borselli
Thanks
The article was included in the bibliography on Camatte: https://www.ilcovile.it/V3_camatte_Recenti.html
Ah, great. Thanks!
There is an interview from 2019 with JC conducted by Circle Communist at Libcom.org which you will find interesting/ https://libcom.org/article/interview-jacques-camatte-2019
Many of these concepts were well elaborated in Guy Debord's "The Society of The Spectacle". The absorption of all counter movements is well defined in McLuhan's "The Medium is The Message". And in Jerry Mander's book 'In The Absence of The Sacred" he states: "Machines Destroy Sacred Space".
This is truth.
Such good names, anarchism without a rigorous philosophy and understanding of the modern world and of human nature, the self, is doomed to failure.
Anarchism is not about mediocrities who are keen on waving black flags and being commited to ideologies, stuck in 19th century enlightenment utopianism. No, to hell with that.
There are certainly worthwhile things in Camatte's thinking. But now I am less inclined to think that another "-ism" will be the right one. Denis Rancourt is a multidisciplinary scientist (arguably one of the extreme few to understand the true nature of the Covid Great Reset early on as well as blow out of the water the Narrative TM with genuine scientific rigor) also writes on social theory.
A couple short excerpts:
"None of these models [Capitalism, communism, anarchism] can result in a stable large-scale society because spontaneous creation and growth of dominance hierarchies will always occur, and the resulting dominance hierarchies continuously consume or destroy all the groups, associations and institutions that might enable democratic frameworks and islands of liberty."
"But the most useful model of all is the realization that there is a constant systemic driving force towards a more authoritarian and more powerful societal hierarchy of dominance, and that its target is the individual (and authentic communities) precisely because the essential element of push-back against hierarchical encroachment is that very individual, which naturally seeks liberation and meaning."
https://archive.ph/5c9La#selection-4311.0-4311.329
More:
https://denisrancourt.ca/categories.php?id=14&name=social_theory
From the beginning Bolsheviks were criminals. Nothing changed from then to now. Communism is criminal. Leszek Kołakowski wrote on this topic.
The left is the extreme of destruction and the right is slightly right of the left.