Re: [A-List] Self medicating rant

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

Rather than just a rant, these comments are a passionate plea for  resistance 
and fighting the bourgeois order, in real time. Modern wars - down to  tribal 
conflict and central city (inner-city in America), are always power grabs  
fought for control of things, networks and institutions. War has been  around a 
long time, but these modern wars embody and express the spontaneous  impulses 
of the bourgeois order; the battle for markets, market shares and areas  of 
high profitability. 
 
A better world is possible and without question the future is up to us. The  
epoch of petroleum based industrial production relations days are numbered for 
a  complex of reasons, including peak oil. Ten years ago and as little as 
five  years ago - 60 months, significant discourse took place over whether or not 
 society is passing - step by step and stage by stage, to a new mode of  
production in the sense of primary material relations of production.  New  primary 
mode of production, that grow out of existing modes of production, must  by 
definition be founded upon qualitatively different combinations of tools,  
instruments, machinery and underlying energy grid. The bottom line question  
becomes what is produced and for what purpose? 
 
Today the bourgeois order itself is called into question. Modern war today  
is driven by the non-sustainability of the bourgeois order, rather than "this 
or  that aspect" of bourgeois production. Over the past 60 months the language 
of  the political elite, not simply the professional political elite but 
people such  as ourselves have changed and many speak of "the race to the bottom." 
"The race  to the bottom" is not the bottom of the oil barrel, but an 
expression of an  intuitive sense of the meaning of the value relation and the 
commodity form. All  this shit we produce for exchange is not sustainable. Producing 
oil for exchange  is not sustainable and must of necessity lead to gluts of 
the market, even under  peak oil scenario.  The age of chaos grows directly out 
of the crisis of  the bourgeois order, which is a crisis of the commodity form 
and the destruction  of the value relations that is the direct result of the 
technological advance  and the stupid decisions made on behave of preserving 
the bourgeois  order. Billions are more than less shut out of the value 
relations in a  different way than  when society was passing from agricultural 
relations to  industrial relations and the industrial proletariat was being formed 
from the  manufacturing working class and declassed peasants of the feudal 
order. 
 
Today the industrial proletariat is in decay in front of our eyes and the  
old industrial reserve army of the unemployed is not a reserve for the  
industrial order, which is in transition. That is the peoples of America, at any  rate 
a politically active and significant sector, must be won over to the idea  of 
socially necessary means of life being taken out of the value relations  
rather than a bland demand to "stop consuming."  I do not know what the  slogans 
for such a movement will be, but such a movement is the inevitable  result of 
the historical process. If ones entry into this movement is by way of  peak 
oil, so be it. The starving masses world wide. without access and the  desire for 
information in the hands of the political elite, are spontaneously  for 
economic communism and this is new in history. In the past humanity strove  to 
enter the industrial order as the means to escape the poverty, imperial  terror 
and the narrowness of a life that was shown to be narrow with the  emergence of 
the industrial order.  In the past century, the people of the  world and most 
certainly in the imperial centers, more than less, clamored for  commodities, 
especially in the post WW II era. That world is quickly  fading.
 
The path forward is where the fighter stands. The vision is as countless as  
there are people. The goal is taken from the agenda of history and fused with  
our collective imagination. 
 
All roads lead to communism, more than less. 
 
Melvin P. 
 
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None of it will make any more sense  outside of the preservation of  the age 
of oil by ushering in the age of chaos, and it will also help fund the  oil 
march to nowhere (think coal = petroleum, think burning oil shale rocks,  half 
coal half petroleum and flammable. There is still likely to be a big glut  in 
production of oil for a number of years, and the Canadian and American  
governments have made it clear they will use Security Certificates and black op  
kidnappings of dissent, so picture a time of scarcity. This will become very  
apparent on the way down, a time frame during which US energy giants will be  
madly trying to consolidate the infrastructure of this tar sand madness for the  
whole continent. 
 
Letâs stop them where it hurts, and where it matters locally. Shut down the  
tar sands to end their fucking war. We have a choice. 
 
Thanks for reading that. I feel better, even if just a  little.



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