CrapEmployee 3.0: More adventures in the left-wing of capital
OK, so project 1 and 2 are done, leaving the unfinished, probably unfinishable projects previously subterranean to the previous exaltant emanations of hostility and indifference.
Hence new title: Theory of the offensive.Three major prizes to anyone who spots the reference without googling. OK, my own favorite interpretations:
(a) considering what offends, what provokes or produces antipathy, insult, pain, etcetera, what can transgress, violate rules, norms, etiquette, good form - a project only-apparently in any way separate from
(b) attempting to think questions of contestation, of conducting an offensive, aufheben, class warfare as the continuation of daily class struggle by other means, accounts of possibilities to combine confontation with existing powers over the reproduction of capitalist social relations on the one hand, and communisation on the other i.e. the difference between dealing with low intensity conflict imposing and re-imposing the status quo, versus full-spectrum resistance seeking to overthrow the existing elites and their repressive forces, an offensive in the military sense but one conducted so as to create communism as a world of new individual and collective freedoms, projects and endless adventure.
Yet Another Televised Revolution, exclusively distributed as part of the Straight-to-Video Collection
My new bland ambition: a critique of schematic efforts at the periodisation of the combined and uneven subsumptions constituting this current moment in the history of capital, in which the concept of "the left-wings of capital" plays a substantial supporting role, with cameo and bit parts for leftists, "activists", insert your own etceteras, also providing technical assistance helping to give the left-wings of capital the illusion of three dimensions…
…in which illusion I include our new geopolitics of reification i.e. the illusion of three dimensions rather than four, the provision of special lighting to generate a depthless appearance of the always-already eternal, an occlusion of the conflictual constitution of the lived categories of capital thus, as a bonus, producing that flat Surrealpolitik making imaginable some sick, consensual left-wing capitalism in which we can all labour hard and manage the oh-so-fairer exchanges of the work-camps on whose ethical status we can found a good conscience, high moral ground and claim for surplus value…well, you get the picture, we can all assent to exploitation-as-liberation. Fight the class struggle: Kill a fair trader this winter.
