for me - and i’m an anarchist who just does mercenary work for the communists - it’s about tastes. i feel a special kind of disgust with bourgeois culture… and i won’t get into why as that would be too long winded. i could say, though, that if you had to ask, you’ll never know. it’s like a special sense. remember that kid from sixth sense? he could see dead people. well i have a special sense too, except mine gives me power to see through people.
lemme try to give an example of what i’d like to do. we have a man (bezos) who’s worth 137 billion dollars. i ask myself, what is great about this guy? then i find out he plays tennis, let’s say. so now i’m thinking: if i distributed that 137 billion dollars back to those who’s work created that wealth, how many of those people might become more interesting than a tennis player? remember, i’m in the business of making exceptional people… you know the whole ubermensch thing or whatever. so i’m thinking that if they had more money and more free time, very many of them would be able to develop themselves into something more exciting than a tennis player. that’s my basic premise; what ought to justify a person capitalizing off someone else’s labor is a definitive difference between character and capacity, such that if the roles are reversed (capitalist as a laborer and laborer as capitalist), we’d be able to say 'hey wait a minute, the other guy ought to be doing all the work because he isn’t a good tennis player (if we’re using a talent for tennis as our criteria).
i suppose you could say my approach is hyper-meritocratic. if i am not able to find excuse for the exploitation of one class by another because those classes aren’t qualitatively different in any profound and noticeable way, i’d rather just converge them into one class so that one doesn’t exploit the other. in other words, if you have 137 billion dollars, you better be so awesome you sweep me off my feet, or i’m giving you a 9 to 5 and an apartment like everyone else. i confess this is the residual echo of the old fascist in me… the old architect who looked at the earth as if it were a sims or age of empires game.
anyway, this is really the only reason i fight for the communists, when i do. that, and i’m involved in very real conflicts in both my legal and economic circumstances… circumstances which can be traced directly back to the corrupt, incompetent and deceptive nature of various aspects of the present system. this kinda puts me right there ‘in the shit’, as the saying goes, so i recognize with the communists a mutual enemy. an enemy of my enemy isn’t necessarily a friend, but he’s certainly not my enemy, either.
but it’s all just for shits and giggles. these forums are filled with fruit-loops so there’s nothing to take seriously anyway… that, and the fact that if there were any seriously minded ‘philosophy’ going on, it would have no way to become effective beyond the local interactions and conversations between the people involved.
marx once said the philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it. i think he was being generous. most ‘philosophers’ haven’t even gotten the interpretation part right, so they sure as hell aren’t going to be able to change anything even if they wanted to.
but as far as the ‘world consciousness’ goes, the ruling idea today is the ever increasing suspicion against capitalism. anybody who’s still today fiddling over locke’s primary and secondary properties or kant’s a priori synthetic propositions, aren’t even in the game. the only legitimate philosophy in the world today, right now, is that growing intellectual awareness of the systemic, internal conflicts created by the capitalist economy. because this is a REAL problem, not some theoretical jibber jabber in your favorite philosophy book, it tends to turn the most heads.
so we’re experiencing an intellectual war on planet earth right now. the old ‘tried and failed’ team that consists of conservative romantics who are still living in the history books, and the new ‘let’s try it and see’ team that no longer trusts the people in charge who made everything FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition). the people of the world are sick and tired of hearing their governments say ‘we’re gonna make country X great again, yada yada yada.’ na fuck that. they want actual proof now.
and btw, that whole emo and tattoo thing was your mess… right out of the the multi-faceted subjectivities of the capitalist/consumerist discourse catalog. you take the heat for that one. don’t try to put that one on the commies.