The Best Way To Think About Anarchism

The Example Of Russia Reminds Us That Keeping Up That Enormous Dead Weight Of The Security Apparatus Required To Enforce The Ideological Conformity To Preempt Anything That Looks Like An Alternative Or A Social Movement Is Destroying Capitalism.

If You Imagine That Everything Is An Exchange, Then We're Supposed To Just Transact And Walk Away. If We Haven't Walked Away And We Still Have A Relationship, It's Because There's A Debt.

Traditional Hedonism...was Based On The Direct Experience Of Pleasure: Wine, Women And Song; Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll; Or Whatever The Local Variant. The Problem, From A Capitalist Perspective, Is That There Are Inherent Limits To All This. People Become Sated, Bored...modern Self-illusory Hedonism Solves This Dilemma Because Here, What One Is Really Consuming Are Fantasies And Day-dreams About What Having A Certain Product Would Be Like.

But In The Years Since The Neoliberal Project Really Has Been Stripped Down To What Was Always Its Essence: Not An Economic Project At All, But A Political Project, Designed To Devastate The Imagination, And Willing - With It's Cumbersome Securitization And Insane Military Projects - To Destroy The Capitalist Order Itself If That's What It Took To Make It Seem Inevitable.

All Societies Are Based On A Sort Of Minimum Level Of Communism. Otherwise, You Couldn't Have Any Social Relations At All.