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By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on November 29, 2020

Otto Weininger, Red Pill Prophet of the Biopolitical Age

Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger’s (1880-1903) only published work bore the title “Sex and Character: an investigation of fundamental principles”. At that time of blossoming struggle for sex equality, it was … Continue reading Otto Weininger, Red Pill Prophet of the Biopolitical Age

Tags: biopolitics, capitalism, communism, memetics, sex
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on October 19, 2020October 24, 2020

Memetic Crystal Ball: a peek into the future of Pablo Iglesias

Narrative is made of tropes, storytelling devices that are recognizable within a specific culture. Thus, a trope is a type of meme; specifically a meme put in the service of … Continue reading Memetic Crystal Ball: a peek into the future of Pablo Iglesias

Tags: communism, memetics, podemos, spain
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on September 26, 2020September 28, 2020

Ginsburg v. Goebbels and the search for New Sparta

It is impossible to write a misogynist manifesto without a minimal historiographical review, particularly relating to the Ancient world. The author of such a manifesto can count on a very … Continue reading Ginsburg v. Goebbels and the search for New Sparta

Tags: biopolitics, capitalism, classics, communism, geopolitics
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on September 19, 2020

The fortress and the gyneceum

Athenian society venerated Athena, virginal goddess of wisdom and martial virtue: a female deity doted with attributes the Greeks ascribed to masculinity and rationality, as embodied by the soldier-citizen. This … Continue reading The fortress and the gyneceum

Tags: accelerationism, biopolitics, classics, communism
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020

The friendzoning of the West

The Gross Domestic Product of the People’s Republic of China was worth 14,342.90 billion USD in 2019, according to official data from the World Bank and projections from Trading Economics: … Continue reading The friendzoning of the West

Tags: acceleration, china, communism, geopolitics
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on July 25, 2020July 26, 2020

Age of the Corporate Drone

Capitalism is eternal, will never fall, and will not be replaced by any kind of socialism. Such was the accelerationist message encoded in the Communist Manifesto: a message intuited by … Continue reading Age of the Corporate Drone

Tags: communism, geopolitics, russia, socialism
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on July 18, 2020July 26, 2020

Birds of prey have no friends: the first anti-Capitalist War

Hitler: one of the few people in Modern History who have ascended to almost purely memetic status. Che Guevara and Mahatma Gandhi come close, but none of them have gone … Continue reading Birds of prey have no friends: the first anti-Capitalist War

Tags: communism, futurism, geopolitics, socialism
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on May 11, 2020July 26, 2020

Geopolitical Change Denialism

As we’ve explained before, when a conflict arises, the possible positions to be taken in regards to it, its memetic frame, is previous to the choice of sides by the … Continue reading Geopolitical Change Denialism

Tags: accelerationism, china, communism, futurism, geopolitics, memetics
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on May 4, 2020July 26, 2020

CUSC: wokeness, technoutopia, and outdated futures

Today’s the last chapter of this series on the Communist Manifesto. Staying true to the form of the past weeks, this finale will analyze the memetic history of the third … Continue reading CUSC: wokeness, technoutopia, and outdated futures

Tags: accelerationism, communism, coronavirus, futurism, socialism
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on May 1, 2020July 26, 2020

Revolution defanged: Bourgeois Conservative Socialism

In the last posts we talked about Reactionary Socialism and its three variants. Marx and Engels were somewhat appreciative of the critic posed by the reactionaries to the Bourgeois State. … Continue reading Revolution defanged: Bourgeois Conservative Socialism

Tags: bourgeois, china, communism, futurism, memetics, socialism
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on April 29, 2020July 26, 2020

Men Towards the Ruins: German Socialism

In our last post, we went through two of the strains of Reactionary Socialism described by Marx and Engels, feudal and petty-bourgeois socialism. Today we will discuss a third variant, … Continue reading Men Towards the Ruins: German Socialism

Tags: accelerationism, communism, futurism, memetics, reaction, socialism
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on April 26, 2020July 26, 2020

Thucydides within: the origins of Reaction

As announced in the last post, the next few installments on our series on Marxist thought will focus on the different schools of Socialism identified and targeted by the Communist … Continue reading Thucydides within: the origins of Reaction

Tags: communism, memetics, reaction, socialism

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