The Leviathan in the Room
Despite the meme of the World entering a New Cold War is becoming every day more widespread, the question of who is who is just becoming intelligible. Communists and Capitalists … Continue reading The Leviathan in the Room
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Plague and the City: of Rats and Men
Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative, non-motile, stick-shaped bacterium. It enjoys vacationing in damp places, riding fleas, and unleashing God’s Wrath on Humanity. The disease it causes, plague, still holds a … Continue reading Plague and the City: of Rats and Men
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
