reporting from the outskirts of the Empire
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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weeks, this finale will analyze the memetic history of the third … Continue reading CUSC: wokeness, technoutopia, and outdated futures
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
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
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
