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During the turbulent decades that preceded and followed the French Revolution, classical mythology was subject to extensive cross-pollination with Enlightenment and revolutionary literature. Many narratives were reinterpreted through the scope … Continue reading The Female Monster and the Misogynist Revolution
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 an interpretation somewhat removed from mainstream Marxism, the natural synergies between Communism and Capitalism are a favorite topic of this blog. This trait was best recognized by no other … Continue reading Veblen, the leisure class, techno-conspirators and the leftovers
Parrhesia, from the Greek παρρησία, means literally “to say everything”, to “not hold anything back”. It is used to describe a manner of speaking frankly or boldly, to the point … Continue reading Parrhesia, subversion and piracy: the rise of the cyber-optimists
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weeks, this finale will analyze the memetic history of the third … Continue reading CUSC: wokeness, technoutopia, and outdated futures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
In the last article published here at The Outpost, we discussed a critical assertion implied by the Communist Manifesto’s: that capitalism and communism are two sides of the same coin. … Continue reading The Anti-Socialist Load
