praxis, difference

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; but in practice, there always is a difference. - Yogi Berra

"Action is eloquence."

"Action is eloquence." - William Shakespeare

the body is a locus of knowledge

Even to talk about oneself in a time like this is a kind of unwholesome luxury.

(via)

a long time ago, today

Saw K. today, for the first time in a long time. I've always been a little in love with her, but today, for the first time, I was struck to discover that I'm a little in love with her.

Capitalism is metastable

The functioning of the system is metastable.
The existence of the system is metastable.

kiss your love without leaving your gun

Kiss your love without leaving your gun.

You Are Not Entitled to Stability

You Are Not Entitled to Happiness

You Are Not Entitled to Pleasure

evitability

Socialism is neither historically necessary nor inevitable; what Marx/Engels/Luxemburg failed to consider is the means by which barbarism can, by virtue of its barbarity, replicate itself unto a more ultimate demise.

This potential for self-replication can also be construed as a weakness; our foresight of this 'more ultimate demise' makes possible a return to the anti-barbaric. That is, the very inevitability of capital's encroachments is the thing which makes it evitable.

allies and opponents

Revolutionary theory is now the sworn enemy of all revolutionary ideology - and it knows it.
- The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (124)

On Statism

Freedom is a natural human value.

Freedoms naturally are in competition with each other. This is a structural problem.

Self-analysis and the anticapitalist impulse

Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?
by Robert Nozick (from a Cato Institute Policy Report, January/February 1998)

Interesting thoughts relating to social hierarchy, resentment and schooling, as well as the allocation of resources under capitalism and the possibly contradictory nature of the anticapitalist impulse as the product of a feeling of superiority on the part of the intellectual classes.

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Might these posited motivations offer a unique source of powerful analysis?

The monetization of all components of life is the ultimate triumph of individualist capitalist ideology

And it is happening.
Like, for example, this

Capital Infection

Capital infects healthy cells, converts their purposes to its own ends, breaks up the healthy cell in order to reproduce and infect other cells.