Liberal Sociopathy and Imperialistic Modernity.
I recently had the joy of reading a completely neurotic rant of a supposed game review for a cute little indie game about cartoon animals.
Now the author's raving madness aside, the article conjured up memories of an article written by an equally smug cuckservative wherein he sneered that White Working Class Communities deserved to die because they failed at properly appeasing his real God: blatant economic interests.
These articles are a symptom of a kind of Imperialistic Modernity, as I've deemed it. Whereas in most cases Modernity infests a nation like a disease, in its more imperial form it will not rest until it destroys anything and everything unlike itself; this can be found in Leftists frequent disgust and indeed, loathing of these poor communities dotting America whilst simultaneously kissing up to any brown person it sees: white working class communities represent everything that modernity despises, they're echoes of an America that was and that had meaning, they don't exist in confusing cities constantly expanding and growing and growing, but places firmly rooted with buildings generally older than the people there.
Modernity thusly manifests in the nation itself, then once its infested enough people, they turn against any remnant of the nation: they loathe smalltown America for its sense of Americanness and sense of God, they loathe it because it's not the brown cities that they call "vibrantly diverse", it's not the nihilism of Black America which manifests in a mindless destruction of all and emotional rampages throughout the urban landscape, it's an echo of an America that was, and so it must be destroyed before anyone imagines that America can be anything other than the importer of the world's garbage.
What this also represents is why the far-right must immediately ally itself with and try to assist "small town America"; these are the forgotten people of the nation, abandoned by the globalized world and their way of life under attack by faggy urbanites. The fact is that the White Working Class can find no ally in anything except White identarian movements: leftists of all stripes want to essentially genocide these people and replace them with a bunch of imported browns, and loathe them because they don't hold some "alphabet soup" marches wherein a bunch of freaks strip nude and start fucking in public under rainbow flags and cries of "So brave!" by the left. Liberals (especially those in so-called "conservative" societies) loathe them because "small towns" are antithetical to the new economic system, wherein cities suck up the prosperity of the rest of the nation like a leach, jobs based more and more around service rather than manufacturing, they're economic dead weight not worth producing in and not capable of largescale production of cash crops, so utterly worthless to the GDP fearing liberal. Milquetoast conservatives similarly will do nothing, instead tut-tutting about their supposed "moral failings" but in reality hating these small communities along similar lines as the leftists: because they're the "folksy" kind of conservatism that embarrasses them, rather than the "high minded" William F. Buckley Jr. type which can be reduced to a highly educated elite swirling around New England and yearning for the America that was.
Thus, the only salvation for these towns can be found in far right ideology, as they're the only ones who aren't "embarrassed" by them, nor actively working towards their destruction.
Posted Mar 24, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC
I agree that rural America has essentially been colonized by the city--more specifically, by capital that is concentrated in cities. The rural petty bourgeois have been replaced by national chains like Walmart and Wendys which siphon the surplus value produced by rural labor forces into the urban centers. The city is then increasingly imposing its "liberal culture" on the countryside in a sort of textbook Gramscian process of "cultural hegemony" which has been met by a far-right reaction.
If that is your diagnosis of the problem, then it is incongruous with your proposed solution, which is seems to be to lash out at the culture. The far right has it backwards. Culture is downstream from the relations of production. Modernity is a consequence of capitalist relations of production. The culture of rural communities is declining because they've lost control of the means of production and therefore any semblance of self-determination, not because of gay pride parades or because of brown people who hate America or whatever.
Exactly, it's always cringeworthy when far-rightists always talk about this and because of the fear of ever even considering Capital to be the perpetrator, they make up a jewish/leftist boogeyman that has no motivation or drive other than being non-sensically antagonistic.
What turned you from NatSynd/Strasserism to full on communism? Do you now believe that the worker's interests can only be held up if capital itself is abolished instead of occupational representation or what?
Not just worker's interest, capitalism is inefficient and troublesome including to a nation's self-determination as a whole too.
Economic relations does have some influence on culture, of that I don't deny--it's in part why I believe that companies that outsource manufacturing should just have their factories seized and given over to workers unions to run.
However a fatalistic view of the culture, wherein as long as the capitalist system exists, this is the culture that will result, is something I vehemently deny. "Lashing out" and attacking this useless, mindless, nihilistic-materialist culture is the first step to recovering from it.
Since culture is the product of labor, and therefore requires a means of production itself, I don't see how there is any point to lashing out unless the goal is to reclaim control over the means of production.
Lashing out at--for example--urban ghettos is a waste of time, since black people living in poverty have limited control over the means of production. Hip-hop culture originated as a reaction of the black urban communities against the same liberal forces that have colonized the black ghetto and are now threatening to gentrify it out of existence. They are very much in the same position as rural white communities (no self-determination, limited political influence, families shattered by drug abuse, etc), and therefore have no bearing on rural self-determination, other than as a potential ally with a common enemy.
There's no "potential ally" in blacks because they don't give a damn about ideology.
Let me put it like this: race is a better hint as to who you vote for than your ideology. You can be a black man who thinks the government is too big, who looks down on gay marriage, who's against abortion, who wants to shrink the welfare state, and you'll still end up voting for Romney
Attempting to court Blacks is utterly pointless, they aren't allies, they're just there. These are people who essentially sold out their own liberators and started voting for the party that fought for their enslavement--contrary to the "muh southern strategy" myth--around the 1930s and haven't ever looked back. Groups of all stripes have tried to appeal to them, but the only ones that know how to truly make allies of Blacks are their old masters. Any attempts to "ally" with blacks will end in disaster because it isn't about a common cause or common suffering to them, they make their decisions almost entirely based on which side gives them the most shit followed by which side most other blacks seem to support.
Beyond even that their interests aren't aligned, blacks want those same rural whites to give up what little they have in the form of reparations, they see them as a checkbook and little else.
Economic relations has an influence on culture, but culture is not solely a product of labor, it also comes from a peoples' environment and their history, not merely their form of labor and the division of that labor.
Really? Are you sure it isn't because of the party realignment that took place during FDR's tenure? The GOP post-1930s bared little resemblance to the party of Lincoln, and the Dems post-FDR bared little resemblance to the party of the antebellum. I don't see why that is surprising, I don't see how that has anything to do with the black community of the 21st century.
Because the black community tends to vote Democrat? Rural whites voted for Trump for the same reason. He promised them "the most shit"--he sold them a fantasy about the return of manufacturing jobs and promised to kick out all competition from immigrants. That's why people vote--to favor their own interests and the interests of people they care about. It's a stretch to assume that because people vote in their own interests, they can't ally. It seems even more of a stretch when their interests align.
Regardless, without labor, culture wouldn't exist. Therefore, the creation of culture is largely controlled by those who have the power to control labor.
Do exactly that.
Get called a nazi and get de-platformed
Capitalism continues and your communities die off to become housing for mass waves of third world cheap slave labour.
????
Profit
Maybe if commies weren't intent on calling 'naaaazzziiii' on anyone who even recognises the problem , we wouldn't be in this mess
The problem is capitalism.
The priest-class only has so much power for so much time.
[deleted]