Philosophical Terrorism

  Queerness Queerness is the rejection of all binding particulars in favor of the Universal. It rejects the fanatical relativism of modernity, while at the same time embracing free flowing desire as an expression of Universal Truth. Free flowing desire isn’t just any desire. It is a desire that refuses to be imprisoned within the artificial categories of this world, a desire that refuses to be divided, and as such, a desire that fully embraces the idea that truth is by necessity revolutionary. In this way, free flowing desire is dogmatically anti-authoritarian, and it can only be anti authoritarian by embracing a totalitarian dedication to said truth. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” (John 1:1). Implication: follow the word, and you are with God. So long as you continue to follow the Word, you cannot stray from God. To be queer is to be other. It is to be foriegn, alien, unknown, a stranger in a strange land… it is to renounce al...

  “We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology This is a short post to explain what communism is. Many say that it is a society which is stateless, classless, and moneyless, and to a certain extent this is true. But only to an extent. Communism, in its truest meaning, “...is not a state of affairs to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself.” ( The German Ideology). Communism is not something that is out there, beyond you and me. Communism is the negation of a world that bases itself in relations between commodities in favor of a world which is based in pure, direct relations between people and their labor. Communism is the movement here and now that rejects the relations that have been imposed on you and me from above; money, private property, consumerism, the spectacle, post-modernity; it...

In Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill, the protagonist, Edmund, exists in a constant state of flux between depressive lethargy and meek rebellion that sets the tone for the entire play. Dissatisfied with his home life, he wishes to do something to change it, but, at the same time, he is too weak due to his sickness and disillusioned by his experiences in life to actually assert himself and stand up for his own dignity, and is thus subject to his chaotic homelife and the unpredictability of his parents behavior. The family could be seen as a representation of Nietzsche’s Last Man, who is completely taken up in the will of his superiors, and never even takes one step to be his own person. It could also be said that they are a representation of us, modern, domesticated humans - we who merely act as cogs, and nothing more, we who are completely disillusioned and disempowered, whose Will to Power has been crushed by the reactionary forces of the modern world.  Mary, the mo...

The transcendentalist movement of the 19th century can be understood as the last gasp of a dying romanticism which had characterized the rebellion against the Enlightenment and with it, the industrial revolution. It was, to put it in poetic terms, the last breath of a dying God; it wished to return to an era when men and spirits lived side by side, and confronted each other face to face. Unfortunately, the world we have built around us is no longer capable of sustaining such a connection to what one might call the other side. All such connections have faded away, and we have been left to inherit a world that is entirely alien to us, a world mutilated beyond recognition.  How can one find peace in a world that produces nothing but alienation, and reduces people to machines? How can one find peace in knowing that our one connection to the Primordial is being killed? It is true that nature never sleeps, and that, as Thoreau says, “the repose is never complete…” and that “the wildest...

With the United States general election arriving soon, we all must remember what it is we are fighting for, and who our enemies are . We must stand firm and hold the line. The bourgeoisie and the left wing of capital will do everything in their power to bend us, twist us, corrupt us and break us. They will employ every tactic, every strategy, every method at their disposal in order to silence us, suppress us, or render us functionally passive. No matter what, it must be remembered that no matter who wins, the proletariat will lose unless we take quick and decisive actions against the forces of capital.  Though the bourgeoisie seems divided, this division is completely artificial; it is a front put up to distract us from the real and pressing issue at hand. No matter how different they may seem, both the Democratic and Republican parties share the same interests, are controlled by the same class, and funded by the same people. Through their cunning, the progressive wing of the bourg...