"Communist idealism is rude. it has no respect for customs, boundaries or divisions, it will violently hijack your school of philosophy, radically alter it, and use it for its own purposes."
1. On Communist idealism
Experiments on the US population? And War crimes!?? by the CIA and FBI? The American government?? what exactly are you talking about / do you have any evidence or proof? not saying you're wrong, but it sure sounds like anarchist / right wing / anti-big government propaganda to me...., they’re always trying to destroy government….no, I don’t believe it! Not my U.S. government! if anything it was Big Capital who had influenced / possessed certain individuals within the US government, but the institution of the US government in and of itself is a neutral entity that comes to be run by certain individuals who more or less serve the interests of Big Capital. The Capitalist is merely a tool of Big Capital.
Big Capital is not a human being....
neither can you destroy it or harm it by any violent or illegal physical action.
…and, moreover, if you try to, you only risk harming innocent human beings.... and that's horrible! and will only land you in prison, the execution chamber, or Hell!
as it should. There is only 1 way out of this dilemma, it's called Communist idealism.
Communist idealism smashes fake pseudo-philosophies like Communist egoism, which are not actually brand new at all and can barely even be considered a philosophy, much less an entire school of philosophy,....
But is Communist idealism ~really~ a brand new school of philosophy never before seen in the history of mankind?
Perhaps, Communist idealism ~is~ an entirely brand new school of philosophy.--but what exactly distinguishes this philosophy from, say, Chomsky's? Did not he too talk about ideas? The mind body problem? Yes, but did he provide us with a satisfactory answer to the dilemma, or, rather, did he only serve to confuse and befuddle the matter, and did he not ultimately side with materialism over idealism? Well, according to Communist idealism, The brain itself is not the originator of ideas, but rather it is ideas themselves that create the brain! The brain is no more than an idea itself!, or more precisely, the manifestation of an idea!
Communist idealism is a reaction to those who say: "what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."--Fools And there's still more out there, just waiting to be discovered! The possibilities are literally infinite! just as many sentences as there can be in the English language or the size of the universe are there ideas! So, what will ~you~ the reader create?
*Gasp*
“---But he’s Chomsky!!!! The most quoted individual in Capitalist academia!!!!”
Question: Would someone who was a true communist really be the most quoted individual in Capitalist academia????? Or would he / she [the true communist philosopher] be the most censored individual in capitalist academia???--would not that person be using Social media to write because all other avenues have been closed to them?
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2. on censorship
According to Communist idealism, Even the most minimal censorship should be condemned as an assault on the proletariat and be met with force of Arms....
Ironically, the Capitalist / CEO is perhaps one of the biggest hindrances to business as he continually takes for himself annual salaries exceeding 10 million dollars. The process of Capitalism and individual private ownership is one of censorship in the workplace. Private property in the means of production makes democratization in the workplace impossible, so even if we "reinstate higher marginal income tax rates at the very top, Remove the tax breaks for executive performance pay, [and] set corporate tax rates higher for firms that have higher ratios of CEO-to-Worker compensation," as advocated by the economic policy institute, as long as private ownership in the means of production and Capitalism is allowed to remain in place untouched, we are still not doing anything about Censorship, nor will we be able to prevent the Capitalist from simply packing up his business and moving to Europe or some other capitalist haven; however, right now, we are primarily only concerned with censorship in the arts:
So, what are you going to do to prevent ~this~ private social media company from banning your page if they don't agree with your views? Don't like it? Too bad, that's how Capitalism works. Communist idealism is particularly concerned with protecting freedom of speech and the issue of censorship within the Capitalist production process---A lot is said about the authoritarianism of Communism, but what is each Corporation but a Totalitarian regime in itself!
(Go ahead, make a new school of Communism and we will smash it with Communist idealism. Communist idealism ~is~ the communism of the New age, of the digital revolution. What will you do? What is there left besides Communist idealism? Maybe Communist Existentialism? Or what about Communist Nihilism? Yeah, say that there is nothing we can do to overcome capitalism, and thus we should not act at all and merely drift through life without a penny, aimlessly allowing whatever external phenomenon that we come across to merely happen, like in The Stranger by Albert Camus? We look forward to hearing what you come up with and ripping it to shreds. This school of philosophy was specifically designed with the explicit intent of having the final say in the matter.
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----matter? What is it? Atoms, particles, quarks, gluons---yeah, what are those made up of (because, as we know, 1 inch can be divided into 1/2 inch, and that into 1/4 inch, and that into 1/8 inch, 1/16 inch, and so on, ad infinitum, the world, is as infinitely small as it is infinitely big):
"It's true, we don't know whether it [the universe] is finite or infinite, but we know a lot more than what we see within the part that's observable to us" (Ethan Siegel, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist).---Well, gee, thanks Mr. Scientist, You really solved my moral, existential crisis, and put all my fears and worries to rest. Now that this issue is solved we can go back to building more nuclear weapons and also planning our space colony on Mars (and increasing my life span so i can work for an even longer period of time): Excuse me, i'm getting distracted again, let me go back to calculating the velocity of this imaginary tennis ball: that's like really, really important, we absolutely must know the velocity of this imaginary tennis ball.
. . . physical objects, money, who needs it?--Give it all to Ashley Marx--We made sure to give nobody a way out this time: there is literally Nothing beyond Communist idealism.
At least at this point in time.)
For more on Communist idealism see Capital Vol. 4 (Nor for Sale).
--even this is only a brief introduction at best.--but don't worry, aspiring philosophers of the world, as soon as i'm done with Capital Vol. 4, i will publish it, and you will have your chance to respond to the best of your ability and also make your criticisms.
But keep in mind, i will then respond to ~your~ criticisms, and you will make your counter-criticisms to my responses, and so on....
And then, people will read our responses hundreds of years later, just like i read all the criticisms of Marx, and his responses, and make their own criticisms to our criticisms! . . .
But hopefully, this time around, we can avoid the part where The capitalists indiscriminately kill a bunch of communists in Vietnam, North Korea, China, Africa, Europe, the middle east, and Latin America....
Like the time Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists whose predecessors now control the illegitimate state of TaiWan, which is secretly supported by the capitalists, invited the Chinese Communists to a "peace conference" and then slaughtered them all!
, sparking a vicious guerrilla war between the communists and nationalists, eventually ending with Mao Ze Dong emerging victorious and ushering in a new era of Socialism in China, and, to this day, it still remains Socialist---remember that?
Oh, wait, nevermind, i forgot, they don't really teach that in U.S. schools, because it carries a message that is pro-communist and "in [capitalist] teaching institutions the teachers can be no more than wage labourers for the entrepreneur of the learning factory" (Marx)--Such peripheral phenomena, however, can *NOT* be ignored when considering Capitalist production as whole(!) As if education is a "peripheral phenomena" in the capitalist production process in the first place. Education and the arts are perhaps the most important aspects of the entire capitalist production process, as they determine its character and direction. Leave it to the materialists to downplay the value and significance of the arts in the capitalist production process.
And what character and direction are the capitalists promoting in our schools? What is art used for today but to perpetuate the capitalist production process? And What is the value of a liberal arts education in the job market today compared to a degree in say the maths or sciences? What is it about math and science that they like so much? helps them make better weapons to kill communists with? Even education in the liberal arts themselves suffer from the capitalist mode of production. Like it or not Marxism, Socialism and Communism are some of the most significant and influential ideas in the history of mankind. Yet The entire subject of Communism in United states history classes is comprised of two sentences, and when i raise my hand to ask the question: "But what is Communism?" The professor merely says: "It's a good idea, but never works in practice." that's it.--For the real definition of Communism, see @ReaLKarl_Marx.
----It's a business, and the more students they can enroll, the more trees they can cut down, the more dormitories they can build, and the more students they can enroll, etc. Meanwhile, Free speech and independent thinking are discouraged and reprimanded, We must do as they say, write as they say. . . .
---Well, that's unfortunate, just because some other people who claimed to be Communist did certain things in the past that you consider unacceptable, i, Ashley Marx, am never allowed to write about Communism ever again?---No, i won't stop it! i like to write about Communism! i like Communism! Maybe if ~you~ would have hired me at your big city newspaper (i only sent my application a dozen times), i'd be writing restaurant reviews or critiques on art exhibits, about the environment, but now it's too late, and i'm already heavily invested in Communism. Now, i wouldn't accept a job as a columnist if you begged me! i rather like the freedom of being able to write whatever i want however i want, of not being forced to capitalize my "i"s and using comma splices to my advantage---i mean, who died and made you king of the English language? i will place my commas wherever i want, thank you very much. . . .
According to Mao (not really, actually Ashley Marx), we must properly distinguish between the Big Capitalist / CEO and the Petite Bourgeois CEO, who may or may not run his or her own business, the amount of surplus value appropriated being in a smaller proportion to that of the Big Capitalist / CEO. The Petite Bourgeois Capitalist only serves to enrich the Big Capitalist CEO and will sometimes even do this at their own expense depleting their own personal finances and taking salary cuts just to stay in business.
. . . books take on a character and dimension of themselves, however: i like to liken this blogging platform to one of those secret, underground Russian printing presses that existed prior to the abdication of the Czar and would publish and distribute socialist literature to the Russian people, and which the Czarist regime would hunt down relentlessly so as to shut them down. i must be extra careful not to get caught by the capitalists doing what i am doing right now or they will send me to the gallows for distributing "Communist" literature. i say "Communist" literature, putting the word "Communist" in quotations because, by now, the Capitalist world has all but succeeded in defining Communism as a radically violent ideology that only advocates violent revolution and murder. This has been accomplished through their Capitalist monopoly of the Printing presses, media, and educational systems. They own the dictionaries, so they get to decide which definition goes with which word.---Well, who knows what other definitions that have changed / molded / altered to fit their own purposes. i have been building my own case on Merriam Webster and the word "Capitalism" for years now, but i can't keep track of every word: English has more words than any other language in the world. . . .
—“but” they say, “Why do you not simply self-publish? surely no one can censor you if you self-publish!" Well, that might be true, and i do plan on self-publishing several works shortly, but will i make any money if i self-publish through an independent website? Well, i might make some, through thrift and hard work, but, at the end of the day, in order to make it into the mainstream media, to reach a larger audience, and make the big money, you need Capital or the approval and backing of a capitalist. Otherwise, you will simply be buried, and what's more, they will never agree to sell my Communist literature in their Capitalist bookstores—this is not fair, in a market that is supposed to be based on competition, for one group of people to have an unfair advantage over another via a monopoly of the means of production, and, moreover, that publishing company 1. Will not print your book on paper, unless it meets certain criteria, or you pay ~them~(!), and 2. A portion of your proceeds ~still~ goes to them, thus depriving the community of a certain portion of money, and increasing the power of Capital…. The capitalists are literally unable to remedy this problem by some sort of invention, it's as if they are stuck in a vehicle that has already been set in motion, and Communist idealism as expounded in Capital Vol. 4 is the only solution.
Now, I ask you: who is doing this? Who can be doing this? Is it even a who, an actual human being or group of people? or is it rather a thing or idea, i.e., Capital???
3. on philosophy
People ask me all the time: "Why idealism? i don't get it!! Why synthesize Communist materialism with idealism? Why not, say, Existentialism?" Well, as we know from Hegel and Fichte, in order for there to be a synthesis, we first need a thesis and antithesis, and idealism is the antithesis of materialism: i can't synthesize the planet Mars with an Apple because there is no underlying correlation. At first, it seems like such a trivial, insignificant difference, but, as we shall see, this single word has major implications on both our conception of Communism and the practical application of Communist theory as well:
It is precisely because the communist materialists were materialists that they were unable to grasp the existence and significance of the abstract, of human pain and suffering, that their political and economic systems suffered---even Bukharin, who i love because he grasped the significance of philosophy was still a materialist and spent his time criticizing and attacking various schools of idealism in his book Philosophical Arabesques. Likewise, it was precisely because the communist materialists sided with materialism over idealism in their analysis that they didn't fully grasp the importance of Christ. Communist idealism, on the other hand, properly distinguishes between the idea of a religion and the church as a capitalist institution that perpetuates and reinforces capitalist modes of production, that the idea of a church (independent of Capitalism) in a communist society is not impossible. However, in Capitalist America, the capitalist even tells you how to interpret your bible; the church is merely a tool of the capitalist: "don't piece your body," the preacher tells you, "your body is a temple" (1 Co. 6:19-20)., but am i not free to decorate my temple however i want so as to glorify God?
Neither do we seek to monopolize politics in North America, or to be the only political party in North America; on the contrary, we seek to open the doors to the formation of new political parties, we want real democracy! Instead of using authoritarianism like the communists materialists, we use democracy grounded in the institution of the state, and this is the mechanism with which we make our decisions. But more to come on this system and its exact features later.
Moreover, it was literally impossible for anyone (Rosa Luxemburg or even Karl Marx himself) to have properly expounded Communist idealism prior to me, because, you see, the digital revolution hadn't even happened yet. All previous mentions of Communist idealism failed to properly define idealism in the philosophical sense, but, rather, merely described it in terms of an ideal, e.g., 'the ideal of communism'. Even the so called Communist "idealists" who dealt with the *ideal*, not idealism, of Communism were still materialists! Did anybody read the forward to Capital when Karl Marx writes "I assume, of course a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for [her]self"!? Well, Karl Marx's "materialism" does not merely refer to the particular idea of historical materialism, but rather, also, forms the underpinnings of his entire analysis. we've tried Communist materialism, but let's try something new now, let's try Communism from the perspective of idealism:
So what if we can not have a worldwide or even state revolution, if all else fails, let us have a revolution in our own lives, let us seize the means of production in our own lives and give it to the people around us!---Yes, everything is an idea, but does that necessarily mean that they are all ~my~ ideas?
Philosophy is important merely from an Epistemological standpoint (helping us to determine what is meaningful or important---A Computer / mathematician / science can provide us with data and numbers, but it can't tell us how to apply that information, or what policy America should pursue towards Communist China. Not to downplay the sciences and maths, though. i think they also have their place and value in society, but what we are suffering from most in North America right now is a depreciation of the Liberal arts. You need that balance between the sciences and the liberal arts in order to have a truly enlightened and prosperous society, yet they do so little for the arts. i spit on your science and math degree, my English degree is worth 10x more: if i want to learn about IT or Physics, i need only open up a book.----meanwhile, while i teach myself Calculus and physics in 1/4 the time it took you to learn them, i want to see you write an entire 300+ page book---Go on! What's the ~Matter~ i thought writing was easy. That anybody could do it!
But what is philosophy? What makes a school of philosophy? And What distinguishes it from that which is not philosophy? Can i just take all my Tweets and say, "This is the philosophy of Jake!"??....
Well, perhaps.... I mean, not to totally discount the philosophy of Jake, it very well could be the next big philosophy, but I think more than anything a philosophy is defined by its content; a philosophy seeks to answer some sort of question, and more than that, its success is defined by how well it answers that question, what it contributes to the conversation, adds, and, above all, it must be ~new~, or force us to look at something that is not new in a fresh way or new perspective, otherwise, we are merely copying or recasting what has already been said, and, well, while there’s nothing wrong with that either, to defend an old philosophy from criticism can very well lead to the creation of something new, blatant plagiarism in and of itself is not productive or new (and thus does not itself constitute a new school of philosophy)….
“But how does one go about making something new? Is not everything merely recycled content as the saying goes, 'there is nothing new under the sun.?’" Well, are ~you~ not new? Are ~you~ not a unique individual that has never before been seen under the sun? Well, okay then, you must take that which is old and make it yours! Do not fear, The possibilities are literally infinite, anyone can make their own philosophy as long as they are truly new and don’t plagiarize somebody else. So, what will be ~your~ question? What question or themes will you seek to deal with?? Think about it, hone and refine your ideas, and then execute.... Just don't get lost in the dialectical process.
---Well, if Communist idealism isn't a philosophy, then ~prove~ to me why it isn't!? Don't just say it isn't new, prove it! Why is it not a philosophy? Because i, Ashley Marx, created it?? Well, where do you think philosophies come from? Do they just randomly appear out of nowhere? At some point, someone has to invent / make them up!--also, moreover, you have just inadvertently admitted that Communism idealism is new!
But Communist idealism is not just about ~my~ art, or me in particular as an artist, who am i? i'm a piece of American trailer park trash, a nobody; no, it's not about me! but rather it's about every single Artist in the world, and the ~value~ that they can bring to the table! ---when will you materialists realize that they too have a value and a place in your society?
To be fair, there were communists in the past who made art, or used art as means of propaganda to perpetuate their own communist *materialist* agenda, but the difference is that their art was motivated by their own individual aggrandizement, or the interests of a particular group, and not for the collective artist, nor was it stated that we should use the free production of art itself as a means of liberating the international proletariat as a whole and bringing about the complete and total destruction of Capitalism.---On the contrary, the difference between our Cultural, artistic movement and previous ones like Madame Mao's cultural revolution, is that we recognize the value and importance of ALL art, even "Capitalist" art: it isn't just about Pro-Communist / socialist art, but art as a whole, even if the content of that art carries a message that is anti-Communist.
Lastly, Whereas a large portion of western philosophy from Descartes onwards has been obsessed with the the notion of the individual and the ego, communist idealism seeks to dissolve the notion of the ego, to completely devastate your concept of individualism, to degrade and humiliate you, do away with all your selfishness, pride and greed: "Who are you!??" it yells, "What are you?? You are Nothing! You don’t even exist independent of the collective consciousness! You are merely an idea of God!..."
