Vincent Kinian on cohost
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"You guys ever think about how people will remember the 2020s as the decade the revolution came and passed?"
Hanako
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"(Oh god, not this shit again.)"
Lilly
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"...OK, I'll bite: what the hell are you on about this time?"
Rin
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"Well, think about it: the 2020s were marked by a series of social transformations we have not seen before or since. And sure, many of those changes were necessary concessions on governments' parts to keep society functioning through the pandemic, but just as soon as they started enacting those changes, you saw the wave of protests against police brutality envelope the world. There was even an autonomonous zone! You can't reduce that to action from the state! It's like the earliest phase of the pandemic was enough to wake people up to the fact that things didn't have to be this way; that it was within our power to change things for the better. Of course, capital could never abide this, so once it had suppressed the rebellion it got to work ensuring nothing like it could ever transpire again. The CDC began its project of sociologically obscuring the still-raging pandemic so everyone could get back to business as usual; governments across the world began slowly but surely sliding into fascism; and the rest writes itself."
Hanako
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My, that's an awfully nostalgic characterization of 2020.
Diya
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Methinks thou doth focus on America too much.
Akarsha
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"Doth I? Doth I really? I'll remind you that the wave of protests in 2020 was global in nature, beginning in Hong Kong in late 2019 before spreading throughout Europe and Japan."
Hanako
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"Likewise, the fascist backlash has engulfed much of the developing world: Palestine, India, Sudan, Ukraine, Niger, the Republic of Artsakh..."
Hanako
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[Hey, Shicchan, was Hacchan always this much of a doomer?]
Misha
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[Does anyone else in this room care?]
Shizune
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[Good point.]
Misha
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Anyway, you've got it all backwards. Crises like these don't represent a break from the prevailing norm, but a substantiation of that very norm itself. Ever since modernity first emerged in the early 18th century, our culture has been defined by the pursuit of the new for its own sake.
Diya
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And if Deleuze has taught us anything, it's that capitalism exists as the economic expression of this cultural trend: embrace the flux, embrace the change so you can be there to charge someone else for it. How can you hope to change the era when you're challenging it on its terms?
Diya
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"Yea, Hanako. Don't you read the New Left Review? Change as a mere flux of temporal vanities has no place in a genuine socialist revolution."
Misha
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"Oh, look at Little Miss Postmodern, construing the economic base as an affect of the ideological superstructure. Why don't you fuck off back to Max Weber?"
Emi
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"You wanna fucking go!?"
"BRING IT ON, DYE JOB!"
Misha
Emi
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You bitches don't know shit, do you? The point isn't to passively debate amongst ourselves whether people will remember the 2020s this way or that; it's to do everything in your power to ensure it WON'T be remembered this way.
Min-seo
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You think the socialist movement didn't suffer major setbacks in Marx's lifetime? Or Lenin's? You think they didn't have to deal with the twin threats of recuperation and revanchism? Of course they did! But they didn't just stand around bitching at each other over nothing!
Min-seo
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"(They bitched at each other constantly.)"
Lilly
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They went out there, into society, and actually did shit to bring about the revolution! It's no different for us.
Min-seo
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Sure, the specifics may have changed, but the broad task remains the same: identifying and overcoming the TANGIBLE contradictions that capitalism still entails, through REAL political engagement with and through present day society. Theory follows from action, not action from theory.
Min-seo
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"Yea, it's just like Lenin said in What Is To Be Done: The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point is to change it."
Emi
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[That was Marx in Theses on Feuerbach, you dolt.]
Shizune
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Akarsha
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...By the way, there's something I've been meaning to ask you...Why are you all talking in Times New Roman?
Akarsha
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"Say what?"
Rin
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Yea, don't you guys speak in Comic Sans or some shit?
Min-seo
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"We are speaking in our font. Only cool people can hear it, though."
Rin
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...What the fuck are any of you talking ab-
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