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When you take Marxism to it's fullest extent, and realize what has been happening since the industrial revolution - and where it's going - you actually go mad. Land isn't the only one that lost his marbles contemplating the future of capitalism and humanity. See figures like Kazcynski, Posadas, Debord, Camatte and Linkola for similar examples.
There will be no "revolution" because the proletariat today is unable to fully seize the means of production on it's own. The modern economy is too complex. Production is decentralized, ownership is centralized. Even Imperialism in it's traditional form is dying. The division of labor has reached such an extent that no one actually knows what's going on anymore, without global trade the factories in Asia, Europe and the Americas would stop churning. If revolution were to be attempted today it would either end in starvation, it would be co-opted - like current Kurds Rojava in the middle east - or crushed with 21st century firepower. France in 1968, China in 1989, Argentina in 2001, the Naxalites, even Democratic Confederalism today; It didn't, hasn't, and isn't going anywhere.
Leninist revolutions that captured the state degenerated, the fundamental mechanisms and function of the modern state - as described by Engels - corrupted them; Even Lenin was forced to pass liberal reforms after resisting them first, Mao appointed industrialists, Vietnam degenerated, North Korea did, as did Eastern Europe, and all other global examples. Revolutionary movements were co-opted or smothered in their infancy.
The revolutionary class is the peasantry, but they have been greatly diminished due to advances in productivity. What's left is a mostly apathetic population too reliant on wage labor to push for anything other than luke-warm SocDem reforms. Everyone is being exploited and engaging in exploitation themselves, What's going to happen - absent global war to destroy capital value, and raise profit rates like after WW2 - is that this movement of alienation and exploitation is only going to accelerate. As capitalism breaks down, so does social order. People grow apart, relations become mediated more and more by machines, humanity itself is dehumanized. Deterritorialization reaches it's apex. The now unemployed masses will be subject to terror and predation. See Syria and Libya for what most of the world will look like in 30-50 years. Slavery, debauchery, genocide.
Land's vision (and those of others like Paul Virilio) that power - both economic and political - will be concentrated in increasingly militarized, paranoid and autonomous quasi city-states is something we already see unfolding today.
Faced with such horror the only thing left is to simply focus on our own emancipation. And relish in the grotesque incandescence that is the unfolding artificial death of humanity.
Don't be sad. Be glad it happened. Our creations will outlive us and reach the stars. We will live on. Spiritually.

When you take Marxism to it's fullest extent, and realize what has been happening since the industrial revolution - and where it's going - you actually go mad. Land isn't the only one that lost his marbles contemplating the future of capitalism and humanity. See figures like Kazcynski, Posadas, Debord, Camatte and Linkola for similar examples.
There will be no "revolution" because the proletariat today is unable to fully seize the means of production on it's own. The modern economy is too complex. Production is decentralized, ownership is centralized. Even Imperialism in it's traditional form is dying. The division of labor has reached such an extent that no one actually knows what's going on anymore, without global trade the factories in Asia, Europe and the Americas would stop churning. If revolution were to be attempted today it would either end in starvation, it would be co-opted - like current Kurds Rojava in the middle east - or crushed with 21st century firepower. France in 1968, China in 1989, Argentina in 2001, the Naxalites, even Democratic Confederalism today; It didn't, hasn't, and isn't going anywhere.
Leninist revolutions that captured the state degenerated, the fundamental mechanisms and function of the modern state - as described by Engels - corrupted them; Even Lenin was forced to pass liberal reforms after resisting them first, Mao appointed industrialists, Vietnam degenerated, North Korea did, as did Eastern Europe, and all other global examples. Revolutionary movements were co-opted or smothered in their infancy.
The revolutionary class is the peasantry, but they have been greatly diminished due to advances in productivity. What's left is a mostly apathetic population too reliant on wage labor to push for anything other than luke-warm SocDem reforms. Everyone is being exploited and engaging in exploitation themselves, What's going to happen - absent global war to destroy capital value, and raise profit rates like after WW2 - is that this movement of alienation and exploitation is only going to accelerate. As capitalism breaks down, so does social order. People grow apart, relations become mediated more and more by machines, humanity itself is dehumanized. Deterritorialization reaches it's apex. The now unemployed masses will be subject to terror and predation. See Syria and Libya for what most of the world will look like in 30-50 years. Slavery, debauchery, genocide.
Land's vision (and those of others like Paul Virilio) that power - both economic and political - will be concentrated in increasingly militarized, paranoid and autonomous quasi city-states is something we already see unfolding today.
Faced with such horror the only thing left is to simply focus on our own emancipation. And relish in the grotesque incandescence that is the unfolding artificial death of humanity.
Don't be sad. Be glad it happened. Our creations will outlive us and reach the stars. We will live on. Spiritually.