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modern leftists have rejected the promethean aspects of Marxism, ie. Man as world-worker and remaker of worlds and have not only retreated into a purely therapeutic and atomised vision of the self but they have become agressive evangelists for a certain state of coping based on this restricted self for whom mobilisation is synonymous with survival. This vision is a product of technics, ironically it owes way more to psychotherapy and the legacy of nineteenth century liberal protestantism/utilitarianism together with a 9/11 security state mindset and the panopticon like social dynamics of tumblr, twitter, facebook etc. rather than to any Marxist thinker.

Total mobilization is a systemic imperative, the very motor of our post-industrial economic structure, we can no longer talk about electoral mobilisation, grand geopolitical strategy, psychotherapy, blatant carrerism, crass consumerism, or earnest well intentioned activism as separate things, in practice no distinction exists.

The therapeutic pop psych conception of the self, the militant liberal-libertarian ethic of compulsory hedonism, the disregard for the written word, microeconomic models enhanced by cognitive science, the pavlovian conditioning coded into social media, these are all emerging technics of human terrain management, meant to give shape to a mass which can be mobilised, regardless of any overarching political objective beyond mobilisation itself.