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the serious problem is how to incentivize anything at all that has a non-monetary endgame. there is some irony in the fact that Everything Is Capital winds up enervating people so much that they become completely seduced and overwhelmed by things that make no sense at all within Land's own intellectual project.

it was the same thing with Marx after the war. the intense need for intellectuals to identify themselves with the proletariat meant postmodernity, and postmodernity gives you neoliberalism and Woke Capital, which is neither Woke nor capitalist, but just Silicon Valley Protestantism.

>Radical Enlightenment conceived as a package of basic concepts and values may be summarized in eight cardinal points: (1) adoption of philosophical (mathematical- historical) reason as the only and exclusive criterion of what is true; (2) rejection of all supernatural agency, magic, disembodied spirits, and divine providence; (3) equality of all mankind (racial and sexual); (4) secular ‘universalism’ in ethics anchored in equality and chiefly stressing equity, justice, and charity; (5) comprehensive toleration and freedom of thought based on independent critical thinking; (6) personal liberty of lifestyle and sexual conduct between consenting adults, safe- guarding the dignity and freedom of the unmarried and homosexuals; (7) freedom of expression, political criticism, and the press, in the public sphere; (8) democratic republicanism as the most legitimate form of politics. This then is the essence of ‘philosophical modernity’ and this crucial core cannot usefully be linked to any one ‘national’, linguistic, religious, or subcultural context. On the contrary, it seems rather important in terms of both moral and cultural integrity, and historical accuracy, emphatically to reject the notion that one particular nation, religion, or cultural tradition played a hegemonic role in forging ‘modernity’ conceived as an interlocking system of values.

no Marxism without the French Revolution, but it's hard to undo the French Revolution also.