Reply To: Russian Tensions
Thank you for your response. It seems we found a way to communicate without symmetrical negative retorts. I prefer that, it is conducive to discourse. So, thank you.
“They are delusional fanatics. The fate of the world is literally in the hands of a small group of delusional fanatics who believe Russia is just one step up the escalation ladder from complete defeat. But Russia is not. Russia is winning.”
Fanatical belief seems systemic in today’s world order. States produce messaging through their ideological state apparatus , having one believe there is a just cause and a matter of principle on either side. The Regressive apparatus (Army, Police and traditional forms of power) are simply engaging in a capture of markets. Corporations may not lob a weapon with such crudity in a hostile take over, yet the principle and inter-discursiveness is that… war for market control of a people and its resources. I know you may not see it this way, but this is how it seems to me and many others, but we will not get full recursion on that idea.
“It’s up to the people of Europe to start putting their bodies in front of weapons shipments. If they’re serious about avoiding a nuclear war this is a good place to start”
The socialist intention is education leading to awareness of our oppression and collective wish for a pro-social society. Parliament is our only tool- a tool of a class or groups of people alienated from the means of production and anterior to the accumulation of wealth. It is through democracy that we get a collective will of the social group and change the base/structure (it economic and its ideological articulations). Bodies of our dear brothers and sisters is not the way. That is a barbarism in Rosa Luxemburg’s “socialism or barbarism”.
TS, I wonder if you may consider that nationalism and vilification of the Ukraine is the narrative Russian state officials are using to legitimise the war. Wonder if you might consider the sub narrative (aside narrative) might be the capture of markets to compete against the Western economies- increasing their economic base through annexation to retain a larger relevancy against OECD blocks.
Time is money: war is money.
Stay safe and thank you for your challenges, it assist focus a point of view, even if you might not share it.. maybe at times it may lead to concurring: like socialism or barbarism.
