Brainstorming: 21st century communist manifesto

What would you add to a pamphlet regarding the current state of the world, communism and communists?
All forms of input are valid paragraphs, phrases, ideas for text structure, chapters anything.
This thread is made with the final goal of producing subversive and relatable texts. So if this catches some steam feel free to try and compile the ideas in to text discussed and share your results, maybe in the end we might have some texts worth spreading.

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don't even think about writing a "new manifesto" unless you have read at least 50 major Marxist books and done a serious scientific Marxist analysis of the current conditions

I think the Manifesto is still pretty accurate apart from minor parts such as the immediate demands and the sections on the utopian socialists. This said, I agree with

I'm not super well read, but the major changes have to do with how neoliberalist global capital has altered class stratification, not to mention one's basic relation to the mode of production as a whole. As

Said, one would have to be really heavily steeped in the work of Jameson, Deleuze, and, if one were attempting to be truly radical, Benjamin's critiques of historical materialism to even begin to think about writing a new manifesto.

Pomo is subjective idealism, idealism is reactionary and anti-Marxist.

we writin COMMUNISM 2 boys???
In all serious, if you're going to write a "new manifesto", do it in the "Principles of Communism" style. As in, make it short and easy to understand, in a "Frequently Asked Questions" format. Also, include topics such as Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and Fascism. And for fucks sake, make sure you actually know what you're talking about. Don't make it Muke-tier.

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Keep the negation of negation dialectic. Toxic evolutionism is pure paganistic ideology.

Obviously making a second manisfesto would be no easy task for a random booklet to do. But i don't think this should stop anyone from trying, i even stated in the op this thred ls for making multiple subversive texts.

The first major observation we can get from this thread is the widespread feeling of impotence among modern communists. What if lenin tought he was not good enough to write about communism and never tried anything? Ive seen some really good posts on this board, we might have a new lenin somewhere, and if we don't i still think we should try our best.

Try doing some pages at home, who knows you might surprise yourself or someone else with your skills

I'm really not a hippie but the enviromental catastrophe is the biggest thing missing for me. Also that lumpens can (but not have to) fulfill a revolutionary role

I don't think so. That would be required when you want to write a new Capital maybe, but not for a pamphlet like the Manifesto

What are you talking about?

If we are going to address the environment we shouldn't go with the neopagan "protect nature" narrative. Instead it should be about bending ecological systems to our will. Cultivating an earth that maintains and pleases us.

I recently saw a program on Dutch television about the previous director of the Amsterdam zoo. The guy was sort of a dick, but he said one thing that I really enjoyed. I'll see if I can find it…
2doc.nl/documentaires/series/2doc/2018/juli/het-nieuwe-artis.html (around 57:30)
The quote is roughly: "We know that we are everywhere in nature. Through pollution, in the seas, in the air, humanity is taking up ever more space. We actually have to protect nature with parks, even in the sea. So this virgin nature that we often represent romantically, it isn't there. It isn't there anymore. You could say the rest of the world has also become a zoo. The illusion that there is still free nature is now gone."
This is the proper Marxist perspective. This is how we should treat the subject in our pamphlet.

Read cockshott, LTV is true, planning in kind is possible and more efficient than capitalism.

Why don't they have to? At the moment I see significantly more revolutionary potential in the lumpen than in the laboring proletariat, which in western countries has adopted significant petit-bourgeois characteristics.
What we should definitely do is remind people that work can be pleasurable, and that this pleasure is systematically destroyed by capitalist society. People knew this from experience in the time of Marx, but nowadays it has been forgotten. We can illustrate this fact the the near universal experiences people have at school, where innately interesting subjects are slaughtered by bad teaching. Students learn the material for their tests and forget it immediately afterwards. Instead of this we then propose an image of a world fueled by authentic discipline stemming from personal engagement, instead of the false discipline a shepherd imposes on his sheep.

A lot of attention ought to be paid to this stuff. Cockshott's work is the greatest argument that a better alternative to capitalism is possible, regardless of whether we follow his exact details of implementation.

The only other credential that could make your manifesto worthwhile is if you have rich knowledge in praxis.

I think the old one still works and is more relevant than ever.

Don't want to waste time recreating wheels

don't discourage people from thinking and writing. In many ways writing, and getting others to read it, is better then just reading. You get to lay out your ideas in structured form and it forces you to think about things in a different way you do when you just read someone else thoughts.
It's never to early to start writing.

No, writing while reading is a great idea. OP should take notes and write his thoughts about his reading material. He should not write a manifesto though.

This is not about me writing a manifesto, i don't think i'm qualified for that. it's about sharing ideas and authoral texts so that maybe we end up with some good ones worth sharing around.

then IMO some modern books one would need to read are:

why not?

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please include explicitly pro-furry propaganda, maybe a declaration of furry rights or something

What a bunch of bullshit. I can't remember the specific quote, but I recall Lenin pointing out how after revolutionaries are gone, liberals and the like would neuter their message in order to make them "safer". That's pretty much what I'm seeing here.

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