DESTRUCTION OF THE BODY

By Ljubodrag Duci Simonović

Capitalism produces an individual who is in functional unity with it and who enables its development, above all, by producing an appropriate body. The prevailing relation to the body is mediated by “technical civilization”. In other words, the body is reduced to being a peculiar machine, while bodily movement is reduced to the mechanics of motion. Technical functionality and efficiency become the basic features of the capitalist body.

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CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION OF SOIL

By Ljubodrag Simonović

Marx’s analysis in Capital of the capitalist exploitation of the soil indicates his understanding of the relationship of capitalism to nature. Marx: “Capitalist production, by collecting the population in great centers, and causing an ever-increasing preponderance of urban population, on the one hand, concentrates the historical driving force of society; on the other hand, it disturbs the circulation of matter between man and the soil, i.e., it prevents the return to the soil of those of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and fabric; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to the continued fertility of the soil. By so doing, it at once destroys the health of the urban laborer and the intellectual life of the rural laborer... In modern agriculture, as in the manufacturing industries, the increased productivity and output of labor are bought at the cost of pathologically laying waste to labor-power, itself. Moreover, all progress in capitalistic agriculture is a progress in the art not only of robbing the laborer, but of robbing the soil, as well; all progress in increasing the fertility of the soil for a period of time is progress towards ruining the lasting sources of that fertility. The more a country bases its development on the foundation of modern industry, as does the United States, for example, the more rapid is this process of destruction.”

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BOURGEOISIE AND PROLETARIAT

By Ljubodrag Simonović

  One of the most important ideas from the Manifesto of the Communist Party ccalled into question by contemporary capitalism is that of capitalism's being a “revolutionary“ order and, consequently, the bourgeoisie’s being is a “revolutionary“ class. According to Marx, the main historical “task“ of the bourgeoisie is to enable man to gain control over natural laws and thereby free himself from his dependency on nature and exhausting physical labor, so as to enable him to develop his universal creative powers. The “revolutionary role“ of the bourgeoisie is to create conditions for a “leap from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom“ (Engels). This is the main reason why Marx attaches primary importance to the development of productive forces. At the same time, the bourgeoisie is an exploiting class that becomes reactionary when capitalist private ownership starts to hinder the development of the productive forces. That is the right moment for a socialist revolution.

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Ding Dong The Bitch Is Dead!

I hope this reaches Number 1 on UK Pop Chart.

The American Mission

Friends

For Animal Rex, a REAL Friend indeed.

Starting From Scratch

Jebiga
Starting from scratch with "Set It Off" by Strafe.

Here's Where The Story Ends

Es gibt kein Zukunft
Es gibt kein Leben nach dem Tod.
-Der Kosmonaut
Wien, 25 März 2013

A Sunday In Lagos

Don't piss on my face! Said the Jew to the atheist.
Don't wish for such a thing replied the atheist to the Jew.
The atheist was hungy for flesh. The Jew thirsty for blood.
The atheist only cared for the stomach. The Jew the heart.
Across the way stood the old slave market today a musuem.
How can there be a slave musuem? Asked the Lisbonite.
So not to forget the past, replied the American.
The Italian could speak Portuguese but no other tongue than his mother.
The Italian fancied the reserved and introverted Austrian.
The Austrian thought of his girlfriend in Wien and hoped to find some Anglo-Dutch clams to feast upon.
Sorry! I didn't mean to take the piss! Pleaded the desperate Englishman to the stern and taciturn Portuguese constable.
The four eyed Gemini hadn't eaten all day.
He tried to barter his jacket for cash and instead received hash.
He tried to exchange the hash for paper bills but received a psychoactive pill. His body he still failed to fill.
A dozen blonde Australians  stand stooped  over the bar wearing paper cones upon their heads. They began drinking Saturday morning. It's now sunday evening.
They haven't budged nor interrupted their drinking.
A would be painter who fancies herself a poet chases her own reflection in the hustler's eyes believing it to be love.
The New Yorker reads Moby Dick and concludes that 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is the novel's intended sequel.
The paranoid schizephrenic  sits ill at ease as he hears sinister intentions in the mad squawking of the seagulls with Hitchcock directing his thoughts.
The sexually frustrated Black man directs his ire and rage against the white race.
He's desperate for racial political liberation.
The philosopher sits in the Praca dismayed. He cannot understand Post-Modern man.
A most vexing and perplexing question convulves him:
Why are people afraid of what's harmless but non-plussed by deadly and mortal threats surrounding them?
The alienated man watches the scene with  detached cyncism.
He regrets very much the fact that he must see and interact with humanity.
They're his inferior yet happier and more relaxed than he.
It's been a lazy Sunday in Lagos.
-Der Kosmonaut
Lagos, Portugal
August 2012