This message is intended for a particular demographic, that being the ones within Gen Z who’ve been “left behind” in life by our productive mode. It’s of course also directed towards anyone else with an interest in overthrowing capital, but Gen Z’s particular conditions are not focused on enough within Marxist discourse, so it’s necessary to ensure that we as Marxists connect with Gen Z. The masses only have a reason to listen to us if we speak and act in a way that advances their needs, and the needs of the “left-behinds” are unique within history. No past group has been so substantially cut off from the life that lets somebody start a family, and the effect this has is to create an entire generation without such a familial connection to the future.
The aspect of this crisis I’ll focus on here is how our society’s rulers are reacting to the rise of the left-behinds. How our military-intelligence establishment views these individuals as a strategic threat, and are taking preemptive measures to crush an uprising from people with nothing to lose. Appropriately, the ones tasked with this counterinsurgency project are the same “tech nerds” who facilitated the destruction of Gen Z’s future. It was the techies who could become the new central figures within monopoly finance capital, and progressively reshape our society following the 2008 and 2020 collapses.
Because they’ve been able to define the direction our civilization would take amid the last generation’s technological advancements, we now have a cyberpunk dystopia where a massive proportion of the the people are treated as excess. Yet from this “excess” comes the key to the system’s downfall. A large proportion of “excess” individuals is historically a guarantor of destabilization. And if we organize the left-behinds alongside their class allies, what comes from this will be proletarian victory—the outcome that finance capital has always been trying to prevent above all else.
It’s this “wild card” nature of an alienated population that provides critical context for why our government is building another mass surveillance system, on top of the one it already has. The Zionist-tied, unprecedentedly advanced Palantir spying infrastructure is a defense measure against the backlash that’s going to come from having forced so many individuals out of the “normal” lifestyle. When we notice this mobilization that our class enemies are carrying out in response to the very existence of today’s “excess” underclass, we gain direction on where the “excess” individuals can go to attain agency. On what these technocratic financial monopolists fear the masses may do, and how to correct the great power balance that’s arisen.
A power imbalance has always been there, ever since class society came into being. The rise of the “excess” individuals, as they exist in today’s post-industrial core capitalist countries, is only an outgrowth of this ancient inequality. Part of why Marxists need to reach the left-behinds is because without being exposed to a class analysis, they’ll be vulnerable to the Israeli-backed right-wing online psyops, which blame their suffering on everything besides class. Aside from our task of defeating the far right in debate, though, what we must account for regarding the left-behinds is that many of them have been separated from politics entirely. When somebody has been existing for a long time without motion in their lives, this is going to impact their mental health; which is why Gen Z’s arrested development has had a psychologically crippling effect on what are now likely millions of individuals.
Keeping these victims of our mental health crisis in such a depressed state is the first resort for the anti-Gen Z counterinsurgency. This is why our government’s psychological warfare agents cultivate mass prescription drug addiction, as well as mass pornography addiction: their ideal outcome for the “excess” is endless sedation and lethargy. Yet it’s evidently necessary to keep an extremely close eye on them, via the new innovations in data collection and political manipulation that Palantir has provided. Our transnational banking dictatorship cannot count on our society remaining in its present Huxleyan state; there is clearly a fear that massive social upheavals are on their way.
These upheavals have been made inevitable because even though much of the masses are inert at this stage, our evolving productive forces have set into motion what will become the greatest disruption in history. With the acceleration of advancement in AI, never before has so much human labor been outmoded, and never before has humanity become capable of so much material or creative achievement. Conversely, never before have we seen such a high proportion of the masses pushed out of the “normal” life paths. These two aspects of today’s reality seem paradoxical, yet when you look at history, it all perfectly fits with established patterns. The industrial revolution opened up utterly unprecedented possibilities for production, yet it let the capitalists force more people than ever into conditions of unlivable exploitation. When the proletariat gained control over these new productive means, though, they used industry to bring about unmatched economic growth and stability, which we continue to see socialism demonstrate within China.
This is the historical perspective that explains everything the left-behinds are experiencing, and shows us the path out of our crisis. A crisis like this has happened before, and it’s happened extremely recently within the scope of human history. Only a couple hundred years after capitalism underwent the industrial revolution’s upheavals, now it’s undergoing the AI revolution, which like the previous social cataclysm is creating a great underclass. The difference is that whereas those within the old underclass were enslaved to an industrial profit machine, the new underclass is progressively being pushed out of a productive role. This process started many decades ago with deindustrialization; AI is only speeding up the degrowth.
When we take control of AI, though, AI will become the force that brings the greatest growth civilization has ever seen, to a degree incomparable with everything that came before it. It will bring humanity wealth that we can’t imagine, while giving us all the free time to limitlessly engage in science, art, and the other high pursuits. Today’s reality seems inconceivably far removed from this reality that’s coming. Our society is saturated in porn, drugs, and other degenerate psyops. Yet at every step within the disruption we’re experiencing, the path to that collective greatness becomes clearer. Moreover, we don’t need to wait until any future stage to begin accessing the tools that history has already given us. Right now, we can use the new technologies to advance revolutionary progress, and can apply all of history’s lessons to fight our class enemies. This is the mission that I invite the left-behinds into: utilize the knowledge and mechanisms we’ve been provided with to carry forward the class war, thereby freeing humanity from the financial parasites who are holding it back.
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