What does a generation do when they realize they aren’t going to be allowed a familial connection with the future? This is the question that a growing proportion of people in our society have now been forced to confront, and those who share their tragedy will keep expanding in number until our social system fundamentally changes. This is also something that’s being asked by certain parts of our ruling class, with the main leader of the scheme to exploit the incel and birthrate crisis being Peter Thiel. It’s by studying the psyops Thiel has been directing towards the incel population that we can find which ideas can rescue American civilization from this crisis; because these ideas can only be properly understood by contrasting them with their opposites.
For a recap of why the problem I’m talking about is very real: in the 2020s, two-thirds of Gen Z men (a demographic whose oldest members have now entered their 30s) are single, while most women of the same age are immune to this type of “loneliness epidemic” but are nevertheless not on the path to having children. According to the gender war psyop, these men have simply chosen to fall into this incel state of being; which is victim-blaming propaganda that fuels the psyop’s other narrative, where “women” are to blame for our society’s decline. To truly find answers for why this tragedy is unfolding, we have to examine how capital has both created it, and is exploiting those who are most impacted by it.
Submission as the solution to the tragedy
The essence of the Thielite ideology, as articulated by his fellow traveler Clavicular, is that it isn’t worthwhile to lift up your community or your nation. Because the bulk of the people will be left behind by the system’s collapse—an event that’s seen as desirable within Thiel’s “accelerationist” philosophy—supposedly the logical thing to do is only prioritize uplifting yourself. The way that Clavicular’s “looksmaxxing” cult encourages young men to advance this goal is by getting endless surgeries and hormone treatments, as well as engaging in more direct self-harming behavior like “bonesmashing,” to become as physically attractive as possible.
According to the logic that the cult puts forth, this is the only way someone can survive in the new world where only the top-tier males are allowed a place within the “dating market”; you have to maximize your “physical-sexual marketplace value.” And like most propaganda this has an element of truth, but it depends on the notion that there’s no way we’ll ever be able to undo the downward spiral; that the civilizational collapse which produced the incel and birthrate crisis represents an irreversible trend, creating a permanently fixed state of reality.
This mentality contrasts with the message of Nick Fuentes—the other main incel-targeted streamer besides Clavicular—who advocates for an uplifting of the American nation via replicating Zionism. The reasoning of Fuentes is that if Jews in occupied Palestine can have full fascism, and the Zionist project has been so successful in siphoning wealth from America, then whites in America will be able to reach a parallel success by copying Zionism’s model of racial hierarchy. The Fuentes psyop is directed at a different audience than the looksmaxxing psyop, with the latter being largely focused on Gen Alpha kids who are susceptible towards the very most pro-individualist ideas. But both tendencies are Israeli-backed psyops, with the Israeli-backed part being so important to emphasize because this exposes their true character. In the broader sense, these are manipulations by the capitalist class; but when we look at how they specifically align with the Zionist ideology this class represents, it becomes clear what they’re trying to accomplish.
The goal of these synthetically boosted streaming subcultures is to convince disillusioned people of a certain age—which in this case largely means incels—to acquiesce towards what the Zionist technocrats have to offer. Fuentes and his “Jewish question” narrative play the role of neutralizing opposition against Israel, the American war machine, and the capitalist order. They obscure how our government’s escalating global offensive is a war against the working class, and they keep the masses away from joining in the proletarian struggle. The way that the looksmaxxing cult serves the system is obvious: it tells its followers to submit to the designs of capital, and become subhuman Zionist cattle (or transhuman Zionist cattle, in the view of the Thielite framework that says we need to escape our present forms).
Within the ideological battle over the direction of our society’s left-behinds, this is the path the right-wing has to offer: surrender your historical agency to the Epsteins and Thiels of the world, in exchange for allegedly being able to ascend to the top of the hierarchy. Putting the argument of our opposition in these terms, where we describe the scam they’re selling, is one effective way of persuasion. And we should continue to expose the scam, but this alone is not enough. We have to offer a way of gaining agency over history, of truly overcoming the left-behind role that’s being imposed upon ever-greater parts of the population.
Understanding how we got here
If this were as simple as repeating the basic phrases about how capital exploits labor, and how the workers need to organize, then we would have already organized these masses. Any political program we put forth has to be shaped by a response towards the particular conditions the masses are facing; and in the post-Covid era, these conditions include a reality where the vast majority of the masses are on track to stop having children.
To provide an honest explanation for this crisis—and thereby provide a route towards ending the crisis—we must illustrate the productive processes that lead to social upheavals of this kind. Never before has there emerged a familial decline anywhere near of this scale. Smaller versions of it have already happened, though. In Origins of the Family, Engels described the preceding factors behind these crises:
The social organization under which the people of a particular historical epoch and a particular country live is determined by both kinds of production: by the stage of development of labor on the one hand and of the family on the other.
The lower the development of labor and the more limited the amount of its products, and consequently, the more limited also the wealth of the society, the more the social order is found to be dominated by kinship groups. However, within this structure of society based on kinship groups the productivity of labor increasingly develops, and with it private property and exchange, differences of wealth, the possibility of utilizing the labor power of others, and hence the basis of class antagonisms: new social elements, which in the course of generations strive to adapt the old social order to the new conditions, until at last their incompatibility brings about a complete upheaval. In the collision of the newly-developed social classes, the old society founded on kinship groups is broken up; in its place appears a new society, with its control centered in the state, the subordinate units of which are no longer kinship associations, but local associations; a society in which the system of the family is completely dominated by the system of property, and in which there now freely develop those class antagonisms and class struggles that have hitherto formed the content of all written history.
Every time technological advancement has made a civilization progress to a new stage of production, this has brought disruptions to the social relations as they had existed in the old stage. The historically gargantuan nature of the social breakdown we’re now experiencing fits with how unparalleled today’s technological upheaval is. The social and economic effects of the AI revolution are so big because they’re built upon what happened because of all the past destabilizing events, with each new step in the collapse doing exponentially greater damage.
The AI job market destruction is having such catastrophic effects on living standards—and thereby on things like relationships or birthrates—because the conditions had already long been created for the family to fall apart like it is now. To find the structural, root cause of the incel crisis, the factor you need to look at is geographical gender demographics; which have been massively shaped by the distinct ways that changing productive modes impact the two sexes. Including how many men vs. women live within the rural areas.
After industrial capitalism uprooted the old systems of kinship, for a long time there was no incel or birthrate crisis, because the new productive mode could find a substitute for the old kinship system. In the urban, this new basis for relationships and reproduction looked like working-class men and women coming together to create families, while being brought into the machine of mass industrial production. In the rural, this new socialization structure was able to keep many traits from the age-old tight-knit small communities, except the basis for the wealth in these communities now came from industry. As soon as industry was dismantled, the foundations of these replacement kinship systems went away too. In both the cities and the small towns, the people find themselves without the places where human beings have traditionally met, and without the old basis for starting families.
When the old foundations for family are gone, the response from men and women is to become increasingly separated by sex, in a very direct physical sense. There’s a reason why the rural counties in the USA—for just one example—have become very disproportionately populated by males when looking at the 30-and-under demographic. Men and women often go into different modes of work, with men moreso being drawn towards physical labor. Where physical careers still exist, the rural is often the primary place for them, which incentivizes rural men to stay where they are. And due to a number of factors, many women have been incentivized to concentrate in the metropole. This partly has to do with the growing disparity towards women in higher education; another contributor is this last generation’s campaign by many corporations to especially recruit women. But these causes are more surface-level, and they’re only symptoms of the underlying historical trend: the dismantling of the kinship system that used to keep gender demographics in balance.
This is a crisis that’s emerged in every country which has progressed out of the older modes of production, including socialist China. Large numbers of involuntarily celibate rural men, educated women who can’t find men they want to marry, and the associated birthrate decline are phenomena that have appeared throughout China as well. And it’s clear that this isn’t just because of the one-child policy; this is part of a larger trend, one which happens when a society has reached a certain stage following industrialization.
It is in this part of this discussion where many become inclined to get “blackpilled” or “doompilled.” Because when you try to engage in a systemic analysis, without having the consciousness which historical materialism provides, then one impulse is to look at a problem in isolation and conclude the problem is unsolvable. (Or to conclude that the problem is solvable through reforming the outmoded capitalist system.) This blackpilling so often goes along with anti-China propaganda narratives, which indicates a larger, multi-faceted psyop of demoralization. And the way to combat the psyop is by looking at how history’s societal riddles get resolved.
Finding the path to escape
Regarding the problem of familial breakdown, the question now being confronted by the Communist Party of China is whether its pro-family social and economic policies are enough to reverse its population decline. And the CPC has been implementing such policies, with the Party having announced a number of new ones just in this last week; the world’s biggest and most powerful Marxist organization views birthrate decline as a real problem. And many other governing forces or figures view it as a problem too; but only a policy that’s guided by dialectical and historical materialism provides real hope for solving it.
For the workers parties that aren’t in power, and that are trying to build proletarian organization in societies with a birthrate crisis, a critical question is how to draw the “excess” individuals away from feeling like nothing matters. If they won’t be allowed to have children, then from their point of view it can seem like contributing towards the future is pointless. But there is a side to this matter that we won’t see from looking at the low-IQ gender war discourse, or at the Zionist brainrot psyops; a side where humanity is engaged in a war against the Satanic, Epstein-aligned forces which seek to take advantage of our human vulnerabilities, and destroy everything that we’ve collectively built. One of these vulnerabilities is the fear of seeing your bloodline die with you, which is tied in with the sex drive and its countless risks.
The Satanic side in this war seeks to weaken the left-behinds with pornography, conditioned apathy, and other corrupting influences, with the end goal of rendering us helpless so that the system can consume us. When we bring this insight to those who are being impacted by our familial collapse, and provide a path towards applying dialectics to their own circumstances, we draw our society away from the abyss which it’s approaching.
The worst-case scenario for America’s collapse is an outcome where our society follows the same path as Nigeria, a country which has become torn apart due to its incel crisis. For reasons that are distinct from why America is experiencing such a crisis, but still parallel in the nature of the problem, Nigeria has a large population of “excess men.” And these men are being successfully recruited by Boko Haram, which offers them a way to resolve their issue of unattainable bridal prices. This “solution” of dehumanizing oneself, and becoming an agent for predatory aggression, is one of the paths that our rulers will increasingly funnel the world’s left-behind men into. The default capitalist solution for incels is pacifization through porn and other psychological tools, but violence does tend to become a greater factor as a society gets more atomized.
One lesson from this is to prepare our orgs for threats from neo-Nazis, since groups like Atomwaffen certainly have more potential to gain support from troubled men as this crisis gets more pronounced. But if we are going to rescue America from the monsters this crisis is creating, and from the finance capitalist dictatorship that will only keep making the crisis worse, we’ll need to master a certain art of political struggle. An art which one can only grasp when they’re fully willing to confront the riddle before us. When they have the mindset to investigate every relevant factor in the conditions of the masses, with our familial breakdown being an essential part of this; not the only part, but an aspect that’s been neglected by Marxists, and that represents a critical learning experience in the class war.
Those most affected by our familial breakdown are faced with a choice: fight against the designs of our pedophile class, and resist the U.S. government’s wars and genocides, or lay down and become lackeys for the Zionist-imperialist machine of degeneracy. To give them a clear path to defeating the Epstein class, we will have to build an organizational infrastructure that lets them take on a direct role within the larger battle that we are waging. This battle’s goals go beyond having the proletariat seize the means of production, because Marxism is ultimately about more than overcoming the primary contradiction of the present historical phase. It’s about ruthless criticism of all that exists—i.e. unending struggle against the problems which civilization must overcome, whether the era’s main problem is a global banking dictatorship or the flaw of human mortality.
One day, when the class struggle has ended, the main problems will become things that can only be solved through science. And this is relevant to the incel problem because within the condition of the incel, there’s an existential desperation, one which makes it seem like you’ve been cut off from all potential to be a contributor towards the human story. But the human story is not progressed through procreation alone; to go forward, it always needs those who undertake new achievements in science, in art, in the work that opens up unprecedented possibilities for what a human being can think and do.
When one has come to understand the individual’s relationship to history, and how everything the individual does is part of collective historical trends, then the path forward amid being left behind becomes clear. Our enemies seek to cultivate trends that destroy our collective progress, and keep us away from contributing towards history’s forward trajectory. The incel and familial crisis is a major opportunity for them to proliferate these monstrous tendencies; but they’re also developments that the system didn’t plan for, and could bring about its demise. This depends on if the left-behinds reject the model of submission, and seize their historical agency.
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