There is a connection between the “male loneliness crisis,” and the tools that our government has been using to expand its violence around the globe. By understanding this connection, and the historical patterns that it parallels, we can properly fight back against the next designs of our ruling class. Designs that will involve the attempted recruitment of millions of purposeless, fighting-age males into campaigns of mass atrocities.
Turning the left-behinds into weapons
This potential for terroristic warfare is the dark context behind all of the discourses we’ve recently been seeing around “excess males,” the “black pill,” and the efforts by these societal rejects to escape their bleak conditions. The liberal hegemony acts like these left-behinds are to blame for their own suffering, and incel radicalization isn’t in reaction to any real problem; the standard response to these boys and men is that they can solve their issues any time they want. This is a comforting lie for the ones on the favorable side of our uneven “k-shaped” economy, and the repercussions from ignoring these dark social realities will impact all levels of society.
One example of this growing danger is that the Trump White House has been using ICE to deal with our society’s “excess males,” and has thereby been handing out guns to unstable individuals who want to aggressively assert their authority. This is an early stage of America’s “imperial boomerang” process, where the methods that an empire uses abroad get applied to its own people. And the methods that ICE parallels can be found within the USA’s death squads, like the ones the White House has been sending to Gaza.
When Washington sent the Infidels biker gang to run security at the USA’s Gaza aid checkpoints, which have served as opportunities to commit massacres, this was the most extreme version of the tactic I’m describing. The death squad’s actions represent the life path that our ruling institutions seek to set excess males upon. The “War Department” has had its academic researchers explore such a strategy, with one recent paper for AFRICOM discussing the mercenary recruitment potential of unemployed men and recommending Washington make greater use of private military contractors. The U.S. is following the path of Rome, another society that was experiencing permanent economic depression and declining birthrates while increasingly resorting to mercenaries.
The only variable that could reverse all of these trends is the intervention by proper barbarians. By a popular movement which is based not within parasitic imperial usury, but within the collective effort of the classes with an interest in revolutionary progress. This was what revitalized society amid Rome’s self-destruction. About the German barbarians who took over after Rome’s fall, Engels wrote: “Their individual ability and courage, their sense of freedom, their democratic instinct which in everything of public concern felt itself concerned; in a word, all the qualities which had been lost to the Romans and were alone capable of forming new states and making new nationalities grow out of the slime of the Roman world-what else were they than the characteristics of the barbarian of the upper stage, fruits of his gentile constitution?”
Engels identified how the barbarians unleashed civilizational potential by liberating the servile classes, and how “All the vigorous and creative life which the Germans infused into the Roman world was barbarism. Only barbarians are able to rejuvenate a world in the throes of collapsing civilization. And precisely the highest stage of barbarism, to which and in which the Germans worked their way upwards before the migrations, was the most favorable for this process. That explains everything.” For us, the question is how to introduce such barbarism into a culture that’s been so utterly separated from the qualities of a vital civilization.
We know that our class enemies are playing with fire by cultivating these paramilitary groups; blowback is inevitable when a state backs terroristic forces that have such potential to become rogue, and this drive to recruit the global male “excess” can only speed up the destabilization of our society. For the ruling class, the danger from this is that it impedes their ability to manage our civilizational collapse.
Our rulers believe they can keep the United States population under control as societal breakdown accelerates; this is why the capitalist lackeys in professional-class positions arrogantly mock left-behind men. But as the proportion of “excess” males grows, the monsters the imperial state is creating will inevitably come to be beyond anyone’s control. We can expect an attempt to revive the American Nazi movement, and we can expect a growth for the Atomwaffen Division terrorist org.
Rescuing us from a new dark age
In the absence of barbarian intervention, these are the forces that will pick up the millions of youths across rural and suburban America who’ve been pushed into social isolation, and who are susceptible to the temptations by those promoting nihilistic violence. The far right is already in the best position to exploit the downward spiral that both major parties have entered into. The fascist movement only has this advantage, though, because Marxism hasn’t yet taken on the pivotal role that it will inevitably come to have within post-Covid America.
Even if the present decline turns into a new dark age, communism is going to become a major popular force. For much of the post-Covid generation, there’s no stopping a transition towards Marxism at this point, and the number of new communists will absolutely rival the number of fascist converts. The question is whether the revolutionary side will overcome the class enemy’s attempts at dividing the post-Covid generation, which largely have to do with the gender wars. We cannot let our rulers use the birthrate crisis to turn America into another south Korea, which has been experiencing a violent gender war amid its extreme decline in new families.
In a stage of capitalism where the economy has been deindustrialized, and liberal individualism has upended the old collectivist culture, one of the best fascist tactics is to weaponize these kinds of personal resentments. It’s the modern version of the fascist propaganda campaign that William Z. Foster described in 1923:
It was easy for the Fascist leaders to convince the great middle class and peasantry that the organized workers were deeply at fault, because in the sharpness of the class struggle the warring capitalists and workers had reduced production and profit to a minimum. So long as the workers had retained the initiative and had kept the masses’ mind fastened upon the proletarian revolutionary program, they could blame all this industrial disorganization upon the capitalist. But when they lost the initiative through their yellow leaders’ treachery, the capitalists were able to blame the chaotic situation upon them. The capitalists made their conception prevail that the cause of the social disorganization and discontent was the 8-hour day, the high wages, the many strikes, and the low productive efficiency of the industrial workers, which they attributed to the labor organizations.
Now that industry has long been taken away, and the “bullshit jobs” of the post-war era are being massively reduced in availability, the way to demonize proletarian organizing is by portraying it as anti-family. This is what I predict anti-communists are going to start doing as soon as American communism becomes strong enough. I expect this because between Gen Z men and women, there has emerged a severe divide along political lines, one that re-creates the culture war fights from past decades and threatens to bring these battles back to the forefront.
There are real contradictions that the gender war psyop could massively take advantage of. Left-behind Gen Z men see how a reverse gender pay gap has appeared in their generation, how this has happened amid an unprecedented unemployment crisis that’s comparatively hurt them the worst, and also how women their age increasingly reject their cultural views. The gender war division agents hope these factors will convince men to hate their fellow workers on a gender basis, and to conflate communism with the liberal cosmopolitan ideology which demonizes families as oppressive.
To bring this psyop’s targets away from such ideas, we will need to make American communism fully take on its role as the vehicle for barbarian strength. We’ll need to provide the declassed, abandoned “excess” of the 21st century globalized order with a vehicle for fighting back, and defeating the financial forces that seek to take away their role within history. Because they do have a critical part to play in the next barbarian rejuvenation, one that can’t be comprehended by the cosmopolitans who despise them. Of course professional-class urbanites don’t comprehend it; it’s a revolutionary historical project that’s inherently alien to any decadent culture.
Part of bringing communism into this role is to genuinely separate American Marxism from the liberal hegemonic ideology, which has successfully turned “Marxism” into just another tool for its own advancement. Having Marxism fully account for the needs of our generation’s left-behinds is the next step in breaking away from “academic leftism.” What we must create as an alternative is a working-class politics that cuts through all attempts to divide the working masses, or to obfuscate the central role which class plays. It will do this by proving to the masses, through the building of dual-power institutions that strengthen our communities, how a proletarian party offers them the path out of our societal decline. This, along with the rallying of workers towards successful revolts against their employers, is the prerequisite for our victory over the ruling parasites.
When the barbarians come, the benefactors of the decayed imperial structure won’t be able to fit this event into their framework of analysis, which comes from academic “critical theory” and the metropolitan commentator class. We are going to bring a barbarian revolutionary order that’s unprecedented in its vitality and its sustainability; this is because it will have replaced a Rome which spans the whole globe, and has created more barbarians than ever.
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