Nick Fuentes, or rather the controlled opposition ideology he represents, has reached the end of a political “half-life.” Now that Fuentes has called for ICE to keep escalating its violence, and asserted that ICE has nothing to do with Zionism even though “Israel” trains ICE, there’s no way for Fuentes to be someone who picks up support from people who are serious about being anti-Zionist. He discredited himself as an anti-Zionist a while ago by using the “low IQ antisemite” smear, but this development has solidified his role as a Zionist gatekeeper at a critical moment in history. Now he’s separated the “dissident right” from a key part of the revolutionary masses, and thereby created a new opening for Marxists to go into the people.
I’m not just talking about the former followers of Fuentes who’ve abandoned him after he’s revealed his true purpose, though they are important to reach. The main demographic I’m referring to is one that for the most part hasn’t yet become drawn towards any kind of political ideology, because its members are among our society’s very most alienated. These are the “excess males,” the ones whose lives have remained trapped in a state of arrested development that’s become very common for the post-Covid generation. Due to a combination of decline in opportunities for success, and the fact that capitalist society never offered a meaningful kind of “success” in the first place, they are estranged from the path towards starting a family. Which they’re reacting to in many different ways, including by embracing Nick Fuentes or (in a growing number of cases) by joining ICE.
Though our government and its psyops have been able to exploit the rise of “left-behinds” to this extent, this is still a crisis that the system didn’t want to happen, and that it can’t control. Within the class war, a critical tipping point would be if the bulk of the “left-behinds” were to get successfully brought into an authentic, sustainable structure of proletarian militancy. If Marxists were to reach not just the alienated men who’ve become disillusioned with Fuentes, but also the much larger element who’ve thus far stayed inert, and detached from politics due to their having been cast out of society itself.
The class war will only go forward if we collectively overcome the inertia which is holding it back. If we launch a series of ruthless struggles against the ruling-class political forces, both right and left, that seek to keep us trapped within the patterns which have let the conditions get this bad. We can’t defeat ICE, Zionism, anti-worker policies, or any of the other creations by international banking unless we wage war against class society as it actually exists at this stage.
An unprecedented aspect of today’s capitalism is that it is interrupting social relations and biological reproduction, to an extent which was relatively much smaller less than a decade ago. 2020 was the turning point, catalyzing an acceleration in the growth of the “left-behinds.” This growth has happened in the context of a massive expansion in big tech’s influence, in finance capital’s power over housing and land, and in the presence of the sex industry. With these developments, we’ve seen a massive growth in the lumpenproletariat, with women being the first and biggest demographic to become part of this trend towards joining the lumpen. At the same time, we’ve seen a historically unparalleled growth in the proportion of “excess males.”
It is obvious how these things are connected, and our ruling class certainly understands this link between lumpenization and a rise in “excess men.” These are largely the same phenomenon, since many men are of course adopting lumpen means for subsistence as well. There’s a layer of the left-behinds who are simply retreating into sedation, and consuming ever-more of the sex industry’s products; but as time goes on, we are going to keep seeing them adopt a criminal lifestyle. This will at least be true for the ones who don’t want to just sit around until they die, or become destitute as the economy gets worse. What we have to do is re-proletarianize these people who’ve been pushed out of the working class, giving them the subsistence and purpose that comes from doing labor for a revolutionary infrastructure.
The only way forward is by building dual power; this is easy to figure out. What we need to better understand when it comes to the “left-behinds,” and to the lumpen masses who they overlap with, is the particular type of alienation which motivates them. This is an alienation that’s going to be experienced by anybody who’s been pushed aside by capital, and who hasn’t had the benefits which come from being part of a revolutionary community. As Bruce Franklin observed during the mass upheavals of the mid-20th century, part of how these left-behinds will respond is through crime and unfocused violence, and Marxists have to turn these responses into something coherent:
Lenin himself deals with one aspect of the lumpenproletariat quite relevant at the present moment– their tendency to engage in spontaneous and disorganized armed struggle against the state and in “expropriation” of state property. Lenin violently condemns those Bolsheviks who disassociate themselves from this by “proudly and smugly declaring ’we are not anarchists, thieves, robbers, we are superior to all this.” (“Guerilla Warfare,” Collected Works, XI, 220.) He attacks “the usual appraisal” which sees this struggle as merely ”anarchism, Blanquism, the old terrorism, the acts of individuals isolated from the masses, which demoralize the workers, repel wide strata of the population, disorganize the movement and injure the revolution.” (Works, XI, 216-17). Lenin draws the following keen lesson from the disorganized state of this struggle: it is not these actions “which disorganize the movement, but the weakness of a party which is incapable of taking such actions under its control.” (p. 219). The Bolsheviks must organize these spontaneous acts and “must train and prepare their organizations to be really able to act as a belligerent side which does not miss a single opportunity of inflicting damage on the enemy’s forces.”
After at least six years of living as left-behinds, the misfits of post-Covid society have had enough time to figure out how bad a deal they’ve been handed. They see how bleak their futures will look if they stay trapped in inertia, and many of them will do anything to find a way out. There are still many of them who’ve been successfully brought into a sedated state, but there is no telling how long they’ll stay there; this is why our government views them as ticking time bombs, and has deployed psyops like Nick Fuentes to try to bring them into forces such as ICE. Pseudo-intellectual Reddit “Marxism” and wokeist “communism” are utterly detached from today’s social conditions, which is why they’re irrelevant and won’t win over any of these alienated masses.
The only form of Marxism that will win them over is one which has rejected the illusions of boomerism, which come from a time before the “normal” life path got cut off for the bulk of the masses. The average Gen Z member is absolutely not on track to have children, and is being forced to choose between a slow death of stagnation or an entry into the lumpen career criminal path. There are working-class organizers who’ve been making a real effort to keep up with what’s happening, and they’re making progress; but we have to be constantly adapting our practice to the new developments among the masses. And the shift that we are seeing right now, at an accelerating rate, is one where societal cast-outs are scrambling for an escape.
Will we give them what they need, and provide the leadership that’s required for letting them overthrow our Satanic banking dictatorship? We will be able to give them this guidance, if we keep ourselves in the right mindset. Always we must stay on top of the patterns and trends that are unfolding, looking for the wars behind things. On the surface, we are seeing the rapid growth of a fascist paramilitary. Behind it, there is an ocean of individuals who are growing more desperate every day, and some of them see no way forward other than what this degenerate and Satanic army offers them. The only thing that can defeat a degenerate army is a militant force which is dedicated to delivering humanity from evil, and gets its strength from the unbreakable fighting spirit of the proletariat.
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