Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 29, 2024, 02:25 PM

This video suggests the military was involved in the production of the film version of "How to Blow Up a Pipeline".  What do you think.  Was the intention of Andreas Malm perverted?

"If we let the dominant classes take care of this problem, they're going to drive at top speed into absolute inferno." Andreas Malm has said."

In his book Malm advocates for a campaign of sabotage of fossil fuel infrastructure.  His intention is to break the taboo against targeting 'private' property. Private, not 'personal' property will cost us the earth.  Private property is 'capital' in Marxist terms.

The status-quo will deny and ignore the reality of our climate situation because change is uncomfortable.  Revolutionary thought has been removed from modern life at a time when revolutionary thought is desperately needed.

Reality needs an escalation of tactics.  I agree with Andreas.  Andreas also knows the escalation must happen, if it does, in a way that does not piss most people off.  Here is an interview with Andreas:


This video has a lot to say about the movie adaptation:

Is the HTBUAP movie a PsyOp? This video is important to see.  If people take the movie literally and do what the actors did people will get hurt.  To appreciate the warning message you have to see the movie:

Was the intention of Andreas Malm perverted?  Could the movie cause, people to blow themselves up.  Is the warning appropriate?

Radleft hipster parasite voluntarist. The Scandinavian ones are the fucking worst owing to decades of the crème de la crème of NATO/OECD social fascism. For a communist the starting point must be substantive equality not more equality which basic logic tells us is not and never can be equal to the former. Let alone charity and social welfare, both of which are reactionary unless directly serving the needs of an international working class movement which will soon render both irrelevant. I don't care how radical they are, how many instagram pics they've posted getting dragged away to three hours in 'prison' by pigs at protest events (arranged and organized with pigs and local authorities).

But more concretely, neither Marx nor Lenin nor Mao postulated any inherent distinction between private and personal property and these parasites on the corpse of 20th c communism have distorted their meaning beyond coherence. These were specific technical terms in Marx's political economy. Personal property was the direct ownership of small means of production by artisans peasants etc. And that was already being abolished by 'private' big bourgeoisie (via primitive accumulation) by the time of Marx's floruit.

Hey Malm, your communal pine-green smart studio cabin in the woods costs several times the human lives and climate footprint of a 2k/m white settler racist American apartment. Indeed a not inconsiderable portion of that cost is likely in service of you getting to pretend otherwise. It ain't 'personal property' but rather what Marx would have commented upon thusly:

In the development of productive forces there comes a stage when productive forces and means of intercourse are brought into being which, under the existing relations, only cause mischief, and are no longer productive but destructive forces. These productive forces receive under the system o f private property a one-sided development only, and for the majority they become destructive forces.79 Thus things have now come to such a pass that the individuals must appropriate the existing totality of productive forces, not only to achieve self-activity, but, also, merely to safeguard their very existence.
- https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm

He thinks there will be 'escalation', well who tf doesn't? How is that relevant to his argument? The rational democratic management of fossil fuels is the only option for 8 bn people, or 4 bn for that matter. You want a few bn to unfortunately die while you advertise yourself doing everything possible to help them, then after shedding some manly tears get on with the important work of building eco-socialism? That's fine, just stop calling yourself a fucking communist. Rant over.