I would recommend as always "The Art of Being Ruled" by Wyndham...

@Logo_Daedalus
R.Сам 🦋🐏@Logo_Daedalus
108 views Dec 21, 2025 ~1 min read
Advertisement
1
I would recommend as always "The Art of Being Ruled" by Wyndham Lewis, especially the addenda chapters on "The Peter Pan Society"-- Imperialism is infantilizing, the Parasite Class is a class of Infants-- the only "Adult Humans" are the Proletariat.
x.com/mstupidasf/sta…
2
This is something that's under-recognized-- that the Dialectical Materialist view is identical to the Christian view that the Truth resides with the Working Poor, the Laborers, the Fishermen, etc-- that Wealth & Truth are inverted relations, Wealth brings Idolatry & Blindness.
3
Chinese Elites have a Seriousness that is impossible to find in the West-- except in the INDUSTRIALISTS as Mao said-- Communists learn a lot from the "materialism" of Industrial-Capitalists, that's why Deng is in no way opposed to Maoism. The Financier/Feudal Rentier class tho...
4
Notice that Jeff Bezos, an Industrial-Capitalist, is considered more opposed to American Working Class Interests than-- the Financial Rentier Class. Bezos at least employs people. The Financial Class is *solely* parasitic.
5
That's part of the appeal of NRx to people-- the notion that there is more Seriousness in the Industrial-Capitalist than in the Progressive Rentier. Someone like Thiel at least engages with reality in a serious manner, where Bernie/AOC is a sheer hallucination of marketing.
6
Kojeve had the concept of the "Working-Tyrant" to describe Stalin, Salazar, & Mao-- they were not "Barons" leaning back into infantilism fat on the blood of the proletariat-- they worked all of the time, their entire life was work, "Romantic Bureaucrats," People's Kings
Actions
What You Can Do
  • Export as PDF or Markdown
  • Batch Export to Notion
  • Bookmark & Highlight
  • LinkedIn & Instagram Carousel Maker
Create Free Account

Includes 7-day Premium trial

Advertisement