Thread by @17cShyteposter

To understand leftism, you just have to understand its fundamental animating goal, which it turns out is very straightforward: to dissolve us all into interchangeable human gray goo

Once you've got that in place, everything else follows from it

The mind naturally recoils from this goal, because of how unnatural it is. It throws up all kinds of rationalizations, "No, it's about protecting those who can't protect themselves"

Yeah, you're making my point. The value of harm reduction, continued to its end goal, is gray goo

This basic principle immediately exposes the flaw at the core of Marxism, which the modern liberal "right" treats as Ur-Leftism, because the "liberal right" is itself a ridiculous contradiction, doomed by its inability to reach back *beyond* Communism

This flaw being its central tenet, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"

Yeah, this *insists* that humanity isn't interchangeable, that the gray goo end-goal is impossible, it requires some or many to have more abilities than needs: i.e. hierarchy

That very basic break in logic is game over for Marxism. But the continued drive of the left to provide a new replacement for its obvious logical and natural failure is proof that the urge of leftism runs much deeper than *economic* equality, than the gray goo of "equal wealth"

Since the leftist urge to the gray goo state is so profoundly abhorrent to life, whenever a mirror is held up to its unnatural desires, it collapses into a state of frenzied, hysterical paranoia

Which you might recognize as "Every single day of the last five years of politics"

Because the urge remains. It is a fundamental piece of the human social psyche

Marx didn't conjure this up out of nowhere, and neither will it just go away because his *economic* gray-gooism collapsed under its own contradictions. It will always seek a new outlet

The coal that feeds the engine of this leftist urge is resentment, or ressentiment, and it was supposed to come from the working class:

But then the working class, despite some remaining grievances, turned out pretty fine, materially. So it had to mine its coal from a new source

The new coal comes not from the working class, but ironically from the *educated* class, the traditional Marxist enemy, now turned against the working class

The ones who were promised that education would lift them not out of material poverty, but status-poverty

Arguably this is just the same process repeated, but if so, that only strengthens the point

Because when the coal mine of working-class ressentiment proved exhausted, the educated class exposed that it was actually mining itself. That's *why* it had to enact the Long March

This is how the gray goo reasserted itself. Now that the proles have proven useless to the Urge, all differences among educated *elites* (we've all been to college!) are proof of gray goo. Sex. Gender. Race. Intelligence. All must be broken down to end inequality, forever at last

"Neoliberalism," then, is the process of the would-be elite class swallowing their own leftist bullshit, and hating the taste of it, and enforcing it on everyone else because they loathe the idea of anyone not suffering like they did

They're mining their own coal

So they're swallowing their own faeces, in the original industrial term; the workers have proven useless to their impulse, but "luckily" for the leftist urge there are now more academics than workers, so the values shift, by pure coincidence, as well

Anything is preferable to their fear that they're not good enough, incapable of existing outside of the gray goo end-state, where the anxiety finally ends

They would rather reduce all the world to coprophagic slag than admit that they are what they are:

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