"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
How #lumpentheory understands power in #RentierSociety:
We speak of five classpostures: oligarch, #perquisitive, #conveyancée, #disaccommodation, and #conquistadas.
We speak of five estates: the #KayfabePanto, those of oligarch #classposture, those of perquisitive classposture, the consensus media, and armed enforcement.
Note partial overlap. Unlike the estates of the realm, wherein the third estate were the Commons, in rentier society most classpostures… have no estate.
This is #tensegrity.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Which is to say, #RentierSociety is not capitalist society, yet neither any sort of "neo"-feudalism.
Where estates of the realm checked power of king by checking the power of each the other…
Estates of rentier society check power of each #classposture which #tensegrity cultivates for #RentBounty harvest…
Very power of those so subjugated being the crop: #conveyancée, levied for exchange value; #disaccommodation, tilled for #EgoValue; #conquistadas, reproductive labor-power, itself, harnessed.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Marx's characterization of those not prepared to participate in his project of workerist glorification?
"passive decaying matter of the lowest layers of the old society"
Yet we're nearing two centuries out from his putting that line to manifesto.
His old society is long since passed. Yet we're still here, still lumpen.
But that's just it, decaying matter at the lowest layers? That humus—it is what restores the soil.
#Tensegrity would keep us passive, as just another resource for extraction.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Marx found us too déclassé to even theorize ("entirely undefined, disintegrating mass"); anti-capitalists still today perceive us as "social scum", useful only to "reactionary intrigues" against the true proletariat.
(*cough* "you're only helping so-and-so win" *cough*)
Anarchists, meanwhile, idealize a world we are free-associated out of—where folk can freely choose not to care for the welfare of others—say, during an ongoing pandemic.
#Lumpentheory is neither anti-capitalism nor anarchism.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Rather, #lumpentheory begins with humus…
Begins with definition of those who are the fundamental matter—the raw material—without which #RentierSociety cannot function.
Just as Marx opined the landlord class would be subsumed by the capitalist class, only for the latter to be colonized by the former…
So too he suggested we lumpen would rot away—being remnants of "old society"—only for the society that followed to enclose and foreclose us, so to more efficiently farm us.
No longer "undefined".
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