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.