Is It Class Struggle? Or Is It Two Subspecies in Mortal Combat?

Our Fight for Survival Goes Beyond Proletarians Versus Plutocrats; It Is Now a Doomsday War between Humanitarians and Moral Imbeciles

THE MARXIAN CONCEPT of class struggle was for many decades our most powerful tool of consciousness-raising and liberation. 

It was understandable enough -- and therefore compelling enough -- to encourage widespread rebellion in the 19th Century and to fuel successful revolutions in the 20th Century. It also terrified the Capitalists into allowing a number of social-democratic reform movements as well -- the New Deal most assuredly included.  

But now in the 21st Century -- ironically just as We the People are awakening to the fact our Mother Earth is challenging our entire species to either abandon its ecocidal misogyny or become extinct -- we may need to re-think what class struggle is telling us. 

That's because the enlightenment, solidarity and urgent call to action with which Marxism inspired the vast revolutionary and reformist majorities of yesteryear seem beyond the comprehension of all but a tiny minority today.  

An obvious and undeniably major part of our problem is the One Percenters' absolute mastery of propaganda and psychological warfare. Schooled by Josef Goebbels and his huckstering kindred, they have warped our minds with their profoundly seductive but ruinously divisive toxins of imposed ignorance, linguistic distortion and identity politics.

 

Now, brain-warped as we are by Capitalism's monstrous Big Lie of equal opportunity,  too many of us can scarcely fit class -- caste, actually -- into our notions of individual selfhood, much less into our collective expectations and demands.

In the past I have denounced these examples of our species' suicidal malfeasance as byproducts of how the Capitalists have dumbed down the formerly activist population of the United States into a hopelessly submissive Moron Nation -- the most apocalyptically ignorant realm of all the mentally enfeebled dunce-domains that rape our Mother Earth for fun and profit. 

Yet now I think maybe we should look beyond what the One Percenters are doing to us and our planetary Motherland. Maybe we should instead be asking why the patriarchy's 6,000-year campaign of genocide¹ -- the product of a tiny fraction² of our species' lifespan --  has evolved into a campaign of undeniably terminal ecocide. 

Marx, Engels and Lenin tell us the Capitalist Ruling Class behaves as it does because that is the present-day expression of the age-old self-protective momentum of tyrants -- an assessment with which it is surely difficult to disagree. 

Meanwhile our own history reveals the notion of a "moral universe" that "bends toward justice" is naught but another variant of "change we can believe in": yet another Big Lie. It is this deception that sustains the self-betraying emotion we call "hope." It suborns our impulse to confront those alleged humans who prey upon us; it numbs us to the fact their boiled-frog ecocide is ultimately as deadly as an attack by rabid grizzly bears -- and it must therefore be battled accordingly. 

       

But why -- seemingly for the first time in our species' 200-thousand to 250-thousand-year experience -- have its tyrants become bipedal doomsday machines? 

Might today's strife also be symptomatic of some hitherto unrecognized evolutionary division of our species into two warring subspecies -- humanitarians versus moral imbeciles? Homo sapiens humanitareansis versus Homo sapiens mala in sē.³  

The latter -- subspecies or not (and I am convinced they are a subspecies if not also a mutation) -- are now undeniably killing us all. 

They have tabooed and suppressed the empathy and cooperative instincts that enabled our species to survive four ice ages and no one knows how many other long-term disasters. And now they are methodically replacing those instincts with exactly the same murderously acquisitive moral imbecility that characterizes trophy-hunting serial killers. Think Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer -- slayers no less possessed of  legal personhood than Monsanto and IBM -- or so rules the United States Supreme Court.

In other words, the moral imbecility that defines Homo sapiens mala in sē repudiates everything that defines the rest of us as fully human. Which argues for their existence as a subspecies if not also as a mutation.   

 
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