A criticism of Why I’m a Hoxaist - and why you should be too.
In the heartland of America, a series of fallout shelters dot the landscape. Capable of withstanding a nuclear apocalypse, they are designed to guarantee the continuation of western empire even if the cities that comprise the west cease to exist. Old siloes, decommissioned after the cold war, are being converted by the rich into ultra-luxury apartments and yoga studios in order to maintain this legacy. Secure behind a solid 5-foot slab of concrete, they can wait for centuries, protected from suffering the inevitable consequences of their own creations.
Despair not young revolutionaries, for this fugue state is not an inevitability. The same forces that developed the bunker also gave us the antidote to both its structure and its doctrine. Dialectically constructed, the bunker-buster munition is the key to guide the socialist international back to Leningrad.
Preeminent Hoxhist and Marxist critic Claire Blair was right about the fortitude of bunkers in maintaining ideology, but failed to correctly diagnose which ideology they protect. When the dust settles, the preppers and the bourgeoisie will emerge to sow a capitalism maxed organization of the economy. Still clutching their tills, the industrial proletariat will be left outside to succumb to uranium fever. A counter is therefore necessary. Too many from the proletariat class have died unnecessarily in service of the bourgeois bunker or whittled their lives away in Minecraft constructing tunnels in the pursuit of surplus value. Bunker-busters make no such ideological demand for construction or labor. With precision and tact, they explode.
The development of ideology is well-settled in the Marxist literature. As he writes in the Theses on Feuerbach, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” Fortitude traps the mind into rigidly interpreting the status quo. Monuments to preservation will never bring about the revolution. The correction to Albania’s economic reality in the 1980s was not to shelter in place and wait patiently for the system to tear itself down, but rather to develop an international workers’ consciousness. The Albanian’ people have since learned from the hubris Enver Hoxha’s decision to cast aside his uncle, Hysen Hoxha, mayor of Gjirokastër. Today, they are staunchly oriented towards change, making dynamic moves to build international alliances with woke cop and former New York Mayor Eric Adams, the newest international member of their citizenry.
Materialist things, like bunkers, must be analyzed with materialist theory: dialectics. In On Contradiction, Chairman Mao Zedong explained that “the law of the unity of opposites is the basic law of materialist dialectics.” We can apply this law to bunkers and their counterpart, bunker busters. Although dialectically opposed, they are both unified as products of the military industrial complex. When turned towards the rest of the world, they work together to maintain America’s imperial control, but turned upon each other, they neutralize the effects of overproduction. Only by exploiting this tension will the conditions for dismantling Western Empire emerge. The modern Albanian investment in border abolition would have come about sooner if the Albanian people could have resisted Hoxha’s isolationist plans with locally sourced free range St. Louis bunker-busters. When everyone is Albanian, there will never again be a need or desire to isolate the Albanian people.
Widening the contradictions of capital requires rapid investment. Marxists should take up their theory and start investing in munition factories. As Blair identified, bunkers do not just take the concrete form, they are a ritualistic construction designed to bury the revolutionary spirit. Bunker-busting is a revolutionary act; it is the destruction of dogma, it is the epitome of struggle. Alone we are weak, isolated underground we are weak, but when we join the military we become oh so strong.
It stands to reason that if the Albanians had poured their sovereign wealth fund into military futures instead of digging concrete pillboxes to escape reality, their economy would not have collapsed. Spending the state’s reserves on immobile static defensive structures failed to contain the pressure of the moment. To make a philosophical, economic, and political tradition adaptable and defensible, the proletariat must act as if their minds are an MQ-9 Reaper drone piloted by Marx himself. We must vest our hope in the People’s Revolutionary Military-Industrial-Cooperative. They cultivate the revolutionary terror that hellfire missiles will bring to the heartland. Prosperity to Chairman Kelly Ortberg of Boeing and Chairman James Taiclet of Lockheed Martin; comrades in the struggle, creators of the proletarian class, the revolutionary bourgeoisie.
Who wrote this, the CIA!?
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