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    Against the Dictatorship of Capital. New Philosophical, Political and Educational Lines.
    Against the Dictatorship of Capital. New Philosophical, Political and Educational Lines.
    Against the Dictatorship of Capital. New Philosophical, Political and Educational Lines.
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    Against the Dictatorship of Capital. New Philosophical, Political and Educational Lines.

    By Stefano Ulliana

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    Lyotard’s post-modern critic leaves the field open to the manipulation of free and creative self-determination, that belongs to human nature, by the most reactionary forces of Capital. In fact, his critic to the concept and practice of universality leads to the adfirmation of the most violent and brutal ideological forces of capitalist neoliberalism. It uses the traditional ideology built up around the theological and political concept (with its relative practice) of the necessary and ordering One.
    This concept, applied again in the contemporary age, leads towards a new patriarchal order and a plebiscitarian way to the world, helped besides by the control of the vehicle represented by global medias. The capitalist system assumes, in fact, as its ideology the tradition of the absolute artificial. This logic neutralizes natural and human autonomy and freedom, through the practice of self-instrumentalization and self-alienation. So in Western post-modern societes equality is only the common submission to the cumulative logic of Capital, while freedom lies solely in the abilities and virtues of mutual identification and selection upon the bases of merit. So, again, State and Capital identify the same logic of dispossession and disintegration of the roots of the natural and rational right, through the exchange of concrete reality with the power of image.
    There is therefore the necessity of a Manifesto for a new communist planetary movement (which has to be anticapistalist, feminist, animalist and ecologist). On the opposite side of the question social disintegration becomes a real objective for institutional (economic and political) powers, through the eradication of creative and relational, individual and collective, source.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStefano Ulliana
    Release dateDec 28, 2013
    ISBN9788868853457
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      Chapter 1. Introduction

      The definition of post-modernity as the tension of the spirit towards an open and indeterminate plurality of conceptions and concrete cultural achievements may perhaps allow the development of some general considerations, with preliminary value and having the function and purpose in order to contextualize a possible theoretical critic to its concept and its practical applications, especially in educational and teaching practices and processes.

      Identifying the revolutionary horizon of XIX and XX centuries with the construction of real socialism and thus establishing a line of fatally deterministic development of universalist thought that mixes in quick succession Enlightenment, idealism and Marxism, Jean-François Lyotard seems apparently to welcome and develop further, in The post-modern Condition (1979),[1] the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, explained by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer in The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947).[2]

      Considering objectivity as the ideal and the result of the progressive development of the forces of economic production and modern politics, inside the transcendent and absolute horizon of the State, post-modern position unifies and identifies in totalitarian thought and action both the thetic phase of capitalism and his antithetical one, that of Marxian socialism, in its Leninist and Stalinist version. Both of these phases would be united by the emergence of the violent and constrictive universality, that firstly submits the collective action to the exploitation of nature and to the necessary and massively increase of the profits of the capitalistic class of owners and then, on the contrary, it apparently aims to overthrow the previous purposes in growing the common power of the communist society, but bureaucratically directed and organized. In either case we would see the manifestation of a desire for power and control, whose claims blatantly contradict the perspective of universal human liberation and, in socialism, even the perspective of that natural one. It would therefore be necessary, according to Lyotard, to abandon the universalistic prospect, to find a much wiser and realistic contact with partial situations and with actual movements that could autonomously govern them from inside. Only in this way ‒ a way that apparently would make Lyotard's position similar to that of the aleatory materialism of Louis Althusser, or the situationism of Guy Debord ‒ you might escape from that truly diabolical temptation, which ends to reverse initial positive intentions in a disastrous, contradictory and counterproductive, global result.

      Following in this way the demolition that Adorno makes to the systematic Hegelian dialectic, which ethically requires the alienation of the real to itself, thus counterrequiring the reversal of alienation, Lyotard ‒ as indeed the same Althusser ‒ riestablishes in a Marxian way the world on its own feet, accepting the non-necessity of reversal, as a warranty for the ideal operating of the real ‒ not totalitarian ‒ liberation of man and nature. Then the full and entire rationality is not made from the determining horizon of alienation, but on the contrary is established by reassuming the production central point, which alone can guarantee the expression of a common and collective joy and happiness: the possession of the production and vital center enables that nature and humanity identify themselves to the movement that develops all their expressive potential. Here then natural and human creativity come again, becoming the touchstone of the whole political and existential practice, while the dialectical relationship between man and nature and man to man rises again to immediate and spontaneous method for searching their own autonomy and freedom. Art, ecology and civilization of tolerance become forms of self-discipline of humanity, in the fight to prevent and inhibit the sliding of the whole world into barbarism and the destruction of humanity itself, when not even into the destruction of the entire life on the planet (see the publication of the Journal «Socialisme ou barbarie »).

      From this point of view and along this horizon the transformation that the capitalist system was wildly compulsing from the end of the Second World War was to be treated as an apocalyptic rush to self-destruction, camouflaged and disguised by the subtle plan of the media (see the critic to the pornography of the media) and by the obliged self-reference of the ideological capitalistic system, set by the organization and direction of a totally pervasive cultural industry.

      So if the alienated real is not realized, what is likely to be confirmed is only a negation, a forced self-denial: authentically a total and comprehensive self-denial, as a revenge and residual effect of that failed achievement. In this case only the identity of the system will be able to preserve itself from the difference and from the possible alteration or transformation of the whole system of its relationships. In the other case she will lose herself and vanish. So that is what has traditionally been considered as negative ‒ all that does not integrate, more or less knowingly, in the system ‒ to reveal within itself the potential of the victory and the actual success of the project for a human and natural liberation. To prevent this project the system has only to declare as a form

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