II Notes from a Communist Heretic I grew up eating the milk and meat of the market pattern and was indoctrinated in the milk and honey ideology of the afterlife, perpetuated by my most degenerate bourgeoisie and master. The father that raised me rejected the milk and honey afterlife ideology but ate from the market pattern. His father, grandfather also ate from our historically specific pattern of consumption, embedded in the market pattern and constituting its sustenance pivot, but he was a small eater who migrated South to North in the post WW I period, Grandfathers mother, was a slave on a plantation outside Augusta Georgia, as it is told, and she ate different from the menu of the industrial market pattern. Grandfathers mother, had a mother and father, whose eating expressed the blessing of the soil and sunlight of the old agricultural south. Everyone in America eat from a table constructed on the basis of bourgeois relations. The bourgeoisie did not however, create the table as a fixture in society. The table has a history and it is customary to measure history as the individual, in seven generation increments. It is easy to speak of the need to live as one with nature, the earth and environment and imply that such a state of affairs existed in this hemisphere before European colonization. The problem is that we are denied the analytical tools and framework by which such measure is to be made. At any rate, living as one with nature means not breaching its biological laws and spontaneous metabolic processes of rejuvenation. Unless one spells out some of these general laws, in plain language, the riddle remains unsolved. This is not an endorsement of imperial conquest by Europeans or Mel Gibson's pornography of violence vision. Without question the enslavement of the African and the conquest and annihilation of the peoples of this hemisphere is the greatest crimes of man against man in 300,000 years of history. It is equally easy to condemn industrial society and concepts of efficiency, rather than try to disclose and then explain the tap root containing the logic of our specific development. I have long ago grown tired of endless condemnation of industrial society, because it is industrial and the implied logic of a return to a "better time." There is never a better time than right now, the moving moment as we exist in our seven generation materiality and organizing the resistance and fight against the bourgeoisie and evil. The logic of our specific development is not revealed in the industrial form or machine society abstracted from the earth, blood and the water relations of seven generations, but in the actual life of the generations setting into motion complexes of productive forces. Each generation is seven or seven from who I be as eater; seven from my father and seven from his father and seven from grandfathers mother. Grandfathers mother sex relation with a man created him and this man is also seven generations. We are thousands of generations unclean. Thus, condemning the inherent logic of the industrial form is the standpoint of the mind that has no way to measure itself. One may as well decry the invention of the wheel and lever. The law of our species existence driving innovation and the compounding of human labor - technology evolution, and amplifying the output of human labor, makes us who we are and can be. Machine society is an unavoidable evolution of species activity. . The "lever" and "wheel" and then pulley and gears as systems enhancing the energy output of labor cannot be undone. Religious dogma, as well as strands of Buddhism, world cosmology and indigenous Native concepts of time as measure; the concept of "the future/present," and past, defines measure and change cycles in seven generation increments. The "sins of the father" - it is said, require seven generation for correction or the future embraces seven generation in back of and in front of the present generation, as a change cycle. Since it is not possible to undo history one fight to create new lines of history or detoxify society from a preexisting mode of existence, not simply preexisting productive forces. The problem is that the sins of the father have defied clear and precise explanation or been presented in such a way as to make it impossible to rally segments of the population in meaningful change. Meaningful change for communism in world history has always meant the battle for human beauty of the cleansing of the species. The sins of the father cannot be the emergence of more complex organizations of machines, tools and instruments. It is not the existence of the industrial organization and formation of society that is inherently antagonistic to the earth as a metabolic process. This is so because the metabolic process that is the earth, allows it to convert the refuge of society back into the earth itself. The problem occurs when we exceed the rate at which this process takes place and when society produces a mass of things that cannot be reconverted back into the earth. Exactly, how does a society "live as one with nature," when everyone knows that nature on earth varies in its manifestations, depending on geography and climate changes? The root of our species being is biological. To state this is to run the risk of cries of "biological determinism." To state the inherent law quality - system, wherein tools, instruments and machinery are visualized and developed that amply the energy output of labor is to be charged with technological bias - determinism, or just plain and simple stupidity and ignorance. To state that the advance of science is the solution to all human problems is to face charges of technological determinism, despite the fact that science is not technology. The fact of the matter is that knowledge of law systems - science, are the only solutions available to human beings and for the correction of social problems. The root and solution to the problem of human existence is so simple and immediate, it has defied the under standing of thousands of generations. To realize the solution requires politics and political formations because society is stabilized by political and military institutions, more often than not, at loggerhead with the law system of our species existence. Knowing the problem and the solution does not magically endow one with the ability to effect change. Everyone agrees that sustenance - eating, air and water consumption, is the pivot of human existence. Even the Marxist approach to value production has as its pivot the cost of reproduction of the modern working class, and in the case of bourgeois society, the extraction from the workers of a value, over and above the value they create - surplus value. The pivot of ascertaining the cost of reproduction of people (the working class) is water, air and food + the system of reproduction and delivering of these things. Water, air quality and what is eaten is at the base of the law of population as it takes shape and express itself during all stages of human evolution. What is eaten and how this food stuff is secured drives history and patterns of sexual reproduction. If this is true, and it is indisputably so, then thousands of years of history can be reconstructed looking at exactly what it was that was eaten and then at the corresponding social organization to secure and stabilize sustenance. A detailed examination of everything eaten at every stage of human evolution is the starting point of a serious inquiry into "human nature." Without question a complex ideological, cultural, military and body politics has existed for thousands of years, as well as ritual habit, and it is the precisely the existence of these complex interactive systems of species behavior that has blinded us to the elementary. We are what we eat, how we eat, how we organize distributions of what we eat - literally, what we put into our mouths, To say this is not to imply that eating a steak sandwich, side order of fries and diet drink, makes one want to invent the atomic bomb. The direct relationship between food, the evolution and development of a society infrastructure is a historical thing or historically evolved interactive complex. The infrastructure is subject to the same complex factors of social logic in the meaning that its development takes on a "seeming life of its own." This is not to say that eating a slab of ribs makes one "invent" electricity, even though it is obvious that wrong and overeating blunts and destroys ones eyesight and vision. From the standpoint of the future/present - seven generations out from each of the seven generations out, the communist solution remains what it has always been: detoxifying the species and the earth or to live increasingly in rhythm with the metabolic processes in the earth. The pivot is what we eat, rather than the form of the productive forces deployed. That is to say, what we produce and eat is not to be determined by the capacity and capability of the productive forces. Rather, the capacity and capability of the productive forces are to be shaped and conceived from the stand point of detoxifying man and the earth. The bourgeoisie as political power stands in the way. Historical man, in his historical ignorance stands in the way. Historical ignorance feeds on itself and compounds itself as continuous wrong and overeating. This is to simple to believe and understand by people, whose seven generations ritual wrong eating feeds upon itself. Here is the real force of habit, of which Lenin spoke and of which Stalin and everyone else has been powerless over. Here is the non deducible factor of which Cuba and everyone else faces from different locations in the social equation. Here is the cliff very few are wiling to leap off and most who try face a most certain death, because the law system of body detoxification is not universal knowledge. The cure for every single social problem on earth, begins with the detoxification and purifying of man. Man is really the problem and the key to the social equation, which is why ancient knowledge defined the riddle as "the sin of the father." It is of course easy to scream "male supremacy" and "male domination" and "male chauvinist thesis" and dismiss the lessons of the future/past generations in the interconnection and interactivity with the future/present. Bourgeois equality is a dead end and proof of mental insanity. The sin of the father means the father did something that produced a result. The sin of the father is the ancient story of his sinful eating. It is rightfully described as the sin of the father because this concept is rooted in the earth as mother and embraces an idea of the father as the planter of the seed of species and the mother - female, the soil. No one denies ours species interactivity in species creation. You can bet your deformed children that this universal understanding is present in all cultures. Who does not know that a good seed in bad soil can produce good fruit? A bad seed in good soil produces weak fruit. A bad seed in bad soil produces deformed fruit. It is the father, the Biblical Adam for my Christian brethren, rather than Eve - the mother, that must carry most of the burden of human sin, although modern science has final caught up with ancient knowledge in the form of DNA tracking on the basis of mitochondria dna specific to female. Both are responsible but the father’s seed must at all cost be purified as the pivot in the equation. The earth itself can only be purified in correspondence with the detoxification and purification of the male as pivot. Here is what we face in America. After roughly four generations our family lines begin dying out. This is not due to industrialization and urbanization but a historically specific form of both, that grew out of and took shape in relationship to a very specific way of eating or more precisely the long history of distortion in the evolving "market pattern." Any society that follows us - America, down this road is headed for chaos and mass insanity and it matter very little how the organization of political power is set in place. A political law can never override a biological law or metabolic process. Here is the real underlying law the Soviets ran into and could not overcome or win. Sadly, until a society has had its stomach full and begins decay under the impact of gluttony, one cannot even discuss the issues of our biological processes in public without being jailed as a heretic, lunatic and fanatic. However, the solution as a practical program is at hand. . .
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