Defeat Ugly Bourgeois Culture, Bring New Anarchist Culture!
(Bangladesh ASF)
Ugly Bourgeois Culture
The entrenchment of capitalist hegemony throughout the world has led to the development of a reactionary and degenerate culture based on hedonism and glorification of everything disgusting about humanity. The proliferation of Bourgeois culture holds back revolution as it degrades the ability of the working class to wage struggle. Bourgeois culture creates the conditions required for the existence of Bourgeois class alliances with privileged and comprador elements of the working class. Bourgeois culture provides the necessary social and psychological patterns for the capitalist class to maintain its dominance over the working class.
As imperialism has installed its servant puppet regimes around the proletarian world, so has it spread Bourgeois culture. At the heart of Bourgeois culture are the media and entertainment corporations that effectively dumb down the masses and influence their thoughts and behaviors for the benefit of capitalism and imperialism . Bourgeois propaganda produced in the Bourgeois countries is marketed not only to the masses in those countries but also to the masses in the proletarian exploited countries, thus facilitating the spread of Bourgeois ideas and values to the proletarian masses.
Bourgeois culture glorifies violence to a very high degree, with gratuitous scenes of brutality and murder continuously pouring out of corporate entertainment propaganda. This depravity reflects the mindset at the heart of capitalism .
Bourgeois culture shamelessly hypersexualizes women while pushing the limits of what is considered morally acceptable and breaking taboos such as the sexualization of children . Pornography is widespread, helping to push the boundaries of acceptability. Bourgeois culture promotes liberal, fake “feminism” as a cover for the structural oppression of women and children under capitalism .
Victim-blaming is an integral part of Bourgeois culture as capitalism attempts to justify its existence despite its unjust and inhumane nature. The victims of imperialism in the proletarian world are portrayed as culturally backwards and at fault for their own poverty when it is, in fact, a consequence of imperialist theft of their resources and destruction of their cultures . Victims of police violence are routinely smeared and blamed for their own suffering . Similarly, victims of rape and other physical abuse are often ridiculed and shamed, while the perpetrators are often absolved .
Bourgeois culture elevates superficiality and stupidity, mindless decadence and debauchery , and blind obedience to authority. Drug abuse is glorified throughout capitalist propaganda. Bourgeois culture promotes the idea that morality is irrelevant or obsolete and that people have no responsibility for their own actions other than obeying authority . It perpetuates a narrow, selfish mindset based on individualism and opportunism.
Among the working class, capitalism discourages intellectual activity such as reading books, studying, and discussing important issues . Instead, Bourgeois culture elevates television, video games, pornography, and other forms of mindless electronic entertainment which distract the masses from reality, pacifying them while poisoning their minds.
Capitalism wages a war on nature, portraying technology and economic growth as the solution to humanity’s problems instead of social ownership of the means of production . Capitalism promotes reckless genetic engineering of agricultural crops despite the potential threat to human and environmental health . Car culture is central to capitalism, as private individual transport is much more profitable to the capitalists than public mass transit despite its hugely negative impact on the environment . Capitalism has given rise to the phenomenon known as “planned obsolescence” whereby products are deliberately designed to break or become obsolete, increasing sales and profits along with further environmental destruction and wasted labor . Bourgeois culture mocks the destruction of nature by pretending to care while promoting blind consumerism and a wasteful, decadent lifestyle .
Capitalism pushes for the constant and expanding use of digital and wireless technology everywhere which is used by the state for surveillance of the masses . Bourgeois culture glorifies trans-humanism , the merging of humans with technology, which necessarily constitutes a type of eugenics program as long as capitalism and class division exist . The continuing destruction of the natural environment under capitalism is reflected in the increasing mechanization and enslavement of the working class and in its alienation from nature and addiction to electronics .
Bourgeois culture celebrates everything that is evil about humanity while ridiculing and dismissing everything that is good. Bourgeois culture celebrates the Bourgeois lifestyle which is based upon the exploitation and sacrifice of others. Bourgeois culture is essentially a culture that worships death, a culture of destruction.
Proposed New anarchist culture
New society must necessarily be based upon a New anarchist Culture that celebrates life, a culture that respects nature and humanity, a culture that elevates discipline, intelligence, and self-sacrifice, a culture that stands in complete opposition to all the reactionary and degenerate elements of Bourgeois culture. The New Culture must support the healthy evolutionary development of humanity in harmony with the Earth’s natural environment, and it must provide the necessary tools for the successful consolidation of New structure (state & capitalism demolished)– and the transition to libertarian communism.
New Culture must be based on an entirely new set of values that embody a revolutionary libertarian communist mentality. Everyone must be held accountable for the values they promote through speech, music, writing, and other forms of media. New Culture does not tolerate oppression, exploitation, or social chauvinism. It does not tolerate the objectification and dehumanization of people, in media or elsewhere, and it does not tolerate victim-blaming. New Culture upholds self-determination, self-defense, and Anarcho-Syndicalist organization. New Culture does not tolerate the glorification of drugs, violence, or sexual depravity. There is no place in New Culture for Bourgeois degeneracy. New Culture upholds the principle of respect for humans and other biological life and does not have a liberal tolerance for violations of this principle.
Unlike Bourgeois culture, New Culture promotes a healthy, balanced lifestyle and good habits that help maintain the health and happiness of the individual. New Culture is based upon those ideas and actions that support the liberation of the working class and the protection and rehabilitation of the Earth’s ecosystems. Proper nutrition, exercise, study habits, and social activity are all essential aspects of New Culture, as they are all important for nurturing healthy, intelligent, and productive people that New Power needs to survive and expand.
In New Anarchist Culture, technology is viewed entirely differently than in Bourgeois culture. Nature is more important than technology in New Culture. Technology should be used to liberate humanity from toil and drudgery in order to make more time for activities that actually elevate humanity, such as intellectual study and enjoyment of the natural world. The effects of technology, blatant and subtle, must always be considered. The more time humans spend interacting with technology, the less time they spend interacting with nature, and the more disconnected they become from their natural environment, both physically and psychologically. Too much time spent with technology means that technology ceases to be the servant and instead becomes the master. Thus, technology must be designed and implemented in a way that does not interfere with natural processes, in a way that supports biodiversity, ecological health, and human health. New Culture only values technology for its ability to liberate and elevate humanity. Mindless or destructive applications of technology have no place in our New Culture.
New Anarchist Culture is based upon collective ownership of the means of production, aiming for efficiency of production and efficiency of transportation and distribution while minimizing the need for human labor. New Culture values intelligent resource management including conservation of resources and careful planning of production to eliminate waste and negative environmental impact. Production techniques that are in harmony with the natural environment are important in New Culture. Closed-loop systems of production, distribution, and waste management are essential to maintaining the integrity of Earth’s ecosystems. Public transportation and clean energy generation are also essential. In addition to collective ownership of the means of production, New Culture embraces collective thinking and problem-solving. With collective ownership of the means of production along with scientific, democratic decision-making processes regarding production and distribution of resources, the necessity for labor could be drastically reduced while providing abundance for all humans in harmony with Earth’s natural processes.
New Culture emphasizes critical analysis and objectivity while encouraging criticism and self-criticism in order to recognize and correct errors. As our opinion If we have shortcomings, we are not afraid to have them pointed out and criticized, because we serve the people. New Culture does not tolerate egotism and self-righteousness, but instead upholds the principle of No investigation, no right to speak. Logic, science, and discipline are highly valued within New Culture. Only if the masses become sufficiently advanced in their proletarian consciousness can they successfully wage the revolutionary struggle. New Culture is essential to bringing the masses to a higher level of Social consciousness.
Conclusion
Bourgeois culture, politics, and economics are leading humanity and the Earth’s ecosystems to destruction. The ignorance and docility of the masses, and the lack of organization and proletarian consciousness among the left, allow capitalism to function without interference. Building New Culture as a part of New Power is essential to our revolution. The proletarian masses must develop an entirely new set of values, habits, and institutions, an entirely new way of thinking and living, an entirely new way of understanding and interacting with the world, if our revolution is to succeed.
Bourgeois culture today is not merely a reflection of the degenerate capitalist system, but significantly influenced and manufactured by Bourgeois institutions in order to engineer the consciousness of the masses to suit the interests of the capitalist ruling class . The successful liberation of humanity thus requires the development of a proletarian consciousness sufficiently advanced to allow the masses to free themselves from imperialist psychological manipulation, to free themselves from the state & capitalist system and the culture of destruction it perpetuates.
In his article “For a Cultural Association,” the Italian communist Gramsci discussed the need to develop an institution to promote and foster the development of a healthy revolutionary culture among the proletarian masses. Gramsci identified various reasons for the necessity of such an institution of proletarian culture: to integrate the political and economic activity of the socialist movement with cultural activity; to raise the level of political consciousness among the masses so they can better understand and overcome their problems without relying merely on discipline and trust in their leaders; to explore the deeper moral, spiritual, and philosophical problems of socialism and revolution; and to provide a way for revolutionary intellectuals to effectively contribute their skills and talents to the revolutionary struggle .
As our revolutionary movement grows, the need for institutions of revolutionary proletarian culture will also grow, although this will not happen evenly across the world. The need for proletarian cultural institutions will arise where revolutionary sentiment has taken hold among the masses, where New social Power is being actively constructed. It is up to the Form of Anarchist Federation of the world to provide the proper psychological and cultural direction for the development of New Culture among the revolutionary masses and to support the healthy development of proletarian cultural institutions as a part of New Power.
Let us build New Anarchist Culture with New Social structure, and lead humanity out of the darkness! Forward, Comrades! All power & strength to the people’s Federation.