An End To Faith

No More Crusades
No More Jihad
No More Enlightenment

Of all conjuring tricks, that of replacing the substantial with the insubstantialhas always been at the core of every system of exploitation. Colonialismhas traditionally involved not merely the expropriation of the native inhabitants,but also the subjugation of these inhabitants through the internalisationof the rulers ideology. Thus when Cromwell invaded Ireland the English hadRepublicanism and the Irish the land. Under the protestant ascendency, theEnglish had the land, while the Irish were to gain the republicanism, aninsidious ideology which has yet to be shaken off. In sub-Saharan Africa,the colonialists burdened the inhabitants with the Bible, while they tookthe land.
Faith has been peddled as a short cut to the oppressed to reconcile theswallowing up of their own interests amongst the interests of the ruliongclass for thousands of years. However, since the economy developed as apseudo-autonomous category of social life, the polarisation between idealistkant and the manifestation of sensory human activity as abstract labourhas lead to a crisis of meaning. The attempt by the universities to theorisethis as post-modernism is doomed. The fragmentation of human activity throughthe commodification of more and more aspects of daily life sets in motioncontradictory tendencies as regards universalistic semiotic systems.
The success of a religion may be marked by the extent to which its adherentsare lead to view it as part of the fabric of the universe rather than acultural product of human activity. In this the atheistic scientist rootedin the conceptions of the European Enlightenment is as much a slave to religionas the most fundamentalist of Mullahs. As De Tocqueville observed over onehundred and fifty years ago, the French Revolution functioned "in relationto this world, in precisely the same manner that religious revolutions functionin repect to the other: it considered the citizen in an abstract fashion,apart from particular societies, in the same way that religions considerman in general, independently of time and place. [. . .] It inspired proselytismand gave birth to propaganda. It could thereforeassume that appearance ofa religious revolution which so astonished contemporaries; or rather itbecame itself a kind of new religion, an imperfect religion it is true,a religion without God, without a form of worship, and without a futurelife, but one which nevertheless, like Islam, inundated the earth with soldiers,apostles and martyrs." (L'ancien régime et la revolution,Book 1, Chapter iii.). The Bolsheviks adjusted this vision to the needsof Tsarist Russia, just as the Nazi's fulfilled Nicholas Bonneville's visionof "a religion which made the fatherland and the laws the object ofadoration for all citizens" where "Its Pontiff would be the king,the supreme ruler. To die for the fatherland would be to acheive eternalglory, eternal happiness. The man who violated the laws of his country wouldbe impious . . ." (De l'esprtit des religions, 1791).
All faith is at based on the substitution of the substantial with the representational.A key element in this is the representation of sensuous human activity asmoney through its social organisation as abstract labour power. Faith hasalways liked to present itself as the polar opposite of the avaricious worldof money, but money can only be a manifestation of faith. Remove faith andthe coin becomes a metal disc with some idiots face upon it, the banknotebecomes a peice of paper covered in occult scribblings. (Much work has beendone on the occult symbolism of the U$ Dollar, but check out NetworkNews No.9: The Eyeless Smiley, or All-Consuming Proletarian Mouth, availablefrom Earthly Delights, P.O. Box 2, Lostwithiel, Cornwall PL22 0YY, U.K.Annual subscription i.e. 4 issues, is £5, so send at least £1.25)
Those who say money is the root of all evil have stopped their analysisat the point where it threatens the status quo. As we have demonstratedmoney is rooted in faith. And it is faith which creates the division betweenGood and Evil (as opposed to the natural distinction between good and bad).It is this faith which launchs anti-Jewish pogroms, which scapegoats Arabsfor American Patriots' bombing campaigns, which channels proletarian angerinto hatred for Americans and Europeans rather let it fuel the subterraneanmaturation of class consciousness .
Whilst money relies on faith this faith has to be backed up by force. TheBritish pound has traditionally been as strong as the British Navy. Theeclipse of the latter went hand in hand with the emergence of US Globalsupremacy. Faith having identified evil then launches its crusade, its jihad.With the advent of the enlightenment, there has been a permanent mobilisationof the population behind the economy, whether in its initial nationalisticform or in the more modern mobilisation behind the New World Order, underwhose auspices the ruling class plan to integrate their system of controlat an even higher level.
Communism is not another faith, but the abnegation of faith just as muchas it is the abnegation of money and wage labour. Bolshevism attempted tonegate communism by transforming it into a secular faith, i.e. by murderingthe communist insurgents of Kronstadt, the Ukraine, and other smaller nucleiof revolt, purging their ranks of anyone capable of a critical consciousness,and substituting a red republicanism which served Russian national interests.
The conditions of life provoked by capitalism undermine the very faithon which it is based. The Bolshevik regime has already collapsed. The IslamicRepublic of Iran has not long to last Its collapse will weaken the ideologicalgrasp of the Mullahs from Algeria to the Phillipines. Already the Britishmonarchy is under attack to an extent unparalleled for years.

An End to Faith!
An End to Money!
An End to Wage Labour!
An End to Capitalist Exploitation!

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