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,
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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!