Modernity is a term that equals capitalism. When Christian civilisation began its ruin (14th century, the century of nominalism and the rise of individualism and the bourgeoisie), it was precisely the point at which land and labour became commodities.
But to speak of land and labour is precisely to speak of man. Man without roots is no longer man: he is a discrete and replaceable unit. Man takes root in the earth, and is himself the earth. Tracing furrows and eating its fruit, roaming it on the trail of prey, searching for new lands as if they were prey themselves? Man is the Earth.
Today’s “environmentalists” have lost their minds. They say man is a plague. They, as concerned as they claim to be for the earth, have become thoroughly steeped in modern ideologies, all of which are derived from capitalism and will only contribute to its further rise, with new twists and turns. Every capitalist ideology, whether it comes from the left or from the right, sees man uprooted from the earth: always, even under the most atrocious collectivism, this ideology understands man as a discrete unit that can be moved from one point of the earth to another. This easily leads directly to anthropophobia. Hatred of man, i.e. more or less disguised Malthusianism, can be explained in this way.
To speak of man is also to speak of Labour. Man is Labour. Everything that is truly human is Work: the raising of children, the care and cultivation of the body, the search for sustenance and deserved rest in order to be able to return to Work, to produce ideas or things. Everything human is labour. A people’s and socialist state is a state of labour, not a state of parasites supported by universal basic income. The “libertarians” have also lost their minds. They are a broken product of capitalism itself, and do – whether they know it or not – the dirty work of propping it up. They curse labour, like 21st century “Luddites”, and they bet on a global eroticisation of existence, ignoring that man himself, a somatopsychic compound, lives rhythmically.
Erotic discharge and playful fruition can only occur after Apollonian periods of tension and productive repression. It is necessary to produce and endure, and then to relax and discharge. What happens is that technologised capitalism, which specialises in offshoring and doing away with trades, needs this new Malthus disguised as an ecologist and libertarian: “have no Earth and no Work”. Be like children, bottle-fed (universal basic income), and relaxed, “loose”, with respect to that in which man proves to be man and not beast: for just war, where men rebel against a violation of their rights, and for production, where humans work for their own sustenance and independence, and in that create values.
Libertarians and “environmentalists” are the liberal plague. Do not think that they infest only the ranks of the so-called left, whatever “left” means in each country, despite their anti-capitalist rhetoric. The plague has infested the masses who militate in this new right wing, detached from all tradition, cynical, individualistic, anthropophobic.
Hatred of man is expressed in a strangely gnostic way. Capitalism has been mutating in its ideologies (liberalism, socialism, fascism, the same ideologies that Dugin calls “political theories”). But the fourth ideology that capitalism itself has fabricated consists in the condemnation of the Earth itself and of Labour itself, that is, the condemnation of man. “Man is evil, and that which has always served to humanise him, to detach him from his condition as a mere beast, must be destroyed”, so reads the fourth ideology of late Western capitalism. It is no longer a question of reforming labour, the ownership of land and other property, it is no longer a question of creating a new state or different hierarchies of power… This is old hat, it has been tried in the three preceding modern ideologies. The fourth, which is not Dugin’s and which, in fact, comes from the hand of anonymous tycoons and predatory hedge funds, has a name: the destruction of the human being himself.
The landless man, detached from the countryside, is the asphalt ant, the solitary and homogeneous animal living in cells without a family, in the great cosmopolitan city (Spengler). It is basically sterile and unqualified. He is a masturbator in a pure state, even when he plays with his partner. At the cost of reducing reality to a series of selfish fantasies, he himself becomes unreal, irrelevant. It is an ontological banality. He becomes nihilistic because he is nothing.
Man without Work is zero to the left. He is surpassed by any beast when he searches, famished, for prey or scours a province for a puddle of water. The merely instinctive creature surpasses in metaphysical dignity the man who renounces to be productive, longing to be maintained, and postpones his fertile capacity, leaving the world without fulfilling his reproductive duties. The Roman plebs became worse than the wild beasts that, in their name, devoured human flesh in the circuses. The Roman circus will return on a global scale: the big business will be to devour (directly or metaphorically) human flesh while the expectant plebs are hooked up to feeding bottles.
The commodification of man, the extractive use of his own body and every corner of his soul, are processes that seem unstoppable. At least in the West. As man in these parts of the world no longer produces, he “offers himself”. It must be borne in mind that, in the slave mode of production, not every slave was productive.
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