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Knoxville Anarchist's avatar

Emmanuel, You’re absolutely right about how the current philosophy and way of life in America has been influenced by fake values, like political parties hiring celebrities with plastic surgeries and inflated lips. Politicians cruising around in luxury cars and wearing fancy, expensive clothes only adds to the image. I think Kristy Noem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Noem a is a good example of a prostitute-celebrity hired by The Republican Party to get popular support

The whole USA could use a change from these harmful, immoral values. Looking great and preventing obesity are positive goals and should be part of any new vision for the future. But when things like sexual attraction are exploited to manipulate the masses, that’s where it turns negative.

We also need to break many behavior patterns promoted by the system, especially by platforms like YouTube and other sources, such as binge-eating, binge-drinking, cybersex, and more.

I believe pleasures are essential, and I support making them more accessible. In fact, I’d back a more affordable system of theme parks, vacation cruises, and resorts for the working class, who are currently, in many cases, economically excluded from enjoying experiences that about 20% of the U.S. population can currently afford.

Immoral and unhealthy habits like binge eating, compulsive eating, reckless driving, and drug use only lead to harm and destruction, not to a better life.

Behaviors like individualism, group narcissism, unfriendly attitudes, arrogance, excessive pride, selfishness, anger, and violent gestures are also traits that should be eliminated.

Obesity, weight gain, and food addiction are also taking a toll on this country. The USA, like many other nations, needs what Nietzsche called “a transvaluation of all values,” meaning replacing current behavior patterns with progressive, revolutionary, and rational ones.

Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

I wonder if we could do a broadcast together

Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

We really have no choice. The US Israeli paramilitary groups are already positioned across the country with drones and any number of electronic weapons. But they have real weaknesses. They are corrupt, they have no binding ideology and they are not ready for a long hard fight. They are just waiting for their own little Stalingrad. But until then, it will be ugly

V. N. Alexander's avatar

Since they are taking apart the system, a good president may not have to have extraordinary powers to do so. You could just reinstate the constitution.

Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

Actually, I rethought what I wrote. I made this video in an amused state of mind. I am thinking I will take it down, however, as I do not actually believe that such scenario will ever take place. I have several ideas for how we can be relatively successful, but none of them involve some unique person becoming president and taking control of the mess. However, I thought there might be value in phrasing it that way. Give me until tomorrow to decide whether to keep this or not.

Knoxville Anarchist's avatar

You are right, and i also think that we need a marketing, propaganda strategy in order to get millions of people to vote for you in the 2028 presidential November elections. That is a very hard task and it will also require a lot of money

Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

Saying I will run is the rally. No one seriously thinks I am going to win in an election at this point. The way to win, for me or whoever takes my place, is to declare that the the others are criminals with no authority and they are not the government. At first few will accept our authority, but if we are consistent and we stay alive, eventually some will start to accept us.

Knoxville Anarchist's avatar

I think that a radical people's government would literally need to be a military-dictatorship for some months or years, until that radical government eliminates the oligarchy and all bourgeoise terrorism who would have the intention of overthrowing the new radical state of the people

Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

Actually, this problem is not simple and cannot be described in a brief video. But I personally think there is no choice but to take extraordinary steps. Of course that act can be abused, but it does not have to be. There is no way to get back to the constitution by magic.

Knoxville Anarchist's avatar

You are right, the first days of a revolutionary workers state, require what marxists label as "the dictatorship of the proletariat"

Here is a good definition of the concept of a workers-dictatorship from Wikipedia

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat

In Marxist theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat is a state of affairs in which the proletariat, or the working class, holds political power. The term, as used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, refers to a transitional state between capitalism and communism. During this phase, the proletariat acts as the ruling class to suppress the resistance of the bourgeoisie (the former ruling class), destroy the social relations of production underlying the class system, and create a classless society. The concept's meaning and implications have been a source of major controversy and divergence within the Marxist movement.

The term "dictatorship" in the 19th century did not have the modern connotation of an autocratic one-man rule. Its meaning was derived from the ancient Roman dictatura, a constitutionally sanctioned office for a magistrate granted extraordinary powers during an emergency. For Marx and Engels, the "dictatorship of the proletariat" was not a specific form of government but a term for the class content of the state that would follow a proletarian revolution. They identified the Paris Commune of 1871—a radical socialist government based on principles like universal suffrage, recallable delegates, and a popular militia—as a concrete example of this concept. Engels later stated that the democratic republic was the "specific form" for the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The term's interpretation shifted decisively with the Russian Revolution. Vladimir Lenin redefined dictatorship as power won and maintained by force, "unrestricted by any law". The Bolsheviks argued that the devastation of the Russian Civil War and the threat of counter-revolution necessitated a revolutionary government unconstrained by constitutional limits. By the early 1920s, the dictatorship of the proletariat in Soviet Russia was officially equated with the rule of the Communist Party, its vanguard party. This interpretation was sharply criticized by other Marxists, such as Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg, who argued that it betrayed the democratic principles central to Marx's original conception.

In the 20th century, the Leninist interpretation became the official doctrine of the international communist movement and was used to justify one-party rule in states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and other countries in the Eastern Bloc. Consequently, the term became associated with totalitarian rule. In the post-World War II era, many Western European socialist and communist parties, particularly those aligned with Eurocommunism, formally abandoned the concept as part of their shift towards a democratic, parliamentary road to socialism. The term's meaning, and whether the Leninist model was a legitimate development or a distortion of Marx's ideas, remains a subject of historiographical debate.

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Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

The historical debate is not so interesting to us as to what will work. Clearly we are facing a fascist system which is ready to kill most of the population of the earth—so there is no limits to what they can do. They are also psychopaths which means they make decisions that are not in their own interest.

Knoxville Anarchist's avatar

Dear brother Emmanuel and other friends: It’s unfortunate that so many US voters, even with internet access at home, still depend on mainstream media outlets that influence them to vote only for the Democratic or Republican parties.

I’m not like that. Edgar Allan Poe once said something along these lines in one of his books: most people tend to support individuals, politicians, organizations, and institutions filled with pomposity, wealth, and popularity. That’s why even the moderate bourgeois progressive left ultimately doesn’t back The Green Party. In the end, those progressive social-democrat moderates, who are part of the capitalist left, end up voting for The Democratic Party.

I told my sister in Tennessee to vote for Jill Stein, thinking she’d be a much better choice than Donald Trump, but she didn’t listen and, stubborn as ever, ended up voting for Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

I’m not really sure how we, the smart and aware people in America, could get millions of Americans to vote for you or for a united patriotic, anti-Zionist, anti-oligarchic front of salvation, which I think would be a great idea to save this country from Israel, the Zionist evil jews, the capitalist class, and both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

actually, It is impossible to be elected in any case. the system of privatizing vote counting, let alone misinformation and dumbing down the people, means that the transition to the next state cannot be done democratically. We have only a choice between informed, ratiional and ethical efforts to excercise extraordinary powers, and raw barbarism.