Two Dogs Gaze Out The Window

Day 2,876, 19:11 • Published in USA USA • by Silas Soule

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Two Dogs Gaze Out Window



The Socialist Freedom Party (join us!!) is a multiplicity of ever-changing players and practices comprising it. Any attempt to represent it necessarily restricts, judges and negates it, reducing its potential to already given terms and expectations of the dominant e-social paradigm. But to proceed otherwise abandons the field to those default hierarchies which the e-global anarcho-syndicalist movement works to dismantle.



Verticalized representations do emerge from within the Party and its Revolutionary Committee. And the SFP now fully participates in representational politics. In fact, they have the largest bloc in the current Congress, though not a majority. Given these axes of representation, some well-intentioned friends -- or clever critics -- will no doubt claim that an e-politics of horizontalized autonomy is therefore a pipe dream.




From The Constitution of the Socialist Freedom Party:

"Section 6: Roles and Projects

1. All Party members can play a role as a Volunteer on any Party program, campaign or task.
2. It is the responsibility of the Revolutionary Committee to ensure that the Party is actively engaged in eRep affairs. This does not mean that only RC members can play a leading role, nor that only RC members must carry out all tasks."











But treatments of the SFP as purely representational or anti-representational are misplaced. They disavow division and thereby disavow the new forms of political representation that the SFP is inventing. The fact is that political subjects, which is to say individual players, are divided and not fully conscious of the desires and drives that motivate them.

Furthermore, to the extent that they position the individual as the primary site and ground of political decisions, arguments against representation fail to acknowledge how subjects are configured under e-capitalism. Employing an ultra-libertarian language of autonomy and a capitalist lexicon of choices, it neglects the biases, misconceptions and attachments structuring individual structures.

The processes of exclusivity and hierarchicalization within the mechanisms of representation occur within and between persons as well. Those who insist on an unrepresentational SFP also disavow division between persons, embracing instead a populist presumption of organic social totality.

The fact of hierarchy -- born of skills, privilege, diligence or contingency -- unavoidably collides with claims of horizontality. To put a finer point on it: the SFP is not actually the "tip of the spear" for the working-class masses and citizen-soldiers of eRepublikan players. It is a community that mobilizes in the name of eRepublik's "99%".



From the Program of the Socialist Freedom Party:
'4) Revolutionary Leadership
It may be necessary at times to rant, to rave, and even to revolt, but it is construction not destruction that brings true progress. Better to propose smart ideas and build decent institutions, clearly, in the open.
Revolutionary leaders do not need extravagance and boasting to be social. "Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves" is our sense of legitimacy.'











The SFP rejects the nested and closed hierarchies that conventionally organize political associations. But this fact does not eliminate representation. Rather it highlights a rejection of the current political and economic system because of its failure to represent adequately the people's will, a will that is itself divided and can only be represented divisively.




No one really knows what the SFP will accomplish now that it is in the top 5, has a sizable bloc in Congress, and is providing a Chief of Staff to Country President. But the comrades, friends and allies of the SFP can remain confident that the socialist freedom movement is the form that incites our community's courage and confidence in taking such steps.


It is not necessary to retreat either to the political weakness of dispersed individuals against the forces of oligarchy and the state or warm ourselves by the campfire of an ideological imaginary of unique, strong, and complete individuals autonomously creating their own destinies utterly divorced from the e-global revolutionary impulse.



In summary, in a world that does not allow for it, let us trust in the confidence that a truly revolutionary process will bring about new constellations, arrangements, skills, and convictions, and that through it we will together make something else -- something we haven't yet imagined.









XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO,
PQ