Futurist Marxism

Futurist Marxism is the self-insert ideology of user .dotdotdotsam. It is economically left-wing, culturally revolutionary, ultramodernist, secular, civically neutral, and very progressive. When the conditions are right it supports technological development and automation of dehumanizing work, the creation of a thriving proletarian culture (similar to Proletkult), proletarian internationalism, freedom of religious and cultural expression (with some conditions), alter-globalization, cybernetic economic planning, women's emancipation, and democratic centralism.

= Beliefs =

Technological Development
Through all of the scientific, intellectual, and industrial progress that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have afforded us, it is absolutely laughable that we, in the present day, remain with the antiquated system of capitalism. We are able to detect gravitational waves, create robotic body-parts, prove the existence of dark matter, and sequence the genome of cancer patients, yet we remain with the economic anarchy of market capitalism. This is not only outrageous and infuriating, it is also laughable. A core tenet of SOTF, possibly its defining character, is that technology and the resources that it is able to produce must be used for social progress as opposed to how it is currently used in modern capitalism - that is, to simply enrich the bourgeois class.

When the conditions are right, heavy investment must be placed into the sciences. This was one of the greatest and most notable successes of the USSR, as it became possibly the 20th century's greatest intellectual powerhouse in a rapid process. In line with major investments in literary programs to educate the population, academic success must be placed as the forefront of the nation's values so as to produce scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and other intellectuals that are capable of advancing the nation and being at the forefront of technological innovation. After all, the future is engineered only by individuals who are fully capable of understanding it.

Technological developments will be utilized to expand the forces of production, enhance economic planning, program more beneficial and efficient manners of coordinating government, and possibly for experiments in genetic modification of food and reduction of carbon emissions to switch over to sustainable energy, among other things. With technology, the possibilities are endless: we, as humans, can quite literally engineer our future.

Political Economy
As the system of capitalism currently is wholly inadequate for the needs of the working class, a progressive socialist economy must replace it. Industries must be nationalized, agriculture must be collectivized, and parasitic leeches such as capitalists and landlords must be removed from power, forcibly if need be. If the state of the economy is in a semi-feudal state, a period of state-guided capitalism must occur to smoothen the transition towards socialism.

On planning
To begin with, central planning is far more efficient as a method of democratic allocation than a market economy. Because the profit incentive is at the core of the market economy, commodity production is done for profit rather than utility. For this reason we see things like planned obsolescence, consumerism, and Supreme Oreos selling for $91,000 (and being sold out in hours). Many of the commodities that are produced under capitalism, although often plentiful in supply (if you're privileged enough), are generally not useful to people as the exchange-value is placed over the use-value. Under socialist economic planning, the goal is to prioritize use-values over exchange-values.

The central planning of the USSR is, although nonetheless a form of economic planning, not intended to be replicated, and neither is Allende's Chile. Both of those methods of economic management, although progressive for their time, were still confined to it; Stalin's bureaucratic planning being prior to the development of the Internet and modern technology, and Allende's cybernetic planning being reliant upon antiquated Telex machines. We live in different times, and any proposed economic system of the future should reflect that. With the democratic usage of futuristic technology being a core tenet of SOTF, it must follow then, that the economic model of SOTF must abide by these principles as well. Modern technology has made economic planning possible to a greater extent than ever, yet its bourgeois detractors will utilize Mises's Economic Calculation Problem against it, even though the ECP was a criticism of the antiquated Soviet model of economic planning.

On currency
Once again established by Paul Cockshott (and even Karl Marx himself), a system of non-circulating labor credits could be very beneficial under the right conditions of economic and material development. Marx takes the circulation of commodities to be the exchange of commodities for money and money for other commodities. He depicts this as C-M-C’, where C-C’ represents both a change in the form of the commodity and, as is implied by the commodity as capital, an increase in value. He sees the circulation of commodities as facilitated by the circulation of money as capital. A system of non-circulating labor vouchers could very well be the solution for this.

With non-circulating labor credits, people would be credited with hours worked rather than money at the end of the week, and payments for goods and services would also be in terms of time; essentially, you would pay for a garment that took two hours to make with two hours of your own labor-time. This is essentially a monetary system based on time rather than arbitrary currency units such as pounds, dollars, or euros, for example. Although the manner in which these labor credits can be tracked is, of course, dependent on material resources available, when the conditions are right the method in which these labor credits can be tracked will be as follows:

"Nowadays one need not think in terms of paper certificates of work done. Instead we can envisage the use of some form of labour credit card which keeps track of how much work you have done. Deductions from your social labour credit account could be made by filling in a slip, or using a direct debit terminal."

Proletarian Culture (Proletkult)
Futurist Marxism believes that the spirit of the early USSR's Proletkult should be revived. A cultural revolution must be in conjunction with a political revolution to link base and superstructure, ideology and reality. Culture and ideology must be correspondent with material conditions; thus, a cultural revolution is necessary. It believes that, although a brilliant idea, Mao's Cultural Revolution got out of hand and was unnecessarily brutal. Instead of executing opportunists and hosting denunciation rallies, it believes in expelling opportunists and liars from the nation as well as creating artist federations and communes to create a new vibrant proletarian culture based on Futurism, Cubism, Rayonism, and other 20th century avant-garde art movements.

Religion and Cultural Expression
Futurist Marxism believes that one of the greatest faults of 20th century socialism was state-mandated atheism and religious purges. It believes that religion will always exist and that it cannot be forcibly removed from society, as much as one would like. Instead of destroying religious institutions, banning religious texts, and organizing atheist gangs to harm ordinary religious people, it believes in cooperation with religious institutions to promote socialist values for the religious as religions typically have many core values that are compatible with socialism (the golden rule, caring for the poor and less fortunate, love your neighbor, etc).

Government Structure
(collectivized from Iberian Communism)

Based on the idea of democratic centralism for the organization of its government, Futurist Marxism advocates for the creation of a National Workers Committee that elects representatives for the Federative Workers Committee. The FWC is led by the Supreme Committee, an elected organ of party members who is given the task of managing the federal system. There are various levels to the system, from the small Local Workers Assemblies or Popular City Councils, to the intermediate National Committee, to the largest one, the Federative Workers Committee (FWC).

As this is a centralized system, most of the decisions are taken upwards, by the FWCCP and the Supreme Committee, although most of the time these are more like guidelines given as the republic can choose to apply this decisions in the ways it sees fit.

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 * [[file:Iberian_commie.png]] Iberian Communism - National Communism at its finest, love it.

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 * [[File:Neokira2.png]] Neo-Kiraism - Although I'm not big on furries and Stalin, me and you are very similar in various ways (especially with your pronounced Futurist influence).
 * [[file:Ascheominh-icon.png]] Ascheominhism - You're a bit too centrist for me (culturally), but overall not bad at all.

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 * [[file:BERNHEism.png]] BERNHEism - How do you believe in this bullshit and think "oh yeah this is totally going to benefit humankind."

Comments

 * [[File:Neokira2.png]] Neo-Kiraism - add me, fellow futurist communist
 * [[file:FutMarx-icon.png]] Futurist Marxism - sure !
 * - Add me?