The only obvious move for the would-be revolutionary is to apply effort to acquire positions in essential industries and thereby replace the current inactive and indolent proletariat here at home. As odd as this may seem, it will be necessary to put the proletariat out on the street. With six applicants for every job opening, this may not be as difficult as it appears as long as we are willing to demonstrate our competency together with a secure physical address.
It is therefore time to research these essential industries from an hostile position. It is clear marketing research has reached its creative peak in producing desire for luxuries in the appearance of necessities. It is time to concentrate on what indispensible niceties we do have and this will be sufficient to establish a provisional list of essential occupations toward which we should apply our efforts. The first step once this list is formulated will be employment as a prelude to occupation and self-management. No amount of propaganda has historically moved the prole toward these ends, except along lines easily co-opted by capital. We have given them far too many chances. It is time they are dealt out of the game once and for all. Full employment for pro-revolutionaries will signal our first victory and set a message by example of the ends one can achieve by hard work and dedication. To achieve this, we must disguise our workplace sabotage by producing better products and providing better services, no matter the pay-level returned. Our reward will come with revolutionary success. Our reward will be our success. The great error of the Situationists was their call for refusal and their slogan, "Never work!" Who on earth, I ask you, could afford that commodity?
The first type of employment on which to concentrate our efforts will be in cellular telecommunications. The second will be the educational industry, and the third will be game design and manufacture from both the hard- and soft-ware flanks. Development and innovation have gone the same road as marketing research, so construction work will be aimed toward improving what we already have. What remains of critical industries we think essential are in the food, transportation, energy and health fields. All these can be subsumed within the areas of chemical and mechanical engineering. Again, the focus is on field application rather than development of new fields. We are through with theory; it's time for action! We can turn the sciences away from their current theoretical biases toward application only by ensconcing ourselves within these institutions, providing the next generation of teachers. This is the only way our numbers will grow in proportion to the reticent and reluctant.
The importance of education is even more relevant in this day in which nearly all manufacturing has become robotic- rather than labor-intensive. What are manufactured on the assembly lines are illusions and deceptions stripped even of their former use-value. The new commodity is the old one made larger, smaller, or of a different color and most important, comparatively functionless, thus guaranteeing its high turnover. The assembly lines of note live between lecture halls and the cafeteria.
The ruling class no longer relies on the unskilled worker, even a formerly essential worker such as a toilet scrubber. D.I.Y. is all the latest fashion. Capital's new manifestation is an I.O.U. and today's proletariat is a highly trained data-entry operater with a joystick and a zoloft chaser. Any employee working below this level is entirely disposable and easily replaceable. The superstructure rests on bankers, lawyers and security personel, formerly known as police. The beat cop only maintains an illusion – s/he is a dupe with no jurisdiction inside corporate headquarters. But s/he is still important in the distribution of product on to the more prestigious positions in the department of corrections, staffed by private mercenaries in a holding pattern between Third World revolutions.
A long examination of our history as well as archaeology illustrates that as species go, while we are capable of greatness, we have been basically lazy and despicable in its material and social distribution. Of concern to many when they think about post-revolution scenarios, is what to do about malcontents and miscreants afterward. We already have the infrastructure and manpower available to handle these ongoing problems. Police and correctional institutions will be prime targets for infiltration. There is no reason to believe problems will simply vanish after the revolution. We must remain vigilant to ensure these lotus-eaters do not again gain access to jobs where they can sabotage our own efforts. Still, we are not inhuman. Again, we already have institutions to house and care for these types of people. Our own diligence and compassion will set such an example that the numbers of trouble-makers will not only cease to grow, but possibly even diminish.
This same tactical logic will necessarily apply to the current ruling class. Only by becoming political ourselves within their own game can we supplant the capitalist class from their positions. We must aspire toward political office before the chance for communisation can be said to have arrived. We must not only learn their techniques, but absorb them. We will then be in a position to finally dictate to the corporate executives remaining rather than be dictated by them. Capitalism can become a thing of the past when we become our own bosses, and theirs!
Military strategists have long known that to defeat any enemy, one must endeavor to become them. Only then can one out-play them at their own game and emerge with a truly fair redistributive economy. The distinction between reform and revolution is indeterminant. The very distinction sets one up for failure. One thing, however, is certain. Should we decide to do nothing, nothing will be what we get.
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