Recently I was talking to a friend of mine, but I'm not sure if the conversation actually happened or if I am remembering something that never happened, so what follows is either paraphrasing or lying.
We were discussing the class war, and he said he would be a utopian socialist, except that he didn't believe in utopia's. And for the point, neither do I. We continued discussing the inevitable class war, and then debated what form of communist we were. He asked if I was a leninist-marxist or a marxist-leninist, socialist or communist, after which we could not agree on which one was which or if there was any difference. One thing we did decide on, is that we must smash capitalism.
The way I see it, in the future we will abandon capitalism for a just and equitable economic system that does not build its success on the backs of the poor. We will also have wireless communication devices, magic windows that can show us moving images, motorized carriages, you get the picture. For now, as marx had argued, capitalism has yet to run its course.
The way is see it, capitalism is basically the greed motive, and greed only lasts as long one perceives value in material things. No one is gonna want to own a Ford Explorer because they see no value in owning a giant SUV with exploding firestones tyres. Skidding across the freeway and transforming from a mobile daycare into a hurtling iron maiden of glass, steel, and composite. When your SUV is a polished grey comet plummeting to your doom suddenly getting that beautiful nose job is at best redundant.
I think making all status symbols valueless is the way to true economic fairness. No one will be greedy if having status symbols becomes life threatening. I suggest making life a terrifying experience for the idle rich. Make them resent owning anything, scare the shit out of them and then they will dress down to most occasions.
Greed is like an appendix, it is at best harmless and odorless, but it can turn on you baby, then ka-blam! It ruptures, and apparently is full of some sort of toxic explosive puddin. Your skin turns green and you die. Nothing good can come from what we are doing as a culture. For every millionaire there are a thousand dispossessed single moms and crack heads. We let them destroy themselves and ease our conscience with Alanis CD's and movies exalting lifestyle obsession. We send each other humorous emails, trying to shut out any thoughts of whether we are just total frauds who earned none of what we have and deserve less than that. Maybe we should think about those things. Maybe attach a virus to your next humorous email that says "I love you but must smash imperialism".
I spend my days working out the details of a plan to change the world. When I was a kid I thought I could be anything I wanted, cosmonaut, transformer, whatever. I still think I can do it. God knows I can't maintain a relationship with any individual, so instead I plan to improve my relationship with the whole fuckin world. But first I have to become a billy goat. That would be sweet. Like in the cartoons where it eats like newspapers and then the curtains. I'm digressing.
I want to close with a little question, does anyone else hate real audio? That fucking company needs to burn. They produce the shittiest product ever. To make a real video clip you need not one but two streaming metafiles. What the fuck? Burn them, burn them all.
Ps, I love you but I must smash imperialism