True Marxism on the Second Amendment
America is in a crazy place right now. Let me take for a moment the topic of Gun Rights. The NRA is in the back pocket of the GOP... because for some reason we stupidly associate "Capitalism" with "Freedom" instead of exploitation and misery. The problem is... We should be trying to get the NRA to turn their aggression AGAINST the bourgeoisie. Instead, Liberals have cornered the market on gun control... conservatives, the party of the bourgeoisie, have turned gun rights into something akin to "You have the right to shoot deer with an Uzi."
Let me be clear.. the Founding Fathers gave us the second amendment to ensure that the people could rise up and overthrow the Government (OR, "all enemies, domestic or foreign" is what the Constitution says... which would include the bourgeoisie when they abuse their power, which they ARE continually)... so this means that gun rights have a lot to do with giving power TO the people. The second amendment protects our right to use Uzi's to revolt, not shoot deer.
The crazy f#$%ed up part of american political discourse is that it has become so homogenized. Everyone knows their respective places (the republicans think this on gun control and lure in reactionary revolutionaries to vote in favor of increasing their exploitation and misery, democrats disagree with everything in a purely reactive way, etc.) Capitalism produces mass subjectivity, when it comes to politics almost nobody really thinks for themselves... yet, if we could just turn the NRA into a Marxist organization, in the sense that Gun Nuts need to learn how to rise up against the Hegemonic Class.. THEN we could finally become free! Armed insurrection... it is our only hope at this point.
Let me be clear.. the Founding Fathers gave us the second amendment to ensure that the people could rise up and overthrow the Government (OR, "all enemies, domestic or foreign" is what the Constitution says... which would include the bourgeoisie when they abuse their power, which they ARE continually)... so this means that gun rights have a lot to do with giving power TO the people. The second amendment protects our right to use Uzi's to revolt, not shoot deer.
The crazy f#$%ed up part of american political discourse is that it has become so homogenized. Everyone knows their respective places (the republicans think this on gun control and lure in reactionary revolutionaries to vote in favor of increasing their exploitation and misery, democrats disagree with everything in a purely reactive way, etc.) Capitalism produces mass subjectivity, when it comes to politics almost nobody really thinks for themselves... yet, if we could just turn the NRA into a Marxist organization, in the sense that Gun Nuts need to learn how to rise up against the Hegemonic Class.. THEN we could finally become free! Armed insurrection... it is our only hope at this point.