On the Intellectual Act of Revolution - Jersey Flight

The challenge is to bring the intricacies of movement into articulate existence. The point of verbalizing, of connecting and explaining life in terms of symbols, is to be able to obtain a greater mastery over the direction and movement of life itself. To this end should words be used. But here one must be careful lest they mistake bondage for liberation. The whole point of analysis is to bring about emancipation: to bring the highest possible state of liberation into existence for the largest possible amount of people. If we are therefore, deformed in our social relations, regrading the backwardness of our power structures, then it follows that we will be deformed in our liberation.

One claims that capitalism works in favor of progress... indeed it does, but only in a very limited and confused existential sense. It is not human need that drives the animal under capitalism, but greed for wealth, hence the stifling of progress, as well as the death of art. In order to truly unleash the power of man it is necessary to empower man! The world will never know how much progress has been lost, by the backwardness of a system that pits man against man in the name of progress. Woe unto us for celebrating those who exploit!

It seems, if one will live, that one must make use of words. Not all men use them the same way. Some have gotten better results... but what does it mean to get results? For the idealist it means to deny the tension between reality and words (to view the world through abstraction), for the materialist it means to confront reality at the same time we allow it to teach us about itself. The former seeks out a false, but formal mastery (the mere appearance of progress), while the latter is concerned with the revolutionary, concrete transformation of reality in the name of intelligence!

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