Theses on Textwalling (What’s Our Deal)

I

The chief defect of all presently existing Marxism – that of the ICP included – is that the thing, reality, articulation, is conceived only in the form of the Textwall, but not as Textwalls that make sense to people, not subjectively. Hence, in contradistinction to organisation, the active side was developed abstractly by Textwalls – which, of course, does not know real, articulate activity as such.

The Communist Left wants conceptual Textwalls, really distinct from the objectified concept, but it does not conceive Textwalling itself as objective activity. Hence, in their Textwalls, they regard the Textwalling attitude as the only genuinely human attitude, while practice is conceived and fixed only in its dirty-judaical manifestation. Hence it does not grasp the significance of “polemic”, of “simplifying”, activity.

II

The question whether objective truth can be attributed to Textwalling is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Marxists must prove the truth — i.e. the reality and power, the this-sidedness of their thinking in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of Textwalling that is isolated from practice is a purely theoretical question.

III

The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are developed by Marxists and that it is essential to Textwall at the Textwaller themself. This doctrine must, therefore, divide Marxism into two parts, one of which is superior to Marxism.

The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing can be conceived and rationally Textwalled only as revolutionary practice.

IV

The Communist Left starts out from the fact of Marxist doctrinalism, of the duplication of the doctrine into a falsified doctrine and an authentic one. Its work consists in resolving the falsified doctrine into its authentic basis.

But that the authentic basis detaches itself from itself and establishes itself as an independent realm in the clouds can only be explained by the cleavages and self-contradictions within this authentic basis. The latter must, therefore, in itself be both understood in its contradiction and revolutionized in practice. Thus, for instance, after the authentic invariant is discovered to be the secret of the falsified doctrine, the former must then itself be developed in theory and in practice.

V

Self-described ‘Marxists’, not satisfied with abstract Textwalling, want organisation; but they do not conceive Textwalling as practical, human-organised activity.

VI

These Marxists resolve the falsified doctrine into the authentic doctrine. But the authentic doctrine is no abstraction inherent in each single Marxist.

In its reality it is the ensemble of the social Textwalls.

These Marxists, who do not enter upon a criticism of this real Textwall, is consequently compelled:

1. To abstract from the historical Textwall and to fix the falsifying sentiment as something by itself and to presuppose an abstract – isolated – Marxist individual.
2. Doctrinal understanding, therefore, can be comprehended only as “the wordcel”, as an internal, dumb generality which naturally unites the many Marxists.

VII

These Marxists, consequently, do not see that the “falsified doctrine” is itself a product of the doctrine, and that the abstract Marxist who they analyze belongs to a particular form of it (its falsification).

VIII

All Textwalling is essentially practical. All ideology which leads Textwalling to Idealism finds its rational negation in Marxist practice and in the comprehension of this practice.

VIX

The highest point reached by the present aspiration to a self-sealing Textwall, that is, Marxism which does not comprehend Textwalling as practical activity, is contemplation of single Marxists and of positive Marxism in general.

X

The standpoint of the old Marxism is authentic doctrinalism; the standpoint of the new is Marxist society, or social Marxism.

XI

The Textwallers have only developed the doctrine, in various Marxists.org portals; the point is to explain it.

ADDENDUM: Jokes aside, the point is to just argue for Real left-communism, but in a convincing rather than analytical fashion. Polemics, etc.