the self is an apparatus of the state installed within individual bodies in order to produce obedient subjects

state communists think they can destroy the state by seizing control of the state, which fails because means which are not appropriate to their ends will always fail to reach them, becoming ends in themselves

imagine calling Zohran Mamdani a communist and he doesn't even want to abolish money, trade, and the commodity-form. let alone wage labor and capitalism! nobody knows what communism is anymore