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March

from Songbook #7 by Mattin

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March
1917: Czar Nicholas II abdicates and includeds his son.
The provisional government formed.

Punk meant not to get back to any origin
but to explore how rotten life is in this ashtray
Sexual fantasies reproduced in stereo
while a subject tries to understand what it is
and what is not
hitting its increasingly solitary head
against a cupboard full of ressentiment

Conditioning our own understanding
by understanding our conditioning

What is this ashtray?
crumbliness of hope anchored in its own self-obsession
Identity as a code, that cannot be decoded
voting for something that every passing day makes less sense
How to believe in democracy when there is no equality?
According to Bordiga,
Communism did not happen in the Soviet Union
Russia was indeed a transitional society
but transitional towards capitalism

Conditioning our own understanding
by understanding our conditioning

Taking hold of our own mediations
but do not try it alone
Historical specificity without being able
to think itself historically
Like being flattened into an mobile screen
and you feel that your life is on the screen
like after this panic attack
I thought I have died
and I no longer feel real
Revolutionary times get swept away
like ads on iPads
but there is undefeated despair
a fetishism for explicit cruelty
while an empty obscurity creeps
into what we have left

Conditioning our own understanding
by understanding our conditioning

Science will constantly find
different understandings of what we are
How to politicise them in order
to know where we want to go


2017:
“Communism will be the
collective management of alienation”.
Samo Tomšič at Historical Materialism in Beirut,
10th March

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from Songbook #7, released October 22, 2018

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