The Capitalist Manifesto posted by Richard Seymour

Creative destruction. Before the kaleidoscope pieces fall back into place, we will remake this world. Regime change. A new constitutional order. Bring down the barriers to free trade. Dismantle old fashioned protections for pampered workers. Take out failed states. What Marshall Berman calls Marx's 'melting vision' will be our new creed. All that is solid shall melt into air.

John Berger notes the total inability of the ruling class to offer even a semblance of a constructive project: only destruction. Karl Polanyi notes that without the intervention of Tudor and Stuart states, the conversion to a market society, the enclosures, the transformation of humanity and land into capital, would have been a disaster sufficient to wipe out most of Europe's human beings. The intervention of states to some extent limits the destructive capacity of capital, but it is the demands placed upon states by organised labour that are contended. Sure, regulate us: make sure no one's stealing from us; make sure some corrupt guy can't put us all out of business; protect our property rights; protect our trademarks and copyrights; support the infrastructure and educate the workforce; make sure they don't die on the job. But all this stuff about welfare and I'm-alright-Jack labour rights is going to have to go.

The new dispensations are as follows:

We will destroy the curtailments to capital's freedom of movement. We will remove safety, minimum wage and environmental regulations as unfair burdens on business. We will stop allowing you to determine policy at any remove. We will take the infrastructure that you've built and enclose it. We will be competitive.

Just as we once constructed boundaries in the Middle East, we will undo them as we see fit. Iraq will cease to exist. We will turn Iraq into three small protectorates, and they will compete to negotiate oil contracts with us. We will help divide Yugoslavia and turn two former components into UN dictatorships. Haiti will not have a government of its choosing. Iran will not be allowed to sass us: we will divide it too, into vassals and dependencies.

Disaster is good for business. We will allow New Orleans to be flooded, bulldoze the houses and rebuild it as a Disneyland for the rich, as we see fit. Our property rights are paramount, but yours are meaningless. Iraq's infrastructure will be destroyed. Oil prices will rise and we will get very very rich on futures. Another 9/11? Up goes the price of gold. Earthquake? Another contract for Halliburton. Environmental destruction? Someone's going to make a lot of money fixing that up, once we've finished making money destroying it. Nuclear megadeath? Money in that too, on both sides.

The apocalypse will unleash new earning potentials, new market niches, new avenues of profitability. You'll pay for it, either with taxes or otherwise, and what's more you'll enjoy it. Forget the stale certainties of a bygone era. Luxuriate in the libidinal intensities of the market place. Prepare for war. Revel in annihilation.

This is not just the current Vulgate of liberal communists. This is the voice of capital, live and uncut.