Howls in Favour of Bordiga

Invited to address a conference of Greens and Socialists he could not think of anything to say. His mind revolved around the words of almost forgotten Italian Left Communist Amadeo Bordiga:

"To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses."

Ecological desecration by capital was nothing but a side product of the endless cycle of the destruction of dead labour in order to extract value from the labouring bodies of the living. What environmentalists termed nature was almost nothing but dead labour reified into new shapes by the self valourisation of capital.

Mountains destroyed to extract minerals, genetically modified crops, climate change, wilderness as tourism... all of this was produced through the wage relation and part of a process of continual production and destruction of dead labour rather than the rape of nature. Most Greens did not grasp this. They remain locked in the arsehole trap of reformist single issue politics, a hard working feel good activism that wants to enlighten the plebs as to the error of consumerist life styles.

In order to enlighten the conference he decided to perform a piece entitled 'Howls in Favour of Bordiga.' Discourse simply became trapped in the entrails of chatter and activism- something more performative was required. Something like howling, screaming, yelping. After reading aloud Bordiga's succinct one line summary of dead labour he would howl for 10 to 15 minutes and then say quietly 'Howls in Favour of Bordiga' before silently leaving the stage...