It’s an almost unbearable logical contradiction to say that we exist within the circuits of power, yet we’re trying to get to a future society built on something else. These circuits of power harness and direct a flowing social force. That force isn’t neutral; it has a charge.
The capitalist circuits of power were produced for an end, for a reason. They were produced for domination. When you take these structures and institutions, uncritically accepting logic as a neutral tool, rather than a product of the system, you end up with a system of domination. Circuits can be temporal. Election cycles. School years. Even natural cycles, like seasons and harvests. Of course, all of these circuits connect back to capitalist production cycles and global trade.
This is why it’s hard to describe what’s happening in terms that are useful and meaningful to lots of people. There’s no escape. There’s no outside perspective or external savior or force. So, how can we logically untangle the fact that the future has to come from this? Answering this question requires theory because when the coercive aspects are made clear through analysis, we can see more nuance in things that are usually vague and abstract.
