Quote of the Day

There's not really a "quote of the day" feature, I'm just dropping this here so I remember it, since it's very pithy and partly expresses something I have been having a hard time formulating:

Generally speaking, the opinions of the proletarians, their political beliefs, their religious identity and their cultural practices are all objectively irrelevant to their revolutionary potential. Such surface phenomena have become increasingly historically irrelevant because: (i) capitalist relations have hollowed them from essential social truths into mere localized mystifications of the commodity form (ii) these eviscerated formations such as Political Islam have no capacity to transform the productive relation.