As promised on eYou (try it) a couple of days ago, here is a short philosophical position for the modern Marxist-Lennonist

The Manifesto of Imagination

A Marxist-Lennonist believes that the struggle for human liberation is fought on two fronts: the material and the mental. While Marx focused on the “means of production,” the Lennonist adds the “means of perception.” We cannot seize the factory until we have first seized our own minds from the conditioning of religion, nationality, and greed.

The Abolition of Barriers

The core of this position is the removal of anything that separates one human from another. Marx argued for the abolition of private property to end exploitation, while John Lennon famously sang, “Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can.” In this synthesis, property is not just a legal status but a psychological wall that prevents us from “sharing all the world.”

The Working Class Hero

In this framework, the “Proletariat” and the “Working Class Hero” are one and the same. The struggle is not just against the bourgeoisie, but against the “insult” of being made to feel small. As Lennon noted in his 1970 track society processes individuals like raw materials. A Marxist-Lennonist seeks to halt this processing, turning the worker from a “cog” into a conscious creator.

Practical Materialism via “Living for Today“.

Marxism is famously a materialist philosophy rejecting supernatural explanations in favor of physical reality. Lennon’s “Imagine there’s no heaven” is the ultimate secular-materialist anthem. The position holds that by removing the “pie in the sky” (the religious or ideological carrot), we are forced to deal with the reality of hunger and injustice right here on Earth.

Power to the People

The final synthesis is a call to action that is both political and personal. It suggests that a world “without borders” is not just a dream, but the logical end-point of human history once the structures of class and nation-state are dismantled.

And that’s where it all begins to unravel.

What if the ruling class – on behalf of whom the government wields state power and which had a monopoly of legitimised violence – objects? And objects with bullets.

See my previous post regarding the impossibility of revolution…and argue with me.