The Role of the Lumpen Eunuch

An Addendum to "Transgender Terrorism"

Edgar Degas, Criminal Physiognomies, 1881

This is a shorter sister post to discuss an angle of the transgender lumpen that I hadn’t touched on.

A feature of late-20th, early-21st century economies is the totalizing welfare state. At its onset in the wake of the Depression and the stagflationary period 30 years later, it was heralded by many as the solution to poverty — indeed, in the US, the Great Society programs were part of LBJ’s “War on Poverty.”

Today, those welfare states have consolidated into centralized networks of goods and services which are doled out to favorite factions within the liberal democratic political system, aided by markets and monitoring technologies such as social media to anticipate and manipulate outcomes. However, as much as these programs and the bureaucrats that manage them are tools of doling out political reward, they are also tools of doling out punishment and austerity.

Indeed, rather than being the bulwark against austerity they were sold as back when Labor (and by this I mean rank-and-file organized laborers, not the official unions which are glorified HR departments) had more political power, their existence today actually grants the ruling class unprecedented control over the classes beneath them. Canada’s disturbing euthanasia program is one such example; a cost-cutting measure employed to keep public health expenditures down. However, it is not only this: There is a growing population of people being killed by doctors over minor depressive episodes, some as young as 18. One could chalk this up to ideological fervor, doctors trying to prove they’re doing the right thing by doubling down on a policy which is heavily criticized; one could also chalk it up to a naked and draconian seizure of power by public institutions. Both would be correct.

However, such a program would also be a cost-cutting measure for other public welfare expenditures. A depressed 18 year old is not going to contribute much to society if he or she is convinced their problems are unfixable and that they are already “treatment-resistant.” They’re likely to go on benefits and/or be an unproductive and largely aimless college student. Never mind that this is usually only a temporary malaise that lifts by one’s early 20s; the risk of them becoming a lumpen dependent on state expenditures is too high, while the probability of them becoming a weaponized lumpen — a militant shock troop serving bourgeois interests with petit bourgeois handlers — is relatively low, except in becoming a sacrificial lamb for the euthanasia policy in question.

While a surplus labor population — those in nonemployment, rather than unemployment; two entirely different statistics — is partially desirable to terrorize the proletariat still working, too much of a surplus population developed too quickly is bad news. Generally speaking, an out-of-work proletarian is not a lumpen until he embraces his position as one, becoming dependent on state subsidies and criminal activity to survive. Too many out-of-work proletarians at once, and suddenly there is a risk that they may organize to retain their status and seize further gains. They are not yet weakened by months or years of inactivity, not quite content enough to slough off their skills to sit at home doing nothing. A recognition of where their plight comes from — open economic warfare agains them — may spur them to become militant in pursuing their collective self-interest as they did in the pre-welfare days.

A generous welfare state acts as a safety valve for just such a scenario (as we saw in 2020) while also allowing for even more extraction of value from that segment of the population which actually produces it. As mentioned, it also acts as a means of correcting market inefficiencies by weaponizing those who will not return to the workforce, or by doing away with them, either through slowly starving them of benefits or by openly murdering them with lethal injections and the proliferation of drug markets. It’s no accident that heroin, weed, and fentanyl moved into deindustrialized areas of the US as soon as industry left, it’s just the centrally-planned labor market at work.

However, due to the inherently chaotic nature of the market, one can go from being a member of the petit bourgeoisie to a proletarian to a lumpen and back again over the course of a lifetime. It’s not written in stone, even if the overall trends are clear. The Will of an individual is still a significant force, even if on a grand scale insignificant. People dig themselves into holes every day; they also have a tendency of digging themselves out.

Not so much the case when it comes to transgenderism. The Lumpen Eunuch that is the surgically and hormonally altered transsexual has been made too physically frail to become a proletarian again. They can be anything else, anything at all, but to do the labor required of value production (and therefore of proletarianism) is off-limits. They are made to remain surplus labor forever. They are made to become permanently, physiologically parasitic (as I’ve detailed in Eunuch Caste Theory) which therefore turns them into sycophants to Power.

But much like any other group of people within capitalist economies, they are also entirely expendable and replaceable. The Trans Project as such is incredibly useful to the state, but “trans” people as people are not. Some are, but most (like most of the eunuchs of antiquity) are treated as little more than biological waste. In order not to be unceromoniously terminated by the specific set of market options offered to those in this situation, one must continue to prove their usefulness to Power. Even becoming a detranstioner, an anti-cultist, does not make one useless to Power, as they are likely to remain on state subsidy to survive in their weakened state. However, rather than maintaining their position as a trans ideologue, they may become an anti-cultist pursuing a means of refining or even advancing the ideology beyond its present form.

This is all to say, the creation of eunuchs can truly only create sycophants to power, regardless of whether that power is draped in a pride flag or burning them in the streets. The weakest of the bunch, those with the lowest possible vitality, will continue to feed on the surplus of the productive and will continue to advance policies which extract from them, because they would die without those surplusses. Advancing beyond trans means adopting an ideological framework far more consistent, far more impenetrable than transgenderism’s flimsy premise.

The evolution of liberalism lends itself both to incredulity and credulity alike. There are periods of absolute madness, Kafka-esque insanity; then come periods that are no less chaotic, no less violent or mad yet seem to be less so, seem to be calmer, less neurotic, actual conditions become harder to demystify. It is from these periods that the new ruling ideas evolve from, which everyone then tries to emulate and re-emulate over and over again. From the 50s to the 60s to the 50s again. Utopia lives in the past, despite the fact that the conditions of the past led to the conditions of the present which no one is ever content with.

Regardless of which ideological frame these eunuchs will take, they can only mean trouble for the productive classes. Whether the next evolution in liberalism takes a more or less credulous tone, a more or less bearable atmosphere, remains to be seen. However, you can count on the eunuch to be there at its birth and to usher it into its death, at least until the eunuchs of the bourgeois court — and their defenders — are themselves extinguished politically.