18 March 2009: "Hey yall I came up with a plan 2 save the economy called ‘bracketologie’"

This post is about the dictatorship of the proletariat. Carles laments the compromises that must be made to channel populism into progressive movements. "h8 the modern world. h8 how leaders+celebrities have to be ‘human’ and ‘accessible’ these days." This cynicism, he intuits, is the very opposite program of that pursued by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. The historical mission of Lenin and his comrades had little energy to spare for humanistic sentiment or democratic window-dressing. Their destiny was to become larger-than-life heroes in the eyes of the proletarians they purported to represent, not salt-of-the-earth Everymen. If this required massive efforts of propaganda, then the Party was there to commandeer the entertainment and media infrastructure to perform this necessary task.

Today, of course, the propaganda functions in the reverse direction, to mask the dictatorial aspects of power in a putative democracy. Far from a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat, we have a dictatorship for the financial fat-cats and the various running dogs of decaying capitalism.

I think that his act is as reprehensible and disgusting as the ppl at that one bank giving themselves bonuses after they got bailed out.
-Carles with a hardhitting opinion

Encoded in this tactical position is Carles's deeper strategy: defy the celebritization and trivialization of democratic politics to make way for truly popular political movements capable of surmounting the power structure's efforts to render those movements into impotent niche markets. Rather than be bracketed off to the side of the given cultural discourse of any contemporary moment, Carles's bracketology would assure that the revolution will be televised.