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Creed of the Surgeon-Militant

Diagnose without delusion.

No "false hope," no "historical inevitability." Just material reality, scalpel-sharp.

Cut what must be cut.

Oligarchs, leftist inertia, civilisational nostalgia, all are necrotic tissue.

Suture what can be saved.

Not with ideology, but peer-reviewed survival protocols.

Waste nothing on the doomed.

"Let those who hesitate be outlived."

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A Provisional Glossary For The Hospice Left

Purpose of the Glossary

This lexicon is provisional by design, a living document that mutates under use. It refuses dogma, offering tools, not catechism.

The goal isn’t uniformity, but adaptive resonance; the Hospice Left doesn’t demand agreement, only coexistence in the triage tent. Let our allies debate theory as they fight for the world they want, we’ll ensure there’s still a species left to inhabit it.

Copy it. Adapt it. Print it in the ruins.

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Core Concepts

Cosmic Revolt – Defiance of entropy and extinction through collective survival, science and art; rebellion against an indifferent universe.

Survival Consciousness – A materialist ethic prioritising species continuity over civilisational preservation; the evolution of class struggle into a struggle against scarcity and cosmic indifference.

Hospice Left – A post-ideological movement focused on medicalised resistance: triage, infrastructure-building and palliative care for collapsing systems that rejects revolutionary catharsis in favor of sterile, surgical intervention.

Entropy as Terminal Disease – The thermodynamic dissolution of order; the ultimate material enemy. Not a metaphor, but a metabolic condition to be managed.

Promethean Rebellion – Theft of fire (knowledge, technology, art) from the void; imposition of meaning on a meaningless cosmos.

Negative Solidarity – The refusal to let civilisational collapse take the species with it. Not unity through ideals, but coexistence in the triage tent.

Tactical & Organisational Terms

Surgeon-Militants – Caregivers who excise hierarchies with precision (asset seizures, debt strikes) rather than guillotines.

Party of Godot – Leftists who fetishise "The Revolution™" while refusing to build power incrementally. Perpetually waiting for history to vindicate them.

Leftist Division of Labour – Rejection of the insistence that Leftist ideas should be held to "ideological purity" and that the Left as a whole should organise itself by the principles of its divisions like a military body.

Metabolic Sabotage – The ruling class’s hoarding of time and resources as a thermodynamic crime against species survival.

Asymmetrical Hospice Care – Strategic infiltration of collapsing systems, building parallel systems (land trusts, offline libraries, mutual aid) inside capitalism’s decaying body.

Financial Angioplasty – Debt strikes, cooperative buyouts and other non-violent economic tactics to restore circulation of resources.

Mycelial Resistance – Subterranean growth of alternative systems (cooperatives, mesh networks) beneath the rotting surface of the old order.

Algorithmic Triage – Open-source tools for decentralised resource allocation, replacing markets and central planners with adaptive, peer-reviewed necessity.

Cosmic & Philosophical Terms

Cosmic Immune Response – Humanity as entropy’s rogue antibody; consciousness as the universe’s attempt to delay its own heat death.

Pantheistic Animism – The universe as divine not in a literal sense, but in its creative/destructive material process.

Pragmatic Fiction of Meaning – Rejecting nihilism by imposing purpose through labor, art and defiance, despite cosmic indifference.

Heroic Futility – Acts of resistance matter because the universe is hostile; victory is irrelevant, defiance is the ethic.

Mayfly’s Understanding – The human perspective as tragically limited but defiantly operational.

Thermodynamic Morality – Good = that which sustains life and delays entropy. Evil = that which accelerates decay. No appeals to "natural law."

Gravity Well Allergy – Earth’s scarcity as an engineered condition. Spacefaring is not escapism, it’s class struggle at civilisational scale.

Aesthetic & Cultural Terms

Aesthetics of Defiance – Art as prophylactic against despair; beauty as a strategic asset in survival.

Ugly Survivalism – Glorification of janitors, electricians, sewage workers and other such necessary personnel, those who hold back entropy with grease-stained hands while the soldiers do the fighting.

Monuments to Defiance – Not statues of conquerors, but schematics for generators, vaccine recipes, repair manuals and similar.

Bedside Manner – The fusion of compassion and clinical rigor; politics as triage, not theology.

Folk Sabotage – Remixing traditional art forms (folk songs, quilts) into tools of revolt. A lullaby as a molotov.

Avant-Garde Maintenance – The poetic dignity of repair work. A well-tuned engine as a hymn against decay.

Pathologies & Diagnoses

Godot’s Delusion – The belief that "The Revolution" is a singular event to be waited for, rather than a perpetual triage.

Revolutionary Purity Syndrome – The insistence that all leftists must be identical infantrymen, rejecting medics and engineers as "counter-revolutionary."

Entropy Denial – The neoliberal/accelerationist fantasy that the inevitable collapse of civilisations can be outrun or monetised rather than managed.

Nostalgic Necrophilia – The reactionary obsession with exhuming dead orders (feudalism, fascism) as erotic spectacle.

Thermodynamic Illiteracy – The failure to grasp hoarding as violence against the species.

Vanguardist Apoptosis – The tendency of radical movements to self-destruct by mistaking the revolutionary for the messiah.

Temporal & Spacial Scales

Deep Time Struggle – Planning in century-scale increments, rejecting electoral cycles and quarterly capitalism.

Civilisational Chauvinism – Mistaking any human social order (even socialism) as eternal rather than a temporary scaffold.

Thermodynamic Sabotage – Hoarding wealth = accelerating entropy. Redistribution = delaying heat death.

Lagrange Hospice – Orbital waystations as convalescent zones for a planet in terminal decline.

Mnemonics & Protocols

CLEAN Cuts – Collective, Local, Empirical, Adaptive, Necessary interventions.

Sutures that HOLD – Honest, Open, Logistical, Decentralised repair of social fabric.

The CARE of Bedside Manner, necessary with fellow Leftists – Clinical, not cruel; Action-focused, not argumentative; Results over rhetoric; Exit if they’re wasting your time

STOP Signs of Reactionary Infection – Sentimentality over survival; Tribalism over triage; Obstructionism over adaptation; Purity over participation

"We are the universe’s only chance to grieve its own death." – The Hospice Left’s foundational paradox.

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Stop debating theory and start building survivable infrastructure.

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The Military Metaphor of Leftist Ideology, Revised

Division of Labor

Frontline Combatants (Revolutionary factions seizing power, smashing states)

Logistics & Engineers (Mutual aid networks, off-grid infrastructure, cooperative economies)

Medical Corps (The Hospice Left, damage control, trauma care, knowledge preservation)

Scouts & Saboteurs (Hackers, legal subversion, underground education)

No more debating capitalism while Rome burns. "Left Unity" is irrelevant when civilisation is already a field hospital.

No single role is "more correct". Anarchists, Marxists and reformists don’t need to agree, they just need to fill different roles in the same war.

All are necessary.

The real "End of History" is not Fukuyama’s liberal utopia, but the acceptance that struggle is eternal, so we might as well get good at it.

This isn’t about winning, it’s about lasting. And that requires letting go of the fantasy of a final victory.

Resilience the only true resistance.

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understaffed, overworked and surrounded by idiots

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We are the universe’s janitors. We will mop up capitalism’s vomit, repurpose its wreckage into lifeboats and fling them into the dark like dandelion seeds. No flags. No deeds. Just the quiet hum of replicators and the shared oath: ‘We will not die in the crib.’

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let the Left’s black bloc riot; we’ll be the ones in blood-streaked scrubs, stitching comrades back together with catgut sutures

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Noblesse Oblige?

more like Noblesse Obliterate

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the plague doctor doesn’t cure the Black Death, they bear witness

we're not here to convince you

we're here to make sure someone remembers what killed you

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We are the children of dead stars. We refuse to die kneeling in the mud of a bankrupt planet. We will peel open the sky like a ration can, build our homes from the ribs of comets, and teach our machines to sing the old songs. Let Earth’s oligarchs rot in their gravity prisons. We measure wealth in sunlight harvested, justice in trajectories plotted and freedom in the weightless drift between galaxies. The universe is our commons. No masters. No mortgages. Only momentum.

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a mature civilisation would treat GDP like bloodletting, a barbaric relic

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the power of oligarchs relies on pinning you to dirt

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We do not promise victory. We promise only this: When they burn the barricades, we will salvage the nails. When they shout of purity, we will triage by need. When the last star gutters, we will tally a child’s IV drip by its dying light. We are the universe’s field medics. Our morality is measured in breaths stolen back from the night.

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a movement needs medics, engineers and logisticians more than it needs more cannon fodder

don't kill the revolutionary in your head, hand them a training manual

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The Hospice Left as Parallel Praxis

Marxists dig trenches.

Anarchists storm barricades.

Syndicalists hold the supply lines.

The Hospice Left runs the MASH unit.

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The Five Theses of the Hospice Left

Civilisations collapse; species endure. Build the next culture now.

Scalpels, not guillotines. Excise oligarchs via asset seizures, not spectacle.

Time is the ultimate commodity. Hoarded by the rich, stolen via public healthcare.

Art is triage. Beauty is a tourniquet against nihilism.

Survival is the only morality. Not utopia, prolonged defiance.

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The Left is a tragedy.

The Centre is a farce.

The Right are corpse-fuckers.