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A Chaos Marxism Primer http://chaosmarxism.blogspot.com Chaos Marxism Primer Dolores LaPicho Manifesto v. 0.9 vel Liber MCMXVII................................................................ 3 The One Key and Nine Commitments of Chaos Marxism ................................. 4 Chaos Marxist Aphorisms.............................................................................. 6 CHAOS MARXIST APHORISMS................................................................... 6 BASIC CONCEPTS .................................................................................. 6 THE GOALS OF CHAOS MARXISM.......................................................... 7 THE ENEMY IS LIFESTYLISM ................................................................. 7 CHAOS MARXISM IS MATERIALIST ........................................................ 8 CHAOS MARXISM IS COLLECTIVIST....................................................... 8 THE NECESSITY OF ACTION .................................................................. 9 THE PAINKILLER OF THE MASSES......................................................... 9 CULTURAL REVOLUTION – A DO IT YOURSELF GUIDE .........................10 HACK YOUR OWN PERSONALITY...........................................................11 THE WORLD AS IS ................................................................................11 DON'T CONFUSE THE LEVELS ..............................................................12 THE FUTURE ........................................................................................12 Chaos Marxist Aphorisms - Volume II ...........................................................14 BASIC CONCEPTS .................................................................................14 THE GOALS OF CHAOS MARXISM.........................................................15 THE ENEMY IS THE MARKET (or: the occultism of small businessmen)...16 THE ENEMY IS LIFESTYLISM ................................................................17 CHAOS MARXISM IS MATERIALIST .......................................................19 CHAOS MARXISM IS COLLECTIVIST......................................................21 THE NECESSITY OF ACTION .................................................................22 THE PAINKILLER OF THE MASSES........................................................23 CULTURAL REVOLUTION – A DO IT YOURSELF GUIDE .........................24 HACK YOUR OWN PERSONALITY...........................................................25 THE WORLD AS IS ................................................................................26 DON'T CONFUSE THE LEVELS ..............................................................28 THE FUTURE ........................................................................................29 Marxism 101 for Occultists, part 1................................................................30 Marxism 101 for Occultists, part 2 .........................................................32 Magic 101 for Marxists...........................................................................34 Narrative......................................................................................................37 Arirang 38 γν ῶθι σεαυτόν ...............................................................................................39 The important point......................................................................................40 Negativity is a buzz.......................................................................................41 You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. ...................................................43 And who are you? Are you all slaves? ............................................................44 2 Chaos Marxism Primer Dolores LaPicho Manifesto v. 0.9 vel Liber MCMXVII Chaos Marxism is an anticapitalist memetic-combat current. We see dialectical materialism (and its physical manifestation, revolutionary socialism / classical Marxism) as close akin to other projects and techniques of consciousness change such as public relations, psychology, and "magic(k)(!)" or however it's being spelled this week. Global corporate rule is a reality on the material and on all ideological planes. You can only defeat an enemy by becoming symmetrical-but-opposite to it. The symmetrical opponent to global corporates will be a global organisation of the industrial and service-industry workers, whose psychic energy and surplus value is the nourishment of the corporate entities which determine our current consensus reality. Capitalism is a vampire and we are the Slayers. We seek the coming to full consciousness of the majority of the world's population. This will take the form of the transformation of the worldwide proletariat into a "class for itself" - or to put it another way, the manifestation of a collective world thoughtform which can kick the corporate egregore where it really hurts. This might well happen by organising a collective of what Paul Slazinger calls Mind Opening Specialists. A cadre party of the Leninist type, properly understood, is a magical order. We must remember Lenin's magical motto - "patiently explain". We are the bastard children of Aleister Crowley and Rosa Luxemburg. Trotsky built our hotrod and Robert Anton Wilson souped it up. We declare eternal war on all cliques and shibboleths. We are prepared to chase this thing through all the words in the world. What we do is the only important thing. Magick is serious business . Therefore, we are prohibited from ever taking ourselves too seriously. We are not interested in wasting time explaining to vulgar materialists why magic is neither a fraud nor useless, any more than we are interested in explaining to mealy-mouthed liberals why dialectical materialism is not responsible for the horrors and crimes of Stalin, Pol Pot etc. We see no reason why fascist filth should enjoy such apparent street-cred among metaprogrammers, when the project of October 1917 had the potential to be fundamentally world-changing than anything that the goosestepping jackasses of the 1930's could have imagined. Anyone who endorses these ideas and is actually prepared to do something about them is one of us and is invited to become one of the writers of this blog. This manifesto is subject to radical change without notice. 3 Chaos Marxism Primer Dolores LaPicho The One Key and Nine Commitments of Chaos Marxism We can sum up in one word the core of the Chaos Marxist approach. Mindfulness . Or, if you prefer, consciousness , or even Gramsci's good sense . Or Gurdjieff's "Remember yourself". The Sufi tradition, Buddhism and modern cognitive-behavioural therapy agree - being able to step back from compulsive thoughts and the compulsive feelings they evoke, to recognize them as not real, is the essence of psychic health and enlightenment. And Marxist theories of ideology insist that the way our rulers impose their control over us is by reification - mistaking illusion for reality, social relations for concrete things, narratives or memes for actual laws of existence. You can't live without an ego any more than you can live without money, but you must remember that it's not real, it's a convention, it only exists if you and others believe in it, and that it's a great servant but a hideous master. On the micro-level, Chaos Marxism stands for the ruthless "obedience training" of the ego. Imagine that your ego is a badly trained dog - it barks when not necessary, it requires far more attention than it really needs, it humps your leg or otherwise annoys you when you're trying to do something. But you don't need to take it out and shoot it, you just need to teach it that its perceptions are not reality and it should submit to rationality and discipline. You'll all be happier that way. Indeed, your ego is the way it is because it evolved to help you survive in capitalism as it is; and one of the main ways that capitalism makes money in this day and age (and fosters obedience) is by selling pre-fab ego-identities to people. The ego cannot change "what is" because it has adapted to work with "what is". The "Greater Work" of Chaos Marxism, therefore, consists of the following commitments: 1. to learn how your ego works, and how it fits in with the broader culture, the media-industrial complex, the "identity industry" and mechanisms of social control; 2. to discover what your own physical, mental and spiritual needs and joys are, independent of the ego's needs, and to learn to provide for those needs; 3. to commit yourself to the service of Something Greater than your ego - humanity, the biosphere, God however defined, etc. 4. to bring the ego to the service of this Something Greater by discipline and rationality, rejecting all irrational beliefs, compulsions and pre- packaged identities as a snare and a delusion for the ego; 5. to "tune up" the ego so that the needs of Something Greater and your own personal needs can both be served. (If they appear to conflict, then you have misconceived one or both of them.) 4 Chaos Marxism Primer Dolores LaPicho On the macro-level, Chaos Marxism acknowledges that capitalism pollutes the cultural/information space, and therefore the psyche of all those subject to it, just as badly as it poisons the ecosphere and thus our physical health. Therefore, we encourage any and all social or political activity which increases consciousness of objective reality and dispels illusions . We suggest that would- be social activists combine their activism with the work of disciplining their