Chaos Marxism Primer - Principia Discordia

Chaos Marxism Primer
Dolores LaPicho
32. For small businessmen, collective action is ridiculous and
counterproductive. Which is why the occultism of small businessmen
lends itself to individualism, solipsism, fragmentation and powerless,
with all the significance in the Real World of Horrible Jobs as a good
hand-job. That's the "freedom" of the small businessman - freedom to be
an isolated individual, playing your own preferred game in the little
enclosure that you can buy with all that glorious money.
Congratulations, you managed to paint the walls of your prison cell in
psychedelic colours.
33. The reality-tunnels of middle-class Westerners who can afford to
patronise occult bookstores are not the measure of success, but the
thousands of millions of people living in poverty and oppression on this
planet, and the ecological sustainability of human civilisation itself.
34. The middle-class radical mind can't conceive of a mass collective
consciousness as anything other than threatening brain death. They say
idiotic things like "without private property there is no private life" and
never stop to realise that this is a simple tautology, while paradoxically
at the same time start rambling on about the wonders of ego loss!
35. It's funny that the middle-class radical's utopia is generally
anarcho-capitalism, because that's possibly the only political system
which is in itself an oxymoron.
36. While some push polyarchy cynically as a stick to beat democratic
reformists with in places like Venezuela, others (typically members of the
ideological priesthood) seem to really believe in it, and think that
fragmentation and dispersal, can destroy the centralised capitalist-state
system of this world, rather than it being just what that system wants its
enemies to do. That's right, workers and ordinary people worldwide will
simply walk out of the corporate machine and join your organic yoghurtknitting
commune en masse. Right.
37. By demanding a choice between 'thought' and 'action,' the various
groups and individuals infected with swamp fever are promoting a false
dichotomy. Clearly, the material unfolding of the class struggle leads the
proletariat to self-consciousness, and therefore to a unity of theory and
practice, something swamp inhabitants rail against precisely because
they don't operate from a proletarian perspective.
THE ENEMY IS LIFESTYLISM
38. Kill sectarianism with fire.
39. Identity politics = voluntary ghettoisation = the cultural logic of
consumerism in late capitalism.
40. A lifestyle is a commodity sold to you to keep you quiet.
41. Most modern Western occultists seem to have given up the search
for "what is real" and confined themselves to looking for a new and more
fun religion. Well, to hell with that.
42. Those who buy such an identity will not only buy the appropriate
clothes, books, memorabilia etc to make sure no-one forgets their Special
Unique identity for a moment. They will also hide in their little
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