Chaos Marxism Primer - Principia Discordia

Chaos Marxism Primer
Dolores LaPicho
72. The revolutionary class is the only class with an interest in
actually understanding how reality works. If our rulers allowed
themselves to see outside their specially constructed reality tunnels,
they'd probably go mad and/or kill themselves. Conversely, we need to
see how things really work if we are to change the rules of the game.
73. Much of reality is created collectively and can only be changed
collectively.
74. For those who want a new and better game to play, we need all the
reality we can get.
75. I still like Marx's original vision that socialism would mean a
higher material quality of life for the vast majority.
76. If you hold an idealist view of reality, you are ipso facto not
entirely sane. Unless, of course, your ability to cause change in reality
oustrips that of we materialists. Then we're the crazy ones. Go on. I dares
ya.
CHAOS MARXISM IS COLLECTIVIST
77. Individual consciousness is not individual. Given the existence of
a single globalised capitalist economy, Individualism - the belief that you
can survive comfortably on your own, abstracted from any social network
- is a lie, a Tar-Baby, something sold to you by the capitalist egregore to
buy your allegiance.
78. The individual is something which is a result of the world we live
in, not a cause. Slightly more than an illusion, but not really
fundamentally "emic"-real.
79. Individual consciousness can be "in control" over small areas of
matter, but can only affect social consciousness in proportion to common
understanding and action with other social consciousnesses. Only
widespread agreement within the social consciousness can be "at cause"
over large areas and systems of matter.
80. Wage-workers are the revolutionary class precisely because their
mutual interests lie in co-operation rather than competition.
81. The process of decision-making is less vital than ensuring the
total freedom of each individual consciousness to have opinions different
from the group ideas, and to have real opportunities to change the
group's ideas.
82. Requiring unity in action is not cultish - requiring unity in
thought is.
83. A true collective consciousness (aka "culture") can only arise
where every member of the culture gets to transmit as well as receive. A
cult is closed - a culture is open. A cult is simply the prejudices and
personality problems of a leadership group written large - a culture might
be less of a "strike force", but it will be more flexible, more healthy, and
more likely to perpetuate itself.
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