Chaos Marxism Primer - Principia Discordia

Chaos Marxism Primer
Dolores LaPicho
141. As actual capitalist production shifts out of the advanced First
World, and the local economies are bound up increasingly with
administration, media production and servicing the consumption needs
of the elite... virtually all "First World" countries will be controlled by
rentiers, living off the profits of their investments in China, India,
wherever.
142. When media commentators talk about the underclass, they are
not necessarily talking about an objective economic differentiation (since
in many cases the physical-labour workers are better off financially than
those in call centres and the like). They are talking about the gap
between those fluent in the language, verbal and symbolic, of the
oppressor classes, and those who aren't.
143. Virtually any "radical cultural product" in this day and age is
generally spot on about the problem, but falls down on the solutions.
144. 90% of what passes for "social science" under capitalism (and an
increasing percentage of physical science) is on an intellectual par with
astrology or mediaeval Scholasticism, in that it primarily consists of
"Just So" stories about why whatever happens in the World-As-Is is As It
Should Be.
145. "Polyarchy" is simply the system of organisation natural to
capitalism - hundreds of different and competing systems of power, all
dictatorial within their own little fields, but engaging in anarchic and
destructive competition with each other.
146. Democracy, as we would understand it, is certainly dictatorship -
seen from their point of view, since they recognize the authority of only
the government which deflects and makes harmless actual democracy,
and actively attempts to fragment and atomise human consciousness.
147. To survive as a "stand-up guru" full-time you have to enter a
Small Businessman's Reality Tunnel, from which of course Marxist ideas
look like inhuman blasphemy
148. The small businessman is an endangered species tending towards
extinction.
149. There's no profit in space. To have the kind of money that you'd
need to put into Space Migration etc., you'd have to be in the kind of
reality tunnel where such fantasies would seem pointless and laughable.
150. Cult methods of organisation are nothing more than boiled-down
and spiced-up versions of accepted behaviour-control and thoughtreform
methods used commonly against children and "deviants" in late
capitalist society. Nothing that Scientology or the Moonies or the Sparts
do is really dissimilar in kind from what ordinary mums and dads,
schoolteachers, psychiatric nurses and prison guards are encouraged to
do every day - only in degree, and in target.
151. Capitalism head-fixing technology smashes all previous forms of
family and social life, and incorporates and commodifies any new social
movements which do not base themselves on a clearly defined anticapitalist
political praxis.Corporate Memetics have worked out the basic
rules of "predictable human behaviour" and use them daily to keep the
poor shuffling proles working like dogs 8 hours or more a day and
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