Chaos Marxism Primer - Principia Discordia

Chaos Marxism Primer
Dolores LaPicho
49. Everyone has their own part to play, no matter who or where they
are.
50. No-one will ever be sane and healthy until we are all sane and
healthy.
51. If the subconscious, unseen and cultural levels of the world are
the ocean, then magick is all about being able to dive, swim, and get
back on dry land safely. Eventually, we should be able to become psychic
and cultural surf-lifesavers – a role that will be integral to a new society.
THE NECESSITY OF ACTION
52. Technology will not solve your problems for you.
53. The Apocalypse will not solve your problems for you. Global
civilization will not collapse in a friendly manner so as to leave you and
your buddies unscathed.
54. Since you are what you do, you will have to DO to BE. There is no
substitute for doing.
55. There is no place to run, and no place to hide. So you will have to
fight.
56. Socialism doesn’t fall from the sky. Nothing does, except rain,
snow, meteorites, and airplane toilet droppings.
57. Any course of action which can be summed up in the words “Wait
and see” is the wrong one.
58. As far as religion or magick goes, ANYTHING works if you do it
enough. It might not work as advertised, though.
59. Success breeds daring and failure breeds passivity.
60. The proper stance for a revolutionary is: pessimism of the intellect,
optimism of the will. To know which is the winning side, and still join the
other.
61. To use Situationist jargon, détournement which remains on the
symbolic can always be recuperated. The only thing which really can
dissolve all magic spells whatsoever is the self-activity of the masses.
62. A Marxist might call a picket line or a militant demonstration "an
altered state of consciousness", since it takes place in an area not
acknowledged to exist by the dominant paradigm of reality.
63. This side of the revolution, the revolutionaries are a minority.
64. Success comes to the strong. The struggle is hard and the
struggle’s long.
THE PAINKILLER OF THE MASSES
65. Religion, like any other painkiller or hallucinogenic, can be used
for good or evil purposes. It can encourage you to lie around and stare at
the ceiling, or kill your family, or it might take the edge off enough to
allow you to accomplish something in the real world.
66. The way cults operate is just a boiled down and spiced-up version
of the way in which all authoritarian society operates.
67. Some of the nastiest religions preach atheism and rationalism.
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