2006-10-30

Manifesto v. 0.9 vel Liber MCMXVII

(edited 2010/04/09)

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.

8 comments:

  1. interesting. I've definitely got time for any magi who want to actually do something.

    I suppose marxism is as good a stepping stone as any.

    keep up the good work.

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  2. ah again the link between magic and marxism, an excellent communion in our opinion...razorsmile derives its own ethos from a combination of trotsky, deleuze, debord and osman spare, with a little grant, de landa, bey and luxembourg for additional inspiration. we welcome the manifesto and offer greetings ...

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  3. The Viet Cong fought the US off their own particular patch, like Hezbollah did to Israel. But that didn't kill the beast - only wounded it. I'm talking about ways to kill the beast. I'm not talking about a Bey-style TAZ, but the possibility of a whole new global order.

    You're right about the need for a wide range of tactics, of course.

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  4. as much as I love him, haha, what a gas, man!!!

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  5. very cool rhetoric - as rhetoric (as ideology) can be praxis too. The violence of the symbolic is no doubt just a revolutionary as gun.

    I wonder, still, what role Magik can play - at the same time as allowing that I understand little about what it is...

    m-

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  6. Fancy seeing some icepick magick from me and my pal Stalin?

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