Theses on the New Chaos Marxism

1. We hereby disavow the "Old Chaos Marxism"'s interest in "meme magic" for the following reasons:
   1. The fascists got there first and did it better (or at least did it as successfully as possible).
   2. We should have predicted they should do that, because as Walter Benjamin identified in the 1930s, fascism is precisely turning politics into aesthetics.
   3. Meme politics are stupid politics. We announce Gresham's Law of Memetics: boomer memes drive out dank memes. Memes which appeal to the dumbest, grossest part of the lizard brain spread further and faster (as is being proved in practice by mainstream conservative media operators as we speak).
   4. Communist politics are supposed to be about coming to consciousness. But with great consciousness comes great responsibility. Fascism is a fantasy of childish irresponsibility in which Great Leader allows you to do whatever you want in return for loyalty, and that is precisely its appeal.
   5. It's no coincidence that when actual "communists" try meme politics, you arrive at tankie politics - politics which are identical to "channer fascism" in their nihilism, delight in violence, aggressive anti-intellectualism and bootlicking to the biggest bully on the block, only with swastikas being replaced by hammer-and-sickles, with racial nationalism replaced by a sick, Red-Brown "proletarian nationalism" (which is in fact lumpen-populism and majoritarianism, as shown in the cringing support for Han Chinese racial nationalism draped in a red flag in Xinjiang, Hong Kong etc).
      
2.  New Chaos Marxism pivots to building consciousness, and therefore immunity to memes. Memes work by subverting the rational mind ("slow" mind) in favor of the "heuristic" mind, the "monkey" mind, the mind that works on like/dislike; Chaos Marxist aims to marry the two.
3. But how?
   
   1.  It can't be done on an individual basis because there is no way for an isolated individual to know whether she is a noble defender of The Truth who sees things that the slack-jawed yokels can't understand; or just a crank (the two look identical from the inside).
   2. But it's difficult as hell to do it in a group because most groups are brought down by their own internal bullshit: ego-centricity and meme-based thinking feed off and are fed by clique politics and abusive/authoritarian leadership.
4. "Truth" (in the sense of learning to create change in objective reality in conformity with intention) can only be identified in a praxis group (a group melding theory and practice). The long-term goal of Chaos Marxism is to turn humanity as a whole into a praxis group, healing the split between theory and practice.
5. 1.  All groups are problematic but some groups are more problematic than others.
   2. For a long time we resisted the idea of "prefiguration", the idea that groups that want to change the world have to embody their own principles. It seemed far too close to the hippie bullshit of change the world to change yourself: i.e. a recipe for doing nothing but jerking yourself off to your own saintliness for not actually doing anything. But we hate to say it, a group that doesn't embody reflexivity (being able to smell its own bullshit) and making its own desires and ego subservient to the search for Truth will not only degenerate into a circle-jerk, a cult or a money-making enterprise, but will actually degrade the consciousness of its own members.
   3. A group aspiring to be a real praxis group will be able to smell its own bullshit, and must expect a commitment from its members that they themselves will at least make every effort to smell their own bullshit.