I feel like I understand communist theory pretty well at a basic level, and I believe in it, but I just don’t see what part of it requires belief in an objective world of matter. I don’t believe in matter and I’m still a communist. And it seems that in the 21st century most people believe in materialism but not communism. What part of “people should have access to the stuff they need to live” requires believing that such stuff is real? After all, there are nonmaterial industries and they still need communism. Workers in the music industry are producing something that nearly everyone can agree only exists in our heads. And they’re still exploited by capital, despite musical instruments being relatively cheap these days, because capital owns the system of distribution networks and access to consumers that is the means of profitability for music. Spotify isn’t material, it’s a computer program. It’s information. It’s a thoughtform. Yet it’s still a means of production that ought to be seized for the liberation of the musician worker. What does materialism have to do with any of this?
If by chaos magic, you mean changing your mind about conceptions of things, that’s true to an extent, but there’s definitely different “levels” of perceptions that are more or less difficult to change
We can often change abstract ideas all we want in our head. It’s still difficult and often still takes “external” prompting for your brain to even consider the possibility of doing so, but it’s possible.
But when it comes to things, like a positive or negative reaction to something (pain or pleasure), that is extremely difficult to change by just thinking hard enough. You have to often be repeatedly exposed to seemingly external positive or negative stimuli to change responses like that.
Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to balance it, and I shall move the world.” Chaos magicians take a similar view when it comes to moving the mind. Tools of magic are levers, and your learned ability to control your own beliefs is the fulcrum. Any mental change is possible if these two tools are advanced enough.
I seek to use chaos magic to effect societal change that will further the goals of the revolution.