This is a very weird question, so no worries if y’all don’t have great answers because I have exactly zero answers myself.

I’ve been thinking recently about how I am a dedicated ML, and do subscribe to materialism. But I also have a spiritual tinge to me, one that was pretty fired up by psychedelic use and the listening to some Buddhist audios along with Duncan Trussell and Alan Watts.

I guess I’m just wondering if there’s any serious contradictions by subscribing to MLMZT while also getting a little deeper into the metaphysical aspect of philosophy? I have always found the Buddhist outlook and the lenses that I look at life through propelled by psychedelic use very useful, interesting, motivating, and just fun.

Like, I can recognize when there’s people just saying extremely vague things and selling a “get enlightened NOW” course for $999.99, so don’t get the idea that I’m like falling into some culty shit. I just enjoy the hope-core, insightful/philosophical takes that don’t seem to fall directly in line with Marxism.

The Egg story (Kurg video on YT ironically enough, the Gates funded channel) being an example, or Duncan Trussells “The Midnight Gospel” (which I haven’t actually watched but just saw the one famous clip of the mother being sucked away into death as she talked about the ego, reincarnation, the universe just being love, etc.)

Interestingly, I actually got involved with Marxism originally partly because of psychedelic use and the shock it sent through my philosophical/world outlook.

Anyways yap over, THIRD PARAGRAPH IS THE MEAT OF THE POST!!! thx in advance <3

  • PoliticalCustard
    121·
    4 months ago

    Not weird at all. I share similar politics and have always been fascinated by psychedelics, drugs in general, dance culture, counter culture, etc. There was the work of Mark Fisher and Acid Communism, and later efforts to start the movement Acid Corbynism. There’s a really good Mark Fisher influenced podcast ACFM (Acid Corbynism FM) https://novaramedia.com/category/audio/acfm/

    An article you might enjoy is Turn On, Tune In, Rise Up - https://communemag.com/turn-on-tune-in-rise-up/

    Acid against austerity.

    When cultural theorist, author, and blogger Mark Fisher passed away in 2017, he left behind an unfinished book manuscript. Acid Communism: On Post-Capitalist Desire was to continue the project of his 2009 book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? In Capitalist Realism, Fisher wrote that decades of deregulation had all but fully destroyed our ability to imagine viable alternatives to capitalism. If we couldn’t envision a better world, he declared, there could be little hope that such a world would manifest. Capitalist Realism was by no means defeatist, though. The book concludes with a call to action: Fisher draws attention to what he saw as the most urgently needed political resource. If the future we want lies at the limits of our imagination we must begin there — with the creative, unruly parts of our consciousness, that parts that capital wants to claim as its own. The current political nightmare, he suggests, will only be defeated by vibrant dreams.

    • 小莱卡
      5·
      4 months ago

      Concluding that only good vibes can fix society is pretty damn absurd, no offense.

      • PoliticalCustard
        4·
        4 months ago

        Having read more of your low effort replies listed on your profile I will not be replying more fully to your willful misreading of what I wrote above. No offense. :)

      • TeezyZeezyOP
        4·
        4 months ago

        Yeah I don’t think that’s what they meant though like of course just going “whooaaa man floating rock and like be nice” isn’t going to fix shit but i think the point was that we cannot take the actions necessary before we have an awareness of the potential to have a better world and the connection to how acid can bring us to that.

    • TeezyZeezyOP
      3·
      4 months ago

      I fuck with this tbh. Dropping tabs when I was younger was a pretty large moment in opening up my imagination and critiques of how we currently live and how I want to live. It didn’t give me any anti-capitalist thought, but motivated me to pursue a life I wanted which led me to realize: I can’t under this system.

      Not sure if that’s the whole gist of what you wrote/ the pod or show but yeah.