Acid Communism

Acid Communism
"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism."
Basic Information
Aliases	AcidCom Capitalist Realism ACIDUS NIHILISMUS !1!!!1 (by gamers) Narco-Communism Psychedelic Corbynism Freak Left Fisherism Neo-Yippie
Alignment(s)	LeftUnity Culturally Left Post-Left
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Accelerationism Existentialist Anarchism Deleuzianism Gramscianism Marxism Nihilism Postmodernism Situationism
Influenced	Left-Accelerationism
Notable people	Mark Fisher (1968-2017), United Kingdom.
Character Information
Song	Mark Fisher - 20 Greatest Jungle Records Mix (Part 1) Mark Fisher - 20 Greatest Jungle Records Mix (Part 2) Take Care. It's a desert out there... Strawberry Fields Forever Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Bell's Theme, Official Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Soundtrack

Acid Communism, clipped to AcidCom and sometimes known as Narco-Communism, Psychedelic Corbynism, and Freak Left, is an economically far-left and culturally ambiguous ideology proposed by Mark Fisher. It believes that leftists should take inspiration from and use elements of the 1960's counterculture and psychedelic movements to imagine future political possibilities (but emphasizes not to repeat those movements.)

He is extremely existentialist, with beliefs such as the idea that the future is cancelled, because every idea of the future has been thought of and realized in past interpretations of such future, like in sci-fi movies and novels and whatnot.

History

Acid Communism, as proposed by Mark Fisher, has origins in Jacques Derrida's book The Spectres of Marx in 1993. All that Fisher had written on it was an introduction for a potential book, which was never finished due to his suicide. The unfinished introduction can be read in K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016).

Personality and Behavior

He is different from his mother in that he emphasizes the idea of capitalist realism, "it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism", the idea that there is no viable alternative to capitalism, yet as he can't stand capitalism, he must use psychoactive drugs in order to try to transcend reality to imagine new futures. He is often perceived as nihilistic and an idealistic doomer, but he is noted for being overemphasized in his depression and less known in his optimism.

How to Draw

Flag of Acid Communism

1. Draw a ball.
2. Draw a spiraling rainbow in the ball from the center (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, magenta, pink).
3. Draw a dark red circle in the center of the ball and fill it in with red.
4. Draw a sickle and bong in yellow inside that smaller ball.
5. Draw two red eyes, and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#EE161F	238, 22, 31
	Orange	#FF8022	255, 128, 34
	Yellow	#FFCA06	255, 202, 6
	Green	#1CB34B	28, 179, 75
	Blue	#3D46CD	61, 70, 205
	Violet	#6900C0	105, 0, 192
	Magenta	#A447A5	164, 71, 165
	Pink	#FF78A5	255, 120, 165
	Dark Red	#89000D	137, 0, 13
	Gold	#FFD800	255, 216, 0

Relationships

Friends

• Marxism - Dad, our futures have been stolen; the material conditions influence postcapitalist desire, but postcapitalist desire wishes beyond the material conditions...
• Anarcho-Nihilism - Nothing really matters, however you just create a self-fulfilling prophesy... We can imagine new futures together!
• Post-Anarchism - It's just a burning memory...
• Soulism - Jesus, man, I may be on acid, but this guy is on a whole other level.
• CyberFeminism - We created great memories together in the 80's... it's a shame that's all we have left now, memories...
• Existentialist Anarchism - You too have broken the power structure that held you together... even if we the futures we imagine are different, we share the same desire to dream them.

Frenemies

• Anarcho-Capitalism - He sells me my narcotics, but he's just another form of capitalism!
• Kakistocracy - What is Twitter if not a libidinal economy?
• File:Marxlen.png Marxism–Leninism - You won't really get past him, even if you pretend you think the end of capitalism is easy to imagine.
• Leninism - You allegedly consumed loads of psychodelic mushrooms and became a mushroom, but I am not sure. At least you are a communist like me.
• Accelerationism - Contradictions never killed anyone, Marx... And Land, we had fun didn't we?
• Necrocracy - Why are you looking at me like I'm dead?
• Utopian Socialism - You have good intentions, but if you refuse to break away from your naive bubble and see the reality around you, you will be stuck in a mere delusion. You need to accept there is no hope for the end of capitalism in the future... in order to imagine that hope yourself.

Enemies

• Capitalism - Why must you appear in all my visions? Your greedy evils will eternally remain..... There's no hope unless we imagine new futures.
• Neoliberalism - You have canceled the future and forced it down to your path... you have left us with no alternatives but to accept your dominion in the world...
• National Socialism - 20th of April is the weed day, not the Hitler birthday.

Further Information

Literature

• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
• Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard
• Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida
• What is Acid Communism?
• Acid Communism Unfinished Introduction
• What is Acid Corbynism?
• Psychedelic Socialism: The Politics of Consciousness, the Legacy of the Counterculture and the Future of the Left

Wikipedia

• Mark Fisher
  • Acid Communism
• 1960s Counterculture
• Psychadelia

Online Communities

• r/AcidCommunism
• Mark Fisher Depressive Ghostposting

Gallery

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