Acid Communism

Acid Communism
"put it deeper"
Basic Information
Aliases	AcidCom Capitalist Realism ACIDUS NIHILISMUS !1!!!1 (by gamers) Narco-Communism Psychedelic Corbynism Freak Left Fisherism Neo-Yippie
Alignment(s)	LibLeft File:Soc.png Socialists Communists
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Postmodernism Accelerationism Existentialist Anarchism Deleuzianism Neo-Marxism Marxism Nihilism Situationism Autonomism Cyberfeminism Cyberpunk Anti-Work Counterculture
Notable people	Mark Fisher (1968-2017) United Kingdom Matt Colquhoun/Xenogothic (?) United Kingdom Nick Srnicek (1982-) Canada Alex Williams (?-) United Kingdom
Variations
School of Thought	Salvagepunk Maoism (Badiou specifically) Progressive Conservatism Primal Primitivism Post-Marxism Satirism Post-Apocalypse Post-Civilization (Some) Potentially any ideology Left-Accelerationism Cybercommunism FALGSC
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 E's are good (absolutely outrageous mate) Orphan Tears Radiohead - No Surprises Have a Nice Life - Waiting for Black Metal Record Come Through the Mail Sleaford Mods -Jobseeker The Kinks - House in the Country The Specials - Rat Race Singers & Players - Too Much Work Load Rhythm & Sound - Boss Man eMMplekz - Tethered to my Hot-Spot The Jam - Smithers-Jones Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down Kanye West - Spaceship Spandau Ballet - Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On The Supremes - Stoned Love The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Dr Kucho! & Gregor Salt - Can't Stop Playing (Makes Me High) Sister Sledge - List in Music (Nile Rogers Remix Chic - At Last I Am Free

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).

Beliefs And Philosophy

Capitalist Realism

In Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative Mark Fisher articulates and goes into detail about the famous quote from Žižek - "It is easier to imagine the end of the world then the end of capitalism." Fisher shows that this is due to our new Postmodern condition. Capitalism declared itself to be the end of history, there are no contenders to it. Even classical rebels have been used to profit Capitalism by buying merchandise of those such as Guevara or other cold war revolutionaries. Small scale rebellion is to Capitalism's benefit. Along with this proposals for systematic change like those of Social Democrats still stay within the realm of Capitalism. It seems as though after the death of an existing system in opposition to Capitalism in the Soviet Union we are unable to imagine anything diffrent. Even in the post 68 disciplinary societies of the 70's and 80's there was still not a closed plane of ideology. To put the predicament in Deleuzian terms, ideological desire has been territorialized to fit into Capitalism.

Hauntology And Lost Futures

In Ghosts Of My Life Fisher continues the logic of Derrida, arguing that from capitalist realism, futures that where to be have been canceled. Take the end of Dialectical Materialism, that being the stateless, classless, utopia of [[Communism {Disambiguation)|Communism]]; Fisher argues that the current present is haunted by that lost future. Capitalist realism has effectively "canceled" this future. Fisher agrees with Derrida that there is a spectre of these lost futures haunting us in everyday life. In the predicament of capitalist realism we may be unable to imagine a future beyond Capitalism yet we are haunted by these futures to be. Fisher argues that these spectres of ideas are the main reason for the current spike in depression, as Psychoanalysis can only handle things on an individual level, never considering large systemic problems that could lead to anguish. In the end Fisher feels as though we are trapped, and that the future is canceled.

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. He may even develop schizophrenia.

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...
• Neo-Marxism - A good modern update to Marxism.
• Post-Anarchism - It's just a burning memory...
• Deleuzianism - I agree completely! Deterritorialize!
• Situationism - You were very influential to me.
• CyberFeminism - We created great memories together in the 80's... it's a shame that's all we have left now, memories...
• Unconditional Accelerationism - Yes, we must reject orthodoxies of praxis to imagine new futures.
• Existentialist Anarchism - You too have broken the power structure that held you together... even if the futures we imagine are different, we share the same desire to dream them.
• Libertarian Marxism - This is probably where I was at by the time I started writing Acid Communism.
• Democratic Socialism and Libertarian Socialism - The dream that we have lost to Neoliberalism.
• Autonomism - You provide an important critique of authoritarianism while remaining Marxist, even if you are a bit outdated. Your aim was to escape existing institutions and we wish to create new institutions.

Frenemies

• Kakistocracy - What is Twitter if not a libidinal economy? And I critiqued call-out culture before it was cool.
• 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.
• Postmodernism - I am influenced by you, but you're too unresistant to capitalism.
• Accelerationism - Contradictions never killed anyone, Marx... And Land, we had fun didn't we?
• Anarchism - Your opposition to authoritarianism is commendable, but your theory is too rigid, arbitrary, and naive.
• 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.
• Anarcho-Nihilism - Nothing really matters, however you just create a self-fulfilling prophecy... We can imagine new futures together!
• Post-Left Anarchism - You make some important critiques of traditional leftism and advocate refusal or work, but you are somehow both too idealistic and too pessimistic.

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...
• Stalinism - Your failures have provided a great comparison to those of him.
• Social Democracy and Authoritarian Capitalism - Capitalist realism could transform into either of you to survive, but it will still suck.
• Authoritarian Conservatism - Neolibralism's most prominent opposition today and not any better.

Further Information

Literature

• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
• Hauntology, Accelerationism, Salvagepunk by Xenogothic
• K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher
• Ghosts of My Life: Writing on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher
• Mark Fisher on two salvagepunk repurposings of Chris de Burgh 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
• Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
• Post-Capitalist Desire by Mark Fisher
• Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

Wikipedia

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

Aesthetics Wiki

• Salvagepunk

Online Communities

• r/AcidCommunism
• Mark Fisher Depressive Ghostposting

Gallery

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