Recently, modern witchcraft has been on the rise. I am interested to hear some discussion and discourse from your perspective, on any aspect of modern witchcraft. Myself, I try to be respectful of most religions. That said, I have always been a little annoyed by anyone who believes they can, for example, control the weather or read peoples minds, which seems to be the case in this article, and in several witchcraft-related memes and stuff I've seen floating around. In addition, I think the whole idea of witchcraft as an opposition to the status quo is very much a bourgeois/liberal mindset. Instead of using affirmative action to actually work for change, it's turning to faith and a belief in the occult in order to solve your issues. It seems to me to be almost entirely composed of young, upper-middle class white women that have not needed to struggle or known the struggle of other classes. In essence, a liberal reaction to the people in power. Any thoughts? Willing to change my mind.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I've met a ton of anarchists into witchy stuff, but none on the internet.

        • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          A materialist worldview in the Marxist sense doesn't preclude a spiritual worldview in the more common sense. Historical materialism and ontological materialism are two separate ideas.

            • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Leninism and Maoism for sure are, and most redditors are ontological materialists, but if you go to Latin America you're going to see a ton of comingling between Marxism and Catholicism or Marxism and Indigenous worldviews.

                • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Many indigenous people have non materialist ontologies that predate colonialism, that they work hard to preserve into the present. It's unfair to see this as "the soul of a soulless" society or "the opiate of the masses." If your vision for communism erases that work, it's got a significant blind spot.

                • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  I want to add that there's a materialist aspect here. Most working people are indigenous just because of the nature of the relationship between colonialism and capitalism. Any significant revolution will have a strong anti colonial current, and the preservation of indigenous worldviews is one of the most important parts of anti colonial struggles.

      • communiste [she/her,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Rhyd Wildermuth and the Gods & Radicals crew are anarchist pagans online. their Pagan Anticapitalist Primer is pretty good

        https://abeautifulresistance.org/