[UA] Old groups and power

[rowan at media.mit.edu]

> Offering a shiny new No-Prize to the best proposal for 
> Commumancy -- paradox, random magick, taboo and effects.

Well, if the core of communism is a lack of personal property, you could
just use Annihilomancy. But if communism is about the good of the
collective over the individual, you could claim that magic itself is the
antithesis of this position, founded as it is in individual will. Or if
communism is all about the workers owning the means of production, um,
then I have no idea. Communism is not well-defined on the abstract level
of schools of magic -- it has only taken on various abstract resonances
in various historical contexts. Asking for a communism-based school of
magic is like asking for a chemical engineering-based school of magic: a
system of thought designed to address specific real-world problems does
not lend itself to a single mystical signficance.

By the same token, I don't tihnk that Plutomancy is representative of
the principles of capitalism. But it does resonate with many of the
cultural association of capitalism, e.g. greed, covetousness, the value
of abstract capital as opposed to real-world goods and services. But of
course, communism uses currency the same way that capitalism does; it
just regulates it differently.

Matt Norwood


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