Marxism and occultism

No sorry, Religion is the opiate of the masses

Prescription drugs are the opiate of the masses, at least in murika. People need to fill the void that is God, like Nietzsche lectured, and at least the oriental religions arent monotheist, so there is no celestial dictatorship, its basically just atheism… for the masses that still want imaginary friends.

Anarchocapitalism equates "empoverment" with "making money". This is not egoism.

religion is not the same as occultism

Buddhism is much more an occultist system than a religion, and yoga is the occultism of hindus. Occultism and religion, while not same thing, they are pretty much inseparable.

That doesn't mean what you think it means.
An opiate treats incurable pain, it allows a person to live through that unavoidable pain.
He's saying that Religion is not the problem, the problem is capitalism and Religion helps people live through capitalism.
You don't cure a tumor by removing the pain meds, you do it by removing the tumor.

Personal Gain and Property.
My money
My land
My rent
My factory
My slaves
Me, Me, Me.

Hinduism is reactionary AF and buddhism developed in protest against the brahmanic traditions of its time which would eventually evolve into modern hinduism. The caste system had almost phased out until british colonialists repopularized it to get the proles to fall into a strict division of labor. Capitalists love hindu ideology. In it there's this big idea of everybody being in their deserved position in an infallibly meritocratic reality and freedom developing from just doing what one is told and following one's duty. Read the bhagavad gita, it was Himmler's favorite book for a reason

Now the buddha on the other hand was an uncompromising radical. There's a reason why they talk about the revolution of the wheel of dharma. It's the means to deprogram your brain from what's been put into it by bourg ideologists and becoming a master over yourself, able to pursue unrelentingly the socialist struggle without falling into petty consumerist distractions. Overcoming attachment to the present state of things means despooking yourself and seeing the fragility of the reified social and material order. It's absolutely compatible with marxism and egoism. Nibbana is mental conditions without internal contradictions while communism is material conditions without internal contradictions.

Siddharta Gautama was.. Stirner all along?

I'm pretty big into Zen. I don't consider myself a Zen buddhist per se, but I think it's pretty compatible. I remember there was this passage in the Dogen collection where he refers to taking food that was meant for a sacred ritual or something and he gave it to a homeless man, and when his friends were freaking out saying he could be killed for it because it's against the sacred law. He tells them that even if it is against the sacred law, he has a duty to feed the hungry guy.

There's also this book I own called "Religion and Nothingness" where Nishitani describes the process of enlightenment and how realizing the falseness of the ego allows you to realize your full potential. Anyway, for someone like me who was so frequently bogged down by stress over everything, following this kind of view allowed me to overcome my biggest hangups and go radical.