https://www.e-flux.com/journal/124/447408/marx-the-alchemist>The next time we met, he brought along the manuscripts: these were old, handwritten scraps of paper filled with fragmentary and—at first glance—esoteric writing. It was difficult to see what it all had to do with Marxism. Our interlocutor, however, explained that this was Marxism itself—its very essence, which must be grasped if we meant to discover the extent of its mythological power.>He gave us a typewritten copy of one fragment—this, he claimed, was the key text of the Marxist Nag Hammadi: a previously unknown manuscript by Marx himself. We append it below:>Humanity’s Magnum Opus, or a brief description of the Magisterium, compiled by the Adept Karl Marx for Sons of the Great Art, who shall comprehend his revelation and gain through it the means to accomplish the transmutation of metals and compounding of universal medicines, having attained universal well-being.
