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"There is still another psychological process that I have run across in my
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explorations of failure to actualize the self. This evasion of growth can
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also be set in motion by a fear of paranoia." -- Abraham Maslow THE
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FARTHER REACHES OF HUMAN NATURE (Penguin Books, 1971)
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"Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted
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beyond their wildest delusions." - Claude Steiner
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The Radical Psychiatry Manifesto
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That it must be a conscious strategy of the monopoly capitalists to
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infiltrate leftist movements for the purpose of dividing the radical
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bourgeois and the proletariat seems obvious in view of the history of
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communist cultural disputes. Movements don't commit suicide of their own
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unassisted volition.
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It is always among radicals of the left--and to a lesser extent, the
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unestablished libertarian right--that silly debates about personal esthetic
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and sexual options upsurp meetings, stymie projects and divide
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movements.
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Republicans, who present no threat to the status quo, are capable of
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keeping cultural differences in a sane perspective. With rare exceptions
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like the arguing about abortion at Miami in 1972, so are Democrats.
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Leftists and Libertarians are just as intelligent, yet...
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Evidence of a conspiracy forever sharpening its techniques is also to be
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noted in that newer movements-- such as radical feminism -- carry a
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divisive emphasis of traditional values in the name of progressive values
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to ever-more-absurd extremes. What are we to conclude if not the more
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recently organized the movement the more sophisticated its infiltrators
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at getting in on the ground floor?
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In other words, just as revolutionaries evaluate the results of a battle
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and endeavor to avoid past errors, so do the capitalists. They refine their
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tactics just as we improve our own -- by applying the scientific method.
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Things appear to have advanced this far in the direction of preventing
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genuinely liberative revolution: all or most bourgeois radicals are captives
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of ruling class secret societies, kept in line by the threat of an ever more
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culturally retarded proletariat -- infiltrated with all manner of religious
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and reactionary agents -- culminating in a Prussian system of blackmail.
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So the brain of radicalism has been severed from the body. The educated
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and the strony are killing one another -- about culture.
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BULLETIN #9 1986 HO CHI ZEN
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