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DIVISION & CONQUEST: To create a revolutionary movement with zero
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appeal to both intellectuals and workers, deprive its adherents of the
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consolations of religious theory without allowing them the liberties and
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pleasures permitted by atheism. That way, you will attract only
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submissive neurotics and oppositional infiltrators and you will wind up --
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if your goal is communism --with the State capitalism of modern Russia
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and China.
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Spanish anarchy was my example in Bulletin #3 only because I've studied
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it. Pre-Marxian European movements seem to have combined the same
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forces. Not content simply to overturn capital and State, the Parisians
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ousted God and enshrined instead Reason, Liberty and Justice. (Our Statue
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of Liberty is a saint of this tradition.)
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Bakunin opined defiant Lucifer more fit for worship than dictorial
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Jehovah.
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Proudhon's provincialism was quaintly exceptional and did not enjoy the
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popularity of his economic theories.
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Even Marxism was at first culturally liberative, though Bakunin detected
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Prussianism in its political methods.
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In America, Emma Goldman outspokenly advocated rational values,
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including Free Love.
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Wilhelm Reich's career is symptomatic of the fragility of the link
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between bourgeois rationalism and proletarianism -- and it shows the
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incompatibility of even the most rational radicalism with reactionary free
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thought. About a year after being purged by Stalin he was kicked out of the
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European Psychoanalytic Association. Why? Probably for writing The Mass
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Psychology of Fascism.
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At that time Reich was perhaps at the peak of his intellectual powers.
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Ample evidence indicates his subsequent "paranoia" issued from the
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stresses of rejection and persecution by Stalinist left and Freudian right
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alike.
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Sex-Pol, his anthologized essays of that period, is a book that brilliantly
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indicts bourgeois sexual puritanism for the neurologically crippling,
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alienating, enslaving rip-off that it is.
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1986 BULLETIN #5 HO CHI ZEN
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KULCHA
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c 1986 Kerry W. Thornley
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