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#29-1986
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Dedicated to Dylan Thomas - Whoever HE Was
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KALLISTI
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K U L T C H A RSVP
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Organ of the Revolutionary Surrealist Vandal Party (RSVP)
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ANARCHO-SURREAL: Clearly, rational values must prevail over
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disguised traditional values within any culture that honestly
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merits being called revolutionary.
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While among such values must be tolerance for older cultures
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and for cultural diversity among the world's masses, revolution-
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ary culture is for revolutionaries -- to meet the needs of a
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category of people concerned with maintaining morale for a
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specific type of struggle against racism, classism, sexism and
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statism. Also, it is an outreach toward potentially rebellious
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individuals in the general populance. For these reasons it need
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not in any way tamely condescend to square notions of moral ob-
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edience.
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So as to embody such strength of principle without becoming
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offensively intolerant it can simply avoid taking itself too
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seriously.
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Anarcho-surrealism is shallowly criticized for being trivial
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when it is simply modest, tactful and psychologically strategic.
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In its departure from conventions is some of the weight of
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its message, while its light-heartedness tends to soften the
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blow. Culture is returned to a sane perspective and does not,
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therefore, continue to serve as fodder for endless bickering.
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See Alan Watts in the chapter of PSYCHOTHERAPY EAST AND
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WEST called "Invitation to the Dance." In his final book, TAO:
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THE WATERCOURSE WAY, Watts praises the anarchism of Kropotkin.
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SEX-POL by Wilhelm Reich is also worth studying in this
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connection. In the first, and in my view unrivaled, synthesis
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of Marx and Freud this genius -- who had not yet been driven
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half mad by Marxist and Freudians, both -- shares with anarch-
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ists, social democrats, Trotskyists and many Stalinists of the
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day what was simply the popular wisdom: that puritanism is the
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backbone of bourgeois sexual morality. (That free-thinking
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materialist libertines were also to be found among capitalists
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was not taken as overwhelming proof that cultural rationalism
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was bourgeois and decadent. It seems to have taken the over-
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lapping reigns of terror and virtue of Hitler and Stalin to
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establish the contemporary assumption that only 19th century
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Prussian values are not safely called decadent.)
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"Every type of political power presupposes some form of
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human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into
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being. Just as outwardly -- that is, in relation to other
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States -- the State has to create certain artificial antagon-
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isms in order to justify its existence, so also internally the
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cleavage of society into castes, ranks, and classes is an
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essential condition of its continuance. The State is capable
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only of protecting old privileges and creating new ones; in
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that, its whole significance is exhausted."
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-- Rudolf Rocker, ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM
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