DIVISION & CONQUEST: To create a revolutionary movement with zero appeal to both intellectuals and workers, deprive its adherents of the consolations of religious theory without allowing them the liberties and pleasures permitted by atheism. That way, you will attract only submissive neurotics and oppositional infiltrators and you will wind up -- if your goal is communism --with the State capitalism of modern Russia and China. Spanish anarchy was my example in Bulletin #3 only because I've studied it. Pre-Marxian European movements seem to have combined the same forces. Not content simply to overturn capital and State, the Parisians ousted God and enshrined instead Reason, Liberty and Justice. (Our Statue of Liberty is a saint of this tradition.) Bakunin opined defiant Lucifer more fit for worship than dictorial Jehovah. Proudhon's provincialism was quaintly exceptional and did not enjoy the popularity of his economic theories. Even Marxism was at first culturally liberative, though Bakunin detected Prussianism in its political methods. In America, Emma Goldman outspokenly advocated rational values, including Free Love. Wilhelm Reich's career is symptomatic of the fragility of the link between bourgeois rationalism and proletarianism -- and it shows the incompatibility of even the most rational radicalism with reactionary free thought. About a year after being purged by Stalin he was kicked out of the European Psychoanalytic Association. Why? Probably for writing The Mass Psychology of Fascism. At that time Reich was perhaps at the peak of his intellectual powers. Ample evidence indicates his subsequent "paranoia" issued from the stresses of rejection and persecution by Stalinist left and Freudian right alike. Sex-Pol, his anthologized essays of that period, is a book that brilliantly indicts bourgeois sexual puritanism for the neurologically crippling, alienating, enslaving rip-off that it is. 1986 BULLETIN #5 HO CHI ZEN KULCHA c 1986 Kerry W. Thornley Available Exclusively from: Illumi-Net Computer Bulletin Board System (404) 377-1141