Marxism and Assault:

I wonder how many of you have seen this psychedelic film from 1977 called the Holy Mountain. In the closing monologue this sort of Plutonian character, concluding your journey through the Under World, tells you to surrender your body. It is not yours, he says: it was a loan.

Admittedly, I have had enough problems with trickster gurus in my day to be vigilant of such rhetoric. But all that cultists have shown me is to be mind full of the Intent Of The Speaker. The words them selves are unequivocal. It is simply that their meaning is skewed in favour of the person saying them.

The claim that Marxism justifies rape does not phase me. It does so only in theory. Not in practice. It was never PUT into practice. The co-claim that rape can never be justified does not support the primary claim; it is simply a counter-claim because the primary claim PROVES that rape can be justified. We simply should not do some thing simply because Reason tells us it's okay. And to escape Rationalisation we must weigh it against Experience. The moderate suspicion of Marxism is that it works in theory and yet not in practice. Yet in truth it was never PUT into practice. So all we have to say against it is purely theoretical. And we must prepare for the possibility that, IN practice, it might be our only alternative TO a coercive and violent society, much rather than a step 'towards' it (as though such a society could not be said, however naiive conventional realism may be, to exist within the status quo.). To ignore this gap between lucid reason and Experience is in fact to engender the Same kind of Rationalism that can justify any thing and presupposes that thing to be "good" because it is "justified", without consulting Experience and, most importantly, the Intuitions that help us learn from past experiences in such a way that we have more than simply to 'test our hypotheses' that rape is a good thing empirically if we wish to Prove that it is not.

Dm.A.A.