Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 16:47:54 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/7 CHARLES FOURIER 





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       Near the freeway,
you stop & wonder what came off,
recall the snowstorm where you lost it all,
the wolverine, the northern bear, the wolf,
caught out, ice & steel raining
from the foundaries in a shower
of human breath...

             * Philip Levine, "Coming Home, Detroit, 1968"

APRIL 7

CHARLES FOURIER
Utopian socialist believer in the passionate good &
"attractive" labor.  Invented "Gastrosophy," the philosophy of
food. Hundreds of "phalansteries" sprouted in mid-19th century
celebrating his principles & vision.

China: PURE BRIGHTNESS FESTIVAL. Tending of family graves,
with a great feast.

WORLD HEALTH DAY. May you have much of it.

FESTIVAL OF COMMODITY FETISHISM.


1498 - The Ordeal by Fire in Florence.

1521 - Philippines: Magellan lands at Cebu. Civilizes the
savages by introducing poker.

1739 - Dirk Turpin celebrated English robber, hangs.
http://www.gsjones.com/cooper/

1770 - William Wordsworth lives (1770-1850). British poet who
started, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the English Romantic
movement. His first masterwork, *Lyrical Ballads*, opened with
Coleridge's *Ancient Mariner.* His poems written in his late
years never gained critical approval. As Bertrand Russell put it:

"In his youth Wordsworth sympathized with the French
Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry, & had a natural
daughter. At this period, he was called a 'bad' man. Then he
became 'good,' abandoned his daughter, adopted correct
principles, & wrote bad poetry."
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/projects/pack/rom-chrono/links-w.htm#w-wordsworth

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wordswor.htm

1772 - Utopian socialist Charles Fourier lives, Besancon, France.

I will plead the most ridiculous of all causes; nothing is
more flouted in civilization than sentimental love.

--- Charles Fourier, * Le Nouveau Monde Amoureux. *
http://www.speakeasy.org/~ibbey/mo/crown.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre2.html#10

1775 - Samuel Johnson, dining at a tavern with companions
declares, as noted by ever-present James Boswell,

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/

1803 - French socialist feminist Flora Tristan lives.
http://artsci.washington.edu/drama-phd/tristan.html
In Spanish, http://ekeko.rcp.net.pe/FLORA/
http://www.ainfos.ca/A-Infos96/1/0047.html

1836 - William Godwin, the "father" of modern anarchism, dies.
See *Daily Bleed* Saints Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/saints/StWilliamGodwin.htm

1862 - Battle at Shiloh, Tennessee, in US Civil War.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/1257/shiloh.html

1870 - Munich Soviet leader, anarchist Gustav Landauer lives,
Karlsruhe, Germany. Anarchist theorist, introduced to the
ideas of Proudhon & Kropotkin by Benedikt Friedlander, &
pacifist influenced by Leo Tolstoy's anarchist-pacifism.
Landauer, along with Ret Marut (aka B. Traven, the novelist) &
Erich Muhsam were part of the Workers' Councils which, on this
day in 1919, declared a Workers' Republic in Bavaria -- in
spite of the opposition of the Communists. Landauer was
Minister of Education, & sought to introduce the ideas of
Francisco Ferrer. On May 2, 1919, he was shot down in the
street by soldiers, sent by the Socialist Gustav Noske, to
subdue the Bavarian insurrection. Landauer wrote *The
Revolution* (1908) & *Call to Socialism* (1911), etc.

"The State is a condition, a certain relationship between
human beings, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by
contracting other relationships, by behaving differently."

* Gustav Landauer
"An anarchist case for social transformation",
http://www.art.net/Poets/Jennifer/anarchy/archy.html
See Walter Benjamin pages,
http://www.wbenjamin.org/aufbruch.html>http://www.wbenjamin.org/aufbruch.html
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/18rev1918.html

In German, see:
http://www.weltkreis.com/mauthner/land1.html
http://www.dradio.de/literatur/kritiken/landauergustav.html

1875 - Andre Mournier (known as "The Agronomist") lives, in
Joigny, Yonne. French anarchist, member of the Colony of
Aiglemont founded by Fortuné Henry. Sought to develop
agriculture on a large scale. June 10, 1906, Mournier joined
the newspaper "Le Cubilot" which, after 1907, was printed at
the Colony. Two anti-militarist articles by Mournier got him
in hot water with the government for "insulting the army" & he
was forced to leave the Colony, taking refuge in Switzerland
on January 25, 1908.

1879 - Italy: Mass arrests of Italian revolutionaries.

1882 - Armando Borghi lives (1882-1968). Italian anarchist,
friend of Malatesta's, secretary of the large Unione Anarchica
Italiana (UAI) as well as the head of the Italian Syndicalist
Union (USI) in Bologna. Collaborated on  *Umanita Nova*,
Malatesta's anarchist daily paper  in Milan, along with Gigi
Damiani, Camillo Berneri, Nella Giacometti & others. Virgilia
d*Andrea, the teacher & poet, became an anarchist & ardent
anti-fascist (forced to flee the country) after meeting him.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril3.html#borghi

1889 - Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) lives, Vicu=F1a. Chilean
educator, cultural minister, diplomat, & poet, first Latin
American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her
reputation as poet was established when she won in 1914
Chilean prize for *Sonetos de la Muerte* (Sonnets of Death).

Central themes in Mistral's poems are love, mother's love,
sorrow & recovery, painful personal memories like the suicide
of her lover. Between 1922 & 1938 Gabriela Mistral worked with
Mme. Curie & Henri Bergson in the League of Nations.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~libsci/courses/246/fall96/firmature.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gmistral.htm

1891 - Circus kingpin P. T. Barnum dies, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/barnum/barnum.html

1901 - Switzerland: Violent confrontations with the police &
the army during demonstrations against the extradition of an
Italian anarchist suspected of participation in the attack on
King Umberto I on July 29, 1900.

1904 - King Alfonso of Spain escapes anarchist assassination
attempt.

1915 - Critic Alexander Woollcott takes the Shubert theaters
management to court when they ban him  for "rancor & malice &
venom."

1915 - Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday lives, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.  http://www.gibbs-smith.com/books/billie.html
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/2964/Billie.html

1917 - US: Socialist Party votes opposition to WWI.

The day after Congress declares war, a Socialist Party
emergency convention in St. Louis opposes U.S. entry into
World War I. The convention resolution calls the declaration
(quote) "a crime against the people of the United States."

This summer, Socialist anti-war meetings will draw crowds of
thousands, especially Midwest farmers. The Plymouth,
Wisconsin, Review will report (quote) "thousands assemble to
hear Socialist speakers where ordinarily a
few hundred are considered large assemblages."

1919 - Workers' Council declare a Republic in Bavaria, in
spite of the opposition of the Communists. The anarchists are
the principal actors: Erich Muhsam, Gustav Landauer,  Ret
Marut (B. Traven), Ernst Toller, etc. But the troops sent in
by the socialists will crush the revolutionaries between April
30 & May 2, 1919, killing over 700 victims.
http://www.dfg-vk.de/english/book31.htm
http://www.workersliberty.org/wlmags/wl53/germany.htm
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~roehrigw/schmitt/text4.htm

1919 - Russia: Allies evacuate Odessa (see 3 August, 4 September)

http://www.is.rhodes.edu/Modus_Vivendi/Modus1997/1.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/wolfhounds/russian_intervention.htm

1922 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary of the
Interior Albert Fall leases the entire Teapot Dome oilfield,
set aside as a naval oil reserve, to his close friend Harry
Sinclair, head of the Mammoth Oil Company.  It is later
revealed that Fall accepted a $25,000 "unsecured loan" from
Sinclair (see 22 January).

1927 - First televised political demonstration occurs.

1928 - "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces,
I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the
flag was & I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the
grass by the flower tree. They took the flag out, & they were
hitting. Then they put the flag back & they went to the table,
& he hit & the other hit. Then they went on, & I went along
the fence. Luster came away from the flower tree & we went
along the fence & they stopped & I looked through the fence
while Luster was hunting in the grass."

So begins, on this day, William Faulkner's tale of the decline
of the American South, *The Sound & the Fury*.
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

1928 - Marcel Wullens dies of tuberculoses. Militant anarchist
& syndicalist who participated, with his brother Maurice, in
the review "Les humbles," the journal "L'insurgé," & (without
his brother Maurice, a novelist, who had broke with the
anarchists in favor of the Bolsheviks, & later became an
organizer, with Andre Breton & Leon Trotsky, of the <
http://www.argyro.net/~revsur/encyclo/fiari.htm>F.I.A.R.I. ),
helped found "La révolution prolétarienne".
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mai2.html#9

1931 - Poet/novelist Donald Barthelme lives, Philadelphia.

1933 - Prohibition ends.

1944 - US Liberty ship hit a reef 60 yards from the London
shore.  It cracked into three pieces, & 62 crewmembers died.

1948 - World Health Organization (WHO) formed in Geneva, with
the stated goal of making health care available to everyone in
the world by the year 2000.

1951 - Gustave Henri Jossot dies, in Sidi Bou Sa=EFd. French
painter, illustrator & caricaturist who targeted the
mainstream institutions of family, army, justice, churches,
schools, etc. Jossot, deeply libertarian, refused to be
labeled an anarchist. Depressed for years, he gave up
caricatures in 1907, moved to Tunisia in 1911, converted to
Islam in 1913 for a short period before denouncing religion &
agitating again, for the rights of Moslem women, etc. Jossot
confined his artistic endeavors to painting landscapes &
Tunisian everyday life.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril3.html#jossot

1956 - Osmond coins "psychedelic".

1962 - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, & Mick Taylor meet Brian
Jones at the Ealing Club, a London hangout for those who like the
blues.

1966 - Australia: Two prosecuted for burning conscription
papers, Sydney.

1966 - US: Sandoz stops supplying LSD to researchers. Rumor
has it the stuff is so good they want to keep it for
themselves. Meanwhile, during this month, the FBI treats the
press to its LSD file & oddly enough a spate of negative press
on LSD begins appearing.

1966 - US H-bomb, missing since a January B-52 crash, is
recovered off the Spanish coast.

1967 - Tom Donahue takes over KMPX, turns it into progressive
rock radio station.

1968 - 9,000 attend a Seattle memorial for Martin Luther King,
Jr., slightly fewer than would attend the April 1994 memorial
following the death of Kurt Cobain.

1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a law prohibiting
private possession of obscene material.

1970 - *Midnight Cowboy* becomes the first X rated film to win
the Best Picture Oscar. (In 1994 the film was re-released
unedited, & by '90s standards received only an R rating)

1970 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ronald Reagan,
Governor of California & soon-to-be President, announces his
attitude towards student civil rights activists, dissenters, &
Vietnam War protestors (quote):

"If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with."

1977 - Jim Thompson September 27, 1906 - April 7, 1977
Bibliography
Novels:
1942 - Now and on Earth
1946 - Heed the Thunder
1949 - Nothing More Than Murder
1952 - Cropper's Cabin
1952 - The Killer Inside Me
1953 - The Alcoholics
1953 - Bad Boy
1953 - The Criminal
1953 - Recoil
1953 - Savage Night
1954 - A Swell Looking Babe
1954 - The Golden Gizmo
1954 - A Hell of a Woman
1954 - The Nothing Man
1954 - Roughneck
1955 - After Dark, My Sweet
1957 - The Kill-Off
1957 - Wild Town
1959 - The Getaway
1961 - The Transgressors
1963 - The Grifters
1964 - Pop 1280
1965 - Texas by the Tail
1967 - Ironside
1967 - South of Heaven
1969 - The Undefeated
1970 - Nothing But a Man
1972 - Child of Rage
1973 - King Blood

Collections:
1983 - 4 Novels (The Getaway, The Killer Inside Me, The Grifters,
Pop 1280)
1986 - Hardcore : 3 Novels (The Kill-Off, The Nothing Man, Bad
Boy)
1987 - More Hardcore : 3 Novels (The Ripoff, The Golden Gizmo,
Roughneck)
1988 - Fireworks : The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson(Robert
Polito & Michael McCauley, Ed.)
http://www.hycyber.com/MYST/thompson_jim.html

1978 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Carter
defers production of neutron bomb.

1979 - Italy: Mass arrests as thousands of radicals jailed for
"terrorist conspiracy."  Their writings & actions, says the
State, "generalizes terrorism." Italian law allows suspects to
be held 12 years without trial.

1982 - Pio Turroni dies. Italian anarchist, combatant,
publisher. Left Italy to escape the fascists in 1923. Fought
with the Italian Column in the Spanish Revolution, then with
the anarchist Ascaso Column until wounded. Imprisoned in
France with the onset of WWII, released, imprisoned twice more
before making his way to freedom in Morocco, then Mexico. With
the liberation of Italy Turroni returned to help rebuild the
anarchist movement, & from 1946 until his death, published the
anarchist review "Volont=E0".

1986 - In Oliver Sacks' *The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a
Hat*, an examination of bizarre neurological disorders, is an
account of oppositely impaired patients -- aphasiacs who can't
understand spoken words, but do take in information from
extraverbal cues, & tonal agnosiacs who understand the actual
words, but miss their emotional content -- watching a speech
by acting President Reagan.

"It was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures &,
above all, the false tones & cadences of the voice," writes
Sacks, which caused the word-deaf aphasiacs to laugh
hysterically at the Great Communicator, while one agnosiac,
relying entirely on the actual words, sat in stony silence,
concluding that "he is not cogent ... his word-use is
improper" & suspecting that "he has something to conceal."

"Here then," writes Sacks "was the paradox of the President's
speech. We normals -- aided, doubtless, by our wish to be
fooled were indeed well & truly fooled ... & so cunningly was
deceptive word-use combined with deceptive tone, that only the
brain-damaged remain intact, undeceived."
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/reagan/gallery/2rockwel.htm

1989 - NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht
Club for sinking Soviet sub in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen
deaths.

1990 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader John Poindexter
convicted of five felony charges in Iran-Contra trial. One of
many "patriots" involved in criminal schemes under Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Reagan.

1991 - US: Over 5,000 rally against police brutality in Los
Angeles.

1995 - Mexico: Radio Huayacocotla suppressed by the
government. The Secretariat for Communications and Transport
(SCT), through its technicians, ordered the suspension of
transmission of Radio Huayacocotla, "The Voice of the
Campesino" -- a repressive reaction against the Radio on the
part of rightist conservative groups, those who own the
economic & political forces of the region as well as the state
& federal Governments.
gopher://mundo.eco.utexas.edu:70/1m/fac/hmcleave/Chiapas95%20Archives/Radio%20Huayacocotla

1998 - Wendy O. Williams, the chainsaw-wielding singer for the
punk rock band, The Plasmatics, commits suicide in the woods
near her Connecticut home.
http://www.plasmatics.com/frameset.html
http://www.interlog.com/~ambrozic/pool.html


The things the worker buys with his wages are first of all
consumer goods which enable him to survive, to reproduce his
labor-power so as to be able to continue selling it; & they
are spectacles, objects for passive admiration. He consumes &
admires the products of human activity passively.

He does not exist in the world as an active agent who
transforms it, but as a helpless, impotent spectator; he may
call this state of powerless admiration "happiness," & since
labor is painful, he may desire to be "happy," namely
inactive, all his life (a condition similar to being born dead).

The commodities, the spectacles, consume him; he uses up
living energy in passive admiration; he is consumed by things.
In this sense, the more he has, the less he is.

---Fredy Perlman, *The Reproduction of Daily Life*
http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/reprod.htm

 [Footnote to Leonora Carrington entry yesterday: Bay Area
Bleed subscribers may have missed the Women's Surrealist art
showing at the MOMA which closed yesterday -- which
included old & contemporary work by Carrington. However, there
is this web site:  http://www.sfmoma.org/EXHIB/mirror.html ]


Auntie-1999
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