Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:05:27 +1000
Subject: Re: AUT: Communists and Religious Movements?
From: Thiago Oppermann <thiago_oppermann-AT-bigpond.com>


Thanks for those leads. If anything else comes by, please send it my way!

Just came back from the NSW State Library, where rotting copies of the CPA's
Communist Review are stored. In one issue, we have a story about "The Sanity
of Cargo Madness", dealing with the Hahalis Welfare Society movement in Buka
Island, ostensibly a cargo cult in the early 60s. Opposite page blasts the
news that "More Consumer Goods Available in Moscow Stores!" Fantastic stuff.
Just after the story, there is another item about a high-tech tidal power
station. Elsewhere in the issue: Bourgeois theory that the moon in made of
dust challenged by Soviet scientist who alleged it to be made of spongy
material. 

Is it true that there was a Trotskyist sect that believed flying saucers
were visitors from a socialist galaxy? I am sure I read this in the
Spectacular Times...

Thiago



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