File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9801, message 59


From: "jurriaan bendien" <Jbendien-AT-globalxs.nl>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Getting Stoned
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 23:02:32 +0100


Leo Casey writes:

 if one belonged to some of the surreal Trot and Stalinist
> organizations we hear from on a daily basis, getting stoned would be the
only
> way to survive the meetings with sanity reasonably intact. 

I have sympathy with Leo Casey's plight, having sat through quite a few
loony meetings in the past as a young activist seeking to learn more about
left-wing groups.  Unfortunately my experience was that when we did get
stoned, things were even worse.  However the interesting question remains,
what motivates these "surreal Trot and Stalinist organisations" to keep up
their shadowboxing these days ? 

I am kind of fascinated by the psychological aspects of sectology. How can
anybody of sane mind be halfway attracted by these long abstract moralising
rants about "The United Front", "The Woman Question", "Correct Positions on
Afghanistan", "Stalinist Traitors" and the like ?  Is this symptomatic of a
sublimated or perverted libido, or a frustrated religiosity, or simply a
character weakness ?  Or all of these ? When I see this stuff coming across
my screen, I blip it immediately.

Cheers

Jurriaan.



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