[lbo-talk] Re: Kink, Ick & the Left /sexual self-expressio

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Sat Sep 25 17:50:43 PDT 2004


Mike B. writes:


> I'm tyring to convey a social dynamic which, I
think, explains one big reason why class consciousness remains so weak after more than a hundred years of rational explanation, millions of leaflets, countless demonstrations, volumes of literature, thousands of speeches and endless meetings. ******************************************************* So long as people cling to the Western/Abrahamic notion of self, class consciousness will not arise. The two are diametrically opposed to each other.

Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister *********************************************************

My socialism is rooted in my instinct for freedom--I feel it in my gut. I think that this instinct (not d/s) is basic to all human beingg. But for all too many, especially the workers who are cajolled into passive roles of accepting dominant powers over them, this instinct for freedom is psychologically repressesd. This comes about through the social, cultural, political, economic conditioning humans get within class socieites. I loathe bondage and rituals of submission. I despise slavery of any kind and wage-slavery in particular, along with the dependency structures which it engenders. I refuse my own consent to submit to these fetters, although I admit that as an individual wage-slave, I don't have the power to do much about them. Class conscious solidarity would help us all become free.

Regards, Mike B)

===== "Philosophy, which once seemed obsolete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed."

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