2/ You can the left doesn’t like it be Barbara Ehrenreich’s introduction (later author of “Nickeled and Dimed”) complains that it takes people too far into the psych of fascism, rather than retaining an external feminist & socialist critique. Ehrenreich extremely intelligent.
12/ The Freikorps associated Communism with absorption into a feminine whole, a sort of great co-mingingly and nothingness. They had a point here, I think. We need to maintain boundaries (contra communism), just not rigid ones (contra Freikorps).
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13/ Theweleit has an interesting diversion where he notes Lenin speaking of the “double oppression” of prostitutes, & their eventual organisation into a union with a “trade newspaper”. If you think the term “sex work” is a postmodern left invention, think again.
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14/ What Theweleit can’t quite admit, being a product of the sexual revolution, is that both the Nazis and the Communists thought women & sex lowered battle capability. And even the sainted Brecht’s private correspondence is peeper with complaints about his lover being a “whore”.
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15/ Frankly, I think we’re all aware that at some level sexual release lowers energy potential. The question of masturbation before football games, boxing matches, & dates always comes up. There’s some psychic energy being damned up & released here. Left & right know, really.
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16/ Theweleit comes to the awful realisation that left and right are united...in their antipathy towards women, deeper than any intellectual stance. Interesting aside, Engels & IWA demanded “stable proletarian marriage” as weapon against prostitution. How the left changed!
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17/ The fascist places the sex struggle above the class struggle. This is why the “red pill” on women & MGTOW feed into fascist-type thought. The “incel” worships the machine, not the war machine of WWI but the video game machine of postmodernity.
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