3/ Early on we learn about Ernst Bluher, a founder of the wandervogel movement, and enthusiast for male clubs. He thought male-to-male love was the only apporipriate form for these clubs. And these clubs were the seedbed for the Freikorps and later Nazism.
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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