7/ What is the last remaining male space in Western liberal societies? Gay clubs and venues. These, being a protected minority, are still allowed to exclude people(freedom of association only for persecuted minorities under liberalism).
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8/ These spaces (think Muscle Beach in LA) are also devoted to the body beautiful (aesthetics & fascism) and have a racial undertow. I once watched an Asian drag queen’s act, and she was quite angry about the racial discrimination she found on Grindr.
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9/ In an ironic dialectical reversal, the left’s cultivation of LGBT rights has also cultivated the male club most likely to form a fertile environment for fascism. What’s missing is the Freikorps aspect. The mercenary band of men at war.
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10/ The Freikorps tended to see women as a “toilet”, partly the result of growing up in WWI among prostitution. They were also petit bourgeois men w/ aristo sensibilities. Working class women & men were free & easy w/ sex. This inocntinece appalls the Freikorps.
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11/ Theweleit quotes a bourgeois writer who lived among the miners (bergarbeiter, mountain worker, I like the name) for a year, a bit like Orwell in Wigan. Writer describes everyone sleeping with everyone else, sex the only entertainment for the poor.
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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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