The Decadent Worker

“As teleologues, the liberals, Marxists and anarchists thought that all the trappings of modernity — technology, democracy, humanism, etc. — came as a set. To their bewilderment, the New Right has mounted a massive high-tech propaganda campaign (anticipated, to be sure, by Goebbels) successfully promoting the most absurd and vicious misogynist, sadistic and irrational notions.” — Bob Black, “Let us prey! Smash the state!” (Summer ‘86) Anarchy, Box 380, Columbia, MO 65205

“Hillman Holcomb got in trouble with the early Technocrats, because he got wise to the fact that the program of the Technocrats was in the Bible (they did not believe in politics) so got thrown out.

“So he founded the ‘Christian Technocrats’ and managed to get about 37 members world wide in 20 plus years.

“All 37 were Nazis. Funny, hey?” — Co-man Ra (4/18/76 letter to Kerry Thornley)

“Freedom of speech has never been right. We’ve never had freedom of speech in this country and we never should have.” — Rich Anquin, Moral Majority

“There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.” — Pat Robertson

“Not only is the homosexual worthy of death, but (perhaps) also those who approve of homosexuality.” — Jimmy Swaggart

“Israel…must not only be held for the West, but must also be Christianized. This may perhaps best be achieved by the intensive evangelization of Israel’s financial bulwark, viz, American Jewry.” — Francis Nigel Lee, The Christian Manifesto of 1984 (”A victory blueprint for world take-over by A.D. 2000 by Christian conquerers”)

“The secret source of the left’s impotence in the face of the upsurge of the recrudescent right is this: they have too much in common… The left has never jettisoned the humanist moralism it took from Christianity. From Rousseau to Lenin (to say nothing of small fry from Bob Avakian to Mario Cuomo) it preaches guilt, renunciation, martyrdom, self-effacement, obedience, work — in a word, religion. Moralism means sacrifice of real, tangible individuals and their face-to-face passional groups to abstract extrinsic ’causes’ and pseudo-communities (the State, the Party, the Proletariat, la Raza, Sisterhood, etc. ad nauseum). If God is dead, moralism is the Doomsday Machine which he spitefully bequested us.

“The craving for community, for the sensation of a sensibility transcending the sterile, calculating reason of the engineers and bookkeepers and planners cannot be satiated by a demeaning religiosity which alls short of full-blooded practical reason; but only by a surrational leap which includes but exceeds it. ‘Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy’ (Blake), not the ultimate cop-like Categorical Imperative. Reversing Freud: Where Ego was, Id will be too.” — Bob Black, Ibid.

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