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KulturKampf: The Intersection of #Nietzsche and #Marcuse: The concept of the soul as a tool of oppression.
“The belief that the soul is more important than the body and material needs leads to political resignation insofar as freedom becomes internal. Hence, the soul accepts the facts of its material existence without fighting to change these facts. Affirmative culture with its idea of the soul has used art to erase radical subjectivity.”
“Hence, bourgeois culture creates an interior of the human being where the highest ideals of culture can be realized. This inner transformation does not demand an external transformation of the real world and its material conditions.” (Arnold Farr, Herbert Marcuse)
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Takeaway: The National Progressive Gnostic plan to “world the earth” and its Endziel of Apocatastasis is as much *POLITICAL* as it is spiritual. All class struggle is now to be reframed within a psychospiritual KULTURKAMPF based on a notion of radical robust subjectivity that encompasses a multiplicity of oppressed/ repressed subject positions and social groups as inextricably bound up with their material conditions:
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The apocalyptic struggle between the values and ideals of the collective right embodied in the Demiurgic will to power/oppression/exploitation, and the values and ideals of collective left embodied in the Sophianic will to emancipation/equity/transcendence.
Orthodox Marxism failed by its exclusivist focus on just one social group, the proletariat, vetoing all other possible sites of revolution.
“Economic class is just one structural position among many” (Farr)
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