GRGR(24): Tchitcherine, Wimpe, Marxism, and you

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, one million billionth of a millisecond on a sunday morning wrote:



> Wimpe brings in a mess of GR themes:
> religion was always about death; it was used as a technique for
> getting people to die for one particular set of beliefs about death.
> The secular version replaces the goal; now death is for History,
> helping it to grow to its predestined shape.
> 

> The System again: Wimpe's describing mechanisms the System uses to
> take care of business. It apparently has no preference - the outcome
> is the same, people dying for the appropriate (i.e. appropriate
> for the System) reasons.

The only difference would be that under religiously motivated dying for
the system the soldier receives eternal salvation along with helping to
PROTECT the system. Under the Marxist dying the presumed historic outcome
is to aid in DESTROYING the system.

The secret of the plot may be however that despite theory the SYSTEM
always survives. (it says somewhere in fine print)

			P.