Secular Monasticism 2024

BMA (UK): Secular Monasticism! (27.4.2024)

Of course, the Western monastic traditions can possess similar parallels – but this should negate the history or purpose of slavish-types of religion. Conventional religion is not the answer – as invariably this developed within a primitive tribal and/or feudalistic environment. Traditionally, conventional religion was designed to maintain a certain hierarchy and status quo with no change from generation to generation. However, once the means of production have changed hands and religion has been transformed into a Revolutionary vehicle – then certain aspect of religious practice might be useful for freeing the working class from oppression!

BMA (UK): Why Are the Taliban Harsh on Women? (21.7.2023)

This job was given to one ‘Colonel Tim Osman’ – more popularly known today as ‘Osama Bin Laden’ – a Saudi-born US citizen and secular Muslim. He did this by turning the passive conservative populations into rabid, racist and highly aggressive ‘Jihadists’. CIA ‘Arabs’ were brought in to indoctrinate the inert tribal masses with a mixture of Neo-Nazim and misinterpretations of Islamic theology! Defending one’s homeland was distorted into ‘taking’ and ‘stealing’ non-ancestral lands. Self-defence was distorted into self-offence. Protecting the innocent was distorted into eradicating the ‘infidel’! The religion of ‘peace’ was distorted into the Islamo-fascist ideology of war! The Soviet Red Army defended the Afghan Revolution from Islamo-fascism between 1979-1989. After this date, Osama Bin Laden slowly conquered the Socialist cities and had his prisoners publicly ‘beheaded’ with rusty knives.

World War One and the Working Class Holocaust

This arousal of working class consciousness unfolded hand in hand with the intensification of bourgeois angst and resistance, which threatened to boil over into an all-out war between the competing bourgeois countries. This situation was reflected by the fact that the various congresses of the Second International dedicated much thinking time to the solving of the problem of what policy should be adopted by the international working class within their respective countries, should war breakout between those countries. In other words, should the developing working class regress into the old pattern of simply following the lead of the bourgeoisie in time of war, and kill one another in the name of ‘nationalism’ for their respective countries? In the 1907 Stuttgart congress, the Second International – with the help of Lenin – issued what was thought of at the time, to be a definitive statement upon the matter (see opening quote). In essence, the Second International in 1907 called upon its constituent members to use every available means to prevent a war from happening, or to shorten a war by the same means should hostilities have already broken out.

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