I promised you that I would focus on TEH WEIRD way back at the beginning of this blog, and so far I haven't really managed to follow through, being too focused on Bush, Ruin, Iraq, Space, Hope, Technology and other, more immediate topics of concern.
I need to start rectifying that. And with that in mind, I'd like to give you this Fortean Times article about one of the truly great and visonary players of the Fourth International, Juan R. Posadas:
We think of UFO cults, typically, as being naïve, fancy-dress Californian affairs, scary religious Doomsday sects, or even neo-Nazi groups convinced that flying saucers operate from a secret Antarctic base. But there was one UFO cult at the opposite end of the political spectrum: a Trotskyite UFO cult.They called themselves the Posadists after their founder Juan R Posadas and, like many UFO cults, they bore a fierce loyalty to their “dear master”. They believed that close encounters were evidence of superior socialist civilisations from Earth’s future. Their bizarre belief in flying saucers was not channelled to them by some tackily-named space entity but “theoretically informed” by Marx and Trotsky, and was for them a logical extension of Marxist dialectical materialism. Posadas wrote: “We will travel to planets millions of light years away under a Socialist society.”
My only regret is that I didn't think of this first. UFOs and Socialism - two great tastes that taste great together.
(via Cyborg Democracy)
Posted by the Fourth Man at February 21, 2004 05:30 PM