ON REVOLUTIONARY SADISM
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life of man is purely arbitrary and rests on no causal connection.
If
the night has such a profound effect upon our lives, it is because
it reminds the unconscious of the conditions of uterine life. But
man in his effort of adaptation draws farther and farther away
from intra-uterine life, reacts against tendencies of return, and
tries more and more to overcome the night. Already our cities have
given up sleep and do their best to prolong the day artificially.
If
death is not a biological process and already tends to be
outworn, then old age is no longer a fatal biological necessity, and
we must overcome that too. (
Calas discusses elsewhere recent in–
VeStigations
in
biology which tend to show that death
is
not natural,
buJ accidental in many lower organisms.-translator.)
Any process
which moves us away from death cannot fail to be painful. But
philogenically, such a process is progressive. Jung's theory, from
the viewpoint of politics, can only serve reaction. When the lover–
chief grows old he becomes a king. He will call upon an ethic of
old age for the emotional aid he will then need. And therefore it
is the duty of every conscious revolutionary to fight old age, to fight
all forms of reaction, all reactionary manifestations of political
and moral life and all reactionary interpretations of form or of
matter.
Because we unconsciously suffer at the idea of having to for–
sake a world to which we are attached, because our attitude is
algolagnic, even those who are most revolutionary among us have
to be alert to avoid being carried away by the powerful currents
which run counter to our conscious aspirations. We must keep in
mind constantly that everything can be interpreted in terms of
regression, fascism and death!
