Freudianism is the Leninism of the psychological depths. It is extremely authoritarian in terms of how it sets about dividing putative 'truth' from putative 'error'. It assumes that individuals cannot make their own way through any journey of discovery without the means of an authoritarian analyst who is presumed to have a ready-made matrix for interpreting what is true or what isn't. There is no room for genuinely open exploration.
As Nietzsche said, the herd thinks we already know what is good and evil. Woe to him who searches.
- O my brothers! With whom lies the greatest danger to the whole human future? Is it not with the good and just? - - As those who say and feel in their hearts: "We already know what is good and just, we possess it also; woe to those who still seek thereafter! And whatever harm the wicked may do, the harm of the good is the harmful harm! And whatever harm the world maligners may do, the harm of the good is the harmful harm! O my brothers, into the hearts of the good and just looked someone once on a time, who said: "They are the Pharisees”. But people did not understand him. The good and just themselves were not free to understand him; their spirit was imprisoned in their good conscience. The stupidity of the good is unfathomably wise. It is the truth, however, that the good must be Pharisees - they have no choice! The good must crucify him who devises his own virtue! That is the truth! The second one, however, who discovered their country - the country, heart and soil of the good and just - it was he who asked: "Whom do they hate most”? The creator, hate they most, him who breaks the tables and old values, the breaker - him they call the law breaker. For the good - they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end: - They crucify him who writes new values on new tables, they sacrifice to themselves the future - they crucify the whole human future! The good - they have always been the beginning of the end. -2 seconds ago ·
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The most original component of Taber's critique of Leninism is found in his discussion of the Bolshevik leaders' theory of knowledge. Because Lenin believed in both absolute truth/knowledge, and that Marxism was the knowledge of truth, Taber argues that Lenin and the Bolshevik party -- because they were the only true Marxists in Russia -- believed that their ideology was absolutely correct. Again, the undemocratic and authoritarian implications of such thinking are abundantly clear.
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