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       Free Masonry and Communism
   DIR By: forbitals
       Date: February 5, 2019, 8:06 pm
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       The Life of Toussaint Louverture
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N4PkXyHss8
       That there is some similarity in the thinking underlying Masonry
       and Marxism is obvious.  But I have never seen that Masonry goes
       that far, usually being something of the Middle-Class and
       working as an Opiate just like Religion does.
       So, what do others say about this?
       Marx on Freemasonry
  HTML http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/marx_k.html
       Why was Karl Marx considered a Freemason?
  HTML https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Karl-Marx-considered-a-Freemason
       Nazi Persecution of Freemasonry
  HTML http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/ushmm.html
       Karl Marx on Freemasonry
  HTML https://gnosticwarrior.com/karl-marx-on-freemasonry.html
       Workers' Movement: Marxism against Freemasonry
  HTML http://en.internationalism.org/content/3741/workers-movement-marxism-against-freemasonry
       "Combating the bourgeoisie's fascination for the hidden and
       mysterious, Marx and Engels showed that the proletariat is the
       enemy of every kind of policy of secrecy and mystification."
       "In France, already after 1968, the bourgeoisie was using its
       "neo- Templar", "Rosicrucian" and "Martinist" sects in order to
       infiltrate leftist and other groups, in collaboration with the
       SAC services. For example, Luc Jeuret, the guru of the "Sun
       Temple" began his career by infiltrating Maoist groups (L 'Ordre
       du Temple Solaire, from page 145 on)."
       "
       In fact, the following years saw the appearance of organisations
       of the type used against the proletarian revolution in the 20s.
       On the extreme right, the Front Europeen de Liberation has
       revived the "National-bolshevik" tradition. In Germany, the
       Sozialrevolutionare Arbeiterfront (Social Revolutionary Workers'
       Front), following its motto "the frontier is not between left
       and right but between above and below" is specialised in
       infiltrating different "left wing" movements. The Thule Society
       has also been refounded as a counter revolutionary secret
       society[13].
       "
       "
       Left-wing versions of such counter-revolutionary organisations
       are no less active. In France, for instance, new sects have been
       established in the tradition of "Martinism", a variant of
       freemasonry historically specialised in the infiltration and
       subversion of workers' organisations. Such groups put forward
       the idea that communism can best be achieved by the
       manipulations of an enlightened minority. Like other sects, they
       are specialised in the art of manipulating people.
       "
       "
       More generally, the development of occult sects and esoteric
       groupings in the past years is not only an expression of the
       petty bourgeoisie's hopelessness and hysteria at the historic
       situation, but is encouraged and organised by the state. The
       role of these sects in inter-imperialist rivalries is known (e.g
       the use of Scientology by the US bourgeoisie against Germany).
       But this whole "esoteric" movement is equally part of the
       bourgeois ideological onslaught against marxism, especially
       after 1989 with the alleged "death of communism". Historically,
       it was in face of the rising socialist movement that the
       European bourgeoisie began to identify with the mystical
       ideology of freemasonry, especially after the 1848 revolutions.
       Today, the unbridled hatred of esotericism for materialism and
       marxism, as well as for the proletarian masses considered
       "materialistic" and "stupid", is nothing else but the
       concentrated hatred of the bourgeoisie and parts of the petty
       bourgeoisie for an undefeated proletariat. Unable itself to
       offer any historical alternative, the bourgeoisie opposes
       marxism with the lie that stalinism was communist, but also with
       the mystical vision that the world can only be "saved" when
       consciousness and rationality have been replaced by ritual,
       intuition and hocus-pocus.
       In the face of today's decomposition of capitalist society, it
       is the task of revolutionaries to draw the lessons of the
       experience of the workers movement against what Lenin called
       "mysticism as a cloak for counter-revolutionary moods". And it
       is our task to reappropriate the vigilance of the workers'
       movement of the past against the manipulations and infiltration
       of the occult apparatus of the bourgeoisie.
       "
       ****************  The Very Negative View Of Esoteric Groups
       Which I Would Have Expected From A Marxist Source.  And more
       often than not I think it completely warranted.  But does it
       always have to be that way?
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  HTML http://staffs.proboards.com/thread/7141
       "As a dire hard Socialist, the most interesting part of
       Freemasonry for me is it's deeply Socialist message. All equal,
       no class nor caste. Of course, the gender exclusion is nonsense
       but that is mainly a relic of a patriarchal age."
  HTML http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/allende_s/allende_s.html
       Salvador Allende, founded Chile's Socialist Party in 1933, Mason
       "
       Debray: I've always heard that you've had connections with
       freemasonry and yet you are a Marxist; you know at one time
       there was a serious dispute within the international workers'
       movement. For example, in France in the twenties, the freemasons
       were expelled from the Communist Party, which was then in its
       infancy. Do you see a contradiction between your supposed
       connections with freemasonry and your Marxist position, your
       class position?
       Allende: First, Régis, let me remind you that the first
       Secretary Général of the French Communist Party was a freemason.
       Debray: Yes, yes ...
       Allende: And that it was only by the time of the Third
       International that incompatibility between the two movements was
       established.
       Debray: Yes.
       Allende: Now, from a personal point of view, I have a masonic
       background. My grandfather, Dr Allende Padin was a Most Serene
       Grand Master of the Masonic Order in the nineteenth century,
       when being a freemason meant being involved in a struggle. The
       Masonic Lodges and the Lautaro Lodges were the corner stone of
       independence and the struggle against Spain.
       Debray: Bolivar and Sucre were freemasons.
       Allende: Exactly. So you can understand perfectly well that,
       with this kind of family tradition, and again, since the masonic
       movement fought for fundamental principles like Liberty,
       Equality and Fraternity, one can viably have such connections.
       Now I have maintained within the masonic movement that there
       cannot be equality in the capitalist régime, not even equality
       of opportunity, of course; that there cannot be fraternity while
       there is class exploitation, and that true liberty is a concrete
       and not an abstract notion. So you see I interpret the
       principles of freemasonry according to their true content. Now,
       I know perfectly well that there are countries where freemasonry
       could not be considered consistent with these principles.
       "
       And guys are posting this stuff while being told that politics
       is verboten on the Masonic Message Board and in the Masonic
       Lodges.
       "Freemasonry has not, by any stretch of the imagination, been
       largely associated with the Left. Yes, many of the smaller
       European Grand Orients and Grand Lodges to take a strong
       humanist stance, but lets be honest- the bigger, more important
       Grand Lodges are populated by men who mainly have a particular
       attachment to the current, capitalist, system. Having
       experienced Freemasonry on four continents, its not a hotbed of
       Socialist reform."
       Why Do Freemasons Like Pope Francis So Much?
  HTML http://culturalmarxism.net/why-does-freemasonry-openly-support-pope-francis/
       Were Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky Freemasons?
  HTML https://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=253073.0
       Communism and Freemasonry   ( seems to be an anti-freemasonry
       board )
  HTML http://freemasonrywatch.org/communism.html
       from above, "Some Objections to Socialism"
  HTML http://www.hiddenmysteries.com/xcart/Some-Objections-to-Socialism.html
       Communism and Freemasonry
  HTML https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_Freemasonry
       Masonic Links
  HTML http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/links/masonsites.html
       more
  HTML http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/links/lodges.html
       Salvador Allende
  HTML http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/allende_s/allende_s.html
       Universal Co-Masonry, books
  HTML https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/masonic-library
       My conclusion, most always freemasonry is a bourgeoisie affair.
       But built into its core ideas is still the potential for
       revolution.  And we see this surfacing in how they supported the
       French Revolution.  And then we see more of this in how Le Droit
       Humaine broke away, and then Universal Co-Masonry in the US
       broke away from that.  So it is easy to break away, just get a
       few Masons, I guess 33rd Degree, and then you can form your own.
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