#29-1986 Dedicated to Dylan Thomas - Whoever HE Was KALLISTI K U L T C H A RSVP Organ of the Revolutionary Surrealist Vandal Party (RSVP) ANARCHO-SURREAL: Clearly, rational values must prevail over disguised traditional values within any culture that honestly merits being called revolutionary. While among such values must be tolerance for older cultures and for cultural diversity among the world's masses, revolution- ary culture is for revolutionaries -- to meet the needs of a category of people concerned with maintaining morale for a specific type of struggle against racism, classism, sexism and statism. Also, it is an outreach toward potentially rebellious individuals in the general populance. For these reasons it need not in any way tamely condescend to square notions of moral ob- edience. So as to embody such strength of principle without becoming offensively intolerant it can simply avoid taking itself too seriously. Anarcho-surrealism is shallowly criticized for being trivial when it is simply modest, tactful and psychologically strategic. In its departure from conventions is some of the weight of its message, while its light-heartedness tends to soften the blow. Culture is returned to a sane perspective and does not, therefore, continue to serve as fodder for endless bickering. See Alan Watts in the chapter of PSYCHOTHERAPY EAST AND WEST called "Invitation to the Dance." In his final book, TAO: THE WATERCOURSE WAY, Watts praises the anarchism of Kropotkin. SEX-POL by Wilhelm Reich is also worth studying in this connection. In the first, and in my view unrivaled, synthesis of Marx and Freud this genius -- who had not yet been driven half mad by Marxist and Freudians, both -- shares with anarch- ists, social democrats, Trotskyists and many Stalinists of the day what was simply the popular wisdom: that puritanism is the backbone of bourgeois sexual morality. (That free-thinking materialist libertines were also to be found among capitalists was not taken as overwhelming proof that cultural rationalism was bourgeois and decadent. It seems to have taken the over- lapping reigns of terror and virtue of Hitler and Stalin to establish the contemporary assumption that only 19th century Prussian values are not safely called decadent.) "Every type of political power presupposes some form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being. Just as outwardly -- that is, in relation to other States -- the State has to create certain artificial antagon- isms in order to justify its existence, so also internally the cleavage of society into castes, ranks, and classes is an essential condition of its continuance. The State is capable only of protecting old privileges and creating new ones; in that, its whole significance is exhausted." -- Rudolf Rocker, ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM For back issues of KULTCHA send 25› per number to Ho Chi Zen, 2981 Lookout Place, Atlanta 30305.