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Sex is supposed to keep everyone so busy that they don\u2019t have time to fight. Make love not war has been the implicit slogan of nearly every utopian project in the modern age.<\/p>\n

Augusto del Noce (Crisis of Modernity<\/a>, 182-4) shows why this is not the case: \u201cOne common feature [of the sexual revolution] is psycho-erotic-Freudian-Marxist de-Christianization. Another is stopping at negativity and believing in the magic power of the idea of negativity. It must be followed by the quest for sensuous and emotional novelties through drugs, precisely in order to go beyond reality.\u201d The sexual revolution aims to \u201cpush to the limit Marxism\u2019s revolutionary aspect by linking it to psychoanalysis understood in a revolutionary sense \u2013 we understand by what process eroticism must lead to the quest for a surreal world through drugs, and because of this rejection of reality it must encounter anarchism, keeping only its nihilistic aspect and leaving out the moral one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sexual revolution can only be carried out as \u201ctotal negativism, not only against civilization and values but also against the very principle of reality, and is accompanied by the most sacrilegious and blasphemous expressions.\u201d Rather than peace, the sexual revolution brings \u201c\u2018permanent violence\u2019 as a replacement for the ideal of [Marxist] \u2018permanent revolution,\u201d which was oriented toward a future peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

He finds in the eroticism of Bataille, for instance, a reversal of the biblical account of creation and fall: \u201ceroticism is the precise opposite: its principle is, so to speak, de-creation, as opposed to creation. Having denied every trace of the divine image within human individuality, the process moves toward dissolution, fusion with totality through negation of individuality\u201d and therefore \u201cthe separation, within eroticism, of love from generation, and the aversion against giving birth.\u201d <\/p>\n

An upside down sacred is inherent in eroticism, in ritualizations of sex. Del Noce observes that Christianity \u201cseparated religion from eroticism,\u201d and that the fusion of the two returns in every heresy: \u201cToday is the time when all heresies seem to have gathered together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"