The First Mention of Marxism in “Who Shall Survive?”

This is item 01 in Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” Monograph

Introduction to the Monograph

The first time Moreno mentions Marx in Who Shall Survive?, is in the Preludes of the Sociometric Movement (1978; xiv, xv)

The advent of sociometry cannot be understood without appraising my presociometric background and the historic-ideological setting in the Western world, during and after the First World War. Marxism and psychoanalysis, the two opposites, each had spent their theoretic bolt, the one with Nikolai Lenin’s “State and Revolution” (1917), the other with Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents” (1929). The two opposites had one thing in common: they both rejected religion, they both disavowed he idea of a community which is based on spontaneous love, un-selfishness and sainthood, on positive goodness and naive cooperativeness. I took a position contradictory to both, the side of positive religion.

To summarise: Moreno makes it clear he is not creating his work in a vacuum. Freud and Marx are the ideological setting in the Western world, during and after the First World War. Moreno says “The two opposites had one thing in common: they both rejected religion”. Moreno took the side of positive religion. Continue reading “The First Mention of Marxism in “Who Shall Survive?””

Post to remember

I just found this post: There is no such thing as a person

It’s one I  still appreciate having written.  Strangely, it takes away something of so-called autonomy of the individual. Well, of course, it takes way individualism. Terry Real calls it toxic individualism, but any individualism is toxic. It’s a radical statement: there is no such thing as a person.

It is the exact opposite what Margaret Thatcher said, isn’t it?  That there’s no such thing as society.

Google NotebookLM Podcast (interesting but tiresome already)  People Myth.wav

 

Psychodrama Practicing Certificate

I’ve had one of these every year for decades.  I usually print them and have them on the wall.  This is as far as this one will get.  I do like having it.  It is congruent with who I am and also a mark of belonging to a community of people.