Socialists Find Me Too Far Left; Trotskyites

For The Establishment, Philosophy Is Both An Elitist And An Idealist Discipline: In High School, It Is A Compulsory Subject; At University, They Teach The Idealist Line. They Are Conducting A Conversation With Themselves.

Many Militants Of The Secular Cause Look Astonishingly Like Clergy. Worse: Like Caricatures Of Clergy.

I Am A Sworn Atheist And Therefore From My Point Of View The Talmud Or The Koran Don't Constitute Works Of Political Philosophy But Rather Writings That Stand In Utter Contradiction To Concepts Like Logic, Freedom, Feminism, Secularism, Brotherhood - Which Are My Ideals.

I Persist In Preferring Philosophers To Rabbis Priests Imams Ayatollahs And Mullahs. Rather Than Trust Their Theological Hocus-pocus I Prefer To Draw On Alternatives To The Dominant Philosophical Historiography: The Laughers Materialists Radicals Cynics Hedonists Atheists Sensualists Voluptuaries. They Know That There Is Only One World And That Promotion Of An Afterlife Deprives Us Of The Enjoyment And Benefit Of The Only One There Is. A Genuinely Deadly Sin.

Socialists Find Me Too Far Left; Trotskyites Not Far Enough; Ecologists Say I Am Too Happy Eating Foie Gras, Defending Nuclear Energy And Gm Plants; Feminists Find I Am Not Enough Of A Woman; Anarchists A Petit-bourgeois Who Has Sold Out Because I Believe In Universal Suffrage.