The origins of syphilis and AIDS are mysteriously and by all probability related to zoophily. If it is said about AIDS (besides from the fact that it is a virus born in CIA labs) that the virus is transmitted to man from the green monkey in the heart of Africa, then the origin of syphilis from the goats of Trinidad is even more probable. The Indians of the Trinidad Island at the moment when they were visited by Columbus ships had in custom, when going away for a long time to graze their goats on the mountain plateaus, to copulate in case of necessity with these very same goats because their wives stayed far away in the villages. Returning from the pastures the Indians copulated with their wives but this unhygienic custom did not bring a visible damage to the Indians or their wives. But as for the weaklings Columbus’ sailors, they, once having copulated with Indians wives brought syphilis to Europe. So puritan ethic and with it capitalism came from the vaginas of Trinidad goats. It is not a hypothesis, boys and girls, it is an absolute historical (but little known) truth.
Scared by the triumphal march of syphilis through Europe, the puritans later, already in the XVII century landed in North America, on the historical, so to speak, native land of syphilis (well not really of course, Trinidad is an island between the two Americas). People use to think that the Europeans kind of sent their excess of population to America. This is only partially true but it is syphilis that drove the protestants-puritans away from infected Europe. Munzer’s uprising – as the revolt of the flesh in times of plague, I will notice, was the last burst of orgiastic sects’ activity known to us. The terrible reality of syphilis Europe, the infected maiden, fallen noses – all this hardened, cleansed the manners. The idea of socializing women did not look so attractive anymore. Later Marx made capital attractive. It would be nice to trace, if the apparition of restricting puritan sects of Judaism -like those of the “Lubovitchers” for example in Poland and Belarus were not related to the arriving there of syphilis. The disease was getting there from the Iberian harbors maybe for more than a century. Unfortunately from the investigative isolation ward of the FSB of Russia, such research is impossible. But I am certain that there is a link.
In North America the ascetics-protestants founded a State on the principles of labor, virtue and economy: the United States of America. They started to call themselves WASP, this abbreviation is decoded as white Anglo-Saxon protestant. The United States succeeded in imposing the labor cult to the rest of the world. Some peoples are more capable of labor loving, others are less capable, however we all have to spin around like hamsters in a wheel, producing, producing, producing…And feeling sad because of the low gross domestic revenue of the State and rejoicing if it had suddenly risen. And all of that is because of syphilis. Possibly if syphilis had not appeared in Europe it would have consisted today of a conglomerate of orgiastic communes, like the Munzer one. But this did not happen and the next interesting experiment on world transformation was already the French revolution of 1789.
The French revolution, still being really bourgeois, nevertheless had changed the calendar, counted time from itself, some months’ names, brumaire – when there are fogs – or pluviose – the month of rains – please me, they are poetic and tragic. However the French, regardless of their Jacobins (from the hall of Saint Jacob Church where they were meeting) in the most revolutionary times nevertheless stayed in the traditional frames, in what concerned property and family. The toughest were obviously the guys who gathered around Maximilian Robespierre, he himself, his brother and his closest associates Saint Juste and Camille Desmoulins. Robespierre had a tentative to found a new civil religion, he was even proclaimed its prophet and saint, but did not have the time to develop the affair. The 28 June 1794 the head of Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre rolled into the guillotine basket. In Paris in the Museum of Archives, it is located on the intersection of the rue des Archives and rue Rambuteau (really close – in front of it, in the house 54 rue des Archives was located my first apartment-studio in Paris), I once visited an exposition of documents of the epoch of the French revolution. There for the first time I saw Robespierre’s signature. It is striking: red, tangled in a ball like barbed wire, it suddenly broke far down in some instances even on ten-fifteen centimeters. Usually the signature was under a list of names of people, condemned to beheading. The signature itself, one could say, was the drawing of the fall of the head into the guillotine basket. I never saw a more tragic and amazing signature not before, or after. The signature anticipated also the fate of Robespierre himself and could serve as a symbolic image of the years of the Revolutionary Terror. There were radical attempts to remake society’s life by the founders of anarchism the French Fourier and Saint-Simon. A theory of “phalansteries” was developed, communes in which free men and women would have to live on absolutely new grounds. It is known that such communes were organized in the United States (if I’m not mistaking, in the south of the state of Louisiana) and in Russia on the Volga (the writer Leskov has even an amazing novel on this theme) in the eighties of the XIX century. Unfortunately I know little about the Fourierists, Saint-Simonists and the phalansteries and a serious research on that topic in an investigative isolation ward does not appear possible, so I will bypass the topic, just mentioning it.
In Russia as well political radicalism developed together with economical radicalism and radicalism in regard to the sexes. The already several times mentioned Etkind’s work “The Whip” perfectly shows one of the aspects of this process. Obviously Mr. Etkind is a democrat and a liberal and his personal taste taints his judgments of the radical attempts of society reconstruction into hostile hues. However he has made a big work and his book explains a lot particularly how the Russian revolution of 1917 by no means did have only Marxist roots but also sect roots. Not surprisingly that dreaming of the revolution of peoples, of the destroying of the family the Bolsheviks were joined by such free women as Inessa Armand, the prodigal daughter of the general Dovmontovich, Sasha Kollontai or Larisa Reisner. However soon after the arrival to power, the Bolsheviks, alas, rejected many radical ideas of the early bolshevism, including the desire (it was best theoretically expressed by A. Kollontai in her works) – to destroy the family and to create a society of free love. And also the early death of the leader Lenin put an end to many experiments in the area of property and family, the socializing of women and property did not happen. New forms of social life were not created. Here, naturally, played a role the character of the Caucasian Stalin-Djugashvili who replaced Lenin on the post of the leader. Being, as it is said today, a “churka” [an Asiatic foreigner] by origin, Stalin naturally was more patriarchal and reactionary and his tastes were directly reflected on the society model, which he imposed on Russia. The post-revolutionary Russia was forced to live by the pre-revolutionary adat. Again.