http://www.rawilson.com/illuminatus.shtml#drake gives you a little flavor (read the last sentence a few times).
This recommendation today reminded me of a couple of things that have been processing in the back of my mind:
1. Crowley: Liber Oz
2. Mao: Problems of War and Strategy
Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. Yet, having guns, we can create Party organizations, as witness the powerful Party organizations which the Eighth Route Army has created in northern China. We can also create cadres, create schools, create culture, create mass movements. Everything in Yenan has been created by having guns. All things grow out of the barrel of a gun. According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong army. Some people ridicule us as advocates of the "omnipotence of war". Yes, we are advocates of the omnipotence of revolutionary war; that is good, not bad, it is Marxist. The guns of the Russian Communist Party created socialism. We shall create a democratic republic. Experience in the class struggle in the era of imperialism teaches us that it is only by the power of the gun that the working class and the laboring masses can defeat the armed bourgeoisie and landlords; in this sense we may say that only with guns can the whole world be transformed. We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
3. The fact that the above are likely directly responsible for my proud lifetime membership in the NRA.
You have no idea what hell I get because of my membership in that organization, but I can normally balance it out by saying that I give money to CARE & UNICEF (which is true too).
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