Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/16/the-secret-history-of-marxist.html
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In Russia UFO finds you.
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believing that discovery aligned with their goals of raising up the worker.
Um, Roger That!
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This isn’t an unpublished manuscript by Robert Anton Wilson?
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I wish I’d known about this when I read Harry Turtledove’s Worldwar series.
Basically, imagine the Gorn showing up with an invasion fleet during the darkest hours of WW2.
(“Tosevite” is what the aliens in Worldwar call humans.)
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No, although I wouldn’t be surprised if the Posadists were an influence on his writings.
Socialism, psychic dolphins and UFOs. What’s not to love? OK, maybe the global nuclear war is a bit of a downer but you can’t go around asking for perfection.
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And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that lunar excursion module?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful moon!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful flag!
(With apologies to the Talking Heads.)
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But I was quoting Coleman Francis.
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Oh, by the way, the russian studio Mosfilm released it in Youtube for some reason:
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Check out podcast from a Comrade High Commander (or RAW alien Pope?)
http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/zero-books-posadist-special/
…with a tractor beam.
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In Russia, Flying Object identifies you.
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This is possibly how the BOFH & PFY got the idea for the UFO clause in their contracts.
