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The Queer Gnostic Cult

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The Demi-Urge in Marxism

In Gnosticism, the demi-urge is the evil demon that actually creates the world and does so to imprison people. So in Marxism, you have a Gnostic framework that the proletariat is excluded from the means of production. And what has to happen is the dialectical materialism has to wake up in the class conscious proletariat to overthrow the whole system. They have to adopt socialist consciousness. It's exactly the same in queer theory, the exact same thing, but the property is no longer the material means ofproduction. The means of cultural production and social production around the world word normal.

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