Was Bukowski an anarchist?

You've convinced me - where do I sign up? (you dreadful attention seeking knacker)

Tried to read anything other than Capital? are you friggin' joking? I tried David Harvey's Reading Capital, was ok, but then i went back to Marx's Capital. You know, you should read Capital. It's great. You might even find something you like there. You know for Marx nature is the source of all value (thats in Critique of Gotha Programme). In Capital there is a few ditties about soil degradation. Great stuff. Never mind all this Derrick Jensen Zarzan stuff, read Capital!

What utter, utter rubbish. So this break down of the 'bicameral mind' occurred during the first/second millennium aye caused by the Bronze Age Collapse? The Bronze Age Collapse only occurred in the Near East. By the time it occurred humanity had already spread across the entire globe. Are we to believe that societies elsewhere in the world remained with this primitive brain until met by their more civilised fellows? Rubbish.

oh, just to clarify, i don't think pantheism is necessarily post-modern in itself (hence my reference to the pre-modernist 17th century philosopher Spinoza), I just think that pantheism, after the death of God and the fragmentation of the christian cosmology in europe, is picked up in a very blase post-modern, consuming religion/cosmology sort of way (sort of like certain strands of Buddhism have been). It seems to me a very non-committal idea of god one an just pick up, doesn't require one to be unsettled out of atheistic thought processes really.

The life of a working class stiff in 1970's LA. Post Office was actually a great read. I also like "Flop House"- it reminds me of jail.

Flophouse

you haven’t lived
until you’ve been in a
flophouse
with nothing but one
light bulb
and 56 men
squeezed together
on cots
with everybody
snoring
at once
and some of those
snores
so
deep and
gross and
unbelievable-
dark
snotty
gross
subhuman
wheezings
from hell
itself.
your mind
almost breaks
under those
death-like
sounds
and the
intermingling
odors:
hard
unwashed socks
pissed and
shitted
underwear
and over it all
slowly circulating
air
much like that
emanating from
uncovered
garbage
cans.
and those
bodies
in the dark
fat and
thin
and
bent
some
legless
armless
some
mindless
and worst of
all:
the total
absence of
hope
it shrouds
them
covers them
totally.
it’s not
bearable.
you get
up
go out
walk the
streets
up and
down
sidewalks
past buildings
around the
corner
and back
up
the same
street
thinking
those men
were all
children
once
what has happened
to
them?
and what has
happened
to
me?
it’s dark
and cold
out
here.

(Charles Bukowski)

"I assume you follow Dawkins then? You know, the absurdity is that both parties, religious people and Dawkin minians, both say they know the truth. Both you cannot prove Gods existence, nor disprove it completely. Both are ditches, as Osho would say."

Well since i never read anything by Dawkins probably rather not. If someone doesnt say what he thinks is the truth that would be pretty wicked - like saying "im all bullshit yo".. nobody does that. Of course you cant prove the absence of something, how would you do that.. thats why im saying all beliefs are bullshit - even atheism if its not agnostic. btw this is an "ancient" leftist theme, we paying our dues to Feuerbach and Stirner here

A true poet is instinctually anarchistic, as we all are capable of being, if we do not slip away from our inherent nature, by whatever machinations. The initial question seems naive, because I believe that everyone is a potential anarchist/communist, but layered over with indoctrinations, which Bukowski had made an effort to shed like a snake skin throughout his entire life. There was an excellent movie starring Ben Gazzara called I think 'the diary of a madman'. There was one poignant moment when he is destitute and asks,"Have you ever felt like a piece of tissue paper covered in excrement drifting out to sea?"
As for the accusations that he was misogynous, show me anyone who has been in love who has not felt like screaming and venting about the communication gap that exists with their partners. Poets should never marry fullstop. Their essential being cannot be made to conform to domestic regularities. They are loose cannons firing fragments of truth.
Please, Dawkins and God are passé, science and mythology had their moment and failed. God would have been a psychopath and the genome cannot save us.

i want communism because im fed up with capitalism. nothing to do with faith in anything. the truth is out there, thats all i can say about it, and i mean like right in front of your eyes. if there is a subjective element to your truth thats your own fault science strives to be objective and they know a shitload thats simply not matter of dicussion anymore. like the energy stuff that makes my screen shine and i have no clue about. thousands of people know exactly how this works, see what i mean? of course you can talk about all the false truths in history but theres still the matter of the true truths like the earth not being flat and all that jazz you can see.

wont be back till tuesday and no interested in saying anything else about the "can we know anything" - matter.