0001 Sociology is often a curious field of inquiry. In the mirror of the world₃, there is only one Be Little Men movement (blm).  Blm is a slogan₂.  No substitutions to these words are allowed.  The potential₁ underlying the slogan₂ is fixed on the only possibility among a sea of possible meanings, presences and messages.  That potential is the possibility of marxist righteousness₁.

Here is a picture of a triadic relation, as introduced in A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form.

0002 What is marxist righteousness₁?

Marx is a “communist” who names his enemy, the “capitalist”.

The specter of “capitalism”?

Das Kapital?

The root word for “capital” is “head”.

Wrap your cap around that.

0003 Marxist righteousness₁ relies on the emptiness of spoken words.  A speech-alone word is merely a placeholder in a system of differences.  Meaning, presence and message must be projected into each spoken word.  The marxist reserves the right to project that meaning, presence and message.

Allow no substitutes.

Substitutions squander the purity of the projection.

0004 What does this mean to me₃?

This is what the target of a marxist slogan never asks.

The slogan isolates the guilty.

Originally, the capitalist is the one upon which marxist righteousness descends.  The target is guilty, with no option of managing the label, except through submission₁.  Indeed, the organizational objective₂ is to manifest submission₁.

Now, other labels serve as slogans_2a.

This second nested form situates the first nested form, as described in A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction.

0005 There are two blms.  On the content level, blm is a slogan_2a emerging from (and situating) righteousness_1a.  On the situation level, blm manifests organizational objectives_2b that actualize the potential of submission_1b, thus increasing the wealth, power and overall prowess_3b of those reflecting the mirror of the world_3a.

According to rumors, advertisers in saavy suites say that executive suits of major corporations donate large sums_1b to an organization_2b whose namesake is the slogan_2a.  Other, less well-endowed targets are suited up as scapegoats, following the historic and literary patterns noted by Rene Girard.  Marxist righteousness projects a lack, held within the accuser, upon a scapegoat, the target.

0006 Yes, by definition_1a, certain types can never submit_1b.  These characters are magically gifted with the power to create the lack that they are accused of_1a as well as the standing to fill that lack with their own… shall I say?.. capitals_1b.

0007 Is marxism a modern version of an ancient religion?

Surely, early civilizations sacrifice humans to their gods.

Remember the old adage?

A capitalist will sell the communist the rope to hang himself.

The joke works as long as the target does not comprehend the intent of the customer.

Why would anyone hang the fellow who sold “him” some rope?

Marxist righteousness calls the fellow, a “capitalist”.

The seller’s hanging manifests the realness of the marxist’s organizational objectives_1b.

In the same way, ritual sacrifice validates the realness of ancient deities.

0008 What else does this imply?

The target is not privy to what does this mean to me_3b.  The deadly earnestness of marxist submission_1b cannot be appreciated from the outside.  The above two-level interscope is sensible only from the inside.  The insider holds the secret knowledge_3a that secures the slogan’s single possible meaning, presence and message_1a.

If a gnostic path blossoms into a social movement, such as the be little men movement, then today’s secular academic sociologists include the topic in their regional and global meetings, showcasing how they are in tune with the emerging secret knowledge.  They can explain it.  They can write books about it.  They can explore its righteousness_1a, explicate its slogans_2a, develop pathways for submission_1b and extol its authority_2b.  They can conduct surveys in order to show how a slogan has struck a cord in social consciousness_3a.  They can tell all how the insider feels_3b.

0009 Modern sociology is such a curious field of inquiry.  It poses as a mirror_3a of the world_c.  As such, it constructs its own sensible approach, in the same fashion as marxist religions.

0010  Five related works are available at www.smashwords.com.

A Primer on the Category Based Nested Form

A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

How To Define the Word “Religion”

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