The Secret History of Marxist Alien Hunters

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Hi All,

Just read an interesting article from the outline.com https://theoutline.com/post/5384/the...-alien-hunters

Gives some history about alien researchers particularly Leon Trotsky and filtering down to the works of Eduard “Billy” Meier. I will post some snippets here. Just a nice, 'connecting the dots', sort of article

...J. Posadas, secretary of most Latin American Trotskyism groups during the ‘50s and early ‘60s, was the first to synthesize the heretical fields of Marxism and Ufology with his spring 1968 essay, “Flying saucers, the process of matter and energy, science, the revolutionary and working-class struggle and the socialist future of mankind.” Aliens “have no aggressive impulse,” he wrote. “They have no need to kill in order to live: they come only to observe...[W]e must call on them to intervene, to help us resolve the problems we have on Earth. The essential task is to suppress poverty, hunger, unemployment, and war, to give everyone the means to live in dignity and to lay the bases for human fraternity.”

After Posadas’s death, Minazzoli began to focus exclusively on political readings of the great scientific Ufologists like Hynek and Vallee. He wrote them letters, attended conferences, and self-published a book in 1989 of his theories.

He remained convinced that UFOs were the work of alien observers who recognized humanity was becoming technologically advanced enough to join a galactic community, but was still too dangerous to open up relations to. He predicted that the end of the Cold War could make them change their minds, but that the imperialist United States would attempt to suppress first contact, and mobilize war against the visitors to defend their hegemony.

Aware of Reagan’s concerns about aliens and interest in science-fiction, he cautioned his fellow Ufologists that any government documents leaked to them may have been manipulated by the CIA to further their agenda.

Minazzoli died in 1996, the same year that Independence Day — in which Will Smith greets a crashed alien scout by saying, “Welcome to Earth,” and then punching it in the face — was released. It was this exact sort of pop-culture depiction of extraterrestrials, as locust-like invaders as opposed to sophisticated space comrades, that concerned Minazzoli, who feared that such “Enemy Alien Propaganda,” as Neo-Posadists call it, would prime humanity to accept a militaristic border around the entire planet.

But though Minazzoli remained obscure when he passed away, there was still another Posadist Ufologist left to carry the beacon.

Shortly after Posadas’s death, the German-Argentinian Paul Schulz, a metallurgist and autoworker who had been a central member of the party’s industrial core in the ‘50s and ‘60s, started to receive telepathic messages early each morning.

As with Posadas, the voices prophesized a nuclear war. But technology had advanced so much since World War II that a neutron-bomb detonation would rip the fabric of space-time, making their implications even more dire.

Schulz found an explanation for these messages in the work of Swiss Ufologist Eduard “Billy” Meier, who claimed to be in contact with highly advanced “Plejoran” species. These benevolent aliens, believed Meier, communicate with the most advanced humans in an attempt to steer the human race toward enlightenment. Major religious, political, and scientific figures, including Marx, (allegedly) owed their revelations to Plejoran intervention.

The Marxist Ufologists viewed UFO investigation as part of the scientific and intellectual tradition of humans attempting to overcome their alienation so that they might understand themselves and their place within in nature, with the aim of creating a truly free and equal society.

In searching for aliens, they believed, we are forced to confront the alien logic of capital that controls the world. In this struggle, the Marxist Ufologists saw a potential ally in our interstellar neighbors. The prospect of such an encounter might be terrifying, but it’s hard to imagine our new alien overlords could be any more inhumane than the humans who currently dominate the planet.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Meier portrays himself as an almost Christ-like figure in some ways, and has a spokesperson who promotes his material on his behalf.

Among other things that he's promoted over the years in the name of his advanced Pleiadian beings, is the idea that governments should determine who should have children, and when, and how many, and basically everything about the reproductive process. This idea is presented as how the enlightened Pleiadians do things, you see. Meier has a lot of other agendas that he pushes through his spokesman, including a lot of global warming nonsense.

There was another one of these alleged contactees in Europe who gained some attention in France in the 1960's/1970's by making up a story about being abducted by aliens for several months during WW2, when documents later proved that to be impossible. But his story reminded me a lot of Corey Goode's type of nonsense. This stuff has been going on strong for decades.