"about", part 2

[sophiaserpentia]

I'm still a bit mildly stunned by the moment yesterday of fully grokking, as if all at once, that the real essence of the writings of the Marquis de Sade was not sexual deviation, but the rich doing whatever they want to poor people without any sort of consequence or accountability. (Well, okay, I was helped along to this epiphany by Grant Morrison.)

It is fascinating that the class aspect of these seminal writings rarely ever comes up at all in modern discourse about sadomasochism. Not surprising, but fascinating.

Comments

[ankh-f-n-khonsu.livejournal.com]

uhhh... I think that's a rather superficial reading of what he was trying to do and and what he did, as well as totally dismissive of the social milieu he was born into.

To say de Sade wasn't any sort of revolutionary seems socio-historically unreasonable.