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I. Philosophy, like cosmology, arose with the world‘s oldest civilizations and although a lot of it was consolations – sops to placate and neuter the underdogs and other disappointed castes – some (such as by Diogenes, Socrates, Cicero and Lucretius) was inflammatory and served the radical thought of hecklers, quibblers and militants. Such fringe commentaries often sceptically derided ?the establishment? which even then was said to be the bankers.

II. Modern philosophy (Genet, Sartre, Camus, Jaspers, et al.) is a stealthy undeclared war upon stoicism, stasis, hedonism, nihilism, cynicism, pragmatism and sophism and all other forms of retarded idolatry. The keepers of these hidebound philosophies are often victims of rising existentialism, iconoclasm and what Marx christened "critical idealism". Even the moral majority includes dozens of existentialists.

III. The genteel tendency of philosophy‘s concordant public image of polite collegiate debate is now totally ruptured and false. Existentialism savages the epigones until they surrender their illusions, which are based on their own crass interpretations of careerism.

IV. Radical Philosophy, the British Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Think, Red Rat, Prospect, Philosophy Now, Peace News, The Big Issue, The Pavement and Homeless Diamonds are thus, after many changes, now existentialist and humanist. These philosophical mindsets are what most readers and contributors have always desired.

V. Existentialism insists upon predicament and plight analysis, delving into the shady fruits of brand loyalty (which the Marxists entitle commodity fetishism and the Christians call "love") – do salesmen fear and hate existos? Denial, vanity, masochism and guilt are not irrelevant. Crystal clarity about them is crucial to the quality of your life according to master alchemists Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Luigi Fulcanelli.

VI. The experience of momentary existence, the raw here and now, is much more important than vain speculations about mythical "essences" which may or may not exist but which are mind-distorting allures.

VII. The two wings of existentialism worldwide are both very dynamic – the New Right, which is quasi-elitist, and the repudiationists who do not retain any vestiges of loyalty to "bad faith". "Bad Faith" by Carmen Callil (2006, Verso Books ) is well worth reading with your comic books and pamphlets.