BLAVATSKY REPUDIATED COMMUNISM

 

 

Boris de Zirkoff pointed out that in Blavatsky's scrapbook (vol. VI, p.258) is pasted a brief cutting entitled “Extreme measures advocated”. Neither the source, the date, nor the author are stated, but Zirkoff considers it to be in 1878.

 

This document tells about Charles Sotheran who, declaring himself a labor Socialist, spoke at a mass meeting of strikers and urged them to take extreme measures against the Capitalist exploiters.

 

To this statement Blavatsky remarked:

 

“A Theosophist becoming a rioter, encouraging revolution and MURDER, a friend of Communists is no fit member of our Society.

HE HAS TO GO."

 

(CW I, p.404)

 

 

Charles Sotheran (1847-1902) was an antiques dealer, bookseller and journalist, he was present at the founding of the Theosophical Society which took place in New York in 1875, and Mr. Sotheran was elected librarian of this new organization.

 

And although he was a relevant member, when he began to promote communism, Blavatsky did not hesitate to expel him.

 

 

 

Later, when Blavatsky was in India, in the magazine The Theosophist, October 1879, she wrote:

 

« Unconcerned about politics; hostile to the insane dreams of Socialism and of Communism, which it abhors—as both are but disguised conspiracies of brutal force and sluggishness against honest labor; the Society cares but little about the outward human management of the material world. The whole of its aspirations are directed toward the occult truths of the visible and invisible worlds. »

(p.6-7)

 

 

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We therefore see that Blavatsky felt a big rejection of communism.