Seeing that we here are now celebrating "150 Years after the Abolition of Slavery in Venezuela", within the context of the "Revolution In The Revolution", it is imperative to bring to our attention the fact, that the social and mental emancipation of wage-slaves across the globe, has yet never ever been accomplished. In reality, the European Mental Holocaust since centuries implanted into our very "souls" is still haunting our daily existence.

Hence, an intrinsic part of the current "deepening of the revolution" concerns precisely the annihilation of all forms of a slave mentality, of mental slavery, of dissocialization and "maleducation" for barbarism. Only as such the Bolivarian Revolution will be able to create real, true, emancipatory scientific práxis and philosophic theory. Not only Marx stated it, the very bourgeois, capitalist thinkers of the Enlightenment, all of them, began with religious critique, before they launched their social philosophy, the political theory of the French Revolution. We have no substitute for this, no alternative, we have to do likewise.

Older Forms of Mental Slavery

Many of us are unaware of the Mental Holocaust, that has ruined the healthy brains of billions across the planet for millennia already. Historically, the most effective and efficient forms of intellectual slavery were and still are official State Religion and ruling class Ideology.

In this age of destructive world wars, where the very existence of humanity is at stake, it is imperative to study everything that concerns emancipation, even to pluck the religious "forbidden fruits", to transcend the "sacred cows".

Hence, at first, let's get down to the core of religious mind and thought control, so effectively practiced and successfully divulged by our European and North American conquistadors, and our "Godfathers" elsewhere. Seeing that "Knowledge is Power" (Francis Bacon), let us tackle and grasp powerfully mental slavery at its very ideological roots.

Here we will just summarize religious ideology, its main elements, with reference to mental slavery, to a slave mentality towards authoritarian authorities, ruling by "the Grace of God", by petro-dollars, that "Trust in God".

We are not attacking any real human, true religious sentiments, especially not those of an autochthonous, indigenous nature, rather our critical deliberations concern the massive "religious" doctrines and divine lies that were fabricated in Europe, in the Dark Ages, and which were spread via the Conquest to the rest of the world, having precisely the functions of mind enslavement and intellectual control, that is, to force us to internalize and sublimate colonial and neocolonial suppression, repression, depression and oppression.

Our slave-masters have not only implanted their ideas, they have also forcefully introduced their conquering religions.

Here, we will just illustrate very briefly the indoctrinatory and manipulatory quintessence of State Religion, of Rule by Divine Will, as explained by Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx. At the eve of liberal capitalism, these two thinkers, at best, have explained the functioning of feudalist, capitalist, religious machinations of mental bondage.

For those who do not know how mechanical materialistic, how "atheist", our capitalist forefathers were, it is noteworthy to underline that nearly all the bourgeois, capitalist, democratic thinkers of the Enlightenment were experts in liberating themselves from obsolete beliefs, from obscurantist scholasticism, bigotry and obscure, absolutist, feudalist nightmares.

They knew how at first to get fundamental things very straight, and then to storm the Bastille: they separated the medieval Church from the absolutist State, replaced the burning stake with the guillotine, the "Rule by the Grace of God" with the "Reign of Terror", detonated the dogmatic religious ideology of the feudalist State, and launched their heliocentric rational world outlook.

Only as such bourgeois Reason alias Capital could triumph, could the French and Industrial Revolutions realize, materialize themselves, could Western Democracy defend itself vis-a-vis feudalism, could it become invincible.

Similarly, it became necessary for the Hegelian Left, the radical democrats, among them, Feuerbach, Marx and Engels, also to get things straight with feudalist religion, with blind-folding ideology, with the famous Faustian "Gretchenfrage", before they could present the Communist Manifesto to the world proletariat, a conditio sine qua non to develop their own revolutionary práxis and theory, as Negation within the Global System.

Ludwig Feuerbach's Explanation of Mind Vassalage

The 19th-century German philosopher and moralist, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach already very early in his life, was a bourgeois, democratic materialist, who attacked religious Mind Control. Already before 1840, he wrote:

“that Christianity has in fact long
vanished not only from the reason
but from the life of mankind, that
it is nothing more than a fixed idea.