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Rudra’s Red Banner
Moksha and
Marxism
By Peter Wilberg
Peter Wilberg
(born in London in 1952) is an independent philosophical thinker, teacher,
therapist and author of ethnic German and Jewish-German background. He
has published more than 20 books including the following themes: philosophy
of consciousness, the philosophy of science and religion, of medicine and
health, listening and human relations, psychosomatics and psychotherapy,
politics and monetary economics, gnosticism, yoga
and tantra. In his text “Rudra’s
Red Banner” he speaks about “Moksha and Marxism”.
In the Hindu tradition, moksha is a
central concept meaning self-realization, self-knowledge, awareness and refers to various forms of emancipation,
liberation, and release.
What did attracted our attention was, that he has at least in this book
no monistic conception of mokhsa but he
introduces the idea, that moksha is characterized
by polarity, that it is an expression of relational or participatory
spirituality. To substantiate his arguments he uses extensively the
interpretation of Tibetan Tantra and Polarity in
our book The Shadow of the
Dalai Lama, mainly our last chapter Creative
Polarity beyond Tantrism. He also sees Polarity as a Marxist principle und
designs a worldview of a liberated society where “relation” is the main
spiritual metaphor. “If you regard spirituality primarily as the fruit of
individual practices, such as meditative attainment, then you can have the
gross anomaly of a ‘spiritual’ person who is an interpersonal oppressor,
and the possibility of ‘spiritual’ traditions that are oppression-prone. If
you regard spirituality as centrally about liberating relations between
people, then a new era of participative religion opens up, and this calls
for a radical restructuring and reappraisal of traditional spiritual maps
and routes.” (John Heron)
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