tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6078009723392950689.post8357759049972078250..comments2023-03-26T08:13:12.686-06:00Comments on Laughing Fish: Some Thoughts on AnarchismAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418793670220718137noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6078009723392950689.post-36913585577588015552009-09-15T12:52:17.959-06:002009-09-15T12:52:17.959-06:00Thanks- I may look into thatThanks- I may look into thatAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06418793670220718137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6078009723392950689.post-24180017413813158492009-05-04T22:19:00.000-06:002009-05-04T22:19:00.000-06:00If you think anarchism is to mushy, you should tr...If you think anarchism is to mushy, you should try <br /><br />Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism<br /><br />http://www.akpress.org/2007/items/blackflameakpressFlinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17111419363177838129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6078009723392950689.post-31433279972323905372009-04-30T04:40:00.000-06:002009-04-30T04:40:00.000-06:00Short on time and skim read it but I really agree ...Short on time and skim read it but I really agree with what I think were the main points. <br /><br />Anarchism ultimately really annoys me in that it seems to be ignoring the existence of imperialism. It seems to pretend that counter revolutions haven't been happening over and over again in Latin America, etc. To be an anarchist ends up looking like a form of holocaust denial in that such imperialism as covered in William Blum's Killing Hope has killed as many people as the holocaust at least. (And actually many more, in terms of the long term decrease in life expectancies, etc.)<br /><br />I assume that surely such people just aren't well read about such things but I've never talked to anyone honest enough to admit it. What I have found is people who are just changing the definitions of words. People who actually would still have hierarchies and authorities but have just given them different names. <br /><br />It does seem people ultimately who haven't read enough. Who's opinions are still influenced to a large degree by what the MSM told them to believe about the USSR and who are still mostly ignorant about what has happened in Latin America, etc.emphryiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070909158612834729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6078009723392950689.post-7832358699799757922009-04-29T20:53:00.000-06:002009-04-29T20:53:00.000-06:00Awww.... you say the sweetest things...
I think i...Awww.... you say the sweetest things...<br /><br />I think in the more healthy periods you see activists of different self identified "isms" working together... different ideas ( => ideologies) emerge to argue for different ways forward for a common struggle. Ideas compete among dedicated activists and existing reality is the litmus test against which they are based...<br /><br />You saw this in something like the IWW... with "marxists", "socialists", and "anarchists" working together in it. The same thing happened later, like the building of the CIO, which had communists, new deal liberals, and everything in between working in it. Even in the 60s a lot of different people with all kinds of diffuse ideas worked together on things...<br /><br />I think it's when there's no struggle going on to base your ideas off of that they tend to get abstracted from reality, and moralism gets attached to "which ideology" you follow. <br /><br />I actually went out and bought some herb saint liqour the other day because I felt nostalagic!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06418793670220718137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6078009723392950689.post-50652181539307992642009-04-29T19:10:00.000-06:002009-04-29T19:10:00.000-06:00A+! I think you would have hit the nail on the he...A+! I think you would have hit the nail on the head with this one; however, we all know there is no head in an anarchist nail... Of course, I do think these are many of the same arguments used for Marxists to distance themselves from anarchists for a century. I have struggled with the same sort of sentiments: What about a counterrevolution? What about when some sort of hierarchy(or something resembling hierarchy) is necessary? What happens if it is just small communities? But then I think "At least I am not a goddamn commie like christian!" I hope all is well and you should come back down to New Orleans if you have the stomach for it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173246312313718944noreply@blogger.com