> And now a prediction rather than an argument: leninists (small "l"
> deliberate)
> will prove less allergic to messy conditions then anarchists over the long
> haul, and the anarchists will do one of three things: (a) go off and sulk,
> saying oh fuck it politics aint worth it (b) cease being anarchists and
> become fellow-travellers or (c) form into small intenselfy disciplined
> anarchist groups of their own (the discipline of such groups is always
> tighter and more onerous than that of Leninist groups).
Carrol, not only is your hatred for anarchism pretty evident, but you show very little familiarity with real anarchists. How many Leninists are left? I suspect very few and probably the last dozen so are getting ready to be stuffed and placed in museums.
Well, those that aren't already stuffed with nonsense already.
Anarchists work with messy conditions all the time and we thrive on them. As I've mentioned before, we are heavily involved in community struggles of all kinds. The microradio movement is a good example of how anarchists have worked with people of other political persuasions.
Speaking of Lenin, I think we all understand what he did when the "political messiness" in the Soviet Union stopped being of usefulness to his political goals. The Soviet experiment failed. Get over it.
I"m working on a page called "What do anarchists do?" It's online at:
http://www.infoshop.org/do.html
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