Chris Burford:
> I had just referred to the undoubted abuses of state power. Who is talking
> about the "goodness of the state"?
Somebody dismissed anarchism, and was writing in praise of imperialism, a State activity. Therefore someone must see some good in the State, no?
> Or are you opposed to state power in principle, and are an anarchist? Many
> leftists are.
I guess you could say that.
> > as Chairman
> >Mao said, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
>
> That is not anarchism.
>
> Where is your political criticism coming from??
I make it up as I go along. I gave the closely-related views of Lyndon Johnson and Chairman Mao as the other side of the argument -- the rightist side, in my opinion. State power is essentially a gun held at someone's head. Some people think you can do something constructive with relations like that, but I'm not among them.