Antiwar movement losing steam?????

Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Tue Oct 30 10:06:44 PST 2001


At 12:51 PM 10/30/01 -0500, Seth Ackerman wrote:
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > No, anarchists can't. And have anarchists talked at all about how Al
> > Qaeda is organized in a rather anarcho-friendly way? Not quite
> > leaderless, but close, with very loose structures, more network than
> > hierarchy, with considerable autonomy for local operatives, etc. Are
> > they your evil doubles?
>.
>In Noam Chomsky's recent MIT talk, he explicitly points this out.
>Explaining why terrorists are so hard to catch, he talked about
>"leaderless resistance" and autonomous cells - techniques used by both
>terrorists and guerrillas or
>resistance movements - he even used the word "we," referring to activist
>work he had done in the 1960's.
>
>Seth

the difference is the element of charismatic authority. anarchists don't have that, yet.

kelley



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