> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Joe R. Golowka
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 1:41 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Post-Left Anarchism?
>
> What proof do you have that McQuinn supports left/right
> convergence? In my experience "post-leftists"
> are critical of cooperating with authoritarians of any type
> and would certainly oppose collaboration with
> fascism.
<<SNIP>>
I never said that McQuinn supports collaborating with fascists, I said it was a problem within anarchism, which is accurate. I was backing up the complaints that Biehl had articulated about McQuinn.
> And "promoting conspiracy theories" is newspeak for promoting
> any theory that clashes with bouergeois
> hegemony.
<<SNIP>>
It can be, but it also can be a left critique of allegations that lack logic and facts and undermine effective organizing by constructing demonized scapegoats.
I am off to various American Sociological Association conferences for a week.
-Chip Berlet