Post-Left Anarchism?

Joe R. Golowka joeg at ieee.org
Tue Aug 13 19:57:52 PDT 2002



> On Monday, Joeg wrote:
>
> "It would be nice if you would create rational arguements instead of just
> comparing your
>
> opponets to right-wingers. When people start resorting to calling their
> opponet Hitler you know they've
>
> lost the arguement."
>
> But, on Tuesday, he wrote:
>
> >In my experience "post-leftists"
> >are critical of cooperating with authoritarians of any type and would
> certainly
> >oppose collaboration with
> >fascism. A common arguement for post-leftism is that anarchists shouldn't
> have
> >anything to do with
> >left-wing fascists (leninists) and this requires dumping the "left".
>
> -- David
> founding member, Leninists for Hitler, inc.

I was using the terminology post-leftists use to describe their ideaology; I'm personally very sympathetic to Carroll's belief that fascism is an outdated term (like 'Bonapartism').

-- Joe R. Golowka Anarchist FAQ -- http://www.anarchyfaq.org

"By popular government they [the Authoritarian Socialists] mean government of the people by a small number of representatives elected by the people. . . [That is,] government of the vast majority of the people by a privileged minority. But this minority, the Marxists say, will consist of workers. Yes, perhaps, of former workers, who, as soon as they become rulers or representatives of the people will cease to be workers and will begin to look upon the whole workers' world from the heights of the state. They will no longer represent the people but themselves and their own pretensions to govern the people." - Mikhail Bakunin



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