"post-leftism"

Chuck0 chuck at tao.ca
Wed Aug 14 13:11:26 PDT 2002


"Brian O. Sheppard x349393" wrote:
>
> I have to agree with David on this one, Chuck. Surely you know that any
> better society is not as dependent upon people becoming, well, "good," as
> it is on developing instutitional means to hold coercive forces in check.
> The point isn't making people become angelic; it's constructing means to
> hold people to account and eliminating the aspects of modern institutions
> that allow some to unjustly dominate the rest (private property in means
> of production, etc.)

Well I agree. I guess I didn't explain myself very well. I've always thought that people are natural anarchists, that they instinctively favor cooperation and pro-social behaviors.

The main stuggle is to eliminate institutions like capitalism and the state.

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