Chuck, you said you wanted infoshop.org to be like a "big tent" of anarchism (your words). It is more like the Big Top. And you are situated as the PT Barnum of it all, deciding which sideshow freak attractions can showcase themselves inside, and which cannot. You have a token article about dock workers here or there (usually a newswire), but this is wholly inconsistent with the rest of the website's contents, which are at turns anti-"workerist," Primitivist, and post-left anarchist. It is not a broad survey of anarchism or of the libertarian left wing of the anti-capitalist movement. It is Chuck0's Cavalcade o' Curious Critters and Deviant Delights. A MIDI file should be inserted into the page to play the Big Top theme when the page's contents load into peoples' browsers.
Chuck, you made the "axis of evil" characterization yourself when I referred to the AJODA/Fifth Estate/Zerzan segment of what passes for the "anarchist movement" in the US. I'll go with your characterization; there are, however, really two "axes of evil":
1) Your website - AJODA - Alternative Press Review - Green Anarchy - Fifth Estate - Deep Ecology, etc.
The media has chosen to focus most often on this group because it provides sensationalism in spades. In fact, some of the public identify the whole anti-globalization movement with merely this clique. This group is the shock rock of anarchy. It gets media attention for the same reasons Siamese twins conjoined at the head get attention.
The second "axis of evil":
2) Antistate.com - Rothbard - Objectivism - Free Market Anarchism - Ayn Rand idolaters, etc.
This group has websites, magazines, etc., and they crank out their proclamations and communiques just like your group does. Like you, they boldly pronounce what anarchism is and isn't. But they do not favor the anti-intellectual riot porn approach so they don't get as much attention as you and your buddies do. They have no representatives on this list, which only makes sense; they, like you, consider themselves to be "beyond" left or right as well.
Both of these groups are largely particular to the US; there are lunatic fringes in Europe, etc., but they are more subdued and the people are better organized. It doesn't gain as strong a foothold there because of this.
At best you and your group's views are muddled and inconsistent. At worst they are reactionary and dangerous.
Here's what you should do:
1) Get out of the movement. You are doing more harm in it than good. Your bizarre statements - "anarchists avoid institutions" -coupled with your edicts - "there will be no computers in the future society" - compounded with your anti-intellectual bias - "it is academic therefore it is our enemy" - are a danger. You defend a Holocaust Revisionist. You are a wing nut. And you defend unthinking, uncritical gangs of hooligans who want to smash and destroy with no rhyme or reason, simply because they "feel strongly" about something. This kind of extreme sports activism is encouraged in most of the periodicals and circles I mentioned in 1) above.
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2) Give up ownership of Infoshop.org after radically changing its contents and emphasis. Using anarcho-syndicalist flags as "bullets" in your table of contents, while excluding anarcho-syndicalism, is bizarre. Your influence - along with the influence of all in group 1 above - is counter-productive to the anti-capitalist or anti-corporate globalization movements. It is dangerous and unhealthy. Get out of it.
Brian Oliver Sheppard