"post-leftism"

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Sat Aug 17 05:20:26 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox:
> ...
> Another point about the imagery. One of the founders of anarchism was
> also the coiner (or at least popularizer) of the slogan that "property
> is theft." That is, the whole anarchist structure is grounded in a
> metaphysical claim to know The Good and to detect all departures from
> "The Good" as crime. ...

There is no "founder of anarchism", such that utterances of the said person are taken as an authority upon which "the whole anarchist structure is grounded", whether on a metaphysical claim or on anything else.

-- Gordon



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