"post-leftism"

[Joe R. Golowka]

> > >OK, but if the population needs to be "dispersed" to get us all out of our
> >  >"unsustainable" cities, who's going to do the dispersing?
> >
> >  People can be very shy about answering that question. You often hear
> >  "cities are unsustainable," and "there are too many people," without
> >  the speaker taking responsibility for the resettlement and the herd
> >  thinning.
>
> It also lends credence to the standard conservative argument that leftists in
> power visit untold sufferings upon millions of people in the here and now in
> the pursuit of some vague utopian vision of the future.

That is precisely what authoritarian leftists advocate: using the coercive power of the state to force us
into their utopia.  Actually, that's what conservatives do too, except wer'e already living in their
"utopia".


> I don't buy into the
> conservative argument, of course, but it's ironic that anarchists opposed to
> "coercion" in any form make arguments that have immensely coercive
> implications.

This is only the case if you equate ending your privledged position with coercision.  That's obviously a
moronic position, but one frquently taken by people who seek to rationalize their position.

--
Joe R. Golowka
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