Milton the Anarchist Re: "post-leftism"

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 bsheppard at bari.iww.org
Mon Aug 19 17:07:59 PDT 2002


On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Gordon Fitch wrote:


> My "opponents"
> have us anarchists frog-marching the populations of great
> cities into the desert, smashing the looms, and selling out
> to globcap all at once; meanwhile they're beating people to
> death in the basement of Boeing to keep the planes coming
> while muttering catch-phrases from Marx and Adorno. It's like
> _Natural_Born_Killers_ where you start hearing Nusrat yipping
> in the background -- how can I compete with it?

Wow, Gordon, that's the laugh o' the day for me. The problem is, it wasn't the "opponents" that started the frog-march imagery - it was an "ally": Chcuk0 himself. The idea of resettling populations deserves the comparisons to the ideas of Pol Pot, etc.

Brian



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