post leftism

Chuck0 chuck at tao.ca
Wed Aug 21 11:34:52 PDT 2002


joanna bujes wrote:
>
> At 07:19 AM 08/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Perhaps some of what bugs me about anarchism is that it seems to
> >call for, or require, a wholesale change of heart. Is that what we're
> >waiting for? A Third Great Awakening?
>
> Is it possible to have a revolution without a change in consciousness?

Anarchism doesn't call for a "wholesale change of heart," because it sees that most people already have libertarian and cooperative instincts. The problem is getting rid of the state and capitalism so that people can have total freedom to develop and explore these tendencies.

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