----- Original Message ----- From: "Alec Ramsdell" <aramsdell at yahoo.com>
> Not that it's important, but I've yet to be convinced
> that anyone arguing in these related threads from a
> simple authoritariansim vs.
> anti-authoritariansim/working class vs. ruling class
> perspective is drawing from solid class analysis.
>
> Alec
>
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Sympathetically, this begs the question as to who gets to determine what solid class analysis is and elides the issue of just who feels the need to be *doing classifications* of human beings. It seems obvious to me that some anarchists cannot distinguish authority from authoritarianism and anyone who *draws that boundary* differently than they do they feel free to label as authoritarian as well. Question begging as a substitute for dealing with the fact that human beings disagree on too many substantive issues and desire to institutionalize various ways of managing conflict; as if we could extinguish disagreement from human communication and the ways it leads to the production of everything from airplanes to brain surgery.....
Ian