The Devil and Mr. Hicks

[Gordon Fitch]

>  > Who knows? You have some principles, and in your fantasy a utopia
> > where there's no violence (except the consensual kind) and no
> > exploitation, and youdo what you can to promote those principles, and
> > see what happens. You push for better standards of living, better
> > work, more leisure, less hierarchy; against the usual discrimiantions
> > and state violence and repression. You form alliances with other
> > like-minded people - institutions like parties, unions, reading
> > circles, affinity groups, listservs even. There's no off-the-shelf
> > utopia though, if that's what you mean by The Plan.

Dennis Perrin:
> Agreed, but you have to admit there are many on the left aisle who talk as
> if there *is* a Plan, or something close to it, especially from the
> anti-globie anarchists who like the idea of everything coming apart and
> believe that their version of the Good Life will arise from the blood and
> ash (because the oppressed, deep down, are anarchists). I know -- I used to
> think this way, and for far too long, I'm afraid.

And they all think alike, do they?  But according to the article
about Hicks they were all too busy guilt-tripping everyone
about victimization to do any blood'n'ash stuff, weren't they?

-- Gordon