In my post I mentioned that people on the shop floor had figured out grassroots organizations could oppose state power effectively, decades before Trotsky and Gramsci did.
You're right to mention the critics in Greek society, etc. In Kropotkin's article for the Encyclopedia Britannica on anarchism from the 1910's or thereabouts, he mentions exactly what you do, the 2300 + years of civil resistance to statist power. These are mentioned as evidence for the view of anarchism as a historical tendency in the development of man.
Amazingly yours,
Brian
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote:
> You want to give credit to 19th century anarchists for 'discovering'
> that 'civil society' can oppose the state, which was well known in the last
> century of the Roman republic, and arguably for that matter at the time of
> the "demagogues" and "tyrants" of the Greek city-states? :-) It's amazing to
> me that when anarchists lag along 2300+ years after demagogic analysis and
> activity....
>
> lp