Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO...

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 3 21:59:10 PST 2003


--- Gar Lipow <lipowg at sprintmail.com> wrote: <<To me, both visions are utopian in the worst sense of the word - impractical, and possibly impossible. The overwhelming prevalence in belief in this strategy even among anarchists I trust is one of the reason I am not an anarchist.>>

Is it any more utopian than the "grande soiree" of revolution in which we storm the Winter Palace and the morrow brings us a bright sunny socialist world?

You depict the anarchist initiatives (food not bombs, etc) as band-aid solutions to the poor, or perhaps some means of inspiring workers that a more egalitarian form of relations and exchange is possible. It is that. But is it too hard to imagine that such initiatives could grow to the point of being major spaces outside of capital? You would have medical care, production, etc that lies outside of the domain of capital. This would weaken capital. As I said earlier, the social centers in Italy are an embryonic form of this (as are some of the anarchist initiatives here, but the Italian social centers are somewhat more mature in development).

Why is it so hard to view such centers as part of a revolution that is already happening? Why cant capital be attacked that way...by deserting it, slowly, for sure, at first? Why do you see that marshalling the forces to do that is so much more difficult than storming the Winter Palace?

I am not saying that this is the only way "revolution" will happen, but it could be, is, one effective step.

Thomas

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