color of anarchism

n/ a blackkronstadt at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 4 20:04:06 PST 2003



>From an anarchist perspective, we'd rather people relate to each other from
an internationalist perspective, rather than the below mentioned practice. People are often looking to "fit in" - if they join a political group for the same reason that socially-starved people join tight-knit church communities, they aren't going to be doing the revolutionary movement any favours.


>Thomas said:
>
>>The trick that vanguardists do that always makes me
>>howl with laughter is when they approach a person of
>>color and then call over a person of color in their
>>group (the same race as the person that they are
>>trying to recruit) to "talk" with the person. The
>>subtext is, "look, we've got people JUST LIKE YOU in
>>our group, so just sign on the dotted line."
>
>You'd rather they said, "Look, we DON'T have people just like you, so just
>sign on the bottom line"?
>
>Todd
>
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