color of anarchism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 5 19:38:38 PST 2003


Todd Archer wrote:


>I can say only: go read some Marx and Lenin. Enough ink, and no
>doubt blood, has been spilled in the history of Marxism over this
>point that branding Marxists en masse as economic determinists is
>rather like branding all anarchists as cartoon bomb-throwers: it
>completely and deliberately avoids the point.

Whatever anarchists don't like becomes "Leninism"; whatever Marxists don't like becomes "postmodernism," etc. Beats thinking!

Doug



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