[lbo-talk] anarchist/commie soccer results

Devine, James jdevine at lmu.edu
Tue Sep 23 09:23:38 PDT 2003



>Anarchism wants to put the power back into the hands of working people.
They should have political and economic power over their lives. Decisions should be made at the local level through egalitarian methods and the shape of the bigger society builds on that local power.<

both anarchists and those of the "socialism from below" camp (e.g., me) want to "put the power back into the hands of working people." The problem is who has the more practical plan on how to do that. Anarchists seem to favor totally decentralized power, which seems to ignore the existence of nation-wide and world-wide problems that need to be solved (e.g., global warming).

I always wonder what happens in an anarchist society if the workers' co-op down the river democratically decides to build nuclear power plants -- and nuclear weapons so that they can conquer the other co-ops.

Jim D.



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