Nice article. Thanks for posting it.
<<Grim joyless revolutionaries who sacrifice all pleasure to the causecan only produce grim joyless societies. >>
Yes! And why are they so grim? Is it because pleasure needs to be withheld until the "grande soiree" of revolution and all energy has to be placed in the "serious" endeavour of building up for revolution? Is it because they imagine a suffering world and feel guilt for experiencing pleasure and joy?
There is another issue that is tangetial to this I believe. A lot of activists, especially the "revolutionary leninist" (but not exclusive to that group) kind fall into a trap: they start to see all people as OBJECTS in much the same way as a butcher sees all cows as MEAT. People become objects to recruit to your cause. Relations with other people are seen as an instrument to convert.
<<These changes have been difficult to document because so far anarchist ideas have received almost no attention in the academy. There are still thousands of academic Marxists, but almost no academic anarchists>>
That may be true in this country, the USA, but I dont think it is true for other countries, like Italy or France, especially if you consider the autonomist/workerist path as part of the anarchist tradition.
-Thomas
===== <<You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals So let's do it like they do it on the Discovery Channel>>
Bloodhound Gang, "The Bad Touch"
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