[lbo-talk] WBAI scores with holocaust denalist's premium

[Carrol Cox]

Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
>This has puzzled me for years now: like Chris, I see no meaningful
> distinction between a society genuinely based on Marxist principles
> and an anarchist society.  No state, activities and groups based
> on mutual benefit and cooperation, no wage exploitation, no
> "property rights"--how does this Marxist dream differ from Chuck's
> anarchist utopia?

At one time, when it had a serious grounding in the working class and
petty producers (independent craftsmen) of some nations, anarchism would
fit your description, and the 'blame' for clashes between it and
socialists were more or less equally distributed between the two
tendencies. Even then, however, anarchism contained as thread of pure
(one might even say Nietzschean) individualism -- hence, only seemingly
a contradiction, the iron top-down discipline of various 19th-c
anarchist tendencies. Chuck0 carried that individualist streak to its
logical extreme, and he differs from right-libertarians only nominally.
And the first principle of his position is anti-socialism, to which  all
other elements of it must be subordinate. Put otherwise, he is a common
garden-variety anti-red. Not serious. 

Carrol


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