[lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Sat Jan 22 16:38:50 PST 2005



> Dennis Redmond wrote:
>
>> The world-system puts real limits on what human beings can do at any
>> given
>> point in history. It's our job to think through that world-system -- what
>> is it, how does it work, how can we change it. I think anarchism
>> concentrates too much on the political structures of domination, and
>> ignores the whole economic issue. You end up blaming everything on this
>> mythical, fantasmic Bigness -- when in fact local structures of authority
>> can be the most toxic of all.
>
> The bullshit on this list never ceases to amaze me. No wonder I left the
> list for several months last year!
>
> Whatever! I'll go work on more important things.
>
> Chuck

I'm no Stalinist by any measure (look it up!), but I think DR's posts deserve more consideration than that. Even Chomsky acknowledges what DR stated, while not "apologizing" for it. Them's the facts, Chuck. I wonder how your activism would hold up under the same historical constraints.

DP



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