[lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due

[B.]

Asking Chuck0 to provide a detailed blueprint of a
post-revolutionary, anarchist society probably isn't
the way to go. In fact, it just makes me wonder what
everyone else's plans are for an ideal society, on the
list. I mean, why should anarchists get all the heat
-- why should anarchism have to present a super-lucid,
meticulously detailed blueprint [which its many
theorists have actually developed over the years,
incidentally, if one really cares to look], whereas
folks who advocate some type of liberal reformism, or
state socialism, don't seem to feel compelled to do
the same?

I mean, let's hear it, state-socialists, liberals,
etc. What would your model society look like, top to
bottom, in and out -- right now, in one email? 

For myself, I take anti-authoritarianism to be a
methodology, not a static finality. Even the deceased
anarcho-syndicalist Sam Dolgoff said the goal of
anarchism should be to constantly stimulate society in
a libertarian direction. "Pure anarchism" may never be
reached, but society should constantly be propelled
towards ever more anti-authoritarian goals. Perfect
society? No. Better society? Yes.

-B.

Thomas Seay wrote: 


> It's a good question but I am still waiting to hear
> how 
> you defend against the police states that have been
so
> prevalent under real socialism.

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"I'm not too worried by hegemony / I know the cadre will look after me" - Magazine, "Model Worker," 1978