> Chuck0 wrote:
>
> "Anarchism is not a form of liberalism or leftism.
> Anarchism is another political tradition which doesn't
> fall along the right-left spectrum."
>
>
> Sorry, but Peter Kropotkin, Noam Chomsky, and Murray
> Bookchin, along with tons more, disagree with you on
> that one. But you're into that weird "post-leftist"
> stuff. Kropotkin and Bookchin said "anarchism is the
> extreme left wing of socialism," something Noam Comsky
> basically affirmed in his intro to Daniel Guerin's
> really good book _Anarchism_.
>
> But you know what "all other anarchists" think, right,
> and Bookchin, Kropotkin, et al. are wrong. Uh-huh.
>
> -B.
Anarchism today is what Bookchin wrote warning against. It is lifestyle anarchism much more than a political position when its own adherents fail to see anarchisms place on the left-right political spectrum.
John Thornton