At least one thread in this discussion has been to slam Castro's homophobic repression. Brian D and I were in that. Jerry's opposition was certainly not from a Yay Cyba pov, as much as, don't you have somthing closer at home betterf to yap about? Do you call that fawning just because we said he did good things too and was probably preferable (as are his chosen successors) to his likely US-selected replacements, given that you yourself admit that the anarchist utopia is not in Cuba's immediate future?
--- Tayssir John Gabbour <tayssir.john at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/06, Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> > It would be unusual if a fawning discussion of
> Castro on
> > this list went uncriticized by any of the
> anarchists or
> > anti-authoritarians here.
>
> Then you can understand that if someone's
> complaining that a comment
> represents "the sort of thing that gives anarchism a
> bad name among
> progressives," someone will attempt to clarify it if
> it was
> misleading. And expand on the inherent repression in
> maintaining a
> nation-state, which isn't that much of a mental
> stretch given that
> most of us can see that corporations are
> psychopaths. (As expert
> Robert Hare points out.)
>
> Of course, someone could also say that Edward
> Bernays gave
> progressives a bad name among decent people. So
> progressives should
> offer much leeway to anarchism -- especially since
> it's such an
> interesting part of their intellectual heritage.
>
>
> Columbia prof Charles Tilly expanded on the banality
> of state repression:
> "It protection rackets represent organised crime at
> its smoothest,
> then war risking and state making – quintessential
> protection rackets
> with the advantage of legitimacy – qualify as our
> largest examples of
> organised crime."
>
<https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rohloff/www/war%20making%20and%20state%20making.pdf>
>
>
> Tayssir
>
> --
> "Anarchism and the Academy" podcasts:
>
<http://mbanna.radio4all.net/pub/archive5/mp3_4/200108-renew-acad-p.mp3>
>
<http://mbanna.radio4all.net/pub/archive5/mp3_4/200108-renew-acad-q.mp3>
>
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