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[B.]

Sounds like you got a real kick out of what Bookie had
to say. "Factory discipline" as the excuse for no
revolution doesn't ring true to me, either (and the
Bookchin of '79 is not necessarily the Bookchin of
'06, incientally). It also sounds soooo 1960s. I'm
with you if you're asserting the authoritarian
structure of the family plays a massive role [Bookchin
also noted that, too, though] -- but hierarchies at
work don't help, either.

Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism: "The authoritarian
state gains an enormous interest in the authoritarian
family: The family becomes the factory in which the
state's structure and ideology are molded. [...] [Our
society's] morality's aim is to produce acquiescent
subjects who, despite distress and humiliation, are
adjusted to the authoritarian order. The family is the
authoritarian state in miniature, to which the child
must learn to adapt himself  as a preparation for the
general social adjustment required of him later." Or,
as I learned when pursuing a Sociology degree: The
family is the primary agent of socialization.

And, just as when I've quoted Nietzsche selectively,
my quoting Reich here doesn't mean I agree with
everything the man ever wrote -- just thought he
expressed a cogent point in this instance.

-B.

Doug Henwood wrote:

"Oooh, 'the workers' movement never really had the
revolutionary potentialities that Marx attributed to
it.' The factory programmed workers' minds to be
regimented & obedient. So MB turns to anarchism as a
critique of all hierarchies. But what if the original
parent-child relationship is the source of our longing
for hierarchy?"