[lbo-talk] What the results tell us...

Tayssir John Gabbour tayssir.john at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 9 04:33:06 PST 2006


On 11/8/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> One final comment. I think it is a no brainer that the US population will
> not accept anything that even remotely resembles socialism, let alone
> anarchism. This is an individulalistic society that believes in individual
> success and free market and is fundamentally opposed to anything
> collectivistic. The best you can hope is a slow drift of the center of
> gravity toward EU-style social democracy.

Well, there's a sensible part of the anarchist tradition which is about "building the new world in the shell of the old." Incremental increases in autonomy and self-management.

There are grandiose, utopian "visions"... but vision has a special place, in the context of not repeating mistakes of the past. I mean, how arrogant are we to expect that we wouldn't repeat the mistakes of earlier well-meaning people whose work led to Soviet-like nightmares? Therefore a willingness to look at where we're going is important... with an understanding that any model, be it classical physics or Parecon, is likely gonna be flawed somehow.

Tayssir



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