I doubt very many folks remember the incident but R noticed something I hadn't, buried as I've been in other things. Sandy Harris posted [1] a review of the LBO list from someone's brief stay here. His handle was Szechuan Death [2] and he writes of the list:
<quote> It is instructive at this point to note one of the prime differences between essentially anti-Statist forums, and essentially Left-Statist ones; while a Left-Statist may not make much headway on an anti-State forum, they are generally welcome to continue to do so, whereas on a Left-Statist forum, anyone showing any intellectual tendency remotely traceable back to an anti-State or private-property philosophy is excoriated, and if he persists in this heresy, receives the forum equivalent of the death penalty to prevent further contamination. These attitudes correspond precisely to the form of social organization each group prefers. Private-property proponents want to live and let live, to cooperate and tolerate, in strict literal accordance with the ancient saw "to each his own", whereas Left-Statists demand obedience and submission on pain of death, backed up by a rigorous program of invasion, confiscation, denunciation, and execution. This has been observed again and again, in place after place and time after time. That's why countries embracing these principles invariably require concertina-wire-topped walls at the borders, guarded by snipers and dogs, to keep their inhabitants from leaving. (And yes, Right-Statists engage in this behavior too, though not nearly to the extent that the Left has in modern times.) </quote>
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/death/death1.html
Apparently, they yak it up quite a bit, lurking at LBO, and then commenting over at the other list Sandy subscribes to, DC-stuff [3] ( http://attrition.org/hosted/dcstuff/ ) Some of you remember it as one I subscribed to and, in fact, some members of LBO joined that list, too. (It's a list for hackers, so heavily populated by fuck you I got mine types.
enjoy the rest on this fine Friday, you left statists, you!
BL
[1] <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20060327/006154.html> [2] <http://search.lbo-talk.org/search/swish.cgi?query=szechuan+death&submit=Search%21&metaname=author&sort=unixdate> [3] <http://attrition.org/hosted/dcstuff/>
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