[lbo-talk] yoshie?

[ravi]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> On 7/6/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>>> Returning to the quite appropriate question, whether "new societies
>>> can grow by building democratic institutions" or only by
>>> totalitarian means, I think that honesty requires us to recognize
>>> that this question must be directed more to American intellectuals
>>> than to third-world ideologists.
>
> Etc. Even though Chomsky will always have a soft place in my heart
> because he got me reinterested in politics, I have to say I find this
> extremely exasperating. Why would anyone who calls him- or herself an
> anarchist insist on drawing political lines that so perfectly coincide
> with national borders as Chomsky does here?

Because those are the lines (among others) along which certain actions  
occur (colonialism) or people identify themselves as groups and  
attempt to work out their self-governance, etc.

	--ravi