[lbo-talk] Wolff again

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 11:28:54 PDT 2010


[WS:] It sounds more like mythical past, a state of mind if you will.

Here are some pictures from a real government-free state, here and now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11437595

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10465527

Wojtek

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 10:37 AM 10/7/2010, Wojtek S wrote:
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>> [WS:] I did not realize you had a metaphor in mind, I thought you were
>> talking about a real thing.
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> I think he was.  He said:
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>> I ordered Wolff's book which is theory, but I saw it in practice. Like I
>> said, it amounts to direct rule by public consensus. Somehow a collective
>> consciousness forms. It is usually dramatized as mob rule, but that isn't
>> what really happened. I assume it was what happened to the French National
>> Assembly, before the Committee for Public Safety took over.
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