[lbo-talk] query: from anarchist to marxist???

[Alan Rudy]

When I was writing my MA on Murray Bookchin, I met ten to fifteen Bay Area
ecoMarxists who had started their leftward and greenward trajectory with
Bookchin... a few of them used the "grew out of" kind of language, though
more often it was "grew dissatisfied with, sought out other things and
landed in a variety of Western Marxism."  Most retained real affection of
their anarchist phase and appreciation of what they learned but did see it
as a moment in a process.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:48 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I'm thinking of writing something about anarchism, and I'd like to harvest
> the collective expertise of this list.
>
> I feel like I've recently encountered, by random chance, a series of people
> who've said they were once anarchists but gradually "grew out of" anarchism
> and moved in a more Marxist direction.
>
> My first question is: how common is this phenomenon?
>
> My second question is: did you go through this trajectory? If you did, I'd
> love to hear about it. Please, please drop me a line offlist.
>
> Thanks,
> SA
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