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

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 05:04:40 PDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:45 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> hello!
>
> BTW, why has Chomsky always spoken of it as Libertarian rather than
> Anarchist? presumably he wants to avoid the association of violent
> overthrow of the state?
>
> Does anyone know why he prefers the L word?

I get the impression that he uses it mostly parenthetically to point out that originally it meant a left thing.

-- Andy



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