[lbo-talk] Murray Bookchin on autonomy, consensus, democracy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 24 07:59:58 PDT 2011


On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:


> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:20 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
>> Reading it all here and especially watching the panel I was reminded of a
>> bunch of gray Eyeores occupying Eyeore's Gloomy Place: Rather Boggy and Sad,
>> munching on thistles and muttering, "Oh me. Oh my. The rest of the animals
>> in the Forest, they have no brain at all. Only gray fluff blown into their
>> heads by mistake."
>
> I was enjoying reading your posts about consensus, and about negative
> and positive freedom etc.. And then you go and write something
> obnoxious like this!

The language is interesting. It's as if it's all about retaining the innocence of perpetual youth, instead of aging into dullness. Thinking about goals and strategy is so elderly!

Doug



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