[lbo-talk] On Theorizing the Demand for Demands

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 24 17:50:24 PDT 2011


On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:


> Incidentally, I don't at all see the important dividing line as being
> between Marxists and anarchists, but between people who think
> strategically about social change on the one hand and ultraleftists
> and other narcissists on the other. There are marxists and anarchists
> on both sides of that divide, and 'radical liberals' too.

[From Wikipedia, alas]

Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber has distinguished the two philosophies as follows:

• Marxism has tended to be a theoretical or analytical discourse about revolutionary strategy. • Anarchism has tended to be an ethical discourse about revolutionary practice



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