> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> I'm a little mystified as to why you brought this up in response to
> Mike's perfectly cogent point (though "ultraleftists and other
> narcissists," without elaboration, sounds like strawman building to
> me),
awww. come on. I liked being among the ultralefties and other narcissists. I'd hate to think it was a strawman! :(