[lbo-talk] Donate to Wall Street protesters

[Wojtek S]

What I meant is that Thoreau was a part of the New England
establishment, not some property-less grunt who had to go West to make
the ends meet.  His individualist anarchism (_Civil Disobedience_) is
thoroughly (no pun intended :)) petite bourgeois - as Charles aptly
observed - even though some of his motives (e.g. anti-slavery) are
commendable.  This is support of my objection to attribute American
infatuation libertarianism to "settler mentality."  I suspect that
settlers had to have a great deal of social solidarity, for otherwise
they would have not survived.  Libertarianism had more appeal to
patricians, intellectuals and petite bourgeoisie, who could write
about it.

Wojtek

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Besides, guys like Thoreau were
>> not settlers.
>>
>
> I'm not sure I know what you mean. Is Walden Pond not ethnically-cleansed
> Wampanoag land?
>
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> lytlað."
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