File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1998/anarchy-list.9811, message 591


Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:16:49 -0600 (CST)
From: DK Sanders-Weatherford <dksander-AT-comp.uark.edu>
Subject: Re: Absolute freedom Re(II): Liberty,Liberalism,Anarchism


On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Jeremy Dixon wrote:

> Historically, Anarchism did not begin from liberal assumptions. It began
> from the fact that human beings are created by society; and however much

maybe that's why Anarchism has not yet been realized.

> to the fact that, the human self does not come from outside the world  but
> is part of it and is shaped by it. 

i simply do not agree with this at all.  
i do not know to what extent you want to discuss it....

> (See the "personally responsible" thread). 

i'm sorry, but i have so much trouble keeping up with my mail at all (that
should be obvious).  i remember the personal resp. thread, but i couldn't
tell you what side you took or anything; although, i can guess....

>  In my view half the problems of Anarchism
> come from the tendency of Anarchists to misunderstand Anarchism as having
> liberal as distinct from democratic origins. That prize dickhead Rudolf

a problem i see is a tendency to read too many books on anarchy.

darla kay


   

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