File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9905, message 25


Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 15:33:05 +0100
From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Anarchy Magazine and Violence


Hi all

Joshua Houk wrote:

<snip>

> Due, is Green Anarchist anarchist? In my mind, if your goal is the abolition of
> the state, then you are an anarchist. Issues of tactics are secondary to the
> basic definition.

Far too broad a definition that. If you want to replace the state with,
say,
the authority of the boss, does that make you an anarchist? Of course
not.
If you want to "abolish the state" and seek a "mad max" type choas, does
that
make you an anarchist? of course not.
 
Oh, btw, Marxists and leninists want to see the end of the state too.
Just
that their tactics differ from anarchists. They want to see the state
wither
away, over time, but the end is the same. Are Marxists anarchists?

<snip>

Iain



   

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