From: "Dave Coull" <d.y.coull-AT-dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:07:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Is Anarchy in fact Left?


Andy wrote

>Isn't the issue perhaps more bound up in the nineteenth century 
>adherence to modernity and the efforts to find a basis in science 
>and rationality for everything including human behaviour. 
>The traditional Marxist left was certainly part of that, as was 
>Kropotkin. Anarchism need not be tied to this and is better equipped 
>to adapt to more sensitive analyses of human behaviour as offered 
>by phenomenological approaches. 

Phenomenological approaches ? Didn't George Michael 
get arrested for that ? (Look at  _this_  , big boy , it's 
_phenomenal_ )

>It is important that there is a "left" alternative to modernity - 
>the reactions against it this century have been fascism and 
>fundamentalism, not to mention the condition formerly known 
>as post-modernism.

The phenomenon formerly known as post-modernism ?

I was beginning to think Andy was sounding like
a post-modernist , but now I realise it's even worse
than that.  

Andy is a  POST - post  - modernist .


Dave