Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:19:07 -0400
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: British "anarchists" threaten to burn down Bound Together Books




K Kinkel wrote:
> 
> Chuck wrote:
> >The following crap is why I'm thinking of giving up the label >"anarchist"
> >and hanging up my activist shoes.
> 
> Awww come on Chuck, I'd like to believe that such book burning rhetoric is
> not representative of the anarchist community as a whole.  I suppose you
> have a better grasp on the community, so you tell me, are most of us facist
> morons?  (morons maybe, but at least not facist)  Nobody is perfect, and
> since the anarchist community seems to be partially defined by societal
> rejects, you just have to expect that some of them will be amazing people,
> and some will be nutty, and most will be amazingly nutty people.  I am sure
> that you and I fit into the latter better than to former two.

Sorry, I'm confusing people, which is what you get with one overhwlemed
burnt out activist with too much email on his hands.

The letter from the U.K. by an large is NOT representative of the
anarchist movement. By their criteria, they should be working to shut
this list down and one of my magazines.

The other thing I was bellyachin' about is that anarchists spend alot of
time arguing and bitchen', but not enough time doing stuff or working
together. I'm tired of debating, which is why I'm going to focus on
writing articles and essays for the rest of the year and cutting back on
debating and activism.

Some of you know that I dropped off the IWW-list in frustration. A few
folks and myself were trying to get folks working on constructive
projects, but too many idiots persisted in rehashing old political
baggage over and over and over again. A year ago I would have said that
the future of the IWW looked bright. Now, I think it is doomed, unless
it can figger out a way to make the old guard shut up for a while.
 
> This seriously demented "anarchist" wrote:
> >I'm not interested in a discussion about free speech, freedom of the
> >bookshop/collective to sell whatever they like.  That is the ideology
> >of free market capitalism.
> 
> Who is going to take seriously someone that implies that free speech is part
> of the ideology of free market capitalism?  No need to worry here, just a 20
> year old veteran anarchist, and facist moron.

Yup.

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Chuck0

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