File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9910, message 16


Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 14:59:29 -0400
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: Anarchists Against Terrorism Web Page Updated




"Shawn P. Wilbur" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Jamal Hannah wrote:
> 
> > Hey folks, check out my Anarchists Against Terrorism web site
> > and tell me what you think:
> >
> > http://flag.blackened.net/noterror/
> 
> Perhaps your brush is a bit broad, Jamal. It seems like a general
> condemnation of "terrorism," "violence" and "armed insurrection" - as if
> there weren't considerable differences among those classes of practice -
> doesn't advance the internal debate much. It may just muddy the waters
> more. There's at least a broad consensus that "propaganda by the deed" was
> a wrong turn - but largely because it depended on a view of society that
> simply wasn't sound (and is much less so now.) Whether or not you can
> "blow up a social relation," it seems pretty clear that you have to do
> more than kill a king or industrialist to pull it off. "Terrorism" in
> general may be dismissable as authoritarian - if not simply because it too
> seems useless for creating a free society.
> 
> But the question of "violence" is certainly more complicated than either
> or those, and i fear you've implied otherwise.

I agree with Shawn. You'll make more points be focusing on Terrorism
conducted by the state.

-- 
Chuck0

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