File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9910, message 528


Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:20:14 -0700
From: Joshua Houk <jlhouk-AT-mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Bob Black and Lucy Parsons




Chuck0 wrote:

> Joshua is just being a good anti-authoritarian and pricking
> somebody who is a member of that tendency which aims to improve
> the anarchist image by being nice and logical and whatever.

Just a clarification: I think being nice is a very good thing. So
much so that I get pissed off at myself for not being as nice as I
should.

Logic isn't a bad thing, either. Rationalism, an adjunct of logic,
*is* a bad thing: it treats people as commodities and things, and
not as human beings.

My only beef in this new mega-thread is authoritarianism and
hypocrisy. I don't care what other people think of Bob Black, and
I'm quite happy to have people disagree with me on it. I don't have
an ideology to defend, I don't hold personal grudges. I just call
'em as I see 'em.

joshua h

   

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