From: "Chris Deschamp" <daspimp-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Top?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 02:56:54 CST


By "Top Anarchist Events of the Century" do u mean positive?  B/c several 
choices given on the list were prob more negative than positive.  4 example, 
4 the most part anarchy was taken seriously and seen in more of a positive 
light b4 this century b4 some of these events transpired.

Take the assassination of McKinnley, 4 ex.  When Czolgosz murdered the 
president, it immediately threw out abt half of Proudhon's arguments.  When 
ppl saw a man who had publicly announced himself an anarchist kill a head of 
state, they started thinking all anarchists were the same way.  Sensible 
arguments gave way to negative stereotypism.

Events such as these, though they may have been important, in fact hurt the 
anarchist movement a helluva lot more than they helped it.  I suppose its 
been that way ever since the terrorist anarchist movement began last 
century, though.

So basically what im asking is 4 u 2 define "important."  Does important 
mean helpful, hyped, critical, or those events which had the most impact on 
society/the world as a whole?
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