File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0001, message 75


Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 03:58:30 -0600
From: Sandi and Scott Spaeth <vespass-AT-toast.net>
Subject: Re: So What the Hell is "Left Anarchy"?



At 01:21 AM 1/4/00 -0800, Jamal Hannah wrote:

>Well thats not true.  anarcho-syndicalists are not "would-be
>totalitarians".. we're anarchists.

Jamal, you missed my point, I didn't say all syndicalists, I said far too 
many.  That said, there are also far too many anarchists out there who have 
latched on to the one-true-path-to-freedom (TM).

>  We just believe in organization to
>defeat capitalism, not organization for organization's sake.

The totalitarianism comes from the homogenization required to get everybody 
on the same page of the same book to "effectively" organize against 
capitalism.  Or at least that's my fear, I may be wrong.  But, as I said, 
in the short term, in some instances, organizing workplaces and even 
achieving self-management is a worthy and useful pursuit.  But for long 
term goals, and here I mean the gifts we offer to posterity, I think that 
saddling future generations with enduring and powerful organizations that 
most probably won't suit their needs is a tragically arrogant and immoral 
act.  While the IWW is quite possibly what many workers need under 
capitalism,  I can almost guarantee that it doesn't offer the social and 
economic relations that post-capitalism human beings are going to want to 
create for themselves.    We shouldn't burden them with our structures 
anymore than we can avoid it.  Let's leave them ideals, and ideas, and 
examples, but for their sake, not structures.

cheers,
Scott   

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