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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