File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0004, message 316


From: "Richard Taylor" <gwinstan-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Chomsky on A16 Anarchists...
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 03:00:59 EDT


>    Is it me, or is Chomsky publicly dissing the A16 anarchists?  It
>seems to me that a large section of the organizers of A16 are anarchists.

In my opinion, it is you. B/C when the media refer to "anarchists," as a 
rule they do not mean the people that we know are involved in the 
organizing. It is an effort to discredit any organizing as an "anarchist 
plot". Chomsky is just pointing that out. Note the "weird meaning in elite 
circles" that he refers to.

RJT

>   This is from "Talking Anarchy with Chomsky" from The Nation:
>
> >   I can sort of conjure up something that might have been going on in
> > their editorial offices, but your guess is as good as mine. The term
> > "anarchist" has always had a very weird meaning in elite circles. For
> > example, there was a headline in the Boston Globe today on a small
> > article saying something like "Anarchists Plan Protests at IMF Meeting
> > in April." Who are the anarchists who are planning the protest?  Ralph
> > Nader's Public Citizen, labor organizations and others. There will be
> > some people around who will call themselves anarchists, whatever that
> > means. But from the elite point of view, you want to focus on something
> > that you can denounce in some fashion as irrational. That's the
> > analogue to Thomas Friedman calling them flat-earthers.
>

>
>    I would expect to hear the above quote from somebody like Michael
>Moore or that Medea woman, but not Noam Chomsky.  Is he turning towards
>liberalism, or is he just getting too warm and cozy in his ivory tower?
>
>
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>
>  Michael Chisari         "Got a revolution behind my eyes,
>  mchisari-AT-usa.net         we got to get up and organize."
>
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