From: SReidTweed-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:14:58 EDT
Subject: Re:  Re: Fwd: awful thing that happened at recent Mumia meeting



In a message dated 4/25/00 10:15:47 PM, Nexus-AT-twinoaks.org wrote:

<<All they've heard about is our violence, our love of chaos and destruction, 
our hatred for organization, and our ignorant rebellion which is just a way 
of 
"acting out" to upset our parents.>>

Generally, my peers get more freaked out by anarchism than my parents. Both 
of them were influenced by the New Left in their youths, so they tend to 
encourage me a lot.

<<We need some short, attractive, clearly written, jargon-free, fun-to-
read introductions to the theories and practices of present-day 
anarchism, with maybe some historical background too.>>

Have you read "Collectives in the Spanish Revolution" by Gaston Leval? At the 
end there is some great anarchist propaganda that could be modelled by the 
present anarchist movement. Generally, people aren't interested in a theory 
unless it describes and explains something about their lives. I think that 
good outreach propaganda, like the stuff in "Collectives," should summarize 
the immediate problems of society and what is being done about them, and then 
suggest future activities. Then, if the reader is interested, he will go 
looking for further information on anarchism by himself. 

-Stephen T.