Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:09:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Shawn P. Wilbur" <swilbur-AT-wcnet.org>
Subject: Re: Now *this* has to be a joke...



"Anarchism: Two Kinds" is a Wendy McElroy piece, and it's probably a
mistake to dismiss McElroy, who is smart and serious, too swiftly.
Obviously, her understanding of anarchist history is a little suspect, but
it's probably no more objectionable than the left-anarchist histories that
reduce Proudhon to a step on the way to Bakunin or Kropotkin, and more or
less completely ignore the north american tradition from Josiah Warren to
Tucker. This is no more the case than it is that Warren and Tucker are
proto-Rothbard's too "wary of profit-making."

And, honestly, there's something to reckon with in McElroy's claim that
"they were attacking an abstraction -- the free market - by destroying the
specific property of individual shop owners." It isn't clear how well we
have adapted our tactics to the real job of changing the world, or how
careful we have ben in identifying our enemies. 

-shawn

On 26 Aug 2000, Michael Chisari wrote:

>   Now, *this* is funny.  An anarcho-capitalist whines about how anarchism 
> in the US is starting to go back to it's anti-authoritarian roots (and
> how it now exists outside of Usenet).
> 
>   "Left anarchism (socialist and communist) are foreign imports that 
>    flooded the country like cheap goods during the 19th century. Many 
>    of these anarchists (especially those escaping Russia) introduced 
>    lamentable traits into American radicalism. They believed in 
>    'propaganda by deed': that is, the use of violence as a political 
>    weapon and a form of political expression."
> 
>   Funny (albeit racist and highly misinformed) stuff.  Feel free to
> respond to the author, she's available at mac-AT-zetetics.com.
> 
> http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=348&month=15&title=+Anarchism%3A+Two+Kinds&id=16
> 
> 
>  
> 
> --
> 
> "While I am neither an anarchist nor a libertarian, 
>  Anarchist philosophy inspired thousands of young men and 
>  women to volunteer to sail to a foreign land and sacrifice 
>  their lives fighting Franco's thugs. Libertarianism can at 
>  best inspire someone to buy stocks or express malformed 
>  opinions on slashdot. I don't know which is better but I 
>  sure know which earns my respect."
> 
>                                  - Metis, on Slashdot.org
> 
>  --
> 
>  Michael Chisari
>  mchisari-AT-usa.net
> 
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