File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0010, message 247


Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:11:39 -0700
From: Joshua Houk <jlhouk-AT-uswest.net>
Subject: Re: Nader must pull out of the election!!


At 05:35 PM 10/22/00, Mitchel Cohen wrote:

>There is a difference between government and the State.

Very true. One has 10 letters, the other five.

>If people on the anarchist listserve think that all of this is irrelevant,
>fine, I'll take it elsewhere. (We'll wait to hear, first.) NOT voting,
>however, as a PRINCIPLE is, in my view, wrong. Not voting should be a
>TACTIC we employ to implement some larger strategy. The self-righteousness
>of limiting these concerns, indeed, the attempt to IMPOSE A LINE
>(supposedly an "anarchist one") on fellow anarchists and anarcho-marxists
>is a dangerous precedent and wholly outside what anarchism is supposed to
>be about.

I assume you took the brown acid.

joshua h

"On a recent ASCAP statement, three of my pieces are listed as 'Blank Tape.'
They can't be mine. I'm not a minimalist." - Ilhan Mimaroglu


   

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