File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2001/anarchy-list.0108, message 60


From: "john bechtel" <dsidnt-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: citizen?
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 01:12:33 +0000



Well, ask for an opinion or two and get it! Thanks guys. Iagree with Scotts 
observation...

>>And two, if you think you're going to have anarchism, or any social
>>structure for that matter, free of tribal segregation, you're wrong.

...and Thomas'...

I really
>dont see the point in romanticising tribalism.
>

...except for this...

Citizen is the status given to good little
>model
>fascists. That kind of status system is exactly what anarchism is not.
>
>	.thomas

...because, and I'll go out on a limb of my own making here, I do consider 
myself a 'citizen'. Not of any city-state-nation, but, as someone suggested, 
of the world. Yet I would also consider myself a citizen if I were part of 
an anarchist community. Being a citizen does not seperate me from anyone 
else. Indeed, it allows me to feel more fellowship, at least with my  fellow 
'citizens'. If there are fascists lurking about then yes! I do seperate 
myself from them, and I am proud to be a citizen ( compared to the 
'subjects' of a state ).
Thank you all for these insights.

                               Later, John

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