From: "gracchus" <tiberiusgracchus-AT-home.com>
Subject: anarchy in denial
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 06:23:26 -0700


thomas siversten said:

>
> Well, it wasn`t that the people that got killed deserved it. Noone
deserves
> that. The US as a state with a militant foreign policy made this
happen,
> and are ultimately to blame.

do you not see the symmetry here?  the right wing blames "rogue"
states.  so what do anarchists do?  blame our own "rogue" states!

facinating how we all see the world and filter it through our
preconceived notions (myself included of course).  if all you have is
a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.  since we can't conceive
of any other source for this evil, it MUST be the state.  no matter
how tortured the logic, the net is full of reams of text trying to pin
this on either baghdad or washington or kabul.  i think anarchists are
as addicted to the dominate paradigm as anyone else, and perhaps more
so than most.  while the left and the right point to different
culprits, their logic and intellectual foundations are interchangable
and almost perfectly symmetrical.  i repeat:  facinating.

whatever stupidity u$ policy is guilty of, and no matter how provoked
by the forces of globalization, western cultural hegemony, etc., the
attacks of last week were not the actions of the state or
state-supported agents as such.  i agree that some states (u$, etc.)
laid the groundwork and other states encouraged and perhaps helped
logistically (though not a necessity), BUT these were the actions of
automomous, self-directing, independent people.

we ignore that fact at our peril.

roger