From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: RE: primitivism and anarchism
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:21:00 -0000




Chuck0 wrote


> Bob Black is not the leading post-left writer. 
> That title would go to Jason McQuinn.


Why ?

Because Pope Chuck0 has conferred upon McQuinn
the title of Leading Post-Left Writer ?
But were you speaking ex-cathedra, Chuck0 ?

Who is and who is not a leading writer of any sort 
is a matter of opinion. According to Iain, who
is usually fairly reliable on such matters, this
Bob Black character (who I have never read) is 
one of the leading post-left writers. You apparently
consider him less of a leader than Jason McQuinn
(who I have never read). According to you, 
McQuinn is  THE  leading post-left writer.
However, both Bob Black and McQuinn are apparently,  
famous/notorious post-leftists. Since life is short,
and there are chores to be done, as well as more
pleasureable activities, and nobody can read all 
the books in the world, and these two are well down 
my own list of priorities, I can only say that,
on the evidence of the writings of those post-leftists
whose writings I  _have_  read (for instance yourself,
here on this anarchy-list) post-leftism is obviously 
about as substantial an ideology as Tony Blair's 
 NEW  Labour.

 
> Since these discussions has been spilling between 
> this list and Infoshop News


They have ? 

It's news to me.

But then I don't usually read Infoshop News,
and, since life is short, and there are chores 
to be done, as well as more pleasureable activities, 
I'm not going to bother doing so now.

If any of them elusive "real" primitivists 
show up in the discussions on Infoshop News 
relating to what we are discussing here, 
tell them that the real discussion with 
their "leading" critics, which they are 
missing out on, is happening on the anarchy-list. 

Dave C