From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com> Subject: RE: primitivism and anarchism Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:49:46 -0000 Chuck0 wrote > While anarchists have long been identified with the Left in a loose, > colloquial sense, anarchism is not an ideology of the Left. "Left" _IS_ a "loose, colloquial" term. Analysing politics in terms of the seating arrangements of the French parliament in the late Eighteenth Century is, by definition, a very loose way of doing things. But if you are going to use the terms at all, "left" means those folks who at least profess solidarity with the disfranchised and dispossessed (however hypocritical this may be in some cases), while "right" means those who openly defend existing property rights and the established order of things. Just like in them French seating arrangements. > Anarchism broke off from the left in the 19th century See above > when the Left made it clear that it didn't want > anarchists around. See above > And on just about every substantial tenet of anarchism, > the left and anarchists are at odds See above > Many anarchist make the mistake of confusing our work > with leftists on single issues as meaning that we are > of the left. Ah , well, it's a good job they have Pope Chuck0 to keep them right, then, isn't it? Dave C
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