File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2004/anarchy-list.0401, message 53


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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