Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 05:43:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sean Fenley <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: petty anarchist marxist squabbling




> 
> i'm a marxist mostly because i share many
> presuppositions with marx. but it
> is also because i find that the left-communist /
> libertarian marxist strain
> in rev theory is the strongest and most useful, in
> that it is continually
> growing and developing. my problem with anarchism is
> that the most
> significant theoretical "advance" since the spanish
> rev has been
> primitivism, which i'm sure you'll agree is
> sometimes interesting and
> insightful, but mostly useless. which is why the
> most interesting thing in
> the anarchist scene going today is the platformist
> stuff, which dates back
> to the 1920s. and most platformists i know use
> mostly ideas they have
> dirived from recent left-commie / autonomist
> scources to update platformist
> theoretical behaviour.
> 
> the bulk of the theoretical work since the 30s has
> been done by "marxists"
> such as the situationists, the autonomists, the
> neo-bordigaists, the french
> ultra-left, etc.
> 
commie00,
it's interesting i also became interested in marxism
while previously calling myself an anarchist... I
think you're right there are some good ideas in
primitivism but nonetheless i'm thinking of writing an
article named "the catastrophe called john zerzan" or
some such thing (let you know when it's done)... i
agree with lewis mumford moreso than perlman, zerzan,
kacynski, etc... but anyway one other thing i want to
mention is that i recently saw a speaker from the
institute for social ecology and she spoke about
autonomism for about 25% to half of her lecture! i
think there is no need to separate anarchism from some
of the more libertarian strains of marxism and i hope
this practice stops...
later on,
-Sean


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