Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 00:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: Re: AUT: Maoism? Not Really.


On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Jamal Hannah wrote:

> Which brings me to the final thing... commie00 says anarchists who
> try to spread their ideas or set examples are being elitist, vangaurdist, 
> or what-have-you.  All I can say is that a social movement that works to
> make itself grow and spread it's ideas will continue to exist, while a
> movement that does nothing to influence others (besides perhaps writing
> theory that is tailored to sound perfect and "harmless".)

... oopss. I forgot to put "will stagnate." on the end of the above
paragraph.

It has occored to me that one aspect of autonomism is that it is in fact a
marxist reaction to authoritarian marxism which over-compensates by
refusing any significant form of organization beyond a basic level of
face-to-face contact and word-of-mouth spreading of ideas.  If thats true,
I think it's simply one possible way to try to be a revolutionary without
being authoritarian or reformist. There are other ways, which other people
wish to explore, which is why I think anarchists and autonomists should
co-exist.

(And in this sense, the black block as it has existed up til now seems a
lot like autonomism).

 - JH



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