Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:35:12 +1100
From: "-AT-ndy" <andy-AT-xchange.anarki.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: Perplexing left silliness


"An efficiently hierarchised army can win a war, but not a revolution; an undisciplined mob can win neither. The problem is how to organise without creating a hierarchy;... the only safeguard against authority and rigidity setting in is a playful attitude."

-- Vaneigem

In plain English:

It seems to me to be contradictory to maintain that, on the one hand, "we" are part of the communist movement, wave the red flag and are on the side of the working class, and on the other hand, to claim that reality may not be reduced to simple formulas.

Another problem: that, in the context of a discussion of the left / sectarianism, one of the key issues is precisely who is on what side, and are there only two? (Orwell made some interesting remarks about this in 'Notes on Nationalism' I think.)

Seriously,

-AT-ndy.

PS. Why do your posts go way over there >?



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