Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:30:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?eduardo=20enriquez?= <eduardofenriquez-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Webin: "Is Anarchism Postmodern?"


 --- "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com> escribió: >
Is Anarchism Postmodern?
> 
> by Theodor Webin
> 

if post-modernism is meant here meaning something that
happens during the existence of "modernity" and very
likely constesting it, critizizing it, challenging it,
wanting to destroy it, well it is even possible to say
perhaps socialism is "postmodern too" after all the
soviet union has been called a "post-capitalist"
system just as nazism had a strong anti-modernism side
(antirationalism!)and thus of course anarchism will
also be a postmodern movement.

with respect to anarchism its been said its reason for
succes in spain during the late 19th century and the
early 20th, was due to a local strong desire and
belief in autonomous communities and their viability.
this view in particular could also at the time of
course be reconciled with radical conservatism (the
carlist royalist movement.)communal autonomy will
always find conflict with modern capitalism and modern
politics. 

now if the definition of "postmodernism" is the ones
like those given by lyotard, jameson, etc and even
implies some coherence with post-struturalist
positions well...
 the spanish anarchist movement which enacted the
catalonian revolution in 1937 worked in just as non
hierachical ways as the zapatistas do and do not want
to take state power as the zapatistas do (perhaps even
more militantly anti-state)but of course it did not
happen in post-war, supposdely "post-industrial"
society.
now on the suspition of technology, reason, science,
etc well. kropotkin sounds very much in good
relationship with all these three things just as the
spanish anarchists were who were mostly inspired by
his "libertarian communism" and nevertheless acted
very non-hierarchicly or at least just as
non-hierarchicly as the most famous supposdely
"postmodern" radical movement the zapatistas. 
the spanish anarchists were opposed to the church but
not just organized religion but "religion", capitalism
and the state (dictatorial or republican). what can be
post-structuralism´s relationship with these things.
even though foucault and deleuze seemed very much
anti-system (derrida`s case is more obscure) ive read
modern republican democracy and the market being
defended with post-structuralism. 

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