Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:30:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: villon sasha k <il_frenetico-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: [postanarchism] re: amory starr ...


Part of the problem as I see it, is always discussing
humans in cultural blocks.  And this is very common
amoungst those who push for decentralization (sometime
local autonomy).  Why is the unit always "culture"? 
The problem is that the focus on cultural autonomy can
easily become a conservative force.  Cultural autonomy
for the Islamic fundementalists might sound good from
a certain perspecitve, but I beleive it is our task to
support those within such "cultures" (noting that I
really don't believe in cultural blocks at all but
that all "cultures" are not only full of fissures but
that they have always been in process of construction,
deconstruction, and hybridity--"a culture" as such
does not exist) that are breaking out of these
discursive constructions we call "cultures."  We
should always be supporting the breaking down of such
barriers, in other words.  
  Once the terms become large scale, homogenizing,
corporate capitalism versus small scale, heterogeneous
culture we have already lost.  This is a bit of a
false dichotomy, but one that is very powerful today,
especially in the anti-globalization movement.  The
reality is that capitalism loves "cultures" and
"cultural difference."  Local autonomy as a form does
nothing without an anti-political/anti-capitalist
content.  
This, of course, has nothing to do with the simplistic
idea that Islamic fundementalists need to become
anarchists.  Anarchists will always be a minority, but
hopefully a minority that is a bit more strategic in
its interventions in the future.  This Amorry Star
stuff sounds like just the kind of thing we should
critique very hard.
  If moving beyond left and right means anything, it
has to mean leaving capitalism behind as both the left
and right are forms of capitalist politics.  The
version that Starr seems to be talking about is big
capitalism versus small capitalism; in other words,
the left of capitalism gives into the the far right
version.

sasha


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