November 12, 2011
THE ANARCHIST NOW:
Propaganda of the Deed: Is Anarchism, not Marxism, the more relevant left tradition? (Mark Mazower, Summer 2011, BookForum)What exactly was anarchism, and why should it matter to us today--more, perhaps, than Marxism itself? With hindsight, some basic distinctions are relevant. All revolutionaries disliked the state in the form in which they found it; some nevertheless acknowledged the necessity for working through it to get to the utopia they envisaged. Only the followers of Bakunin, Proudhon, and those who thought like them resisted any engagement with the state on principle.
What's amusing is that while both the Tea Party and the Occupiers are driven by their deep hatred of the state, both are thoroughly dependent on it, in the form of SS and Medicare for the former and government-guaranteed student loans for the latter. Basically, they just don't like it that other groups get money.
Posted by oj at November 12, 2011 8:12 AM
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