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Sep. 16th, 2007 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyLet's engage in some sectarian wankery! Go read A critique of neo-anarchism. Actually, you can skim it; it's quite awful. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
notnotnevinzehr posted the best bits, along with commentary. I largely concur. Especially with this (italics from the article, roman from notnotnevinzehr's post):
Back to this idea of tolerance, and why the 911 wingnuts have such a foothold in the Left. Anarchists know what they dislike: Marxists (authoritarian or autonomous), Maoists, social democrats, and people who wear suits. What's left—a ragtag collection of individualists, anarcho-capitalists, radical liberals, and actual anarchists*——is not enough to form a Movement. Hence, if you refuse to work with the people you dislike, you're forced to let all sorts of movement detritus into your spaces, which these days seems to include a lot of the tinfoil-hat types.
The other phenomenon I've noticed is that the smaller the group, the sharper its critique of every other group. The International Bolshevik Tendency hate all the other Trots. Anarchists either claim the Zapatistas as anarchists (no) or condemn them as watered-down Maoists (what?). It's a micro-version of "with us or against us," except really pathetic.
It's hard to say "no" to people, especially when you're small and you need everyone you can get. But we (and by "we," I mean the Left in general, not anarchists in particular) are at once not tolerant enough of divergent but similar political beliefs, and too tolerant of wingnuttery. I'm not saying that we should purge the Loose Changers, just send them to re-education camps. If we've got people prancing around in front of the cameras with "JEWS DID 911" signs, how the hell do we expect anyone to take us seriously?
On that note, a friend of a friend sent me this article, which is about how the SPP is caused by mind control. As if Canadian politicians aren't happy to betray the voters because they represent the interests of capital and always have—no, it must by mass hypnosis.
Man. I hope so.
* Note that I leave out the lifestylists. They're capable of falling into any of those categories and others, though I'd define most as radical liberals.
notnotnevinzehr posted the best bits, along with commentary. I largely concur. Especially with this (italics from the article, roman from notnotnevinzehr's post):Note as well the neo-anarchists' complete lack of interest in finding out the truth about all the various events that are cynically lumped together under the rubric of "September 11th." Like all Leftists, they are content to dismiss the 911 Truth Movement as "conspiracy theorists" and "wingnuts." Why? It speaks directly of the State and its secret/security services, which are beyond the narrow focus of commodity-obsessed "former"-Marxists.
So anarchists shouldn't consider the "Maoist" Zapatistas allies, but they should consider anti-Semitic, fascist conspiracy theorists allies. Awesome!
Back to this idea of tolerance, and why the 911 wingnuts have such a foothold in the Left. Anarchists know what they dislike: Marxists (authoritarian or autonomous), Maoists, social democrats, and people who wear suits. What's left—a ragtag collection of individualists, anarcho-capitalists, radical liberals, and actual anarchists*——is not enough to form a Movement. Hence, if you refuse to work with the people you dislike, you're forced to let all sorts of movement detritus into your spaces, which these days seems to include a lot of the tinfoil-hat types.
The other phenomenon I've noticed is that the smaller the group, the sharper its critique of every other group. The International Bolshevik Tendency hate all the other Trots. Anarchists either claim the Zapatistas as anarchists (no) or condemn them as watered-down Maoists (what?). It's a micro-version of "with us or against us," except really pathetic.
It's hard to say "no" to people, especially when you're small and you need everyone you can get. But we (and by "we," I mean the Left in general, not anarchists in particular) are at once not tolerant enough of divergent but similar political beliefs, and too tolerant of wingnuttery. I'm not saying that we should purge the Loose Changers, just send them to re-education camps. If we've got people prancing around in front of the cameras with "JEWS DID 911" signs, how the hell do we expect anyone to take us seriously?
On that note, a friend of a friend sent me this article, which is about how the SPP is caused by mind control. As if Canadian politicians aren't happy to betray the voters because they represent the interests of capital and always have—no, it must by mass hypnosis.
Apparently there has also been a desire by a political-military-industrial complex to develop "mind control" to manipulate emotions, and other related "biofusion" manipulation. In Ultrascience, "Weapons of War", Learning Channel, 1997, featured Dr. Michael Persinger, Laurentian University, Canada, Dr. Persinger described weapons using "psycho or influence technology" and electromagnetic radiation frequencies to control what people think, for psychological warfare purposes. Canada's political leaders may very well be controlled through some kind of developed mind control technology in order to ensure Canada can be taken over for the fascist architects of the SPP NAU New World Order agenda.
Man. I hope so.
* Note that I leave out the lifestylists. They're capable of falling into any of those categories and others, though I'd define most as radical liberals.
