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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:10 AM Original message |
Howard Zinn: Anarchism Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word, By Ziga Vodovnik |
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Tiggeroshii (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:13 AM Response to Original message |
1. Zinn has a lot of similarities to Chomsky. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yes...of sorts. Anarcho Syndicalist |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Anarchism is a filthy word... |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Guess he's so dedicated to being "provocative" that he's spent a lifetime being so |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I agree. Anyone who promotes anarchism is a nutjob. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-24-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Anarchism does not reject enforcing civility and rights. |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 07:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Please tell me where anarchy is practiced. |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-24-08 06:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Every anarchic society commune has turned to shit. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-24-08 06:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. The major examples that come to mind |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:26 AM Response to Original message |
4. Anarchy as a form of governing principles? It is like deregulation as a form of regualtion. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Get civics education back into the classrooms |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. You should really not take hostile claims at face value |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 07:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yes. The concept, and its connotations, are too alien, remote, for some to be comfy with... |
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LucyParsons (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. If that void is not "We the People" |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-24-08 06:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. That's not what the term signifies at all. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:46 AM Response to Original message |
7. the word "anarchy" is scary. the philosophy is not always |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 06:55 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. "Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves." |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 07:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. In 14th c. Poland, serfs had an enviable situation in comparison to the rest of Europe |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
12. Bump |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
15. To some extent I believe this is what Al Gore is trying to do regarding the issue of global warming. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 07:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Thanks for highlighting this aspect. Yours was one of the only positive responses here |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
16. Anarchism is utopian bunk. Human nature will never change radically enough to make it possible. |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 07:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Representative democracy looked pretty damn radical |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-23-08 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. Bump for visibility |
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