Re: CDR: Re: What is Anarchism?

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Anarchism is the belief that people are basically good, (Shoate shite) Sez who? Sez you, actually.. A lot of people attracted to anarchism seem to think like Lord Acton,that power corrupts and the less your average person has over you the safer

Re: CDR: Re: What is Anarchism?

2002-12-30 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Anarchism is the belief that people are basically good, (Shoate shite) Sez who? Sez you, actually.. A lot of people attracted to anarchism seem to think like Lord Acton,that power corrupts and the less your average person has over you the safer

CDR: Re: What is Anarchism?

2002-12-29 Thread Matthew X
Anarchism is the belief that people are basically good, (Shoate shite) Sez who? A lot of people attracted to anarchism seem to think like Lord Acton,that power corrupts and the less your average person has over you the safer you'll be. Isn't Christianity the belief that people are basically

Re: What is Anarchism?

2002-12-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: It is notoriously difficult to define Anarchism. Anarchism is the belief that people are basically good, that they are corrupted by interaction with others. And as a result the way to make the world a more idyllic place is to minimize the ways in which

What is Anarchism?

2002-12-28 Thread Matthew X
poisoning the Earth because we are sane human beings rather than because we are in particular Anarchists. None of the above answers the question of what is Anarchism?, why we adopt the Anarchist project at all. I imagine people will have different reasons, and these different reasons will colour