>>> rights don't exist -- and definitely not as absolutes -- except insofar >>>as the state and other political institutions "discover" them and then >>>enforce them, depending on what is on offer in terms of policies for >>>extending state rule. none of the ones usually promoted (women's, human, >>>voting, free speech, self-determination, etc) are recognized as inherent in >>>any human culture (which is why attempts to make one or more of them >>>universal are always met with scorn and protest). the entire edifice of >>>rights, duties, and obligations is based on hierarchy, domination, moralism, >>>and enforcement. their invocation has no place in anarchist discourse -- >>>except as examples of weak spots to attack the foundations of hierarchy and >>>domination. . . . "
http://www.spunk.org/library/otherpol/critique/sp001283.txt Reposts not Garofalo garbage
