Glen -
I think this frames what I think both my intentions in trying to
describe what was going on Berkeley was about and maybe also Marcus'
reaction to it.
Well found.
- Steve
On 01/19/2014 10:05 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
I tend to think there's a left-wing totalitarianism and a right-wing
totalitarianism, but since they are both police states they tend to be
indistinguishable. Fascism is a right wing route to totalitarianism.
Can there be an anarchist totalitarianism?
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/politics-vs-literature.htm
This illustrates very well the totalitarian tendency which is explicit in the anarchist or pacifist vision of
Society. In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is
public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is
less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the
individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by
"love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in
exactly the same way as everyone else.
Perhaps this is what Marcus was referring to w.r.t. any implicit shaming
associated with _not_ participating in community efforts? And it may
well tie in nicely with Steve's concept of left wing fascism.
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