Mary Bedard wrote:
>
> After hearing from my family member who lives in the Puget Sound
> area, I would encourage restraint in jumping to conclusions about the
> violence in Seattle around the WTO meetings.
[snip]
> He later added the following comments:
> Approximately 600 people were ultimately arrested. The "cowards" all
> in black stated they were Anarchists.
Well, there are Anarchists and anarchists, like there are
communists and Communists [esp. Stalinist flunkies and
"fellow travelers"].
It should be noted that, according to Hannah Arendt's
exegesis in _The Human Condition_, the classical
Greek polis was a form of an-archy, because, in the
polis, there was no structured government of some
citizens by others, but rather all the citizens
collegially [an-archically] shaped a life in
common. Also there is Marx's lovely vision
of a "communistic" future, in which "the administration
of things will replace the government of men" (an-archy,
i.e., lack of hierarchical "government", again).
\brad mccormick
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