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- Path: sparky!uunet!shearson.com!snark!pmetzger
- From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Subject: Re: What is Anarchism
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.214322.24487@shearson.com>
- Sender: news@shearson.com (News)
- Organization: Partnership for an America Free Drug
- References: <1993Jan19.111505.12374@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.190623.9255@shearson.com> <1993Jan22.125059.6851@spider.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:43:22 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- ian@spider.co.uk (Ian Heavens) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.190623.9255@shearson.com> pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
- >>
- >>Get real, Mr. Cooke. Socialists have NEVER had a monopoly on the
- >>notion of anarchism, and if anything the anarchocapitalists have been
- >>around longer, as the first people to seriously broach the notion of
- >>anarchism in the modern sense in the 17th century were individualist
- >>rather than collectivist in orientation. In spite of this, of course,
- >
- >Not here, they weren't; the first radical group that can be definitely
- >identified as anarchist were the Diggers, who were definitely
- >collectivist;
-
- [Rest deleted]
-
- Ian, I don't give a damn. The whole point of my messages was that I've
- got a perfect right to call myself an anarchist. If you want to go
- historical, I can claim that the Diggers weren't the first, but that
- the guys who founded Iceland were the first, and were capitalist
- anarchists. We can go at this all day long finding older and older and
- older precedents until we go back to Adam. That wasn't my point. My
- point was to show that there is a reasonable argument for my naming
- myself an anarchist.
-
- You can scream until you are blue in the face -- I won't listen any
- further. I've made my point. I'm an anarchist. If you don't like it,
- well, tough. You won't be able to get me or any of the other people
- who agree with me to change our appelation. Why don't you just accept
- this and get on with discussing substantive issues instead?
- --
- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
- --
- Laissez faire, laissez passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
-