Comments on: Updated News Digest December 13, 2009

By: keith

keith — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:34:48 +0000

I added it to the blog roll.

By: Quagmire

Quagmire — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:02:35 +0000

Hey Keith, I just finally set up a new blog (i have yet to post anything). Would you be interested in linking to it? if so, it’s http://misanthrope-anarch.blogspot.com

By: Keith Preston

Keith Preston — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:18:43 +0000

Yes, that sums it up very well. I think it also explains why so many from the ’68 generation have become such rabid establishmentarians in their old age. Somewhere along the line, many of them probably realized that cultural universalism without totalitarianism is impossible, so they began to see the state, the ruling class and the empire as allies against cultural reactionaries (e.g. racists, sexists, homophobes, religious conservatives, poor and working class whites, rednecks, Republicans, etc.)

By: Quagmire

Quagmire — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:44:10 +0000

What is keeping the anarcho-leftoids from getting with the program is their blind zeal for universalizing leftist cultural values. They don’t merely seek an end to the state and to capitalism, they seek to reshape all of society in their own image. Let us not mince words: the vast majority of them have no real understanding of how the power structures in this country actually operate (which explains their tendency to embrace every expansion of the welfare state without criticism), so their “anarchism” merely amounts to pushing a New Left-inspired cultural agenda. They fail to realize that social views contrary to their own will continue to exist even after the state and capitalism have been abolished, so their only real agenda will never be complete.

By: keith

keith — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:39:54 +0000

After listening to your talk, it seems like the only real gulf between national-anarchism and others kinds of anarchism is the question of universalism. You specifically mentioned the possibility of tribes or communities oriented towards diverse or even polar opposite values. So what exactly is keeping these anarcho-leftoids from getting with the program?

By: Andrew Yeoman

Andrew Yeoman — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:57:33 +0000

Thanks for posting a link to my talk!