Why War?
This question might seem naive or obtuse, but I have to ask - why are anarchists focusing so much on the war in Iraq? Aside from the media images we are presented with on a daily basis, how much...
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i would more easily acknowledge your points if you would admit that anti-war protest and agitation has a history as old as (and older than) anarchism, and that this history is totally unconnected to...
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I must admit, Badger, that I have little or no knowledge of substantial anti-war protests prior to the nineteenth century. I'm afraid you missed my point about the relationship of current anti-war...
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while it is undoubtedly true that the majority of anti-war protesters will wander off into other things once the war winds down and eventually stops occupying the front page and the news leaders,...
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My point isn't so much about the opportunistic relationship between political activists and the media, which is already pretty clear, but about the way that our priorities are set for us according to...
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i'm perplexed. are you saying that as internationalists and anti-miliarists, we should be paying less attention to the non-combatants u.s. foreign policy is programmed to kill? just because it isn't...
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What I am saying, Badger, is that our perception of reality is molded in large part by the abstract images and data we receive from the media. We oppose the war in Iraq, but what personal experience...
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My sister is in the National Guard as a combat medic. She joined for the same reason alot of poor folks do from West Virginia... it looks like a way out of poverty. I agrued with her about it alot....
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Another whiney and petulant post from Flint, who, not content with making an ass of himself on Infoshop, has decided to grace us here with yet another demonstration of his utter lack of critical...
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I don't know if you have ever heard of this concept, but it's called solidarity. I think it is in my interest to act in solidarity with the exploited around the world whether or not I directly...
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Whatever your history with Flint, you are out of line using adhomynim arguments here. You have replied abusively while Flint has replied with substance. If you don't like his argument, refute it...
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Kame's reply clearly shows that he hasn't been paying attention to a word I've been saying, either about the media or the importance of a personal, subjective emphasis in our revolutionary...
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I think revolution is based in our own experience, but you must also recognize that it can't be purely personal. There are basically two models of revolution: one a top down, led force that overthrows...
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ok,so makhno,you must realize that there are different degrees of mediation,right?and living in a massified and atomized society, where information is spewed out to an immense number of individuals,...
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I've tried to say the same thing several different times in this thread, but it seems that I'm still not making myself clear. I am not concerned here with the way that the media "shapes our...
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Of course our revolt starts from ourselves and our lives. If we choose to express this revolt in an essentially defensive way, we may well contractively draw into ourselves, increasingly ignoring even...
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Wolfi, I have been quite explicit in this thread about the need for anarchists to have a coherent theoretical understanding of world events and broad social forces. As for whether or not distant...
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Hmm, Actually, thinking about this post, I should change my tune and say that I think the question it raises is important. How can you connect your opposition to a war thousands of miles away to your...
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Makhno, I didn't actually think that your aim was a contractive in-grown revolt, but I did think that the way you were wording yourself sounded that way and the arguments that you were makking, if not...
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I just meant that the proletarian community is an abstraction - you can't put in a wheelbarrow or touch it to verify it exists. And it is positive in the sense that it give you something, it's...
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