'What is your name?' 'Travas Gunnell.' 'Do you deny having written the
folllowing?':
> " . . . To quote Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism is 'the no-government system of
> socialism.' [Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets, p. 46]. In other words,
> 'the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is the
> abolition of private property [i.e. capitalism] and government.' [Errico
> Malatesta, 'Towards Anarchism,' in Man!, M. Graham (Ed), p. 75]"
There's an old Russian joke about this: capitalism is the exploitation of
man by man, whereas communism is precisely the opposite.
> Please don't construe this as an attack or an attempt to generate some sort
> of flame war. My intent is to point people to information that they're
> probably not familiar with; it is my perception that most of the people on
> the list are not very familiar with the body of "left" anarchist political
> theory. Located at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/ is _An
> Anarchist FAQ_, this is an excellent source with a huge amount of data.
I'd take a guess and say that more than 85% of the people on this list who
refer to themselves as anarcho-capitalists or have anarcho-capitalistic
leanings have already read this FAQ, and have already heard the
argument/rhetoric you posted.
Speaking personally, I'm quite familiar with anarcho-socialism, I simply
disagree with it.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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