At 12:04 AM 2/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/16/2000 9:00:44 PM Pacific Standard Time, fm1@amug.org
>writes:
>
><< http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07d.htm >>
>thanks, I had not read this... As always I am impressed with Max's writing
>and thoughts
I'm toying with the idea of setting up a Deep Anarchy list.
(In DEEP ANARCHY -- AN ELIMINATIVIST VIEW OF
"THE STATE" <http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07d.shtml>,
Max coined the term "Deep Anarchy.")
According to Max T. O'Connor (aka Max More):
"Traditional anarchists want to abolish the "State." In planning their
strategies and in doing their thinking about this they rarely question
the existence or fundamental nature of their enemy. This situation
wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that their mistaken beliefs
often lead them into counterproductive political strategies. Thus we
observe the ludicrous sight of self-named anarchists joining political
parties (usually the Libertarian Party) in order to hasten the end of
the system. The idea seems to be: We can remove it by being
absorbed by it!
I want to suggest that when we talk of "the State" we are not talking
of any entity, either concrete or abstract. I will provide two main
arguments for this: One from considerations of methodological
individualism, and another that could be called "the argument from
fuzziness." "Deep Anarchy" is the view that results from these
thoughts; it is the idea that we already live in an anarchy."
The purpose of the list might be to explore the deepest aspects
of coercive political systems, including the possibility that all
current coercive political systems are complete hoaxes.
Anyone interested?
Frederick Mann
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