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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Are you talking about changing the world or an
Alternative Universe or a "Xin Tian Di" (new heaven and new earth)?</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jbw292002@gmail.com href="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com">John W.</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=galliher@illinois.edu
href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">C. G. Estabrook</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:25
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Peace-discuss] A different
world is possible</DIV>
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<DIV>So it took decades to bring into being one impoverished "anarchist"
village in Spain, which was then brutally crushed by the fascists et
al.? What then would you say is the probabability of the possibility of
a "different world"?</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:43 PM, C. G. Estabrook <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</A>></SPAN>
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class=gmail_quote>From <<A
href="http://www.truthout.org/remembering-fascism-learning-from-past58724"
target=_blank>http://www.truthout.org/remembering-fascism-learning-from-past58724</A>>:<BR><BR><BR>...a
collection of primary documents about collectivization [was] published in
1937 by the CNT, the anarcho-syndicalist union that is celebrating its
centenary this year. One contribution has resonated in my mind ever since,
by peasants of the village of Membrilla. I would like to quote parts of
it:<BR><BR>"In [the] miserable huts [of Membrilla] live the poor inhabitants
of a poor province; eight thousand people, but the streets are not paved,
the town has no newspaper, no cinema, neither a café nor a library.... Food,
clothing and tools were distributed equitably to the whole population. Money
was abolished, work collectivized, all goods passed to the community,
consumption was socialized. It was, however, not a socialization of wealth
but of poverty.... The whole population lived as in a large family;
functionaries, delegates, the secretary of the syndicates, the members of
the municipal council, all elected, acted as heads of a family. But they
were controlled, because special privilege or corruption would not be
tolerated. Membrilla is perhaps the poorest village of Spain, but it is the
most just."<BR><BR>These words, by some of the most impoverished peasants in
the country, capture with rare eloquence the achievements and promise of the
anarchist revolution. The achievements did not, of course, spring up from
nothing. They were the outcome of many decades of struggle, experiment,
brutal repression - and learning. The concept of how a just society should
be organized was in the minds of the population when the opportunity arose.
The experiment in creating a world of freedom and justice was crushed all
too soon by the combined forces of fascism, Stalinism and liberal democracy.
Global power centers understood very well that they must unite to destroy
this dangerous threat to subordination and discipline before turning to the
secondary task of dividing up the spoils.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>-- <BR>This
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