[Peace-discuss] Re:Liberal media

[C. G. Estabrook]

Sure, if we look at the European anarchist tradition, which as
Chomsky says is the prolongation of the liberal ideas of the
Enlightenment into the age of industrialization.

OTOH, there is a position that's sometimes called
"anarcho-capitalism," exists almost only in America, and is
not socialist; it's practically solipsistic, and its prophet
is probably the late Robert Heinlein.  And -- again, only in
the US -- it's coming to be called "anarchism" or
"libertarianism."  

BTW, I was not quoting some now-forgotten punk band ("Rocker
Rocker") but rather the remarkable German-American writer
*Rudolf* Rocker (1873-1958), probably the best-known anarchist
in America in the mid-20th century.  (Chomsky would be that
now.) See <http://flag.blackened.net/rocker/>.  --CGE


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:32:07 +0100
>From: "Indigo Frank" <poetinhell at operamail.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Re:Liberal media  
>To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
>In response to:
>My basic views haven't changed much since the Vietnam war,
>when I opposed my Marxist-Leninist friends from the Left,
>from an anarchist or libertarian-socialist position.  (As
>Rocker Rocker said, all anarchists are socialists, but not all
>socialists are anarchists.) --CGE
>
>But anarchism is a shaky term. Is it some "true anarchism"
that is socialist?                   Indigo
>
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