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    Why Anarchism is Dangerous Archived Message

    Posted by Gerard on October 2, 2020, 9:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Why Anarchism is Dangerous"

    "...never mind invoke fear." Oh it does in those the elites threaten with it... Khaos is only useful in so far as it represents the initial condition..of man and of society..reverting to it in order to re-establish balance is oxymoron-ic....it astounds me just how easy it has become for the gauche revolutionary to rehash their recidivist cant...Has no-one heard of Gandhi?...In our economically determined state (for surely capitalism's manifest destiny is just as economically determined as is that of the International), however, the tendency to migrate to the other extreme is understandable (if frighteningly predictable), but not excusable among the sane.

    "Blood will have blood" this is all one needs to know about revolutionary endeavour and the anarchic struggle for surely if the anarchist wishes for peaceful revolution they will find themselves a conservative "evolutionary" soon enough..there is no Year Zero..those who have no past have no future....and the baby needs to protected from sailing down the sewer..a good modern example is the "Blairite" (and others), practice of passing new legislation every time there is a perceived threat to the manufactured consent in the world view of the capitalist elite within the wider body politic..

    "My first essay on politics concerned itself with the practicalities of an anarchist society (and it's creation). Arguing the need for an evolution of consciousness, rather than a revolution of peoples, I made use of some of the thought of Catholic theologian Teilhard De Chardin (and a book by Marilyn Ferguson called "The Aquarian Conspiracy" amongst others). The tutor concerned (no names no pack-drill) having given me a low "A" grade of 74% marked the essay down for my mention of Teilhard's ideas saying "it sounds like being invaded by "The Tripods!"" ( a "War of the World's" type science fiction series then being screened by the B.B.C).
    Now I should have run to the philosophy dept. screaming "rape" but I was a "freshman" and took his patronising Stalinism to be indicative of the attitude of the department (and University), to this day I don't think I was far wrong.
    Interestingly perhaps (for some)* the very last book I read before I left 18 months later was Robert Persig's famous assault on modern academic philosophical thought "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
    What I find particularly irritating however is this; if I had made more extensive use of (having read more of -at the time-); E.F Schumacher, James Lovelock or any of the more modern (although I don't think he liked Ferguson either frankly) "Gaian" (one hesitates to say "Protestant") philosophers would "Tanky Boy" have shown me "The Red Card" so early?

    * ..and perhaps more interestingly I had been awarded "Wilsons'" 6th Form Literature prize for a long essay on Malcolm Bradbury's "The History Man" (which I had appreciated as "social-history" of-course), I had no idea Howard Kirk was going to be my first tutor!" https://www.arafel.co.uk/2012/05/this-is-no-parliament.html

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