October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: delete this judge
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

from /. "According to The New York Times (free registration required, for those who care about such things), a prominent judge recently wrote an article saying that the delete key should actually delete things, not just hide them away where lawyers and skilled computer geeks can get at them years later. Specifically, he proposes that a statute of limitations be imposed upon electronic messages--that, for example, an obnoxious email you send today could be held against you for six months and six months only." ... The judges original paper is http://www.greenbag.org/ linked off of The Green Bag.

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CDR: Democrats on "hate crimes" in Defense Department bill
by Declan McCullagh 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

NEWS FROM THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt October 6, 2000 H-204, U.S. Capitol http://democraticleader.gov/ Gephardt Statement on Hate Crimes and Other Pending Legislation "In the last 24 hours, we've had three pieces of evidence that the Republican leadership is not interested in acting on the priorities of the American people. In a flurry of legislative maneuvering, Republicans have taken strong, sensible, bipartisan bills and they have tried to kill those bills by putting forward weak, watered-down versions that do nothing for the American people. "Last night, Republican conferees took a bipartisan, sensible hate crimes bill and they eliminated it from the Department of Defense Authorization bill. Republicans seem determined to file a DOD bill that is stripped of hate crimes, and their actions in the last 24 hours are an affront not only to the American people, but to a clear majority in the Congress. "Republicans defied the will of both Houses of Congress, denied the American people a strong, sensible bill that would have given law enforcement officers the enhanced tools they need to deal with horrible hate crimes, and they prevented the country from sending a strong signal that we as a society will not tolerate crimes committed against people simply because of who they are. "This is a bipartisan bill. The President has supported it for years, the American people support it in overwhelming numbers, and both the House and the Senate have voted in bipartisan fashion to include hate crimes in the Department of Defense Authorization bill. "I will continue to fight with Senator Daschle, President Clinton, and with my colleagues and all Americans who support this common-sense law, and I still hope that we can pass this bill this year and accomplish something meaningful for the American people. "Now, we've also had two other pieces of news in the last 24 hours that points to a pattern; and, sadly, the story with re-importation and with a Patients' Bill of Rights is similar to hate crimes. First, I am deeply disappointed that the Republican leadership has decided to defy the will of the American people and short-circuit a bipartisan effort to craft effective re-importation legislation that might have lowered drug prices for millions of Americans. Instead, Republicans went behind closed doors and came up with an ineffective, partisan half-measure that serves the needs of the pharmaceutical companies at the expense of the American people. "The Republican measure is full of loopholes that will allow pharmaceutical companies to get around the new law. It also sunsets after 5 years, so even if seniors did begin to see lower drug prices as a result of this bill, that benefit will not last. Republicans have once again chosen the side of special interests over the people. Democrats believe that all seniors should have permanent, reliable help with the high costs of prescription drugs, and we support effective, permanent re-importation legislation as a step in that direction. But the most important way to give seniors the help they need is to enact an affordable, reliable, universal Medicare prescription benefit. Republicans have blocked that measure, refusing, even, to let us bring it up on the floor for a vote. Their action on re-importation seems designed to distract us from the much larger issues at hand. "I am just as troubled by a last-minute effort on a Patients' Bill of Rights. Here, once again, they have decided to abandon a bipartisan bill and to seek political cover instead. Today, Republicans proposed a weak Patients' Bill of Rights that fails to give patients the protections they need from their HMO companies. The real Patients' Bill of Rights passed the House one year ago tomorrow by a strong bipartisan margin, and it remains the only bill that will actually do something meaningful for millions of Americans. "Democrats will continue to fight for good, common-sense, bipartisan bills that the American people want and that bipartisan majorities in Congress support: hate crimes--a strong Patients Bill of Rights-permanent re-importation legislation-and a Medicare prescription benefit that will be always be there for seniors. We will continue to work with all our colleagues to accomplish something meaningful in the few short days we have left." ##### Contact: Laura Nichols/Sue Harvey (202) 225-0100

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CDR: Gores teens and drugs
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

>4:24 PM 10/3/95 > > >Tipper Gore says daughter knows she did wrong > >Tipper Gore said Tuesday her 16-year-old daughter, cited for underage >drinking last week, "knows she >made a very serious mistake." "She broke our rules and she broke the law. >Shes extremely miserable >and unhappy, I can tell you that," Mrs. Gore, wife of Vice President Al >Gore, said of daughter Sarah. >The teen-ager was cited Friday in suburban Montgomery County, Md., after a >police officer saw her >with an open beer outside a party. Now, Mrs. Gore said, "We are dealing >with it privately as a family >and talking to her like all families should to their teenagers about the >availability of alcohol and the fact >the temptations are out there." > >

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CDR: Ölscheichs oder Schröder ?
by netad＠srv.netad.ch 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

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CDR: Important Membership Information
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06 Oct '00

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CDR: Re: Niiice kitty....
by snit 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

>It would take you years to check five hundred Chomsky citations. His >citations are at best obscure and hard to find, at worst impossible to find. look, digslug, Justin Schwartz is an oxford-trained, yale-trained scholar, now a lawyer with the seventh circuit. he doesn't type things on a publicly accessible listserv where he can easily be quoted and humiliated for saying foolish things since the major new york papers monitor it for political gossip. the man who typed that, justin schwartz, has written and published more than you've typed on usenet so you ought to just STFU&STFD because your attempts to crawl out of the gutter where you seem to happily luxuriate in the scum, grime and waste are embarrassing. the examples you provide never come up with the goods--demonstrate that sources are untraceable, etc. your unpublished dissertation, i take it? it will remain unpublished. slop like that doesn't past the muster. unless you're enrolled in Sally Struther's University, of course. snit

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by Income Opportunity 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

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CDR: RE: Anonymous Remailers cpunk
by Bill Stewart 06 Oct '00

06 Oct '00

At 10:33 AM 10/5/00 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >So when is the HavenCo remailer going up? I'm not sure that there will be a HavenCo remailer; the alternative is a some-customer-of-HavenCo remailer, or a some-customer-of-a-HavenCo-hosting-customer remailer. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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CDR: Re: Re: Choate physics again
by Michael Motyka 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Wasn't it grounding and Maxwell's equations last time? I can't believe I'm falling for this again but here goes... > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Michael Motyka wrote: > > > >>By the time the coherent radiation (needed to make an image) passes > > > > > >Were not talking holograms, Jimmy-boy > > I didn't get the original message so I'll reply here. > Actually I didn't write this ^ I wrote this : I think what he was trying to convey were the effects of reflection, absortion and diffusion. etc... > No, we're not talking about lasers. But then again 'coherent' simply means > 'arranged' or 'synchronized'. If you don't believe there is coherence in > imaging the rays of light through a camera then you don't have a fucking > clue about optics. > I am not an optics expert but I DO have a clue. And any coherence in the light that hits the film in my Canon as I snap one poorly composed photo after another is purely accidental unless the scene has been painted by a targetting system. What is a laser Jim? LASER Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation An atom in an excited state, ie one that is not in the ground state, may be stimulated to release a photon by an incoming photon. The most interesting part of this is that the emitted photon after the interaction is in phase with the incoming photon and in the same direction. Get lots of these interactions taking place in the right medium and you get a river of photons all in phase. That's what coherent means in optics - in phase. Check your Webster's and please read the definition that says "3. Physics. ..." Go to any optics book. Want references? Thermal radiation ( what you are imaging with your snooperscope ) is not coherent by any definition that I know of. > The fact is, that if you take a lens and form an image there IS most > certainly a level of coherence. You can break that coherence by simply > injecting a fogged piece of glass for example. > You could say that light and an optical system form a "coherent" image because the image is recognizable but that usage might be confusing because of the common and accepted use of coherent with reference to LASER light. Form an image is probably adequately descriptive. > This is what the walls of the house do, they break the coherence of the > original light rays so that no image can be formed on the other side of > the wall. > The walls of the house do not "break the coherence." The more interesting processes that would be going on at and in the walls of the house would be reflection, scattering, absorption, diffusion( thermal) and reradiation. These effects would probably vary widely with construction materials and wavelength. The end result as these wavelengths are incident on a wall might vary from little or no effect, through blurring to outright shielding. > Glass howerver is reasonably transparent and as a result the light doesn't > lose coherence through that. However if you attenuate the light using an > aluminized mylar sheet and then break up the image using the bubble pack > (the little bubbles of air absord the IR and then re-emit it out of phase > with the original stream of photons - that! is coherence), walah. No > usable image the cops can use against you. > What your talking about is reflection, scattering, absorption etc...the coherence of the light don't enter into it. > [Rest of a dumbass rant from another party deleted] > Go back to your physics boooks Jim. You missed it again on this one. Damn I could kick myself for even trying. Mike

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05 Oct '00

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CDR: Detecting PGP encrypted messages
by Septic Remailer Admin 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- More code... #!/usr/bin/perl # name: pgpcheck.pl # purpose: Prints STDIN to STDOUT if it is encrypted with PGP/GPG. # requires: /bin/tempfile from debianutils, /usr/bin/gpg # TODO: # Does it need to detect Mixmaster messages? # It should handle pings (i.e. plain text) to another remailer # by checking rlist or some arbitrary whitelist. # author: septic-admin(a)nym.alias.net # version: 0.0.1 # date: 4 OCT 2000 # license: GPL if (!-x "/bin/tempfile") { die "requires /bin/tempfile"; } if (!-x "/usr/bin/gpg") { die "requires /usr/bin/gpg"; } my $TMP = `tempfile` || die "cannot create temp file"; my $ENCRYPTED = 0; # Store the file. open(TEMPFILE, ">$TMP") || die "cannot open temp file"; while (<>) { print TEMPFILE; } close(TEMPFILE) || die "cannot close tempfile"; # Test the file. open(GPG, "gpg --batch 2>&1 <$TMP|") || die "cannot open GPG pipe"; while (<GPG>) { if ($_ =~ /^gpg: encrypted/) { $ENCRYPTED = 1; } } close(GPG); # Insert code here to test destination against whitelist (for pings). # Print the file to STDOUT if it is encrypted. if ($ENCRYPTED) { open(TEMPFILE, "<$TMP") || die "cannot reopen temp file"; while (<TEMPFILE>) { print; } close(TEMPFILE); } unlink $TMP || die "cannot unlink temp file"; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOdzoJHT63FdzI1K1AQGPZwP5ARcY7EhDTNjXm5vQoYK2HFymN295ia3U RnqG8UJHfmjtXXooucmM0VOhsMfo5GS1M5uJIxH4b9YsrDTSNDjydwHEhe6ajcAw Ix78PIslzcXrFTLq/EowDtZ0MvuFWpnC/sgJAVYOAZyK3iYOf3yG85vHrOVVP9ot Ch+e7lDp/AE= =zC7G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CDR: e-Privacy - your comments please...
by Robert Guerra 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Folks: The Canadian Broadcasting corporation is running a segment on the 10pm news tomorrow on e-privacy. To the public's comments and suggestions on the issue they have created a discussion forum on thier web page. Seeing that the folks on this list are familiar with the topics, I ask that you visit the site and enter a few words of your wisdom. Regards Robert http://interact.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/WebX?50@7.nLRXaJbgbeb^0@.ee768e8 A study by Canada's privacy commissioner reports that almost half of Canadians are perfectly comfortable with retailers compiling personal data...if there's a reward paid to the consumer. (Such as a discount or free goodies). Tell us what you think about e-privacy and who should know what about you.

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CDR: Carnivore sucks more than just email!!!!
by sunder 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13767.html Carnivore does more than previously thought By: Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 05/10/2000 at 14:49 GMT Heavily censored FBI documents obtained by US watchdog outfit the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC), under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, indicate that the FBI's electronic snoop known as Carnivore might be able to monitor a good deal more than just e-mail traffic. Among the capabilities that peek out from behind all the indelible black swaths in the documents is an ability to reconstruct an entire Web page as viewed by a subject. A planned, updated version may even be able to capture voice-over-Web communications. Presently the system can capture and record all packet traffic to and from a selected IP, while monitoring a subject's on-line movements. <SNIP> -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

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CDR: mail list
by Gabby Nicole 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

put me on your mailing list, please Thanks Gabby Nicole

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CDR: UK Companies free to snoop on staff
by R. A. Hettinga 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Obviously, if someone who uses company assets for personal business deserves all the snooping he gets, at least theoretically, though certainly not in actual practice. The tweak in the British RIP vs. Eurocrat case here is that, same as it ever was, the nation-state is again quite literally expropriating the resources of employers by making them subject to a human "right". ;-). "The 'Poor'?? Are there no prisons?" Cheers, RAH (Who believes we'll *all* be proprietors some day, and none of this garbage will matter anymore...) --- begin forwarded text

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CDR: Fwd: Re: anarchism = socialism
by Sean Roach 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

At 12:30 AM 10/5/2000, Tim May wrote: > That you would say "beautiful sentiment" to the overall article you quoted is...scary. Perhaps I misspoke. What I meant to get across was that the article was compelling, but I didn't believe it was practicle. 26 megabytes is a bit much, I should have pared the original down to the parts I was actually attacking. Anyway, this was one of those yes, but... responses.

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CDR: Important Membership Information
by announce＠inbox.nytimes.com 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

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CDR: Supreme Court denies reporter's kiddie porn appeal
by Declan McCullagh 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/05/1654245&mode=thread High Court Denies Reporter's Kiddie-Porn Appeal posted by cicero on Thursday October 05, @11:52AM from the so-much-for-a-fair-trial dept. The Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal from a journalist convicted of trafficking in child porn, which means veteran reporter Larry Matthews will be spending some 18 months in prison. Brill's Content has an in-depth article on the case, including how the judge barred Matthews from using the First Amendment as a defense when arguing before the jury. That seems wrongheaded. No matter whether Matthews downloaded nude images for a story or not -- he had deleted them by the time the FBI raided his home -- he should have the right to tell a jury his story. Also see an amicus brief filed by a journalists' group, and a writeup in the Washington City Paper.

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CDR: Newsletter from Bacalao.Net - new offerings
by Bacalao.net 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

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CDR: Disposable remailers
by Bill O'Hanlon 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

I've started a small project, and I'm curious to know if others think there's any long-term value to it. Dallas Semiconductor makes a small Java-based computer called the TINI. (Check out http://www.ibutton.com/TINI for details.) The unit itself is the size of a memory SIMM and costs $35. The card isn't too useful until you add their socket board which costs $30 or so and provides an Ethernet port, a serial port, and a connector for power. The OS for the TINI has a complete TCP/IP stack, and has a nice Java implementation. My idea was to make a throwaway remailer. For $80 worth of materials, you can have a unit that can remail messages in the Cyperpunks tradition. It could be easily hidden. Here's the pros and cons as I see them: Pros: small (easily hidden in a large corporate or university environment -- the TINI can even pick up its IP address via DHCP) doesn't have a disk drive so there's no room for logs. Inexpensive, so it can be sacrificed if discovered. Cons: It might not be able to have crypto. I'm not sure if something PGPish can be ported to it and still leave room for the incoming message. It comes with less than 300K of useable RAM. However, the TINI does have a socket on it for an Ibutton, so one of Dallas' Crypto or Java buttons might be able to take on the crypto load. That's more money per unit, however. Also, due to the small memory footprint, it doesn't look like a lot of messages can be stored locally, so there's not a lot of room for latency and message re-ordering. It would also be tough to harden these things against any kind of denial of service attack. Bombing it with mail or strange packets will probably lock it up. Currently, the TINI also requires that SOME email server take email from it, since the code that comes with it really isn't a complete mail service, but I think it could probably do it's own delivery eventually. I'm envisioning that the code would announce itself to some set of web servers so that people can know where to find a few of these transient remailers when they wanted to send some messages. I've already got a small chunk of code that can do some crude remailing, so the basic idea works. Does this seem useful to anyone? The TINI is fun to tinker with, so I'm not out anything if someone points out a hugely glaring hole in the idea, here. One hole that I've already noticed is that the code that runs on a TINI could just as easily run on a Windows machine and do the same job, and there's been very little interest in having a widespread network of little remailers for workstations. -Bill -- Bill O'Hanlon wmo(a)pro-ns.net Professional Network Services, Inc. 612-379-3958

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CDR: RE: Anonymous Remailers cpunk
by Trei, Peter 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

> ---------- > > Ralf-Philipp Weinmann[SMTP:weinmann@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de] wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Sampo A Syreeni wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Honig wrote: > > One variation of the original proposal would be to only allow egress to > > addresses known to lay in a jurisdiction different from the one in which > the > > remailer resides. I know, the problem is nontrivial with all the dotcom > > addresses and such around. Does doing a DNS lookup and working on IP > > addresses help? [...] > What one could do however is have the remailer pass on every message which > has a recipient address that is *known to be in a jurisdiction that is > different > from the remailers*. You will not be able to reach each and every target > then, but at least it's better than nothing. > On the other hand I remember that the Curch of Scientology was able to > have an impact on anon.penet.fi despite the fact that this remailer was > outside > of US jurisdiction. Maybe we have to come up with a list of "incompatible" > jurisdiction systems to avoid this sort of thing from happening again. > > Cheers, > -Ralf > So when is the HavenCo remailer going up? Peter Trei

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CDR: Protect your Privacy
by Opt-In List 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

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CDR: Is Judge Jackson backing away from Microsoft breakup?
by Declan McCullagh 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/04/1714217&mode=nested Is Judge Jackson Backing Away from MS Breakup? posted by cicero on Wednesday October 04, @12:07PM from the so-much-for-a-quick-and-dirty-breakup-eh? dept. Erick Gustafson writes in about a Valley News article on the Microsoft antitrust case: "Evidently Jackson is on a speaking tour to distance himself from the breakup remedy. Jackson seems to be deliberately lessening pressure for the appellate court to uphold his decision. What do you think?" Gustafson works for Citizens for a Sound Economy, a free-market group that opposes the lawsuit. He may have a point: Judge Jackson recently said similar things at another conference last week. The Valley News (a New Hampshire paper) article isn't online, so we'll include an excerpt below. The Valley News article excerpts: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/04/1714217&mode=nested Judge Jackson's comments from last week: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/09/30/0150210

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CDR: anarchism = socialism
by Secret Squirrel 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

...read on and learn also that capitalism == mass slavery [LART], and that, very definitely, property == theft [LART]. For an anarchist, he also seems a little too eager to invoke the authority of the dictionary to support his claims [CLUESTICK - get 2 free LARTs]. FableOfNamesMonger <http://www.politechbot.com/p-01275.html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Forwarded from <http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/guerin.html> Purported Author/Host: <nrkey(a)nospam.juno.com> (Reach out and touch him ;-) TRUE OR FALSE? "Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man." This statement was made by Daniel GuZrin in his excellent book, _Anarchism_. I included it at the top of my web page as a way of making it clear that anarchism isn't merely a lifestyle or is somehow compatible with capitalism, but is a radical, revolutionary social theory that, should it ever be successfully implemented (barring the genocidal force that capitalist powers have and continue to put to bear against any popular socialist revolutions that arise), would transform society in ways we can scarcely imagine today. The ideas of the key thinkers as well as the history and practice of anarchism backs this view up. *_"Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism"_* What does this mean? To the individual raised on decades of unrelenting anti-communist propaganda, the mere mention of the word "socialism" prompts a knee-jerk reaction, typically involving references to evil, repression, mass murder, totalitarianism. This is largely a result of the multi-million dollar campaigns waged for the past 80 years against socialism by the capitalist nations of the world. Apologists cite the brutality of Stalin as "proof" that socialism is synonymous with mass murder. However, it should be noted that the capitalist West actually INVADED the nascent USSR in the immediate wake of the October Revolution. President Woodrow Wilson ordered Marines sent to Russia, who ransacked villages, murdered peasants, and threw their lot in with the Tsarist White Russians (beginning an long-repeated tradition of support for fascist/monarchist regimes at the expense of popular uprisings). So, even before Stalin came onto the scene, the capitalist West was determined that socialism be stamped out! But one thing that is very important to note is that what came about in the USSR wasn't really socialism in practice--rather, the Bolsheviks seized political power and control of the state (and set about destroying the anarchists within Russia, who actually took the revolution seriously--from 1917-1921, the indigenous anarchist movement in the USSR was systematically wiped out, making the anarchists the first victims of Bolshevik repression!) So what we had in the USSR was a party vanguard (the Bolsheviks) seizing power FOR the people. Lenin, Trotsky, and the other Bolsheviks had no intention of allowing the state to "wither away". They, instead, killed the Revolution and spent time consolidating their power. And this, first off, is a very important distinction: the Communist Party ruled in the USSR; NOT the people themselves. Thus was totalitarianism born. Socialism, according to the _American Heritage Dictionary_, is defined as: 1. A social system in which the producers possess both political power and the means of producing and distributing goods. Think about that for a moment. *- Were the Bolsheviks the producers? NO! They were a vanguard party acting (so they said) IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKERS. This is an important distinction. They used brutal police and military force to enforce their power over the genuine producers. *- Did the workers of the USSR possess the means of producing and distributing goods? NO! In fact, it was the actions of the anarchists in the Ukraine, in the worker soviets, and in the City of Kronstadt to do precisely that (worker control of production and distribution of goods) that the Bolsheviks put a violent end to! In other words, the Bolsheviks wanted to put an end to SOCIALISM! Why? Because they wanted to secure power for themselves. And that they did, as history has shown. Let's look at the definition of communism, for the sake of completeness... 1. A social system characterized by the absence of classes and by common ownership of the means of production and subsistence. 2.a. A political, economic, and social doctrine aiming at the establishment of such a classless society So we see that the defining principle of communism proper is by definition common ownership of productive means and an absence of classes. - *_Were productive means commonly owned in any "state socialist" regimes?_* NO! They were owned by the state, by the government. The workers had no say in what was produced, hence the "command economy" or state-planned economy that characterized this system. - *_Was Soviet society classless?_* NO! For, after all, the concept of the "state" is largely an abstraction. What is the state, or government? It is an idea. Without people, there could be no free-standing state. Thus, the government is actually whomever controls the means of authority in a given region. And in the USSR (and the other "state socialist" regimes) that was the Communist Party. Thus, within these societies, there WAS a class: it was membership within the ruling political elite, or failure to belong...two classes: worker and vanguard party member. So we find that the "cardinal example" of "socialism" and "communism" to not be much of an example at all, to not even match up to a couple of basic definitions of the terms. Thus, what resulted in the wake of the Bolshevik coup of 1917, in the Maoist uprising of 1948, and in the Cuban revolution of 1959 (and elsewhere) followed the party vanguard (or Marxist-Leninist) model of POLITICAL, and not SOCIAL, revolution. The Marxist-Leninist model of political revolution was an aberration, producing vanguardist, command-economy states, and NOT true socialist communities. Rather than liberating the oppressed workers by dissolving the power structure of government, the vanguardists merely put themselves in charge of the same power structure, confident that THEY would not succumb to the temptations of power. So, when you compare the definitions of socialism and communism with anarchism, you see that far from being antithetical, they are complementary... *- For a society to be anarchistic (e.g., no rulers) would it have to classless? YES. *- For a society to be anarchistic, would producers have to have common control of the means of production? YES. *- For a society to be anarchistic, would all people have to have political power? YES. It is in this sense that the first part of GuZrin's statement is, in fact, accurate. It is also for this reason that some anarchists term themselves "libertarian socialists" as a way of showing the obvious link between the theories: libertarian polity, socialist economy. For, when you contrast what happened in the vanguardist regimes with the core principles of socialism, you can see how socialism is, in fact, incompatible with the desire to secure power for oneself or one's party. *_"The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man."_* This is the key statement to explore, for if someone doesn't have a problem with the exploitation of man by man, they are in no way an anarchist. It simply isn't ideologically consistent, and, as radicals, we put much importance on this. The anarchist rejection of rulers stems from our opposition to exploitation. Why do we oppose the government? Because the government's purpose is to control the populace: the only reason people "need" to be controlled is to allow their exploitation to continue (and expand) unfettered. Government exists to protect property. That is the sole reason for its existence. Without a government (of some sort, meaning a relative and systematic monopoly of influence in a given region) to enforce property rights, there is simply NO WAY for capitalists to make their profits from others' labor. The fiction of "natural law" establishes that property rights are a "natural state" for mankind; however, this is simply not true: property rights can only be maintained through force. Once a given group "claims" X plot of land, they have to defend that claim. If property rights were natural, they wouldn't need force to maintain them. Anarchists have always opposed property for this reason; property is claimed to make the owner rich. That is why property exists. It's not unlike a profit-generating battery, although it's important to note that the profit comes from the labor of the workers, rather than simply magically appearing...money does not as yet grow on trees. Workers are routinely and systematically exploited by capitalism. After all, if workers were actually paid the value of their labor (represented by the goods they produced), the owners wouldn't make a profit! Profit is, in its nature, SURPLUS. This surplus comes from selling the manufactured goods at a higher cost than it did to make them (anywhere from a 30% to a 300% markup, even more, if demand is high). Which means that no worker is ever paid the full value of what they produce. It is this con-game that allows the owner to grow rich atop the backs of the workers. Because this is not an equal transaction between owner and worker, the worker is being exploited. Would the workers *voluntarily* accept this ripoff in the absence of a government power to enforce this? Of course not. The government (whatever that particular government is, e.g., whoever rules) protects the owners from the consequences of their exploitation and allows them to profit accordingly. It is for this reason that *_anarchists were among the most militant opponents of capitalism, and remain so today_*. Government and capitalism walk hand-in-hand, partners in crime, robbing the vast majority of the people for the private gain of an elite. Capitalists continue to underpay and overwork their workers (one California sweatshop paid its workers $.60 an hour and forced them to work 70-80 hour weeks), make use of child labor (this is on a comeback, sadly; anarchists around the turn of the century fought child labor vigorously, forcing reformists to draft child labor laws--this has been largely circumvented by NAFTA, where less-stringent restrictions on child labor can allow capitalists to make use of this cheap pool of labor now more than ever by relocating their factories in Third and Fourth World nations). The exploitation will continue and will expand unabated, because capitalism is, in fact, synomyous with exploitation. The exploitation produces the profit by which owners grow very, very rich. So, far from being hyperbole, GuZrin's statement is an accurate one, as has been shown in history by the direct action and commitment to social revolution that characterizes true anarchism. Anarchists have uniformly risen against exploitation wherever it has arisen, at the cost of many of their lives. It is why we oppose vanguardist state socialists as much as capitalists and their fascist cronies. It is our dream to ultimately bring about a successful social revolution that will put an end to the institutionalization of exploitation that is characterized, practiced, and manifested by government and capitalism. *- DO CAPITALISTS OPPOSE EXPLOITATION? *_Economists are agreed that there are four methods by which wealth is acquired by those who do not produce it. These are: interest, profit, rent and taxes, each of which is based uupon special privilege, and all are gross violations of the principle of equal liberty. --Charles T. Sprading, _Liberty and the Great Libertarians_* First, I'll define my terms: exploit: 1. To employ to the greatest possible advantage; utilize; 2. To make use of selfishly or unethically. exploitation: 1. The act of exploiting; 2. The utilization of another person for selfish purposes. The capitalist is one who profits from the labor of others by virtue of their ownership of productive means, like a business, or factory, or even the tools used by workers. The capitalist makes money by not paying the workers the full value of what they produce. If workers were paid the full value of a given product they manufactured, there would simply be nothing "left over" for the capitalist to steal. The justification for this theft is that, without the capitalist, the workers would be unemployed, and therefore the capitalist is doing the workers a favor by even hiring them in the first place. However, this is a circular, self-serving argument, viewing workers as simple drudges -- capital assets waiting to be used. However, it _does_ illustrate the utility of unemployment to the capitalist -- it creates a labor pool of individuals suitably desperate enough to take _any_ job offered, no matter how demeaning. If the "choice" is homelessness and starvation to employment in a bad job, the rational worker "chooses" continued survival. So, this arrangement, erroneously termed "free agreement" (in which the worker is "free" to starve if they don't want to work for someone) is innately exploitative, because it: 1. Allows a privileged owner, the capitalist, to profit from others' labor 2. Eliminates the free choice of the worker -- in propertarian society, you cannot choose not to work and expect to thrive What is considered a "fair" wage is one that the worker will accept -- in other words, a wage that is better than the alternative of homelessness and starvation, which is invariably the bludgeon used to control the worker in capitalist society. Only capitalist apologists can deny the exploitative nature of their economic system with a straight face. However, they do so only by ignoring the realities of the transaction involved. The worker will never, ever get rich; the capitalist will, by virtue of the unequal, unjust distribution of profits inherent in this system. Thus, the definition _cannot_ read: *-The capitalist is one who opposes the exploitation of man by man. because exploitation is build directly into the system. A better definition is: *_The capitalist is one who exploits the labor of others for personal profit by virtue of private ownership of productive means!_* This is an accurate definition of what it means to be a _capitalist_. The libertarian socialist model of production revolves around the collective or the commune, where all workers within the given collective profit _equally_ from what they produce. *_The ones who actually do the work get the profit_*. This is, in essence, the core of our economic ideology. Return to the Anarchy for Anybody Homepage. <http://www.xs4all.org/anarchy/>

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