-- On 14 Nov 2001, at 0:52, Petro wrote:
So did you discuss what was going to be done *after* the current government is destroyed? What sort of government will follow?
Preferably none whatsoever.
Or was this just an exercise in later day bakuninism?
Bakunin was a moderate, who sometimes advocated a conventional socialist government, though he changed his mind when he started to imagine a socialist government run by Marx or his fellow Marxists.
You can't just strike off a slaves chains and say "You're Free", that slave has to understand how to deal with freedom, he has to have the skills and thought processes to live without his "master" taking care of him. The vast majority of the people in this country lack one or more of skills and thought processes to live w/out an effective government.
When the slaves were freed in the civil war, their death rate went up to extremely high levels, and the death rate among their descendants still has not fallen to normal levels. Despite that we did not see any of them call for a return to the old system. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9kwrQutH0kRTaB8Rj+zkWHeDBKQktQ2gA4Xj21kl 4evNogxciSix8raejhW3yU6SKuHfoLpiySVDX9sdc