Fatal Exception
mattd
mattd at useoz.com
Tue Dec 25 00:41:41 PST 2001
"The term anarchy comes from the Greek, and essentially means 'no ruler.'
Anarchists are people who reject all forms of government or coercive
authority, all forms of hierarchy and domination. They are therefore
opposed to what the Mexican anarchist Flores Magon called the 'sombre
trinity' -- state, capital and the church. Anarchists are thus opposed to
both capitalism and to the state, as well as to all forms of religious
authority. But anarchists also seek to establish or bring about by varying
means, a condition of anarchy, that is, a decentralised society without
coercive institutions, a society organised through a federation of
voluntary associations. Contemporary 'right-wing' libertarians . . . who
are often described as 'anarchocapitalists' and who fervently defend
capitalism, are not in any real sense anarchists." [Op. Cit., p. 38]
Rather than call themselves by a name which reflects their origins in
liberalism (and not anarchism), the "anarcho"-capitalists have instead seen
fit to try and appropriate the name of anarchism and, in order to do so,
ignore key aspects of anarchist theory in the process. Little wonder, then,
they try and prove their anarchist credentials via dictionary definitions
rather than from the anarchist movement itself
Here at http://flag.blackened.net/intanark/faq/append11.html#app5
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