"Rigorous and objective"

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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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.  

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