AGAINST CONSERVATISM--FOR COMMUNISM April 1, 2003 by Floyce White If you no longer had to earn money to pay rent and buy food, would you ever go back to work?...
It is a known fact that action attracts more attention and more support then talking. Starting a revolution immediately wherever, however, and as soon as...
Hi Daniel, It has been more than four months since I opened round two of our debate with my January 1 post "Finding the Confidence to Build the Future". Your...
Hi Fitzhugh, I am very much behind in my public correspondence. It has been on my agenda to reply to your January 12 post. I appear to have more tasks that...
Hi folks, I saw this post on the Seattle Left and Soviet Democracy lists and thought it was interesting because it criticizes an essay by Joe Golowka, who has...
Hi Li'l Joe, I saw your reply to Joe Golowka ("Anarchism or Communism II") on the Seattle Left and Soviet Democracy lists and thought that I should share some...
How clueless "marxism" promotes anarchism (reply to Phil) Ben Seattle -- May 17, 2003 ____________________________________________________________ There is...
from the Soviet Democracy list ... ... From: Ben Seattle <left-transparency@...> To: SovietDemocracy <SovietDemocracy@yahoogroups.com> Date: Saturday,...
Hi Phil, ... In other words, Phil, you used the term "Market-Leninism" different than it is being used and understood by most of the rest of the world. You...
Hi everyone, ... I am glad that Phil has made the time to look at some of my work. First, I will note that it is unclear to me whether Phil is refering to my...
Hi everyone, ... -- Thomas Seay--May 17 Maybe all of us, young, old and in-between, are rebellious. Are any of us misguided? In a sense it could be said that...
Hi Nate, ... -- Nate -- May 17 Was my statement hasty and overly broad? I will let others make up their own minds. What is important is this: in my work and...
Hello list: Let me first say upfront that Ben's depiction of the communications revolution and the digital fire[4] appeals to me and here is why: On my own, I...
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Hi folks, On May 26 I forwarded to several lists an excerpt from my May 24 post to the Soviet Democracy list. The excerpt was titled "Five questions to rock...
** Question: Will workers' rule exist in the form of a police state in which a single party or organization exercises a monopoly of political power and...
Ben claims that There have been many descriptions of the anarchist "alternative to bourgoeis rule" - some of them quite old. A few are: The Anarchist FAQ:...
Ben claims that the movement for the overthrow of bourgeois rule can only become a mass movement when it can describe, in a realistic way, an alternative...
... wrote: Interesting that this should come up now. however, perhaps we can get things moving again if we formed debating teams... Assuming you can find a...
Hi Fitzhugh and James, ... Thanks for your comments. I think that the idea of creating a team is a good one--at least in relation to the anarchist side. I do...
Below is a refutation of Ben's defense of Lenin's suppression of all opposing trends at http://www.struggle.net/alds/essay_152_wrapper.htm It also touches on...
Li'l Joe suggests making representatives recallable in order to keep control of the state by the proletariat. There are a number of problems with this....
... Having read this paragraph, (but for now passing no judgement on the rest of the email) I'd have to say I couldn't agree less. I don't think US-centrism is...