The anarchist delusion (article)

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May 22 2012 21:31
The anarchist delusion (article)

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Anarchist-Delusion-by-Joe-Giambrone-120509-808.html

Part II: http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Delusional-Anarchists-Part-by-Joe-Giambrone-120513-310.html

Ignorance and smugness contained in the entire article? Any valid points the author is making?

One misrepresentation he made was by calling out wage earning as a voluntary exercise. Now, that is an oxymoron. And he called libertarian socialism an oxymoron, which is not surprising as he is from the United States.

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May 23 2012 00:37

Why is this person or website relevant?

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May 23 2012 01:18

Anyone want to post responses on that site? Some people may actually believe that stuff.

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May 23 2012 06:01
Ambrose wrote:
Anyone want to post responses on that site? Some people may actually believe that stuff.

Exactly. I saw the article being shared on the twitter feed of username 'Anarchism Report', that shares some very good links from various anarchist websites. I think a rebuttal is necessary as the author seems like having no knowledge of anarchist history or is being willfully dishonest.

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May 23 2012 07:15

Fair enough. I guess I'm not so invested in anarchism that I feel obligated to respond to every yahoo who writes something against it. I've never heard of the author or the site, and the first part seems mostly talking about the Center For A Stateless Society, where various idiots congregate anyway.

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May 23 2012 08:03

Maybe a general response to liberal criticisms of social anarchism, there's so many misconceptions and prejudices but considering the people who read these blogs and take them seriously (from my flawed subjective experience) it may be a futile effort.

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May 23 2012 12:31

Any real reason why this is posted up here?????

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May 23 2012 14:42

I do not know. I posted the links in the 'general' forum, which is newbie friendly. I just want to see how others react to the article, which, as Ambrose said, some people might take for real. There's no malignant intent behind posting those links.

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May 26 2012 13:12

Sounds like the same sort of slippery logic I've seen religious "debaters" use (the kind which states assertion as fact, builds and destroys irrelevant strawmen, and which avoids the actual point almost entirely.

Some of the points in part 1 are valid, however only strike at "An"-cap (better termed the road to serfdom).

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May 27 2012 21:23
affirmedatheist wrote:

Some of the points in part 1 are valid, however only strike at "An"-cap (better termed the road to serfdom).