Anarchism in america

jef costello "Beautiful, just like Nuremburg"
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Submitted by jef costello on 30 November, 2007 - 17:55.

top recommendation on google video. Is it any good?

David in Atlanta ""crude reductionist version of marxism""
Posts: 1632 Joined: 21-04-06
30 November, 2007 - 18:23

not really although it has some decent bits. Focuses on right libertarian and extreme indivualist politics.

Anna
Posts: 494 Joined: 13-11-07 Location: London
30 November, 2007 - 19:09

They showed this in my school to the politics A level students.
I watched it on youtube, meh. It has Murray Bookchin in it and about a minute on the Spanish revolution, but aside from that not too good. I seem to remember a lot about Emma Goldman and Ayn Rand (bleurgh).

Felix Frost
Posts: 483 Joined: 30-12-05 Location: Oslo, Norway
30 November, 2007 - 19:58

I thought it was pretty good, but it's more about American individualism than about anarchism.

Coconut man "Will probably be a liberal MP in 5 years"
Posts: 167 Joined: 13-02-04 Location: Norwich
1 December, 2007 - 05:08

It's pretty terrible. There's some interesting footage of Emma Goldman and Bookchin (even if he does come off as a bit liberal). The purpose of the film is basically an attempt to convince people that the American individualist attitude makes the whole nation more or less anarchists who don't realise it. If I remember correctly, there's even one guy who claims that Americans are suited to anarchism because they don't obey the traffic lights!

fnbrill "Mocking In the Fee World"
Posts: 644 Joined: 13-01-07
1 December, 2007 - 09:34

I'm told I'm in it, at least passing by during the sessions at the Portland anarchist conference in 1980. We were all terribly disapointed in it because it's Murry Rothbard/left-wing of the Libertarian Party fetish.