A critical interview with one of the libcom group

Because pedophiles are obsessed with anarchism...

To make excuses for Jack.

I don't think that that really explains it. There are some anarchists who defend all sorts of nonsense.

Why pedophilia particulary.

Devrim

So going on about pedophilia is a PR move? Honestly, I don't think that's sound PR strategy. If a group is constantly repudiating something, it makes me nervous. And since when is anarchism publicly associated with pedophilia?

The constant moral outrage about pedophilia here is almost religious.

Other well-known anarchists are nationalist sympathizers, there are rapists in the anarchist scene, and so on and so on.

Devrim, I'm glad I'm not alone in finding the constant pedophile references strange.

This 'critique' of "big tent anarchism" is completely moral. I guess "misanthropic anti-socials" and "end-of-the-world primitivist cultists" are political labels of sorts, but why not attack it politically? Why not say "we don't want to share a tent with third worldists, left liberals, and nationalists" or something? It seems like y'all often jump over each other to register your moral indignation about things.

I think it's part of a wider attempt to "appeal to the masses" and evangelize.

Which group are you referring too?

I think its pretty weird as well but I haven't noticed it recently, but then I havent looked at the forums much.

The abuse of an innocent is particularly moving for anarchists and also, interestingly, Popular-Nationalist types. It demonstrates how ideological configuration is in part psychological predilection.

Two if you count Allen Ginsberg as an anarchist.

Still, I'm not sure that two fringe loonies is enough to prompt the kind of National Enquirer exposure pedophiles seem to get here.

Then again, usually when someone has an especially pronounced negative reaction to something like rape, pedophilia, child abuse, etc. I do the polite thing and don't pry into their personal reasoning too deeply.

This seems to fall back into "big tent" ideas. You're saying that pedophilia is an easier target because almost everyone is against it, whereas "lots of people support third worldists, left liberals, and nationalists" so you don't denounce them?

I'm sorry to distract from the rest of the interview, but I think this speaks to deeper issues of morality and populism.

Something of understatement.

Sex sells.

Some speak against it to mask the fact they fancy a bit.

Well, just to take away from all the nonce-sense in this thread, I'D just like to say that I thought this interview was really good. I'm very interested in where libcom'll be in a few years, especially on the top of that interview.

basically, well done ladzz.

No, no. There's plenty on here against third worldism, left liberalism and nationalism - and I personally hardly ever talk about paedophilia (except, ironically, on threads like this where it gets brought up). However, when it became a regularly talked about subject on the forum, the main recurring arguments were class vs. lifestylism (which sometimes involved people who thought Bey was great). I don't think there's a good reason at all for it being brought up (short of a bit of debunking of Hakim Bey's crap in general - his support for Italian fascism is pretty bad as well), just trying to give a bit of the history as to why it has been.