Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Hmm …

 Occupying Anarchism | Books and Culture. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Most of all, he said, "we want people to know about the wrongness in society the way we do. We want them to see us as the 'moral vanguard of change' " (repeating a catchphrase from a meeting the night before). "Exactly," the young woman with him added. "We want people to see how brave we are, and to know that they can be brave, too." We want people to see how brave we are—in that ingenuous phrase, and in its speaker's guileless face, was written all the burden of our anxious age: an anxiety not just to be morally right but to be confirmed as morally right. Not just to be saved but to be certain of salvation.
What I see in this is a risible combination of narcissism and ignorance. If these people would bother to read, they might want to take a look at George Woodcock's outstanding Anarchism or Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid.

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