AUT: Leutha Blissett - Full of Shit?

[Jamal Hannah <jah@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Fabian Tompsett wrote:

> The problem is that in these criticisims they too often revolve around a
> defense of anarcho-authenticity, and other anarchists are criticised for
> not being sufficiently authentic in their anarchism. As this question of
> authenticity is tied in with a semi-conscious political identity with brand
> @ @narchism the only way it is possible to understand how pissed off you
> are with "being called a leninist" is precisely because you immersed within
> this identification. Thus your emotive hackles rise precisely at the point
> where any critical understanding and hence development of your politics
> could begin. There is a short circuit which you experience as pain and it
> produces a whelp of insults just as surely as a pavlovian dog. In this
> sense @narchism can express an internalisation of control which can
> precisely extol the virtues of freedom because it has already neutralised
> any reflective process which could break out of a pre-structured
> consciousness.
>
> Leutha Blissett

This argument, and your erlier arguments, have still not proven
how autonomism is any different from anarcho-communism, council communism,
or platformist anarchism.  The differences are insignificant - just
different names of famous people associated with them, offering slightly
different critiques of authority.

You are also projecting authoritarianism on to anarchists as a defensive
measure.. the preasense of the idea of anarchy, I think, makes all
marxists uncomfortable because it reminds them of the crimes the marxist
movement is, sadly, associated with.

 - JH




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