Re: AUT: Re: Cognitive Mapping

[bartelbyvqf@xxxxxx]

So are you saying you want some new revised political differentiation based upon what people say and do in the present rather than what the folks who wrote their favorite book did before the first world war?
This could be useful. Most anarchists at least that I encounter, if indeed it is anarchists that are being talked about here, tend to confuse matters of tactics with matters of principal. It might be good to try and seperate these to questions for clarification. I think most anarchists sweep the matter of leadership under the rug thereby making their political discourse operate along the lines of the Ouija board. Is this the cognitive map you hope to chart. It could be a starting point for understanding who's moving the pointer where and why. Or it could be one of those erzatz clever charts that get published in the Utne reader and elswhere from time to time.
mcapri

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>This is precisely my point.nbsp; What are their politics?nbsp; Certainly, the catchphrase "diversity of tactics" has been formulated as a way of agreeing to disagree.nbsp; But this disagreement presupposes entirely different schemas for understanding what exactly "politics" is.nbsp; Moreover these disagreements degenerate into sectarian squabbles in which people who define themselves as anarcho-syndicalists refuse to even speak to people who refer to themselves as anarcho-communists.nbsp; The terms of debate become reified, they take on a surface appearance while the material relations underlying these termsnbsp;are completely overlooked or covered up.nbsp; Thus,nbsp;some groups arenbsp;all too happy to totalize the field ofnbsp;opposition with unquestioned common-sense assumptions on what diversity means while refusing to even listen to the arguments of a few troublemakers.nbsp; In other words,nbsp;I want to uncover the entire form that the disagreement takes needs to be exposed.nbsp; I feel that by having different "activists" draw/spatialize the relationsnbsp;they havenbsp;with other people/groups, many of these assumptions can be brought out which would ideally provide a basis for discussion betweennbsp;people/groups.
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>gt;Chris, sorry to have to be ironic, but I had no idea that the different
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