RE: BHA: causal bearers in the social world

["Marshall Feldman" <marsh@xxxxxxx>]

There are a number of historical examples of anarchist governance that
Chomsky seems to hold in high regard. I think, for example, in one of his
books written during the sixties, Chomsky speaks well about the Spanish
Anarchists during the Civil War.

	Best,

	Marsh Feldman

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> Subject: Re: BHA: causal bearers in the social world
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> Hi Mervyn,
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> At 11:10 PM 05/08/2002 +0100, you wrote:
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> >But perhaps you mean, Would it be possible to divest ourselves of
> >master-slave-type relations and end up with something worse? But then we
> >wouldn't have divested ourselves of them, would we?
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> Perhaps a social order without master-slave-type relations could
> be a form
> of anarchy as well as democracy.  I respect Chomsky, who seems to regard
> anarchism as a kind of libertarian socialism.  Yet, even in this kind of
> social order, there will remain a need for collective decisions.
> I cannot
> imagine emancipation persisting without democratic decision-making
> processes.  Other ways of making collective decisions, imo, would restore
> master-slave-type relations, perhaps behind a paternalistic or
> maternalistic facade.
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> Regards,
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> Dick
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