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Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.activism, alt.fan.noam-chomsky, alt.society.anarchy, alt.anarchism, alt.politics.radical-left, alt.politics.socialism
From: David Friedman <d...@daviddfriedman.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:45:26 GMT
Local: Thurs, Dec 12 2002 7:45 pm
Subject: Re: A Democratic Multitude
In article <dgraeber-1212021652500...@wr9.anthropology.yale.edu>,
dgrae...@rcn.net (David Graeber) wrote: > The point is the Kamm never simply disagrees with Unlike Graeber, who goes on, a little later, to write: > someone but must always, invariably, lards his > response to their ideas with personal abuse. > We are ... > dealing with someone, Kamm, who makes a profession out > of consistent, aggressive nastiness. He can never just > disagree, he must always insult, abuse, and try to > figure out the worst thing he can possibly say about > someone and plausibly be able to get across, without > the slightest concern for whether it's true. > I think And DG's standard style, at least when I have been around, is to point > this tells you all you really need to know about what > the "anarcho-capitalism" such people espouse would > really look like. to someone who is energetically disagreeing with him, insist that that someone is a liar, fraud, and minion of the devil (or whatever the equivalent is in Graeber's language), and demand that everyone else who disagrees with Graeber denounce that someone. When they don't he sadly concludes that they too are liars, frauds and minions of the devil. Which may tell us something about what the sort of anarchist society You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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