asere_que_vola OP wrote on April 26, 2022 at 12:43 AM (edited on April 26, 2022 at 1:01 AM)

Reply to comment by ziq in Topic of the Week: Rights | anarchistnews.org by asere_que_vola

There is also an ANews poll here with all the text links listed as the first comment. Chomsky text is there. Spoiler alert - it doesn't say much.

EDIT: oops, forget to include link to poll here: https://anarchistnews.org/content/which-text-problems-rights-most-compelling

[deleted] wrote on April 26, 2022 at 3:16 AM

tuesday wrote on April 26, 2022 at 5:20 AM

I wish people warned me about how much reading is involved in anarchy. Everyday, there's a new text, article, book, blog, post, podcast, video, discussion, etc etc.

Isn't there a joke about the feds trying to infiltrate an anarchist group and complaining about how much reading they had to do?

found it: Infiltration is made more difficult by the communal nature of the lifestyle, under constant observation and scrutiny, and the extensive knowledge held by many anarchists, which require a considerable amount of study and time to acquire.

ziq wrote on April 28, 2022 at 11:16 AM

We should write a giant nonsensical manifesto filled with utter lies so feds study it and then we can easily spot them from their talking points.

ziq wrote on April 30, 2022 at 12:13 PM

We can call it "Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism".

kinshavo wrote on April 30, 2022 at 1:31 PM

Sokal-Bogdanoff manoeuvre with a Bookchin twist

ziq wrote on April 26, 2022 at 8:22 AM

Cool that he called the Iraq invasion right before it happened. But yeah, nothing useful to say about rights.

[deleted] wrote on April 26, 2022 at 5:59 PM

ziq wrote on April 28, 2022 at 11:17 AM

just the fact that he thinks human rights are a thing that exists should tell us all we need to know about his attachment, or lack thereof, to anarchy.