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ziq wrote

lmao that title rules.

And again, Bookchin shows that he is the one attempting to dilute anarchism, by attempting to add qualifiers and appendages to it. If anarchism can be obscured by adjectives, then its true meaning of “no rulers” can be watered down and even changed into something else.

This is a great point, he worked for most of his life to morph anarchism into a politer version of the Stalinism of his youth, got super bitter that not everyone oohed and aahed at his overbearing posturing, and finally gave up on trying to bend anarchists to his will and instead launched his new-and-improved ethical-statism ideology... An exact blueprint for re-structuring society into an angry old white dude's image with the warning that THE WORLD WILL BE DOOMED if we don't do exactly as he says.

“Follow my ‘organized’ and ‘coherent’ plans, or you are a fascist!” he cries.

Or in other words, once a tankie, always a tankie.

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