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An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote

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"The Marxists see only the mote in the enemy’s eye. They supplant their villain with a hero, the Anti-capitalist mode of production, the Revolutionary Establishment. They fail to see that their hero is the very same “shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun.” They fail to see that the Anti-capitalist mode of production wants only to outrun its brother in wrecking the Biosphere.
Anarchists are as varied as Mankind. There are governmental and commercial Anarchists as well as a few for hire. Some Anarchists differ from Marxists only in being less informed. They would supplant the state with a network computer centers, factories and mines coordinated “by the workers themselves” or by an Anarchist union. They would not call this arrangement a State. The name-change would exorcize the beast.”

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existential1 wrote

I had this bit bookmarked as well. It really hits the point that "a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet", or "the state by any other name would oppress just as harshly". I feel like this argument that he uses and then keeps up is a very strong critique of many forms socialism and some of anarchism.

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