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Old 11-07-2007, 04:10 PM
Bill Haywood Bill Haywood is offline
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Default Re: Chomsky on Anarchism (sidenote; education)

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Serious question:

Would locks/fences be illegal in this type of society?

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You are missing the point. Chomsky refuses to provide such a detailed imagining, cuz things are complicated and can't be predicted. He insists anarchism is a vague, philosophical tendency, never so coherent as to be called a system or a plan.

I'm sure you can find other self-described anarchists that would have a ready answer, but not Chomsky.

If you got him drunk enough to take the bait, he would say there would have to be really good reasons for a particular locked fence, otherwise, people should take it down. There would be no general rule about locks or fences, because that would be ludicrous.

Chomsky would not say, "under anarchism, there would be no locks," because anarchism is not a thing to be under. It's like asking, "will there be locks under rationalism?"
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