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In reply to the discussion: Anarchists? We don't have no steenking anarchists... [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)10. It's not just one dimensional
In two dimensional analysis (e.g. http://www.politicalcompass.org/index) anarchists locate on the social libertarian side of the vertical axis, not on the authoritarian side. Looking from the social libertarian bottom of the chart, authoritarian left can be just as bad as authoritarian right.
DU as whole is located in the lower left corner, but in that corner majority more to the left than to the bottom of social libertarianism/anarchism.
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The intellectual roots of Occupy stem from anarchism (David Graeber and
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#50
Grammar Nazi (French) here: 'bourgeoisie' is a noun. Stylistically better to say
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#16
that's why anarchists wind up taking the side of the bourgeoisie against the proletariat
BOG PERSON
Aug 2012
#13
i get my opinions from the same place every american political poseur gets their opinions
BOG PERSON
Aug 2012
#20
Or the CNT for that matter which before the Civil War was the largest union in Spain.
Puregonzo1188
Aug 2012
#44
We're good...I know some times, because of the limits of the written word, I've often
MADem
Aug 2012
#42
National Anarchism is to anarchism what National Socialism was to socialism.
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2012
#32
British India once faced a threat from a noted Anarchist...his name was Gandhi.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2012
#31
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Gandhi
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2012
#52