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In reply to the discussion: Anarchists? We don't have no steenking anarchists... [View all]BOG PERSON
(2,916 posts)28. "how can you claim anarchists 'don't have any affiliated unions'?"
because i read the news? and unionizing a Starbucks probably doesn't do much good for the colombian child slave on the coffee plantation?
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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