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• Sunday, August 31, 2008 07:20 AM

  the new incarnation of Anarchism is very different from the old union-organizing, bomb-throwers ... very

  I read up on them after Seattle (and more after Montreal) ...

  Much more philosophical, anti-hierarchical, pro-small, ecoconscious, etc.

  a couple of short pieces:

  from New Left Review (link on my name) January 2002 - DAVID GRAEBER - THE NEW ANARCHISTS (short)

  and a sort of ur-document, though Klein is not an anarchist as far as I am aware ...

  Reclaiming the Commons April 2001

  http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/blackwood/klein.htm

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  I'm not sure how the new anarchists have evolved since ... and their image has been plagued by association with those much maligned early antisyndicalists, trotskyites, etc. In the 1960's, anarchists were considered hopeless idealists, unable to sustain cohesion sufficient to create a "movement" ...

  There will always antisocial bad-assed young folks searching for a flag to rally under ... I think even the folks at ELF and EarthFirst, most of them anyway, have come to understand that vandalism is fairly universally unpopular and that long prison sentences alter and often ruin lives.

  Edward Abbey and the Monkey Wrench gang generally performed small acts and got away with them ... that was then (30+ years ago), this is now. What was "monkeywrench" then .... is "ecoterrorism" now.

  —susan sunflower Read susan sunflower's other letters
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