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To: ClearCase_guy
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
-- Benito Mussolini

It sounds sort of left-wing to me.

To an American it sounds "left wing." The European left was at one point very anti-state and anarchistic.

There are left and right wing statists, left and right wing anarchists.

48 posted on 02/22/2014 6:35:33 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
To an American it sounds "left wing." The European left was at one point very anti-state and anarchistic.

There are left and right wing statists, left and right wing anarchists.

That's right. Anarchism was historically considered a Left Wing movement, because it sought to overthrow the aristocracy, the clergy, and the landowners/industrialists. Nobody of sound mind considered Mikhail Bakunin a reactionary or a conservative because he was anti-government, because he and other radicals saw the government of their times as tools of the hated upper classes. Come to think of it, didn't Marx and Engels write that the state would "wither away" once independent worker's communes were established? Does this make them "conservatives"?

50 posted on 02/22/2014 6:52:49 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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