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   XPost: alt.fan.noam-chomsky   
   From: clore@columbia-center.org   
      
   Visual Purple wrote:   
      
   [big snip]   
      
   > Anarchy, in the final analysis, has to be a Revolution of the average   
   > people - not the intellectual, not the punk, not the enraged and   
   > disturbed past the point of being able to function.  It cannot reach   
   > the necessary critical mass if it is the Movement of those on the   
   > sidelines of society.   
   >   
   > I am convinced that the reason that Anarchy has not succeeded is   
   > because it has not convinced the Middle Class that they are among the   
   > outsiders, they too are disenfranchised, they are working 60 hours a   
   > week when about two hours per day will suffice if technology is   
   > employed properly, that they are *emotionally and psychologically   
   > destitute* and that is what is impinging on their ability to connect   
   > with others and that is why it is worth their while to get radical.   
   >   
   > Anarchy must create a way of life that average people can live, feel   
   > comfortable with and feel at home in.   
   >   
   > Either Anarchy will speak to and for the mainstream, or it won't   
   > succeed.   
      
   I think this is correct: it seems obvious to me that anarchy could only   
   work if a good majority were determined to make it work. (Once a   
   functioning anarchy has been established, this will become a matter of   
   habit.)   
      
   --   
   Dan Clore   
      
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   immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.   
   -- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"   
      
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