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2007-07-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Anarchists' picnic a melting pot of ideas

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-07-02 07:08|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 ". . . . That way we don't have 25 bags of chips."

Which would be what - anarchy?

Posted by GORT 2007-07-02 07:48|| 2007-07-02 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 These are the very first idiots I'd flame if society really did degenerate into anarchy. Maybe they should think of that.

Posted by Clalet Borgia5180 2007-07-02 07:51|| 2007-07-02 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Anarchy would last long enough for the strong men to organize themselves into warlords.

And, frankly, someone should remind the press that anarchists gave us a presidential assassination and WWI.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-07-02 07:54|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-07-02 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 And a very vicious assassinations and random bombings spree in the late 19th century, ended only by WWI, including the complete destruction of a cathedral upon the believers. Anyway, why it is that when one refers to anarchism, it's always collectivist or leftist anarchism? To me, "true" anarchy would be anarcho-capitalism or right-wing anarchism, that is putting the self-reliant, free individual above the group, with the rule of law/contract to cover interactions between individuals and the group. But it seems that since its inception, anarchism always has been de facto accapared by the left, and has a terrible legacy to answer for.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-02 08:14|| 2007-07-02 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 anonymous5089
You are correct, these are NOT anarchists, these are communists with a PR person.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-07-02 08:26|| 2007-07-02 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Is there some reason you keep calling Pittsburgh "Pittsburg"? Pittsburg's in Kansas.

Oakland isn't a suburb of Pittsburgh, it's the university district, the other side of the Hill District from Downtown. It's deep inside the city proper. All the greenspace might confuse someone unfamiliar with the city's rather unique development pattern. (There's a lot of vertical slopes in Pittsburgh which precluded development, which resulted in ravine-floor and ridgeline neighborhoods and steep wooded slopes in between, all the way into the heart of the city.)

Oakland's the home of the University of Pittsburgh & CMU. As such, it's the natural and concentrated centre of SW Pennsylvanian moonbattery. On the other hand, we haven't had real bomb-throwers in these parts since early in the last century. "Anarchists" in these parts are feeble-minded leftists who self-indentify with "left" Marxism who aren't Trotskyites. Think anarcho-syndicalism, not Bukunin anarchism.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-07-02 08:29|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-02 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Is it just me, or are the statements, "This is the largest anarchist event...", and "...everybody is welcome" contradictory?

How do anarchists organize? By default they crave anarchy.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-07-02 08:34|| 2007-07-02 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Free Ride

Yeah. I'll take that one. Where do I sign up?

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-02 08:35|| 2007-07-02 08:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Try nihilists, anonymous5089.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-02 08:38|| 2007-07-02 08:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Anarchy would last long enough for the strong men to organize themselves into warlords.

But you see Anarchy would be enforced by the government so that anyone who rises up and tries to organize anything would be stopped!

It'll be an Anarchy Paradise man!

(Just like the Soviet Union was and North Korea is today!)

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-07-02 08:51|| 2007-07-02 08:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, Mitch, you pedantic chickenshit, there is a reason I called it "Pittsburg." It was an oversight, and I did it twice. So sue me.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-07-02 09:08|| 2007-07-02 09:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Fuck this. My last post.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-07-02 09:10|| 2007-07-02 09:10|| Front Page Top

#13 AC, you bring interesting stuff here both in articles and comments, don't go away on such a small remark, that would be a shame, IMHO.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-02 09:43|| 2007-07-02 09:43|| Front Page Top

#14 And you put "The conquest of cool" on my radar screen/to read list, with that intriguing notion of collusion between counterculture and mass media/mass consumerism.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-02 09:45|| 2007-07-02 09:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Agreed, Atomic Conspiracy, don't go, and don't stop posting. Us mods are s'posed to be the grammar police, and actually Mitch's travelogue was helpful in setting our tiny-fisted friends in their proper context, swaddled in the protective tree-coated Three Rivers Valley.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-07-02 10:16|| 2007-07-02 10:16|| Front Page Top

#16 IIRC, at various times in its history, Pittsburgh has been spelled without the "h." I knew which "Pittsburg" AC was referring to, so no biggie.

Posted by Mike 2007-07-02 10:29|| 2007-07-02 10:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Yeah, anyone that can use the words pedantic and chickenshit in one sentence is ok in my book. Have another pot of coffee and scream it out, you'll be fine.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-07-02 10:31|| 2007-07-02 10:31|| Front Page Top

#18 They are not Anarchists rather just deluded idiots.

Real anarchists don't organize. PERIOD!.

That say they can be really dangerous!

I remember a long discussion many years ago with a guest lecturer prof from Vermont or NH who claimed to be a WHITE Anarchist.

I was like WTF? So I asked him to explain.
He said: "White Anarchists don't believe in violence for any reason, Grey's sometimes and Black Anarchist's have no problem with it"

Okay, so I was about to ask how an Anarchist could subscribe to any theory and still be an Anarchist when he blurted out "I am sorry but I just can't do needles like you kids do."

WTF? Needles?

I finally figured out he was a drug addict scared of needles. His scam to pay for it was the lecture circuit ranting about White Anarchy.
Next he asked me where he could find some drugs. I looked at him and said: "For a favor to a cute girl I agreed to drive you to where you wanted. Cute is no longer enough. Which street corner in the next 2 blocks do you want to be kicked out of the car at."

Idiot!

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-02 10:57|| 2007-07-02 10:57|| Front Page Top

#19 Another bunch of pinheads who fell asleep and missed the lecture in their Intro to Political Science course, I see.

Wonder if they have bylaws?

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-07-02 13:19|| 2007-07-02 13:19|| Front Page Top

#20 Anarchy worked in Somalia and Haiti, why not give it a try?

/snark

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-07-02 13:22|| 2007-07-02 13:22|| Front Page Top

#21 So called Anarchists were fun in HS. I used to get them to talk about how there would be no laws, no police, etc, so they could do their drugs, then tell them if there was suddenly anarchy, the first thing I'd do would be hunt them down and shoot them. They'd immediately say, "You can't do that."
My reply was always, "No laws, no way to stop me."

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-07-02 14:44|| 2007-07-02 14:44|| Front Page Top

#22 Hitting them with logic was hardly fair, Silentbrick. ;)

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-07-02 18:28|| 2007-07-02 18:28|| Front Page Top

#23 Yes well, since we do have laws the police frown on other sorts of hitting. So the metaphorical "Clue Bat" was all I could use.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-07-02 20:30|| 2007-07-02 20:30|| Front Page Top

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