Re: left anarchy, right anarchy

Guru George (gurugeorge@sugarland.idiscover.co.uk)
Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:18:59 +0100


On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:45:41 -0400
Remi Sussan <sremi@compuserve.com> wrote:

>Damien Sullivan wrote :
>
>>This, of course, begs the question. The anarcho-(socialist,
>>syndicalist, communist) claim is that property, such as owning a car
>>which isn't used 90% of the time, or land you've never even visited when
>>there are landless peasants starving in megacity slums, is theft and
>>coercion. So they would say "the 'right' wouldn't survive without
>>utilizing coercion (oxymoron!), or adapting socialist techniques."
>
>Exactly. Every act of privatization begins by an enclosure act ("this is
>mine: I will kill anybody who enter here") which is an act of cercion.

Try a change of metaphor and see how it tickles your intuition buds:
you're shipwrecked, starving hungry, walking along a beach. You see a
woman roasting a pig. Are you justified in just grabbing the pig
because her roasting of the pig was an "act of enclosure", and therefore
a dastardly initiation of coercion?

Guru George