dialectics

[Mike Weaver]

>I wrote
> >          A friend, like myself of libertarian
> > communist alignment,

DM replied

>This combination is a dialectic all its own.  How
>about "anarchistic-communist."  I like to think of
>libertarianism to be just shy of anarchy.

Not a political line, more a road and a road has
two sides, in this case with a ditch by each.
Staying on the road means steering a path
between stalinist authoritarianism and
egocentric individualism.  Not so much a dialectic
  as a creative tension.

Libertarianism isn't IMO a code word for anarchism,
but a desire to assert the creative power of
individuality.  There was an anarchist-communist
movement in Britain at the end of the nineteenth
century which dropped the C word as it developed.
William Morris started Commonweal which became
their paper.

"Neither a tankie nor a Trot be..."