ATDDTA (3): Control issues, Chums, They

[David Casseres]

On 2/19/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> Seems to me it puts him right on the bobwire fence, in that most of those
> in
> his books whom you could label political actors are either defeated
> "within
> the system" (e.g. Hub Gates, or the Germans in GR recalling the good fight
> in Weimar days)... or have crossed some sort of line to some sort of
> outlaw
> status. I mean, it's great to rediscover Colorado anarchism. But the fact
> is
> that (comparatively) namby-pamby, incremental, non-dynamite reformism --
> unions and farmer-labor movements, progressivism, trust-busting, even the
> Teddy Roosevelt strain of <gasp> Republicans -- enlisted a hell of a lot
> more people, and left a hell of a lot more legacy of change, than all the
> American anarchists put together ever did.


I have the impression that it was bomb-throwing radicals like the
Anarchists, or Narodniks, or early Bolsheviks, who eventually drove those
more constructive elements to, well, construct something. I kind of think P.
might agree.
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