Anarchy has a color.

[braam van bruggen]

Also, red and black are the colours of Exu, in Candomble, Exu the trickster, 
a mercury archetype,
definitely an anarchist...

Braam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Scheper" <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
To: "P-List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:34 PM
Subject: Anarchy has a color.


> FW of post re....
> Geez I don't know Obama's wife's name...
> Ah... Michelle!
> re. Her dress at acceptance:
>
> Black and red bisected symbolism
>
> The red-and-black flag is the symbol of the anarcho-syndicalist and 
> anarcho-communist movements. Black is the traditional color of anarchism, 
> and red is the traditional color of socialism. The red-and-black flag 
> combines the two colors in equal parts, with a simple diagonal split. 
> Typically, the red section is placed on the top-left corner, with the 
> black on the bottom-right corner of the flag. This symbolizes the 
> co-existence of anarchist and socialist ideals within the 
> anarcho-syndicalism movement, and to symbolize the more socialistic means 
> of the movement leading to a more anarchistic end.
>
>
> The CNT-FAI's version of the red-and-black flagOne of the most famous 
> variations of the anarcho-syndicalist flag is that of Spain's 
> Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labor, CNT), 
> which still exists today. The CNT, along with the Federación Anarquista 
> Ibérica (Iberian Anarchist Federatio n, FAI), a major militant faction 
> within the CNT, was a major player in the popular anarchist movements in 
> Spain of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This group has its own 
> version of the red-and-black flag with its initials on the flag. CNT is in 
> the red, while FAI is in the black – the color of anarchy – as the FAI was 
> founded in 1927 to keep the CNT dedicated to anarchist principles.
>
>
> Black and Red Africa - Zabalaza Federation's logoAnother variation on the 
> red-and-black theme is the red-and-black Africa used mostly by the 
> Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF or ZabFed), a federation of 
> anarchist groups in South Africa. ZabFed was inspired by the 
> Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists. ZabFed members 
> share a basic agreement in terms of theoretical and tactical unity, 
> collective responsibility, and federalism as suggests by the Platform. In 
> historical terms the Platformist tradition starts with The Organizational 
> Platform of the Libertarian Communists, and in the post-war period many 
> include documents like the Georges Fontenis' pamphlet Manifesto of 
> Libertarian Communism.
>
> The symbolism of a united Africa, displayed in traditional anarchist 
> communist colours, is an important one, as a mixture of different 
> demographic groups are represented by Zalabaza in the midst of a societal 
> environment that is otherwise tense with post-colonial racial and sexual 
> issues.
>
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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