Anarchy has a color.

[rich]

just add "White" and there's that horst wessel
sorry-couldn't resist

rich

On 11/11/08, braam van bruggen <braam.vanbruggen at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 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
>> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>>
>>
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