CoL49 (5) Anarchist Miracles

[rich]

Don't know D&G well enough to comment on that aspect but I did read
Homage to Catalonia this April in which Orwell talks about a religious
comparison to anarchism.
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wow, was Orwell really a fashionista?
fascism, fashion same thing
can't get more anarchic than a dolce & gabbana ad
will beat the Christers everytime
;)
us guineas just love this kinda shit

rich

On 6/29/09, Guy Ian Scott Pursey <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm not taking part in the group read but it seems you've picked up an
> interesting thread here.
>
> Don't know D&G well enough to comment on that aspect but I did read
> Homage to Catalonia this April in which Orwell talks about a religious
> comparison to anarchism.
>
> I don't have the book with me and I don't remember exact quotes but he
> said that the Catalonians didn't seem to miss the church after the
> revolutionaries sacked them as anarchism provided a kind of substitute
> religion for them.
>
> Is anarchism the inevitable outcome of the secularisation of
> Christianity? (Just an afterthought...)
>
> Guy
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>