CoL49 (5) Anarchist Miracles

[Michael Bailey]

rich wrote:
>Ian wrote:
>> 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.
> ________

going back to the root, religare, tying together, right?
so the religious impulse could find satisfaction in a number of ways.
I think readers of AtD found that the passage where Lew happens upon
the anarchist gathering in Chicago draws that parallel quite well.
As far as the Spanish Burgerkrieg, war being hell and all, I'm not
acquainted with Orwell's writing but my impression was that the
anti-clerical violence was bad religion on the part of the anarchists,
and the fascism of the Church was also bad religion, but that's life
in Hell...(just learned that the Life in Hell comic I used to like was
by Matt Groening, later creator of the Simpsons)

The comparison of Pierce and the Virgin to me conjures a Venn diagram.
 A most juicy one, where the intersection of Christianity and
anarchism is the crosshatched sweet spot.  Is this what OBA means?  I
try to make a case for it, periodically...

> 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
>

hee hee, I've made that joke too in my time.  We micks can't often
afford those duds, though...


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