And another thing

[Mark Kohut]

And another thing.

Follow how the whole citizenry of Ukraine is self-organizing to win....the
steady organic thinking and actions.....which bridges to blow up in
advance...
to decide to let rivers in towns overflow, tearing down the banks in order
to stop tanks.....the volunteer Territorial Defense Units......making
Molotov cocktails together, like sewing circles or quilt-making.....decoys
and ambushes......more....

Self-organizing as a defense of the state, the country, as an example to
the world. For democracy.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 4:46 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some of us, I'm remembering Morris and I, going back and forth
> on the theme and meaning of anarchism in Pychon's vision. The original
> meaning of the word before
> the Haymarket Affair enabled the Powers That Were to label anarchists as
> "bomb-throwing" rather than
> as virtual precursors to Gandhian organically organized non-violence.
>
> How generalizable as a real way to govern was what Morris and I went back
> and forth on re
> original anarchism. Morris and I agreed that many who thought it an actual
> political platform-like possibility, like Robert Paul Wolff, who did argue
> that, were plain wrong.....
> (I heard a professed anarchist, Richard Kostelanitz, a brilliant guy, see
> his early critical stuff, who moved into trivial wrongness in art and
> thinking later imo, state on a panel that the American Civil War might not
> have happened or would have ended quicker and better if anarchists were
> running the country--crazy, right? Pynchon tidbit, I suggested he read AtD,
> new enough then and he told me later he could not get past 200 pages...)
>
> That as a useful meaning anarchism  meant the self-organizing of small
> groups. Full democratic decision-making, the way the Occupy movement ran
> meetings and made decisions, it has been reported.  I have experienced it
> and experienced
> how it does come up against the system. Small non-profit I organized with
> others NEEDS board hierarchies
> filed with the IRS in order to even get 501 (c) (3) non-profit status, for
> example....
>
> But this post is to say, as Zelensky must work within the international
> system of course, of course, that system
> secures the crime against his country; that system secures his defense and
> help from just-war-minded nations against international
> criminals, he is also running his city, his whole country NOW in an
> improvised self-organized way.....every day, he and his
> team must make life and death decisions; spontaneously make just law as it
> were and act on it; every day there is no gravity-wrapped
> old oppressive system to work within beyond the above. Every dawn is
> rosy-fingered and new to what now must be discovered to be done. For the
> good of all
> in his country; for the good of his country; for the saving of democracy
> everywhere.
>
> Pynchon's expansive 'anarchic' vision knows this.
>