Sorta P (that strain of anti-state rebellious 'self-organizing" anarchism in P's work)........from a review of Luke Harding's INVASION.

[Joseph Tracy]

This is about a Canadian academic( U of Ottawa) who exhaustively investigated 2 mass killings that took place during the Maidan Coup. One was where 70 pro-Maidan protestors were shot dead by pro-Maidan snipers with the intent to blame it on Yanukovich. The other was the where anti-coup protestors in Odessa were forced into a building that was set on fire. His well researched papers were highly praised by  an nu-named social science journal editor but consequently went unpublished without excuse for obvious political reasons. 
  Nobody has been charged in either crime because of how holy and necessary it was to commit those murders.

> On Mar 11, 2023, at 7:48 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We were.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 7:41 AM frank mccluskey <frankmccluskey11 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Like America- we are horizontally organized as well- Tocqueville was the
>> first to notice
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 07:39 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> "While Russia’s current society is “vertical in their thinking, always
>>> looking feudally upward,” Ukrainians are “horizontal — a collective or
>>> superorganism.” He quotes a friend, the acclaimed Ukrainian novelist Andrey
>>> Kurkov, describing his nation as an “organized anarchy” of freedom-loving
>>> individualists. In this context, the supposed weakness of Ukraine’s prewar
>>> polity — its corrupt politicians and feeble central state — are recast as
>>> strengths. The Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko is quoted
>>> expanding on the idea, arguing that “a leitmotif of Ukrainian literature,
>>> historiography, and philosophy is opposition to the centralized idea of
>>> state and universe.” This makes it a society that’s very difficult to
>>> govern in normal times, but very effective at overthrowing bad governments
>>> or resisting an invasion launched by the power-mad dictator next door."
>>> 
>>> I jotted here some notes and quotes from another new book by an
>>> anthropologist on Ukraine.....called "Without the State".....
>>> 
>>> This anecdote from it sums up the key aspect of this strain.....It is
>>> about the resistance in Crimea n 2014....Writer asked how the resistance was
>>> "organized"....."word spread there was to be a meeting"...."we showed up
>>> and were told what needed done and we each chose what to do".....
>>> 
>>> --
>> Kindness is wisdom in action
>> Doc McCluskey
>> 
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