On 01/19/2014 10:05 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: > I tend to think there's a left-wing totalitarianism and a right-wing > totalitarianism, but since they are both police states they tend to be > indistinguishable. Fascism is a right wing route to totalitarianism.
Can there be an anarchist totalitarianism? http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/politics-vs-literature.htm > This illustrates very well the totalitarian tendency which is explicit in the > anarchist or pacifist vision of Society. In a Society in which there is no > law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public > opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in > gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human > beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a > certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" > or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in > exactly the same way as everyone else. Perhaps this is what Marcus was referring to w.r.t. any implicit shaming associated with _not_ participating in community efforts? And it may well tie in nicely with Steve's concept of left wing fascism. -- ⇒⇐ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
