Comments on: I am the angry left https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/16/i-am-the-angry-left/ Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:06:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/16/i-am-the-angry-left/#comment-12984 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:06:58 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=849#comment-12984 I am not called an anarchist by anyone I know except one person. I don’t share many of the politics of the kids I’m writing about here, we overlap in only a few issues. I’m pretty sure anarchism is not the end of property or government (although yes to government as we know it and probably some serious changes in how property is handled), and none of the anarchists I know are violent in any way. Creative non-violent protest sounds about right.

Good question about identification with hippies. I’m not sure. It might be that for some people, hippie is a social state and anarchist a political orientation. I’m afraid that modern hippies might be hipsters and not just because of the first three letters of the name!

]]> By: martha https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/16/i-am-the-angry-left/#comment-12983 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:49:42 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=849#comment-12983 What does Anarchist mean in this context? Is it a name you and your friends are called or one you identify with? Do you see yourself as the heirs of Abbie Hoffman? The IWW? Some other group or person? Do you work towards the end of government? The end of property? Do you take anarchism to refer to violent protest? Protest involving destruction of property? Or a particularly creative kind of non-violent protest?

Do any of the people in your emergent movement actively identify as hippies? What does that word mean to them?

And because I know you can’t read my mind, I will say that these are sincere questions. No set-up, no snarky comments up my sleeve, I promise.

]]> By: Pierce R. Butler https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/16/i-am-the-angry-left/#comment-12982 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:25:52 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=849#comment-12982 Fairly happy endings, then.

Except we still have too many Repubs in office… 😛

Here’s hoping the Occupiers fare better!

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/16/i-am-the-angry-left/#comment-12981 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:27:16 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=849#comment-12981 Its complicated. Mostly, overturned or vacated or whatever, with a few pleas for gross misdemeanors. And one law suit against the police just paid off.

http://rnc8.org/category/press-releases/

]]> By: Pierce R. Butler https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/16/i-am-the-angry-left/#comment-12980 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:43:25 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=849#comment-12980 The trials mentioned are finally over…

Verdicts?

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