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>From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
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Subject: Re: Robotic Follies (was re: Strong AI and Panpsy
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In article <13430@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>In article <1992Feb14.010922.8804@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>>Oh, it's not just that remark, it's Freud and Marx together in "the dustbin
>>of history".  There's something about the people who would have such hopes
>>or expectations of theories and ideas, that strikes me as quite obviously
>>reactionary.
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>Quite the reverse.  I am an anarchist, and it is a strong antipathy

Really? This is a surprise. Which flavor of anarchism gets your vote -
Kropotkinism? anarcho-syndicalism of the CNT? anarcho-communism of, say,
Goldman? a modern "green" variant such as Bookchin's? or something more
along the lines of Chomsky's anarcho-liberalism?

I've seen a freshly minted orwellianism on the net from advocates of a
kind of nouveau-feudalism who are calling themselves "anarchists" because they
wish to supplant the modern state with a purely property based state system.
I hope that this is not what you mean. 

 
>to authority and orthodox systems that moves me.
>Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis are
>two of the most pernicious systems of orthodoxy to arise recently.

Are you familiar with Wilhelm Reich's "Mass Psychology of Fascism"? Could
you explain what it is that you find so "authoritarian" and "orthodox" in
this work which draws so much from both of these authors?

>I'd be happy to see some of the older authorities also consigned
>to the same dustbin.

As William Morris pointed out, the dustbin of history gets spilled back
out into the street quite often.

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