Comments on out of step: "Our Enemy, The Party"

wonderful! i just translated it 4 italian left lib...

2008-11-04T15:29:00.000-08:00

wonderful! i just translated it 4 italian left libertarians:

http://liberteo.wordpress.com/010/

There's a degree of overhead involved in electoral...

2008-10-18T10:18:00.000-07:00

There's a degree of overhead involved in electoral/partisan politics that you don't face when using other avenues for "political" education.

Look, suppose you found a fellow moving a pile of dirt with a spoon while he neglected a nearby shovel.

You suggest he use the shovel. He tries using the shovel in one hand and the spoon in the other. This doesn't work out so well.

You suggest he set the spoon down and just use the shovel.

He says he sees no reason to waste the opportunity to use the spoon he has. Why can't he use both?

The real point is not that he has or doesn't have a spoon or that he has or doesn't have a shovel. The key consideration is that he has only two hands.

Brad, thanks for the reply. You're saying that ca...

2008-10-16T15:43:00.000-07:00

Brad, thanks for the reply. You're saying that campaigns produce more campaigners. My question remains: Why is using the process against itself so much worse than restricting ourselves to leafletting and counter-econ?

Your second point is that the message of true liberty is inherently going to be obscured when delivered from the stump, but you don't explain why.

I apologize if I appear thick. I do want to understand.

Morey,You appear to mistake a matter of strategy f...

2008-10-16T11:23:00.000-07:00

Morey,

You appear to mistake a matter of strategy for one of style. The problem with "educational campaigns" is that they tend to recruit people who think running campaigns is a good strategy. It's not. There's a fundamental shift in outlook that occurs when you leave electoral politics behind because you've come to recognize that we don't have a political problem but a crime problem. So-called "educational campaigns" are *particularly* detrimental in that struggle for a revolutionary consciousness by posing a false alternative, a faux radicalism.

I understand the Agorists' disdain for the reform ...

2008-10-15T19:38:00.000-07:00

I understand the Agorists' disdain for the reform mentality. However, the case against the educational campaign is weak or neglected.

The educational campaigns are responsible for bringing the vast majority of us into the movement.

Unfortunately, such educational campaigns are rare today. Even the unattainable seats are run with a reformer message.

The link to the pamphlet version produced by Keith...

2008-10-15T11:14:00.000-07:00

The link to the pamphlet version produced by Keith: http://agorism.info/_media/our_enemy_the_party.pdf

Excellent! Thanks for posting this, Wally.

2008-10-15T09:06:00.000-07:00

Excellent! Thanks for posting this, Wally.

Hi BradI uploaded a tri-fold to agorism.info. You...

2008-10-15T05:55:00.000-07:00

Hi Brad
I uploaded a tri-fold to agorism.info. You may want to edit the pamphlet page, because I couldn't get my link to look like the rest of them.

Anybody who wants to plug that text into a trifold...

2008-10-14T07:34:00.000-07:00

Anybody who wants to plug that text into a trifold brochure template and then PDF-it in Open Office or whatever can also upload such things to the Agorism.info wiki if they are a registered user.

Thanks, Wally. Some folks back home here really ne...

2008-10-14T05:39:00.000-07:00

Thanks, Wally. Some folks back home here really need to see this (at least I really want them to see it). I'm not sure they'll get it yet, even after spending years trying to make the LP viable. We'll see.

BTW, flag has some scans of MLL pamphlets here.

2008-10-13T18:54:00.000-07:00

BTW, flag has some scans of MLL pamphlets here.