tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13261933.post3531083322612256171..comments2024-03-11T11:10:30.592-05:00Comments on SCISSION: CHALLENGES TO CAPITALISM, CHALLENGES FOR THE LEFT: ANTI-SEMITISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA, AND THE THREE WAY FIGHTOread Dailyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02726848708021220961noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13261933.post-18270836951298580022007-03-22T16:35:00.000-05:002007-03-22T16:35:00.000-05:00hey thanks for writing this. it was really interes...hey thanks for writing this. it was really interesting. as an anarchist, i think most anarchists recognize the idea of fighting whhat you are opposed to instead of resorting to 2-sided conceptions of reality. i wonder thhough about taking this type of logic to it's conclusion, where basically anyone who is not an anarchist we are opposed to. how can we figure out at what point we have gotten away from 2 sided fights but not made it into a 400 sided fight, with anarchists isolated and unable to ally with any other politically conscious people? i tend to lean toward recognizing the problems with the ideologies of the oppressed (hezbollah, iraqi resistance, etc...) while having some sympathy for them as victims of oppresssion, whereas i have much less sympathy for ideologies that are held up by a state (israel, iran, usa, etc...), which may or may not be a fair way to feel, but in my actions i basically stick to allying myself with other anarchists and radicals who recognize the faults in both (in fact many: stalinism, maoism, etc...) other camps. <BR/><BR/>so i guess their needs to be a balence between isolation and allying with nasty people. i find there is plenty to do and say specifically as an anarchist that i don't bother with allying myself with either group of nasty people, but perhaps i'm a bit too issolated?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com