I like anarchists
I was at the Anarchist
Book Fair in London yesterday, and it was great fun. One of the
great things about anarchism (certainly, one of the things which makes
anarchism better than the traditional Marxist left) is the diversity
of ideas or, to put it another way, the crazy shit they think up. In
one room we had the Green
Anarchist primitivists, next to a group with a large (and
hopelessly misspelled) banner calling on people to overthrow the
oppressive class divide between doctors and patients and start a
non-hierarchical health service, opposite a stall of books on
magic, just round the corner from a situationist/workerist
alliance (Can dialectics break bricks next to pamphlets
on self-valorisation). You don’t get any of that at
bastards from the Anarchist
Fedaration had a little stall in the corner, but they were being
rightly ignored.
Beyond the enjoyment on offer from all the mentalism, it’s
brilliant to find any political grouping with new ideas. Besides,
throw up enough craziness and you’re bound to get something right. The
Green Anarchists had
Black’s Anarchy after leftism on display, and,
crazy as Black is, and Marxist as I am, I’d still choose him
over leftist anarchists like Bookchin or Chomsky, and, minus the
new-age bobbins, chaos magicians like
bookshelf next to other dissident ontologists like Deleuze and
Guattari. There’s more truth to be found by being interestingly
wrong than trying to force the world into
photocopied out of Lenin. So, I’m not an anarchist, but I do
like them.
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