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:: My mentioning the broad back was a reference to the anarchist Octave Mirbeau quote that "Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything" - even from the words and deeds of soi disant anarchists who say and do things where "a mortal enemy of anarchism could not have done better." I agree about the verbosity of what I put in - I wanted to put in just authority, but then people like Bakunin and Chomsky have noted exceptions to the rule so I added unjustified, and that can go on and just get clunkier. So I agree, unjustified authority can be removed as it is sort of verbose and clunky - I just wanted to expand it beyond anti-statism. As far as the last sentence, I was trying to say all of those anarchist currents saw similarities with one another and felt anarcho-capitalism was outside of their milieu, perhaps my grammar was bad. [[User:Ruy Lopez|Ruy Lopez]] 07:24, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
:::It doesn't matter if Chomsky claims to believe that there might be exceptions. To my knowledge he has never called himself an anarchist; rather he calls himself a "fellow traveler" (of libertarian socialism, if I recall correctly). So his personal beliefs should be separated from his understanding of anarchism. His understanding of anarchism is quite direct; as is Bakunin's. Anarchists are anti-authoritarian, period. Although the word "authority" is ambigous (in that it may mean an expert), "authoritarian" is not. [[User:Millerc|millerc]] 19:16, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
:::I like how infoshop.org describes it on their fake (http://www.infoshop.org/fake.html) page. "The anarchist movement is a big tent with a great many sideshows, but there are just some folks who are not circus performers." --[[User:Fatal|Fatal]] 16:07, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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